Mr. HUBERT. Now, I am going to show you a document which is actually a photostatic copy, or Xerox copy, of Commission Document 354, consisting of four pages. I am going to mark that document for identification as follows, to wit, “Deposition of Forrest Sorrels, Washington, D.C., May 6, 1964,” and I am signing my name to that, all of which is on the right margin of the first page. I am placing my initials in the lower right-hand corner of the second, third, and fourth pages. I ask you if you can identify this document, or rather, the photostatic copy? Would you state what it is? Mr. SORRELS. This is a photocopy of a memorandum report titled “Assassination of President Kennedy,” the second line of that caption, “Jack Leon Ruby--slayer of Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with murder of President Kennedy.” Submitted by me, Forrest V. Sorrels, on February 3, 1964. And it consists of three full pages and a portion of--about a fifth of the fourth page. Mr. HUBERT. I think your signature, or, rather, a photostatic copy of your signature is on the front. Mr. SORRELS. That is correct--on the front. Mr. HUBERT. That is the report that you submitted to your superiors? Mr. SORRELS. In Washington. Mr. HUBERT. Which ultimately, of course, they sent. The report covers the events of November 24, is that right? Mr. SORRELS. That is right. Mr. HUBERT. Do you know why it was filed on February 3? Mr. SORRELS. Why it was written on February 3? I was instructed by Inspector Kelley to write up a memorandum on the interview that I had with Jack Ruby, shortly after Oswald was shot by Ruby, and also the interview that was had with Captain Fritz and Ruby at which I was present on the same date. Mr. HUBERT. When did you receive those instructions? Mr. SORRELS. I cannot say exactly when I received them--probably within a day or two, or it could have been longer, because due to the press of other work and things arising out of the assassination, and its duties, the other duties, it was not written as soon as it should have been. And I may have been instructed some time before that to--as quick as I could to get the memorandum prepared. Mr. HUBERT. What I mean is that normally you would write such a report as this in any case? Mr. SORRELS. Yes, that is true. Mr. HUBERT. And normally it would be written sooner---- Mr. SORRELS. Sooner, that is right. Mr. HUBERT. Than 2 months or so afterwards? Mr. SORRELS. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. That is what I am asking--if you can tell us what was the cause of the delay. Mr. SORRELS. Well, it is just the fact that we were burdened with all the additional work and things brought about by this assassination and investigation and so forth. I guess you could term it, possibly, negligence on my part for not just taking time off and doing it. That is about the only explanation I can give for that. It was not any willful intent to not write it or anything to that effect. Mr. HUBERT. There is no suggestion as to that.