Mr. RANKIN. It would help?
Mr. WADE. I think it would help, but you are going to have the same
situation. I am thinking if you had, if it is a Federal crime, for
instance, it is still murder in Texas. If Captain Fritz and the Dallas
police had arrested this man, the FBI wouldn't have had him. I don't
care if it was a Federal crime. We have bank robberies where there is
joint jurisdiction. The one that gets him, if it is the State police or
the city police gets them, they file with me and if the FBI gets them
they file with the Federal.
Mr. RANKIN. You need more control over the police investigation in
order to carry out your duties, is that----
Mr. WADE. Of course; my idea if you had it to do over, it is easy to
do that, but I think you need someone where all the information is
channeled through one person. If anything is given out and getting an
intelligent person, not just a police officer, you know. Now, your
city manager of Dallas is a newspaper man, Elgin Crull, he would have
been an ideal person and he was there but I don't think he ever said
anything in any way. He was there in the middle of all that thing.
Mr. RANKIN. Is the lawyer that you referred to in answer to Senator
Cooper's questions Carroll Jarnegan?
Mr. WADE. Carroll Jarnegan is his name; yes, sir. Let me mention
another thing for the record here. I don't know whether it is
mentioned. Saturday, most of my day was spent in talking to Dean R. G.
Storey, and the dean of the Harvard Law School, raising, wondering what
the situation was with reference to attorneys for Oswald.
Mr. RANKIN. What Saturday are you talking about?
Mr. WADE. Saturday the 23d, 1963; November 23. I told them that, all
of them, we had calls from various people, and most of them was from
people here in the East calling lawyers there in Dallas rather than me,
and them calling me.
Mr. RANKIN. What were they saying to you about that?
Mr. WADE. Well, they were very upset, one, in looking at American
justice where the man didn't have an attorney, as apparently, and two,
that too much information was being given to the press too, by the
police and by me, some of them had said, and that is what prompted me
probably to talk to Chief Curry about the thing, because I had received
some of those calls.
I told them they ought to appoint the president of the bar association
and the president of the Criminal Bar Association to represent him.
Mr. RANKIN. Who did you tell that to?
Mr. WADE. Told that to Mr. Paul Carrington and also to Mr. Storey, I
believe.