The Commission is directed to investigate all the facts and circumstances surrounding or bearing upon the assassination of our late President Kennedy. I am Albert E. Jenner, Jr., one of the various members of the legal staff of the Commission, and we are here today taking depositions of witnesses who may have in some way touched the lives of the Oswald family during their residence here in New Orleans. You have told us that you have some concern about your boy in this matter, and you have also told me of your position in this community both as a family man and a public official. I think it will be proper, due to the circumstances of your situation, to put a statement from you into the record of these proceedings before the Commission, and so, with your permission, I will ask you some questions at this time. Mr. STEELE. All right. Mr. JENNER. Now, you are a native-born American here, and your wife is a native-born American, and all your children were born here, is that right? Mr. STEELE. Correct. Mr. JENNER. In and around this area? Mr. STEELE. Yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. You are how old now, sir? Mr. STEELE. I am 44, but I will be 45 the 15th of August, this year--1964. Mr. JENNER. Do you have any children in addition to Charles Hall, Jr.? Mr. STEELE. I have a daughter Jacqueline; she's a twin to Charles, and I have one boy Gerald, who is aged 13. Mr. JENNER. Jacqueline, what is she doing? Mr. STEELE. She is at Mercy Hospital, a student nurse. She will graduate in August. Mr. JENNER. Now, tell me about yourself, Mr. Steele? Mr. STEELE. I am a deputy sheriff, attached to the Civil District Court, and an officer of the court. I own a small business known as the Liberty Coffee and Household Co. Mr. JENNER. You are a service man, are you? Mr. STEELE. 23 years on active National Guard status, subject to 24 hours' notice. Mr. JENNER. Were you in World War II? Mr. STEELE. I was. Mr. JENNER. What was the nature of that service?