Representative FORD. Where were you sitting in the car, sir?
Mr. CURRY. I was driving.
Representative FORD. You were driving?
Mr. CURRY. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. When you heard the first report, did you grab a
communications set and give this order?
Mr. CURRY. Almost immediately.
Representative FORD. What was the order that you gave?
Mr. CURRY. As I recall it, "Get someone up in the railroad yard to
check those people." There was already an officer up there.
Mr. RANKIN. How do you know that?
Mr. CURRY. They assigned officers to every overpass.
We went with the Secret Service, Batchelor and Chief Lunday had went
over this route with Secret Service agents Lawson and Sorrels and they
had run the route 2 or 3 days prior to this and pointed out every place
where they wanted security officers, and we placed them there where
they asked for them.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you see an officer there when you looked up?
Mr. CURRY. I couldn't recognize him, but I could see an officer whoever
it was.
Representative FORD. Did you get this order over the PA system before
the second and third shots?
Mr. CURRY. I don't believe so, I am not sure. I am not positive.
Because they were in pretty rapid succession. But after I noticed some
commotion in the President's car and a motorcycle officer ran up aside
of me and I asked him what had happened and he said shots had been
fired, and I said, "Has the President been hit or has the President's
party been hit?