The President's Commission met at 3:20 p.m., on September 6, 1964, at
the U.S. Naval Air Station, Dallas, Tex.
Present were Senator Richard Russell, presiding; Senator John Sherman
Cooper, and Congressman Hale Boggs, members.
Also present were J. Lee Rankin, general counsel; Dean R. G. Storey,
special counsel to the attorney general of Texas; Leon I. Gopadze and
Peter P. Gregory, interpreters; and John Joe Howlett, Secret Service
agent.
[NOTE.--The witness, Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald, having been previously
sworn in these proceedings, testified through the interpreters as shown
in this transcript as follows: *Translation is by Mr. Paul D. Gregory,
interpreter; **translation is by Mr. Leon I. Gopadze, interpreter.
Where the answer or a paragraph shown as part of an answer has no
asterisk, the answer is by the witness herself without the use of the
interpreters.]
Mr. RANKIN. Senator Russell, will you swear the witness?
Senator RUSSELL. Since she is already under oath in this hearing, I
assume that oath will carry over?
Mr. RANKIN. All right.