Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. KANTOR. These documents are notes which I made upon my return
from Dallas after spending 16 days following the assassination of the
President. They are notes which, by and large, I hadn’t written down as
events occurred but which I wanted to put down on paper while I still
remembered everything in as great a detail as possible.
Mr. HUBERT. Were these notes which have been marked as Exhibit No. 4,
made all at one time?
Mr. KANTOR. No; they were not. They were made over a 1-week period.
Mr. HUBERT. What period was that, in point of calendar date?
Mr. KANTOR. They were in December 1963.
Mr. HUBERT. They were made by you?
Mr. KANTOR. They were made by me.
Mr. HUBERT. How did you make them in fact?
Mr. KANTOR. I rented a tape recorder and spoke all of this into the
tape recorder and then played the tape recorder back and wrote it down
by means of typewriter.
Mr. HUBERT. So that this typing on Exhibit No. 4 is actually your own
typing?
Mr. KANTOR. It is my own typing.
Mr. HUBERT. It is not a stenographer or typist?
Mr. KANTOR. No, sir; it is mine.
Mr. HUBERT. And it came from the tape, and you dictated into the tape
recorder over a week’s time all of this material?
Mr. KANTOR. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, sir. Have you read this recently?
Mr. KANTOR. No.
Mr. HUBERT. But can you state to us that it represents your best
recollection of what occurred?
Mr. KANTOR. It would be a better recollection than I could give you now
on anything which transpired.
Mr. HUBERT. All right. With your permission, sir, then we will hold
these, have them photostated, and return the originals to you.
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; that is all right.
Mr. HUBERT. Mr. Kantor, you have handed us a small Penway brand
spiral-backed memo book in which there are 9 pages, each page, of
course, having a front and a back, and I ask you whether the notes
on those pages of this book that I have identified, and now further
identify as Exhibit No. 5 of the deposition of Seth Kantor, June 3,
1964, if those notes are in your handwriting.
(The document referred to was marked Seth Kantor Exhibit No. 5 for
identification.)
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; they are.
Mr. HUBERT. Were they made contemporaneously with the events to which
they refer?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; they were made contemporaneously with the events.
Mr. HUBERT. I think the record shows that it has been identified as
Exhibit No. 5 of your deposition. And here, again, with reference to
Exhibit No. 5, we will have photostats made of the back and front of
all these pages, and then return the book to you.
I notice on the first page of Exhibit No. 5 that you have the name Mrs.
Michael R. Paine. Does that indicate that there was an interview with
her?
Mr. KANTOR. The interview took place at her residence on the outskirts
of Dallas late in the afternoon on a Thursday, one week after
Thanksgiving.
Mr. HUBERT. How many pages of Exhibit No. 5 relate to notes made of the
interview of Mrs. Paine?
Mr. KANTOR. Twelve pages.
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