Mrs. BATES. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. That was written by Miss Caroline Hamilton, Press staff
writer, as you have described?
Mrs. BATES. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. Is that story accurate as you related it to her?
Mrs. BATES. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Is there anything in the story that you would like to amend
or correct?
Mrs. BATES. No, sir. It was read to me before it was ever printed twice.
Mr. JENNER. It is Bates Exhibit No. 1 and is offered in evidence.
Mrs. BATES. And we did it very carefully to make it all--so we wouldn't
get the past and the present mixed up. We kept it to the 3 days.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall being interviewed by the FBI on December 2,
1963?
Mrs. BATES. Yes; let's see, that was a Saturday, wasn't it--December 2?
Mr. JENNER. [Referring to calendar] December 2 was a Monday.
Mrs. BATES. Well, no; they came to my home on Saturday after the story
broke.
Mr. JENNER. Did they interview you twice?
Mrs. BATES. Well, they didn't interview me the second time really. They
just--uh--I had received a letter, I think it was, that I turned over
to them.
Mr. JENNER. I see. Could it have been Saturday, the 30th of November?
Mrs. BATES. It was the following Saturday after the story broke.
Saturday the 30th of November. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall saying to the FBI men who interviewed you
that the story was accurate----
Mrs. BATES. Yes, sir; gave him a copy of it.
Mr. JENNER. In every detail, with one exception--which was that Lee
Oswald never stated that he was working for the U.S. State Department.
Mrs. BATES. Well, that is not in the story.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me about that.
Mrs. BATES. That was what--the radio and television was trying to put
words in my mouth at that time. And--uh--I don't know how many times
I had to call and tell them to retract that. I never stated that. I
stated that when he first said that he went to Russia and had gotten
a visa that I thought--it was just a thought--that maybe he was going
over under the auspices of the State Department--as a student or
something.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh.