Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Том 05

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INVESTIGATION OF
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
HEARINGS
Before the President's Commission
on the Assassination
of President Kennedy
Pursuant to Executive Order 11130, an Executive order creating a
Commission to ascertain, evaluate, and reportupon the facts relating
to the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy and the
subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination
and S.J. Res. 137, 88th Congress, a concurrent resolution conferring
upon the Commission the powerto administeroaths and affirmations,
examine witnesses, receive evidence, and issue subpenas
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PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman
Senator Richard B. Russell RepresentativeGeraldR.Ford
Senator John Sherman Cooper Mr. Allen W. Dulles
RepresentativeHaleBoggs Mr. John J. McCloy
J. LeeRankin, General Counsel
Assistant Counsel
Francis W. H. Adams AlbertE. Jenner, Jr.
Joseph A. Ball Wesley J. Liebeler
DavidW. Belin Norman Redlich
William T. Coleman, Jr. W. David Slawson
Melvin Aron Eisenberg Arlen Specter
Burt W. Griffin SamuelA. Stern
Leon D. Hubert. Jr. Howard P. Willens*
StaffMembers
Phillip Barson
Edward A. Conroy
John Hart Ely
AlfredGoldberg
MurrayJ. Laulicht
ArthurMarmor
RichardM. Mosk
John J. O'Brien
Stuart Pollak
Alfeedda Scobey
Charles N. Shaffer, Jr.
Biographical information on the Commissionersand the staffcan befound
the Commission's Report.
Mr. Willens also acted as liaison between the Commission and the Department of
Justice.

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Preface
The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume V: Alan H.
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tories at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.; J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; John A. AlcCone, Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency RichardM.Helms,DeputyDirectorforPlansoftheCentralIntelligence
Agency;;ThomasJ.Kelley,LeoJ.Gauthier,andLyndalL. Shaneyfelt,whotesti-
fiedconcerningefforts toreconstimct thefactsoftheassassination; Mrs.JohnF.
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Waggoner Carr, attorney general of Texas; Richard Edward Snyder, John A.
McVickar,AbramChayes,BerniceWaterman,andFrancesG.Knight,oftheU.S.
Department of State; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
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a Dallas citizen who testified regarding his relationship wi;th General Walker;
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Treasury C. Douglas Dillon.