Mr. JENNER. Fine. If you have anything from which you may refresh your
recollection so that we can have the exact date. I appreciate it.
Mr. POWERS. This would be, 2 May 1957 is on the date of these orders.
Mr. JENNER. May 2, 1957?
Mr. POWERS. That's correct. We were authorized to proceed to Shipping
and Receiving Station, Keesler----
Mr. JENNER. Check that over again and see if in fact it's the 2d of May
1956.
Mr. POWERS. I'm sorry, 2d of May 1957.
Mr. JENNER. 1957?
Mr. POWERS. Yes.
"Effective 3 May 1957, the below listed marines are directed to report
to the 3380th Technical Training Group, 3383d Student Squadron, Block
21, Building 17, Shipping and Receiving Section, Keesler Air Force
Base, Biloxi, Miss., for duty under instruction, USNAC&W Operators
Course No. AB27037, Class 08057, for a period of about 6 weeks. Upon
arrival thereat, they will report to the Commanding Officer for duty."
And then it lists six marines with Lee H. Oswald as one of these
marines.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now. I'm pleased that you have those orders
because an FBI report fixes that time as--in the interview they had
with you as you having reported to have been in June of 1956, and in
fact it was May 2, 1957?
Mr. POWERS. That's correct, sir. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I have been a little curious as to why you hadn't met him
while you were at the Naval Air Technical Center at Jacksonville, Fla.
I mean previous to this May 2d order.
Mr. POWERS. There is a possibility, sir; that I had met him, but he
doesn't enter into my recollection until this particular period of
time. Now, in recalling Jacksonville, Fla., going to school there, the
only individual that stands out in my mind, or individuals that were
directly concerned with me are the people that I was associated with.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mr. POWERS. But as far as he was not in this particular social group,
if you would like to call it that.
Mr. JENNER. He also was a private, first class at that time, was he not?
Mr. POWERS. I don't believe he was, sir. I believe he was a private.
I'll go back to these orders and substantiate that. Yes; that's
correct. He was a private, first class, at that particular time.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you give me the names of--this was a group in
which you were the senior and you were in charge of the travel of your
group from the Naval Air Technical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., to----