Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)

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 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. RES. 137, 88TH CONGRESS, a concurrent resolution conferring upon
the Commission the power to administer oaths and affirmations, examine
witnesses, receive evidence, and issue subpenas

_Volume_ II


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    PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
    ON THE
    ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY


    CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN, _Chairman_

    SENATOR RICHARD B. RUSSELL
    SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN COOPER
    REPRESENTATIVE HALE BOGGS
    REPRESENTATIVE GERALD R. FORD
    MR. ALLEN W. DULLES
    MR. JOHN J. McCLOY


    J. LEE RANKIN, _General Counsel_


    _Assistant Counsel_

    FRANCIS W. H. ADAMS
    JOSEPH A. BALL
    DAVID W. BELIN
    WILLIAM T. COLEMAN, Jr.
    MELVIN ARON EISENBERG
    BURT W. GRIFFIN
    LEON D. HUBERT, Jr.
    ALBERT E. JENNER, Jr.
    WESLEY J. LIEBELER
    NORMAN REDLICH
    W. DAVID SLAWSON
    ARLEN SPECTER
    SAMUEL A. STERN
    HOWARD P. WILLENS[A]

[A] Mr. Willens also acted as liaison between the Commission and the
Department of Justice.


    _Staff Members_

    PHILLIP BARSON
    EDWARD A. CONROY
    JOHN HART ELY
    ALFRED GOLDBERG
    MURRAY J. LAULICHT
    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_.




Preface


The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume II:
James Herbert Martin, who acted for a brief period as the business
manager of Mrs. Marina Oswald; Mark Lane, a New York attorney; William
Robert Greer, who was driving the President's car at the time of the
assassination; Roy H. Kellerman, a Secret Service agent who sat to the
right of Greer; Clinton J. Hill, a Secret Service agent who was in
the car behind the President's car; Rufus Wayne Youngblood, a Secret
Service agent who rode in the car with then Vice President Johnson;
Robert Hill Jackson, a newspaper photographer who rode in a car at the
end of the motorcade; Arnold Louis Rowland, James Richard Worrell, Jr.,
and Amos Lee Euins, who were present at the assassination scene; Buell
Wesley Frazier, who drove Lee Harvey Oswald home on the evening of
November 21, and back to work on the morning of November 22; Linnie Mae
Randle, Buell Wesley Frazier's sister; Cortlandt Cunningham, a firearms
identification expert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
William Wayne Whaley, a taxicab driver, and Cecil J. McWatters, a
busdriver, who testified concerning Oswald's movements following the
assassination; Mrs. Katherine Ford, Declan P. Ford, and Peter Paul
Gregory, acquaintances of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife; Comdr. James
J. Humes, Comdr. J. Thornton Boswell, and Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck,
who performed the autopsy on the President at Bethesda Naval Hospital;
and Michael R. Paine and Ruth Hyde Paine, acquaintances of Lee Harvey
Oswald and his wife.




Contents

                                           Page
    Preface                                   v

    Testimony of--
      James Herber Martin (resumed)           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


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