Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Approximately the center of the page?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. I gather from your testimony that the entry you made then on 11th of December 1963, commenced at the point that you have that date in the margin, and runs to, throughout the pages consecutively—down to the asterisk of the page you have now identified.
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. When did you make the entry that is opposite the asterisk, and that follows the asterisk?
Mr. Oswald. I do not recall the exact date, sir. I do recall stopping at that period and making the balance of the entries at a later date after December 11, 1963, and prior to January 13, 1964.
Mr. Dulles. Were they all made at one time?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Dulles. The post asterisk entries?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir. From the asterisk until the completion of the diary to the date of January 13, 1964, was made at one time.
Mr. Jenner. And it recorded past events. It was not made contemporaneously with the events recorded?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. So that the first entries in this notebook that are diary entries in the sense that they are made contemporaneously with the event, to immediately record the event, are those appearing on the last page, consisting of two entries, one dated Sunday, January 13, 1964, and one dated Sunday, January 19, 1964?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
I have noted an error in those dates to the extent that there is only 6 days in between those two Sundays. One date is wrong.
Mr. Jenner. You mean either January 13, 1964, is incorrect or Sunday, January 19, 1964, is incorrect?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir. It was an error on my part. And if I may refer to a calendar, I will correct the dates.
Mr. Jenner. Is that a '63 calendar you have there?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; this is a '64.
I would correct the first date as appeared in my diary of Sunday, January 13, 1964, to be corrected to January 12, 1964, and the second date of January would be correct, sir.
Mr. Jenner. So wherever in your testimony this morning you have referred to the Sunday, January 13 date, that is to be corrected to January 12, 1964?
Mr. Oswald. That is correct.
Mr. Jenner. For the purpose of further identification of the exhibit, and in the context of Mr. McKenzie's and my agreement to substitute a photostatic copy for the original. I will undertake to number the pages of the exhibit on the photostatic copy.
Mr. McKenzie. Would you like Robert to do that?
Mr. Jenner. Well, I would like to have him follow, so that the numbers on the photostat correspond with the pages consecutively in the original.
As I number the pages, Mr. Oswald, would you follow me, so that the page numbers I place on the exhibit are correct in that they are in sequence with the original?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. The first page I am marking No. 1. The next page, No. 2. The next, No. 3.
Would you observe each time that the photostat is a photostat of the original?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am observing it.
Mr. Jenner. Page 4 is next.
Five is next. Six is next. Seven is next. Eight is next. Nine is next. Ten is next. Eleven is next. Twelve is next. Thirteen is next. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. Now, page 20 is the reverse side of the page numbered on its face 19, is it not?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; that is not correct. It is an insertion to the page that has not been numbered yet, page 21.
Mr. Jenner. But isn't it a fact that the entry on the page now numbered 20 is on the reverse side of the page numbered on its face 19?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; I am sorry. You are correct, sir.
Mr. Jenner. But the point you are making is that the entry on page now numbered 20 relates to page 21?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
We will now mark page 21. Twenty-two.
Mr. Dulles. What are you marking that insert as far as our copy is concerned?
Mr. Jenner. As page 20.
Mr. Dulles. Wouldn't it be better to make it 20-A?
Mr. Jenner. I thought from the record that I had made clear that page number 20 was the reverse side of page numbered on its face 19.
Mr. Dulles. All right. Just so you are clear.
Mr. Jenner. Have we covered page 22?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Twenty-three. Twenty-four. Twenty-five. Twenty-six. Twenty-seven.
As I proceeded in numbering the photostat, you placed, did you not, in your own handwriting—followed me and placed the same page numbers in your own handwriting on the pages in question as you wrote the numbers on them—the same pages—on the photostat?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; that is correct.
Mr. Dulles. Off the record.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. Dulles. Back on the record.
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Oswald, do the entries that you have made in the notebook on pages 1 through 27 now identified represent your recollection of the events recorded at the time that you recorded the events?
Mr. Oswald. Yes, sir; they do.
Mr. Jenner. Have you had an opportunity to review those entries since they were made?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I have not.
Mr. Jenner. Have you reread any portions of any of these entries, other than or in addition to those you read to the Commission this morning?
Mr. Oswald. No, sir; I have not.
Mr. Dulles. Mr. Chairman, I now offer in evidence as Commission Exhibit No. 323 the pages of the notebook which have been identified by the witness, and which have been numbered 1 through 27.
Mr. Dulles. Exhibit No. 323 will be accepted.
(The document heretofore marked for identification as Commission Exhibit No. 323 was received in evidence.)
Mr.
