E842.9.A54 .)?b 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 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. J.^fof- 5- ^1T\X>ACL U^^ ^^ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1964 ForsaleincompletesetsbytheSuperintendentofDocuments,U.S.OovenunentPrintingOffice Washington,D.C.,20402 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. ;; Preface The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume V: Alan H. RBeevlimlolnta,ndasVs.isJ.taBnrtiatontohfetDhierDeacltloarsoifx>tlihcee,FwedheoratlestBiufireedacuonocfeIrnnviensgticgoantvieornsa;tJiaocnks aRFernvadizliFlerreh,daeadrifwciikrtehWar.JmasLmiegexhstp,ePraJttr.rw,iicwtkohuHtnohsdetybF,alBlJIir.s,;tiDacrsss.epxecApielarfltrseadgweiOntltihviotefhre,thUAe.rSFt.hBAuIrr;mDRyzoibleeamrbiotarnAa,.- 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. KDeeannn,edoyf;thJeacDkalRluabsyp;olHiceen,rywhWoadtees,tidfiisedtriccotncaetrtnoirnngeyaofcoDnavlelrassat;ioSgnt.wiPtahtrRicukbyT. 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 HarrisCoulter,aninterpreterwiththeDepartmentofState RobertAlanSurrey, a Dallas citizen who testified regarding his relationship wi;th General Walker; JsiasmteanstJt.oRtohweleSeyc,reCthaireyfoofftthheeTUr.eSa.sSuercyre;tBeSrenravircdeW;iRlolbiearmtWCeairssswemlaln,,swphecoiatlesatsi-- fied concerning an advertisement signed by him which appeared in the Dallas Mfioeid-nrienggarNdeiwnsgoan"NWoavnetmebtlerF2o2r,1T9r6e3as;oRno"berhatnGd.biKlllau;sMea,rakDaLlalnaes,caitiNzeenwwYhoortkesatti-- Ttohronmepys;onPr,esfiodremnetrLyU.nSd.onAmBb.aJsoshandsoorntaondthMersS.ovLiyetndUonnioBn.,JaonhdnsoSenc;reLtlaerwyelolfynthEe. Treasury C. Douglas Dillon.