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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XV - Page 742« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Prof. Revilo Pendleton Oliver)

Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mr. Oliver.
The only exceptions are one or two corrections where in my haste in typing I have inverted letters or things like that.
Mr. Jenner.
Obvious typographicals?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
This is, sir, the typewritten speech?
Mr. Oliver.
Typewritten text from which I spoke.
Mr. Jenner.
I am sorry, I mean typewritten text from which you spoke at the Santa Ana Valley High School and other places you have spoken in recent days ?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you tell us where those places were ?
Mr. Oliver.
Tucson, Ariz.
Mr. Jenner.
Can you give the dates, approximately?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes; I can give you the exact dates. I spoke in Tucson on Monday, the 24th of August; San Diego, Tuesday, the 25th of August; Azuza, Calif., Wednesday, the 26th of August; Glendale, Calif. Thursday, the 27th of August; Santa Aria Friday the 28th of August; and Salt Lake City Saturday, the 29th of August. And the speech which I gave in all of those places was substantially the same except that I did cut.
Mr. Jenner.
The same as Oliver Exhibit No. 10?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes; I did occasionally cut when I saw that my time was running a little long.
Mr. Unger.
I wish you would have done that today. We missed another plane. (The document referred to was marked Oliver Exhibit No. 10 for identification.) Mr. JENNER. In your reference to Joachim Joesten's book, you had particular reference to chapter 16, did you not?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes, I believe so. This is the one which takes up the discussion of the CIA and the FBI, and tries to connect them with General Walker and H. L. Hunt, and other persons.
Mr. Jenner.
Do I now have all the sources to which you resorted in preparing your article in the American Opinion, and the speech which is identified as Oliver Exhibit No. 10?
Mr. Oliver.
I believe so; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Is it a fair statement that as to both of those your sources were, to use your language, public sources in the sense of books, newspaper articles, and--what would you call this kind of a thing .
Mr. Oliver.
Newspaper articles, or bulletins, and magazine articles.
Mr. Jenner.
Magazine articles, and that you had no confidential source other than if you want to describe Colonel Clark's talk with you as a confidential source?
Mr. Oliver.
That is right. Except, of course, that I used the research facilities of Mr. Capell particularly, as I have stated.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you use his research facilities in the sense of his library or rather did you employ bulletins issued by him or reports made to you which he prepared using his own library?
Mr. Oliver.
Reports which he made to me chiefly by telephone, chiefly because I needed them in a hurry.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; and your understanding was that he in turn based those reports on research work that he did of public sources ?
Mr. Oliver.
He has very elaborate files and many contacts.
Mr. Unger.
I should point out to you that Mr. Jennet said he based upon public publications or files. That is not exactly correct, is it?
Mr. Oliver.
Mr. Jenner said that Mr. Capell based his.
Mr. Unger.
Yes; do you want that statement to stand?
Mr. Jenner.
As far as you know. I will put it this way, sir. What were Mr. Capell's sources so far as they are personally known to you, of your own knowledge ?
Mr. Oliver.
They are Mr. Capell's ties which go back over many years, and
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