Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Том 16

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INVESTIGATION OF
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
HEARINGS
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Before the President's Commission
on the Assassination
Kennedy__
of President
Pursuant to Executive Order 11130, an Executive order creating a
Commission to ascertain, evaluate, and report upon 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. Kes. 137, 88th Congress, a concurrent resolution conferring
upon the Commission the power to administer oaths and affirmations,
examine witnesses, receive evidence, and issue subpenas
EXHIBITS
1 TO 391
Volume
XVI
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1964
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Forsalein completesets by the Superintendent of-Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C.. 20402
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman
Senator Richard B. Russell Representative Gerald R. Ford
Senator John Sherman Cooper Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Representative Hale Boggs Mr. John J. McCloy
J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel
Assistant Counsel
Francis W. H. Adams Albert E. Jenner, Jr.
Joseph A. Ball Wesley J. Liebeler
David W. Belin Norman Redlich
William T. Coleman, Jr. W. David Slawson
Melvin Aron Eisenberq Arlen Specter
Burt W. Griffin Samuel A. Stern
Leon D. Hubert, Jr. Howard P. Willens*
Staff Members
Phillip Barson
Edward A. Conroy
John Hart Ely
Alfred Goldberg
Murray Laulicht
J.
Arthur Marmor
Richard M. Mosk
John J. O'Brien
Stuart Pollak
Alfredda Scobey
Charles N. Shaffer, Jr.
Biographical information on the Commissioners and the staff can be found in
the Commission's Report.
Mr. Willens also acted as liaison between the Commission and the Department of
Justice.
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Preface
The succeeding volumes, XVI-XXVI, contain reproductions of exhibits received
into evidence by the Commission. The exhibits received in connection with testi-
mony before the Commission are printed first, arranged in numerical order from
1 to 1053. Next are printed exhibits received in connection with depositio—ns
or affidavits, arranged alphabetically by name of witness, and then numerically
e.g., Adams Exhibits Nos. 1-7, Baker Exhibits Nos. 1-22. Finally are printed
other materials relied upon by the Commission, consisting principally of inves-
tigative reports by law enforcement agencies, arranged in numerical order
—
beginning with 1054. Eiach volume begins with a table of contents a descriptive
listing of the exhibits in the volume and the page or pages on which each exhibit
is printed. The numbering of the exhibits received in testimony before the
Commission is not completely consecutive the unused numbers are noted in
;
the table of contents. Also, various systems of designation were used in con-
nection with deposition and affidavit exhibits, so that the designation of—some
of the^ exhibits begins either with a letter or a number higher than 1 e.g.,
Jones Exhibits A-C, Smith Exhibits Nos. 5000-5006.
Almost all of the reproductions contained in the exhibit volumes consist of
photographs of the exhibits. The legibility of many documentary exhibits is
poor, because some exhibits were copies rather than originals and many others
were discolored when tested for fingerprints. In some cases where legibility
was particularly bad, the contents of the document have been typed out, and
reproduced together with a miniature photograph of the exhibit. A few exhibits
of negligible relevance were not reproduced because of their length or for
reasons of taste. The omissions are described in the tables of contents. In a
very small number of cases, names, dates, or numbers have been deleted from
exhibits for .security reasons or for the protection of named individuals.
The majority of the reproductions are based upon photographs of the exhibits
taken for the Commission by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and most
of the translations of foreign language exhibits were also prepared by the
FBI. This assistance wa.s invaluable in the preparation of the exhibit volumes
and is gratefully acknowledged.
Documents bearing the classification TOP SECRET, SECRET, CONFIDEN-
TIAL, OFFICIAL USE ONLY, and LIMITED OFFICIAL USE appear in
these volumes. The originals of these documents in the files of the Commission
have been declassified in accordance with Executive Order 10501, and the stamped
classifications on them are therefore canceled.