Were there other places available so it could actually have been done?
Captain KING. I am sure that some place could have been found--I don't know whether a place could have been found that would have solved more problems than it raised or not--I don't know.

Mr. Hubert.

Then, in what way?
Captain KING. Well, because this is the normal--this is the place where these homicide officers are assigned. This is the place where their equipment is, this is the place where they normally work and this is something that had not even occurred to me---moving him to some other location and moving the interrogation or the investigation of him to some other place--this is something again in which I was not involved in and in which I was not in.

Mr. Hubert.

Well, I have read the transcript of the speech that you made before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, which I will introduce into this deposition in a little while.
Captain KING. Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

And I gather from it that to a considerable extent the police department was influenced to tolerate this condition to a large extent by the tract that this was an extraordinary case and that any effort to run the press away might be misconstrued in some manner.
Captain KING. I think that it very definitely might have. I think probably that these are things that were put into words after the conditions returned more to normal over there. They were not things that were actually said. We didn't sit down, frankly, we didn't really have much time to sit down to do anything, but we didn't just sit down and say, "We are going to let the press remain here for this reason, for this reason, or for this reason," even if they might have been the reasons that we did in fact.

Mr. Hubert.

There were no staff meetings or anything of that sort to consider and determine that problem-- the problems?
Captain KING. No; there were meetings of the administrators of the departments, certainly, but these were informal meetings.

Mr. Hubert.

Well, was this problem discussed at any of those meetings, and by "this problem," I mean the problem of the press conditions?
Captain KING. To my knowledge that I remember--no; it probably was--it would almost have had to have been mentioned over there about the fact that there were these large number of newsmen there, but any discussion of their removal or any consideration really, of their removal, I don't recall.

Mr. Hubert.

I notice that you mentioned in your speech also that the press were murmuring, I think, or voicing in some ways some possibly discrediting remarks as to the Dallas Police Department, and that that factor influenced somewhat the conditions.
Captain KING. It was my understanding that one of the newsmen--I heard this, but I don't know who he was and I, of my own knowledge, don't know that this actually occurred, but that one of them had obtained a picture of Oswald, that he had a picture of Oswald, and he held it up before the cameras and said, "This is what the man who assassinated or who shot President Kennedy looks like or at least this is what he did look .like." He says, "He has been in the custody of the police department for an hour and I don't know what he looks like now."

Mr. Hubert.

That was heard by you and others--
Captain KING. This was not heard by me. I said I was told this--I did not hear it--I was not a witness to it.

Mr. Hubert.

But you were told that this occurred shortly after, in fact, it had occurred or was supposed to have occurred?
Captain KING. Yes.

Mr. Hubert.

That is to say, you heard it on the 22d of November?
Captain KING. I don't remember whether it was on the 22d or the 23d--I don't remember when I heard it.

Mr. Hubert.

BUt it was before Oswald was shot?
Captain KING. I believe that's correct--yes.

Mr. Hubert.

Do you remember that on the night of the 22d when Oswald was brought to the assembly room at which he was displayed, as it were, to the press?

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