PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
STATE OF TEXAS,
_County of Dallas, ss_:
I, Theodore Frank Gangl, 7903 Mohawk Drive, Dallas, Tex., being duly
sworn, depose and say:
1. That I am Plant Superintendent for the Padgett Printing Corporation,
1313 North Industrial, Dallas, Texas.
2. On October 4, 1963, I interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald, who had applied
for employment in response to an advertisement the Padgett Printing
Corporation placed in the local newspaper. We were seeking a typesetter
in the composing room.
3. Oswald was well dressed and neat. He made a favorable impression on
the foreman of the department to whom I introduced Oswald. Since Oswald
had worked in a trade plant I was interested in him as a possible
employee.
4. Oswald filled out the application. Padgett Printing Corporation
Exhibit No. 1[P] is a photostatic copy of the original application
which was filled in during the course of my interview with Oswald. The
original application was prepared and maintained among the records of
Padgett Printing Corporation in the usual and regular course of its
business. The exhibit is a copy of the application as it was when it
was completed by me on or about October 4, 1963. It is entirely in
Oswald's handwriting except for my initials in the blank, "Interviewed
by", the date, the word "over", and the handwriting on the reverse
side, all of which are in my handwriting.
5. Oswald said he could be reached at the Irving, Texas, phone number
he listed on the application, and he suggested particular periods of
the week he would most likely be available to respond to a telephone
call.
6. Shortly after the interview, I called Mr. Stovall at
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, where Oswald had previously worked. Mr.
Stovall was not there, so I spoke with somebody who had worked with
Oswald there. He implied that Oswald's fellow employees did not like
him because he was propagandizing and had been seen reading a foreign
newspaper.
7. I later talked with Mr. Robert Stovall, who is a friend of mine, and
he said Oswald could not get along there and he could not adapt himself
to the type of work assigned to him.
8. As a result of this conversation I wrote the comments that appear on
the back of the application and decided that we would not hire him.
9. I called Oswald at the Irving, Texas, telephone number he had
written on the application and told him that we had hired somebody with
better qualifications.
Signed this 16th day of June 1964.
(S) Theo. F. Gangl,
THEODORE F. GANGL.
[P] Padgett Printing Corp. Exhibit No. 1 was subsequently
relabeled Gangl Exhibit No. 1.