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Page Preface v
Testimony of-- James Herber Martin 1 Mark Lane 32 Roy H. Kellerman 61 William Robert Greer 112 Clinton J. Hill 132 Rufus Wayne Youngblood 144 Robert Hill Jackson 155 Arnold Louis Rowland 165 James Richard Worrell, Jr 190 Amos Lee Euins 201 Buell Wesley Frazier 210 Linnie Mae Randle 245 Cortlandt Cunningham 251 William Wayne Whaley 253, 292 Cecil J. McWatters 262 Katherine Ford 295 Declan P. Ford 322 Peter Paul Gregory 337 James J. Humes 348 J. Thornton Boswell 376 Pierre A. Finck 377 Michael R. Paine 384 Ruth Hyde Paine 430
COMMISSION EXHIBITS INTRODUCED
Exhibit No.: Page 328 1 329 2 330 2 331 15 332 22 333 29 334 38 335 38 336 38 337 38 338 38 339 38 340 38 341 38 342 38 343 54 344 64 345 64 346 65 347 72 348 72 349 85 350 86 351 92 352 95 353 95 354 155 355 155 356 189 357 189 358 189 359 198 360 198 361 198 362 198 365 210 366 210 367 210 368 257 369 257 370 261 371 257 372 268 373 273 374 274 375 274 376 275 377 279 378 282 379 286 380 286 381-A 287 382 292 383-A 292 384 340 385 353 386 353 387 353 388 353 389 353 390 353 391 359 392 362 393 365 394 365 395 365 396 367 397 374 398 374 399 374 400 380 401 445 402 455 403 477 404 479 404-A 479 405 480 406 480 407 483 408 483 408-A 483 409 490 409-A 490 409-B 490 410 494 411 496 412 496 413 496 414 496 415 498 416 498 417 498 418 498 419 500 420 501 421 501 422 502 423 502 424 502
Hearings Before the President's Commission
on the
Assassination of President Kennedy
TESTIMONY OF JAMES HERBERT MARTIN RESUMED
The President's Commission reconvened at 3 p.m.
Mr. DULLES. Gentlemen, the Commission will come to order.
Are you ready to continue the testimony, Mr. Martin?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Will you carry forward, Mr. Redlich?
Mr. REDLICH. Mr. Martin, I would like to hand you a group of newspaper clippings which have not as yet been introduced in evidence and I would ask you to look through them and to pick out any which you feel create an image of Mrs. Marina Oswald which you feel does not conform to the reality of her personality, as you know it, and ask you in regard to each one to tell us in what respect the facts as reported in each of these clippings do not conform to the real person as you know her.
Mr. DULLES. I assume we can avoid repetition, can't we?
Mr. REDLICH. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Incidents here have been touched on in other papers and we don't need to touch them again.
Mr. REDLICH. Yes, Mr. Chairman.
During the intermission we have gone through all of the newspaper clippings and eliminated the duplicate stories and hope to eliminate duplicate facts as we go along.
Mr. REDLICH. For the sake of the record if we are going to have comment on them I would like to have them introduced as evidence because the record wouldn't state what they are about.
Are you going to make comment?
Mr. MARTIN. Do you want me to?
Mr. REDLICH. If you are going to make comment about it, if you feel there is some inaccuracy here then I would like to introduce that in evidence, since apparently you are.
Mr. MARTIN. It is inaccurate as far as the date in the article is concerned.
Mr. REDLICH. The witness has handed to us a newspaper story which we have marked as Commission Exhibit No. 328.
Mr. DULLES. Could we have the inaccuracy mentioned here?
Mr. REDLICH. Yes, the headline of which is "Mrs. Oswald Will Bare Life of Mate" and I request it be admitted in evidence.
Mr. DULLES. Any objection?
Mr. LEECH. No.
Mr. DULLES. It will be admitted.
Mr. REDLICH. I show you Commission Exhibit No. 328 and ask you if there are any inaccuracies in that statement.
Mr. MARTIN. "Mrs. Oswald and Her Children Now Make Their Home at an Undisclosed Hotel" which is inaccurate--"and it was in that motel room, somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that the youngest Oswald child spent her first Christmas. There was a tree, toys and even a visit from Mrs. Oswald's brother who lives 30 miles to the north in Denton, Tex."
That was the inaccuracy that she spent Christmas not in a motel but in our home.
Mr. DULLES. That is about from 3 o'clock in the afternoon as I recall until 7:30 in the evening.
Mr. MARTIN. No, sir; that was Thanksgiving.
Mr. DULLES. That was Thanksgiving. Spent the whole day of Christmas in your home?
Mr. MARTIN. Well, she lived there. She was at our home 24 hours a day.
This one--
Mr. REDLICH. The witness has produced before the Commission a newspaper story which we have labeled as Commission Exhibit No. 329, the headline of which reads, "Money Gifts to Tippit's Near 0,000 Mark."
Mr. Chairman, I request that Commission Exhibit No. 329 be admitted in evidence.
Mr. DULLES. Any objection?
Mr. LEECH. No.
Mr. DULLES. It shall be admitted.
Mr. REDLICH. Mr. Martin, I hand you Exhibit No. 329 and ask you if it is inaccurate in any respect.
Mr. MARTIN. The article states that Mrs. Shirley Williamson, a Fort Worth housewife, who felt compassion for the widow, Mrs. Oswald, and the two babies said the fund for the Russian-born widow had reached ,000."
The fund that Mrs. Williamson collected amounted to some ,600. That was her total. That is the inaccuracy there.
Mr. DULLES. Is she referring to the funds she collected or the whole collections?
Mr. MARTIN. Her funds. This has come up numerous times. We even called her about it one time. She had given out press releases that she had collected personally, I think, in excess of ,000, whereas what she was doing was adding what she had collected to what had already been sent to Marina, and saying that she was holding that money.
Mr. DULLES. But even that total is exaggerated, is it not?
Mr. MARTIN. At that time, yes.
Mr. DULLES. The total collections?
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