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<fedPubName>President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection</fedPubName>
<field name="GPO Partnership">This content was digitized by the Boston Public Library (BPL), and is made publically available through a public access partnership between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and BPL.</field>
<field name="Series Description">On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order No. 11130, creating a Commission to report on facts relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Commission secured sworn testimony from witnesses, under authority of Senate Joint Resolution 137 (88th Cong., 1st sess.), enacted December 13, 1963. Beginning with its first witness on February 3, 1964, the Commission received testimony from approximately 550 witnesses, and received more than 3,100 exhibits into evidence. The testimony and exhibits are published in 26 volumes.</field>
<field name="Chairman">Earl Warren</field>
<description>The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume V: Contains testimony of the following witnesses: Alan H. Belmont, assistant to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Jack Revill and V. J. Brian of the Dallas police, who testified concerning conversations Revill had with James Patrick Hosty, Jr., a special agent of the FBI; Robert A. Frazier, a firearms expert with the FBI; Drs. Alfred Olivier, Arthur Dziemian and Frederick W. Light, Jr., wound ballistics experts with the U.S. Army laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.; J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; John A. McCone, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Richard M. Helms, Deputy Director for Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency; Thomas J. Kelley, Leo J. Gauthier, and Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, who testified concerning efforts to reconstruct the facts of the assassination; Mrs. John F. Kennedy; Jack Ruby; Henry Wade, district attorney of Dallas; Sgt. Patrick T. Dean, of the Dallas police, who testified concerning a conversation with Ruby; Waggoner Carr, attorney general of Texas; Richard Edward Snyder, John A. McVickar, Abram Chayes, Bernice Waterman, and Frances G. Knight, of the U.S. Department of State; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald; Harris Coulter, an interpreter with the Department of State; Robert Alan Surrey, a Dallas citizen who testified regarding his relationship with General Walker; James J. Rowley, Chief of the U.S. Secret Service; Robert Carswell, special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; Bernard William Weissman, who testified concerning an advertisement signed by him which appeared in the Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963; Robert G. Klause, a Dallas citizen who testified regarding a "Wanted For Treason" handbill; Mark Lane, a New York attorney; President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; Llewellyn E. Thompson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon.</description>
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<president id="LBJ" party="D">
<name type="authority-lnf">Johnson, Lyndon B.</name>
<name type="authority-fnf">Lyndon B. Johnson</name>
<name type="authority-other">Lyndon Baines Johnson</name>
...</president>
<presidentialDoc date="1963-11-29" number="11130" type="EXECORD"/>