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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XI - Page 165« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of William Kirk Stuckey)

Mr. Jenner.
Did you supply a copy of that transcript to anyone else prior to your bringing Stuckey Exhibit No. 2 today?
Mr. Stuckey.
Yes; I did.
Mr. Jenner.
To whom?
Mr. Stuckey.
To the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. Jenner.
When you were interviewed by the FBI you supplied the FBI with a transcript?
Mr. Stuckey.
No; as a matter of fact I gave the tape to the FBI the Monday following the interview, which would have been August 20, 1963. I told them I thought it was very interesting, and if they would like to have a transcript they could copy it, which they did. They made a copy and then they gave me a copy of their transcript, and returned the tape to me.
Mr. Jenner.
But Stuckey Exhibit No. 2 is the one that you prepared?
Mr. Stuckey.
Correct.
Mr. Jenner.
And not one that the FBI prepared.
Mr. Stuckey.
Correct.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. This was on Saturday afternoon. Were you scheduled to go on the air that evening?
Mr. Stuckey.
Yes; my broadcast time is 7:30. I met him about 5, about two and a half hours in advance.
Mr. Jenner.
Had you contemplated that the broadcast that evening would be a discourse only between you and Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Stuckey.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Is that the way it developed?
Mr. Stuckey.
That is the way it developed.
Mr. Jenner.
What was the nature of that broadcast? I should say to you we have from--what is the radio station?
Mr. Stuckey.
WDSU.
Mr. Jenner.
From WDSU we have obtained a copy of that tape.
Mr. Stuckey.
Now, you mean of this tape?
Mr. Jenner.
No.
Mr. Stuckey.
Because I don't think they have a copy of that tape.
Mr. Jenner.
No; the broadcast that evening I am talking about.
Mr. Stuckey.
Is that right? They located it?
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mr. Stuckey.
Because I tried to find a copy of that mainly to take it off the market and never did locate it. I couldn't find it. This must be a recent development.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; but despite that would you tell us about that broadcast?
Mr. Stuckey.
Yes.
As I said, this was a 37-minute, rambling interview between Oswald and myself, and following the interview, first we played it back to hear it. He was satisfied.
Mr. Jenner.
That is, you played back the tape of which Exhibit No. 2 is a transcript?
Mr. Stuckey.
Correct; Oswald was satisfied. I think he thought he had scored quite a coup.
Then I went back over it in his presence and with the engineer's help excerpted a couple of the remarks by Oswald in this. I forget now what the excerpts were. It has been so long ago. I think we had his definition of democracy because that, in particular, struck me, and we had a couple of his comments in which he said Castro was a free and independent leader of a free and independent state, and the rest of it, as I recall, was largely my summarizing of the other principal points of the 37-minute interview, and it was broadcast on schedule that night.
Mr. Jenner.
You had watered it down in length to how many minutes?
Mr. Stuckey.
Five minutes.
Mr. Jenner.
Five minutes?
Mr. Stuckey.
Actually 4 1/2.
Mr. Jenner.
So you took the portions of your 37-minute interview, which
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