Mrs. OSWALD. All right.
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, I have shown you during a recess what has been
marked as Exhibit 271, and you have examined the handwriting of that
exhibit.
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. And the various letters there. Can you tell us whether or
not those handwritings on those various letters are those of your son,
Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. OSWALD. It looks like his handwriting, I would say so. I am not
handwriting expert. It looks very much like his writing.
Mr. RANKIN. Thank you. We offer in evidence Exhibit 271.
The CHAIRMAN. It will be admitted.
(The document was received in evidence as Commission Exhibit No. 271.)
Mr. RANKIN. We understand, Mr. Doyle, that you have examined the
original documents of Exhibits 244 through 257, and compared them with
the photostatic copies that have been marked.
Mr. DOYLE. I have.
Mr. RANKIN. And stipulate for the record that the photostats are
correct, of the originals, is that agreeable?
Mr. DOYLE. I do.
Mr. RANKIN. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, I have nothing further unless Mrs. Oswald has something
or Mr. Doyle cares to interrogate Mrs. Oswald about anything.
The CHAIRMAN. Mrs. Oswald, do you have anything more you want to say?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, I don't have anything more. Do you have any questions,
Mr. Doyle?
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Doyle, do you have anything to say?
Mr. DOYLE. I have no further questions, no.
The CHAIRMAN. Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Oswald, for appearing
voluntarily before the Commission and giving your testimony, and Mr.
Doyle, I want to express the appreciation of the Commission for the
help you have been to Mrs. Oswald and to the Commission in representing
her on this occasion. We know that it disrupted your week very badly.
We know that you responded to this call for public service on a
moment's notice, and we appreciate it all the more because of that.
My own personal thanks to you in addition to those of the Commission.
Mr. DOYLE. Thank you, Your Honor. I assume that my designation was
for the purpose of the hearing and with the conclusion that will have
finished my job.
The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. Unless Mrs. Oswald should like to ask you some
questions about the matter at the conclusion of the testimony, I think
that will be all.
Mr. DOYLE. Very well.
The CHAIRMAN. Thank you both.
Mrs. OSWALD. You and I are through as attorney and client?
Mr. DOYLE. Yes.
Mrs. OSWALD. This will not be pursued any further?
Mr. DOYLE. Unless you have some questions, thank you.
Mrs. OSWALD. Gentlemen, you are making a very big mistake. I thank you
very much for inviting me here.
The CHAIRMAN. I don't understand you.
Mrs. OSWALD. I think you are making a very big mistake not pursuing
this further because I have told important people about this particular
incident and I say it is correct and I hope you will continue while I
am gone not just to ignore what I have said.
The CHAIRMAN. Mrs. Oswald, you misjudge the Commission when you say we
will not pursue it further.
Mrs. OSWALD. Fine, I don't know, I am asking.
The CHAIRMAN. You may be sure we will pursue it further.
Mrs. OSWALD. Thank you, and I have more people that I could call. I
have told Mr. Doyle the people.
Would you like me to name the people on the record for you? Mr. Lane, I
called Mr. Lane----
The CHAIRMAN. To what purpose are you naming these people?
Mrs. OSWALD. To the purpose that Mr. Mike Howard who came to Fort
Worth last week to protect me, I called these people and told them how
concerned I was that he was the one.
The CHAIRMAN. I think you have told us what you told them, so that we
have it here in the record now.
We are adjourned.
(Whereupon, at 5:15 p.m., the President's Commission recessed.)
_Thursday, February 20, 1964_