Mr. CARRO. Well, I noticed it was my handwriting. He seemed to have my
record with him. I had no independent recollection or evidence outside
of the records he had.
Mr. LIEBELER. The records which you would have prepared would be
prepared by you in the course of your work as a probation officer, and
they would have reflected your opinions at that time, is that correct?
Mr. CARRO. Correct, and I would have nothing to add now at this point
as to what happened 12 years ago.
Mr. LIEBELER. Let me ask you to review a photostatic copy of a document
that is captioned "Supplementary Facts and Explanations," which appears
to be some sort of exhibit to a petition in connection with Lee Oswald.
This particular document I refer to consists of eight pages and I would
ask you to review that briefly, to look it over and tell me if you
recognize what it is, where this gets into the proceedings and if it in
fact sets forth the report of some of your work, reports to the Youth
House, and would it be the record that was prepared at that time in
connection with the court proceedings relating to Lee Oswald?
Mr. CARRO. Yes; as I just briefly peruse over it, first of all, it is
the form that is prescribed by the court for making a report by the
judge, that you can readily notice it has a prescribed type of form
where you begin with the identifying information as to the child,
the nature of the petition, the initial court actions, and then you
go into the actual history as to the family, previous court record,
family history, and then you have paragraphs set off for the home and
neighborhood, school record, religious affiliations, activities and
special interests, mental and physical condition, child's version,
which is the discussion with the child as to the nature of the
incidence why he was before the court, parental attitudes, where
you discuss with the parents; past records with other agencies and
evaluation of the recommendation which is made by the probation officer
based on his getting together all this data.
And you will also notice that included then beyond that report, which
is signed by the probation officer, includes the summary for the
probation officer, which is a summary of the psychiatric study, not the
actual study.
And then this is a record of the various court actions which preceded,
who appeared, when, and I note that my signature--not my signature but
my name has been typed in with respect to the various actions that took
place subsequent to the boy being returned to the court during the time
he was under the supervision of the court, right up to January 1954.
Just perusing over this, I know that this is the various reports that I
made to the court.