PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
CITY OF WASHINGTON,
_District of Columbia, ss_:
I, Thomas J. Kelley, being first duly sworn do upon oath depose and
state:
I am an Inspector in the United States Secret Service assigned to
Secret Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C. On November 22, 1963,
I was not in the City of Dallas at the time of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. I was instructed through Deputy Chief Paul
Paterni to go to Dallas directly from Lexington, Kentucky, where I had
been engaged in a special assignment and arrived on Friday evening in
Dallas at approximately 10:30 p.m.
I attended a total of four interviews with Lee Harvey Oswald, all of
which were held in the office of Captain J. W. Fritz of the Homicide
Bureau of the Dallas Police Department. Three of these interviews
occurred on November 23 and the fourth on November 24. (Prior to my
arrival in Dallas, Oswald had been interrogated on November 22.)
Subsequent to these interviews I dictated summaries from my notes
of the subject matter discussed and these dictated summaries were
transmitted to Chief James J. Rowley on November 29 and December 1,
1963.
Copies of these written summaries are attached to this affidavit as
exhibit A and incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof.
The summary of my last interview with Oswald which occurred on Sunday,
November 24, 1963, was the first portion of a four-page memorandum
which included in addition to the report of the interview, my report on
the circumstances immediately following the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
I hereby certify that the attached memoranda constitute my total
written memoranda of the interviews with Lee Harvey Oswald at which I
was present. I have no additional recollection at this time which I can
add to the attached memoranda. I further certify that these memoranda
accurately summarize my notes and recollections from these interviews.
Dated this 1st day of June 1964.
(S) Thomas J. Kelley,
THOMAS J. KELLEY.