The testimony of Nancy Perrin Rich was taken at 11 a.m., on June 2,
1964, at 200 Maryland Avenue NE., Washington, D.C., by Messrs. Burt W.
Griffin and Leon D. Hubert, Jr., assistant counsel of the President’s
Commission.
Mr. HUBERT. This is the deposition of Nancy Perrin Rich.
Mrs. Rich, my name is Leon D. Hubert. I am a member of the advisory
staff of the general counsel of the President’s Commission on the
Assassination of President Kennedy.
Under the provisions of the President’s Executive Order No. 11130,
dated November 29, 1963, the joint resolution of Congress 137, and the
rules of procedure adopted by the President’s Commission in conformance
with that Executive order and that resolution, I have been authorized
to take a sworn deposition from you.
I state to you now that the general nature of the Commission’s inquiry
is to ascertain, evaluate, and report upon the facts relevant to the
assassination of President Kennedy, and the subsequent violent death of
Lee Harvey Oswald.
In particular as to you, Mrs. Rich, the nature of the inquiry today
is to determine what facts you know about the death of Oswald, any
participation in that death, or the death of President Kennedy by
Jack Ruby, certain particular activities of Jack Ruby which you have
heretofore told the FBI, and other pertinent facts you may know about
the general inquiry.
Now, Mrs. Rich, I think you appear today here by virtue of a letter
written to you by Mr. J. Lee Rankin, general counsel of the staff of
the President’s Commission, is that right?
Mrs. RICH. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And that—when did you receive that letter?
Mrs. RICH. I actually received in my hands the letter yesterday,
Monday, the 1st. I received notification of it via a telephone call
from Mr. Fahety of the FBI Bureau, Boston, notifying me of it.
It was sent—and at this time I would like to state—and opened by
Mr. Rod Kennett, of Executive Limited, 100 Boylston Street, Boston,
and there was no possible way that letter could have been opened
erroneously. It could not have even by any stretch of the imagination
been misconstrued as being office literature. It was personally
addressed to me, with the President’s Commission on it.