Jesse Curry

Jesse Edward Curry (October 3, 1913 – June 22, 1980) was chief of the Dallas Police Department at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through a motorcade in downtown Dallas, and his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was gunned down by Jack Ruby while Oswald was in police custody.

As he was to recount in his testimony with the Warren Commission and with the LBJ Presidential Library, he provided security for the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, at Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy died, and aboard Air Force One when he was sworn in as president.

A videoclip readily available shows Curry reasoning: “But just in my mind and by the direction of the blood and brain from the President from one of the shots, it would just seem that it would have to be fired from the front rather than from behind.” ^[1] This is significant, since Lee Harvey Oswald's position during the shooting of President John F. Kennedy is, according to the Warren Commission and many others, to the rear of President Kennedy's limousine.

Curry was later quoted, "We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand."^[2]

Curry died of a heart attack in Dallas on June 22, 1980, and was buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park.

Note

• Video clip of Jesse Curry suggesting a conspiracy to kill JFK on YouTube

References

1. ^ Video clip of Jesse Curry on YouTube
2. ^ " 'Not Sure' on Oswald Author Curry Indicates", Dallas Morning News (Nov. 6, 1969)

External links

• Biography on spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
• Jesse Curry at Findagrave.com

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Name	Curry, Jesse
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Date of birth	October 3, 1913
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Date of death	June 22, 1980
Place of death	Dallas, Texas