Mr. HUBERT. Mrs. Cason, my name is Leon Hubert, I am a member of the advisory staff of the General Counsel on the President’s Commission. Under the provisions of the Executive Order 11130, dated November 29, 1963, the Joint Resolution of Congress No. 137, and the rules and procedure adopted by the Commission in conformance with the Executive order and joint resolution, I have been authorized to take a sworn deposition from you. Mrs. Cason, I state to you now that the general nature of the Commission’s inquiry is to ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of President Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of Lee Harvey Oswald. In particular as to you, Mrs. Cason, the nature of the inquiry today is to determine the facts you know about the death of Oswald and any other pertinent facts you may know about the general inquiry. In particular, with reference to your duties as a dispatcher of the Dallas Police Department. Now, Mrs. Cason, you have appeared here today by virtue of an informal request made by the General Counsel of the staff of the President’s Commission, and under the rules adopted by the Commission you would normally be entitled to a 3-day written notice prior to the taking of your deposition, but those rules also provide that that 3-day written notice may be waived, and I ask you if you are willing to waive that notice at this time? Mrs. CASON. Yes, I will. Mr. HUBERT. All right, stand and raise your right hand, please, Ma’am, so as to be sworn. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mrs. CASON. I do. Mr. HUBERT. State your name, please. Mrs. CASON. Frances Cason. Mr. HUBERT. Your age? Mrs. CASON. Age 26. Mr. HUBERT. Are you married, Mrs. Cason? Mrs. CASON. Yes, I am. Mr. HUBERT. Then I suppose we should have your husband’s name? Mrs. CASON. Jimmy D. Cason. Mr. HUBERT. What was your name prior to the marriage? Mrs. CASON. Shanz [spelling] S-h-a-n-z. Mr. HUBERT. Where do you reside? Mrs. CASON. 2822 Greene [spelling] G-r-e-e-n-e, in Irving, Tex. Mr. HUBERT. What is your occupation? Mrs. CASON. Telephone clerk in the telephone dispatcher’s office at the Dallas Police Department. Mr. HUBERT. How long have you been so employed? Mrs. CASON. Since September 6, 1963. Before that I had a 6 months’ leave of absence and was employed for the police department for 2½ years. Mr. HUBERT. Were you on duty between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., on November 24, 1963? Mrs. CASON. Yes, I was; actually, it is 6:30 to 3:30.