the particular day—pardon me. I misunderstood the question.
Mr. McKenzie. I think he misunderstood the question.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Was it your impression that Mr. Nixon was to be in Dallas on that particular day, and that that is the day that Marina locked him in the bathroom?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Was she locking him in the bathroom to cool him off so he would not attempt it when Mr. Nixon might be in town some later date?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir, it was her intention, or my impression of her intentions, that she locked him in the bathroom on that date, to keep him on that date from shooting at Mr. Richard M. Nixon.
Mr. Jenner. So your impression was this was an imminent event?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Dulles. Or that she thought it was an imminent event?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, that, thank you.
Mr. Dulles. That is all I have now.
Mr. Jenner. I take it from your testimony that this ringed notebook, and in part a diary, is a record first of past events—that you prepared it subsequently to the events recorded therein.
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Now, start from the beginning, that is the first page, the first paragraph of which you have read, in order to identify it. I notice a date—December 6, 1963. Do you find it, sir?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Is that the date on which you prepared at least the first page or started this memorandum?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Now, would you please take that memorandum or notebook and identify each page that you wrote at the first sitting—that is, what you first recorded in the book on the first occasion you wrote in it.
Mr. Oswald. On the eighth page, approximately midway down, in the left-hand margin I have a date of 12–7.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Now, I take it, therefore, that your first entries were made—that you made, covered the pages commencing with the page dated at the top December 6, 1963, and proceeding consecutively to the eighth page, and in the center of that page approximately, at the margin, there appears the figures 12–7.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. You wrote all the intervening material at one sitting?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And the 12–7 refers, I take it, to December 7, 1963?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And that is the day following your having made the first entries?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. Which is December 6, 1963.
Are all the pages that intervene in your handwriting?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; they are.
Mr. McKenzie. Mr. Jenner, if I may, and for the purpose of the record, to help speed up the proceedings, I will state on behalf of Mr. Oswald that all the pages of the diary which you have there in front of you, and which should be and will be marked an exhibit to the Commission's record, are in Mr. Oswald's handwriting, they were written simultaneously on the date as shown in the diary, and were his recollections of the event as it occurred on that date. Is that correct Robert?
Mr. Jenner. I appreciate your suggestion, Mr. McKenzie, but there are some breaks that I would like to identify.
Mr. McKenzie. Pardon me, sir.
Mr. Jenner. I have marked the document now as Commission Exhibit 323.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 323 for identification.)
Mr. Dulles. And you wish to ask that it be admitted in evidence?
Mr. Jenner. If I may defer that for a moment.
Are all of the pages of the diary which you have separated and clipped together at my request in your handwriting?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; they are.
Mr. Jenner. Now, proceeding from the eighth page, which contains the date entry December 7, 1963, would you please identify what you wrote on the particular occasion—that is, December 7, 1963?
I take it the balance of that page?
Mr. Oswald. The balance of that page, the following entire page, and the first part of the next page.
Mr. Jenner. Down to what?
Mr. Oswald. "for me to come to his office" and a date——
Mr. Jenner. Is the date 12-11-63?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Dulles. Are these pages numbered?
Mr. Jenner. They are not.
Mr. McKenzie. I think we should have them numbered at this time, if the Commission would so desire, sir. We can number them—Robert can number them at the bottom of the page consecutively all the way through, and likewise number the exhibit.
Mr. Jenner. I would like to number the photostat that we have rather than to place any markings on the original.
Mr. McKenzie. That is fine.
Mr. Jenner. Would it help you, Mr. Chairman, if I examined from the seat beside you, so you can see the exhibit?
The occasion next after December 7, 1963, when you made an entry in your notebook, I take it, was on December 11, 1963.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. And would you please indicate commencing with that entry in the upper portion of the page how much—what portions of the notebook you wrote on that occasion?
Mr. Oswald. On the page referred to, from the date of 12-11-63, on the 11th page following that, I have an asterisk in the left-hand column.
Mr. Jenner. Would you read the first line of that page?
Mr. Oswald. "Complete with Marina."
Mr. Jenner. And the last line?
Mr. Oswald. "around 11 a.m., the first great shock of the day"——
Mr. Jenner. Just the last line.
Mr. Oswald. "also they were having a hard time locating".
Mr. Jenner. Now, there is an asterisk in the left-hand
