Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir. I would say that was her signature.
Mr. Jenner. And the second name appears to be that of whom?
Mr. Oswald. Mrs. Katherine Ford.
Mr. Jenner. And your testimony with respect to her, were I to pursue it, would be the same as you testified to a previous exhibit, insofar as your familiarity with her signature is concerned?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Thank you, sir.
Forgive the interruption, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Dulles. That is all right.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Chairman, Mr. McKenzie has produced for us and tendered to us four documents, during the recess, which I would wish to identify. They have a relationship to the exhibits, the signatures of which I have just finished having identified.
Would you mark those, please, Mr. Liebeler?
Mr. Dulles. Do you wish these admitted as exhibits?
Mr. Jenner. If you please, sir. I would like to identify the exhibits and indicate their content first.
I would call on you, Mr. McKenzie, to identify the series of exhibits. They are numbered, Mr. Chairman, Commission Exhibits 276, 277, 278, and 279.
If you will identify them, I may have some questions of the witness.
Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Chairman, Exhibit No. 276 is a contract dated December 6, 1963, addressed to Mr. James H. Martin, Dallas, Tex., and signed by Mrs. Marina N. Oswald, consisting of four pages.
Mr. Dulles. I wish that admitted at this time with that description.
Mr. Jenner. If I may put one question to the witness: Mr. Oswald, would you look at the last page of that exhibit? Does it purport to bear a signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Are you familiar with that signature?
Mr. Oswald. There are three signatures.
Mr. Jenner. Are you familiar with all of them?
Mr. Oswald. May I ask my attorney something here?
Mr. Jenner. Surely.
Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Jenner, if I may interrupt you, and pardon me for doing so—on page 3 there is likewise a signature. And I think perhaps he should start at that page.
Mr. Jenner. That is a fine suggestion.
Will you now refer to page 3. Does it bear a signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; it does.
Mr. Jenner. Are you familiar with that signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am.
Mr. Jenner. Whose signature is it?
Mr. Oswald. Mrs. Marina N. Oswald.
Mr. Jenner. Turn to page 4. There are several signatures on that page, is that correct?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct. There are three.
Mr. Jenner. Are you familiar with any of them?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am.
Mr. Jenner. Would you take them in order, taking the uppermost one first. Indicate whether you are familiar with that signature, and whose signature it is.
Mr. Oswald. It is my own signature, Robert Oswald.
Mr. Jenner. The next under that?
Mr. Oswald. Mr. James H. Martin.
Mr. Jenner. Are you familiar with that signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. And it is his signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Who is Mr. James H. Martin?
Mr. Oswald. He was, at that time, when this contract was signed, appointed as Marina's business agent. But employed at the Inn of the Six Flags at Arlington, Tex.
Mr. Jenner. He has been identified in previous sessions before the Commission.
And there is a third signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; there is.
Mr. Jenner. And are you familiar with that signature?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am.
Mr. Jenner. Whose is it, please?
Mr. Oswald. Mr. John M. Thorne, Attorney.
Mr. Jenner. And he is the Mr. Thorne that we have identified a few moments ago?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. He was at that time the attorney for Mrs. Marina Oswald?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Is there a fourth signature?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; there is not.
Mr. Jenner. Were those signatures affixed in your presence?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; they were.
Mr. Dulles. Mr. Jenner, I believe these are photostatic copies, are they not, that are being identified?
Mr. Jenner. Yes, sir.
Mr. McKenzie, would you please make a statement with respect to that?
Mr. McKenzie. Yes, sir. I was going to at this time, Mr. Jenner, state for the record that Exhibit 276 is a photostatic copy. And this photostatic copy was furnished to me by Mrs. Marina N. Oswald.
Mr. Dulles. Where is the original of that?
Mr. McKenzie. Marina N. Oswald has the original.
Mr. Dulles. Has that been so compared, that we know this is a true copy?
Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Chairman. Pardon me.
I retract that statement.
Marina N. Oswald furnished to me a copy of this exhibit, but it was a signed copy, and it was an original copy.
Mr. Jenner. A duplicate original?
Mr. McKenzie. Yes. And I presume Mr. James Martin had the original, since it is addressed to him.
Mr. Dulles. And both the original and this duplicate bear these signatures, do they?
Mr. McKenzie. I have never seen the original, sir, but I presume that they do. And I think Robert Oswald here can clarify that, because he was present at the time that the original was signed, and also the duplicate copies.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Dulles. And the duplicates were signed by the same parties as the original?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Representative Ford. May I ask—did you get a copy of the original at the time?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir. I received a copy in the mail the second day after the signatures were signed. My copies were unsigned.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Oswald, were you present when all of the copies were contemporaneously signed, if they were contemporaneously signed?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I was.
Mr. Jenner. So you know of your own knowledge that what has been termed here the original, which may be in the possession of Mr. Martin, was signed, and was signed in your presence?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. And the document which we are now discussing is a photostatic copy of a carbon copy of the original?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Executed contemporaneously with the original?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Would you have any further