Image of Chief Jesse Curry at his desk in Dallas Police Department

Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry became a recognized figure on television during the weekend of the assassination, more than once stating his belief that Lee Harvey Oswald was responsible for the murder of President Kennedy. Three years after retiring from the Dallas Police Department, Curry wrote a book, awkwardly titled Retired Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File (1969). At a press conference about the book, Curry admitted that he had doubts about the single bullet theory and that Oswald was the lone assassin. In a BBC interview recorded two years before his death in 1980, Curry suggested that, "by the direction of his blood and brain from the president," the fatal shot was likely "fired from the front rather than behind. I can't say that I could swear that I believe that it was one man and one man alone. I think there's a possibility there could have been another man." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator