第四章 Footnotes
The footnotes supporting Chapter IV cite testimony and exhibits drawn primarily from the Hearings volumes of the Commission proceedings (designated by volume and page number, e.g., “6 H 329”), Commission Exhibits (CE numbers), and the depositions of various witnesses (designated “DE”). Witnesses whose testimony is most heavily cited include William Shelley and Ted Lovelady (who found the rifle on the fifth floor of the School Book Depository), Mrs. Reid (a secretary), Marina Oswald, Eugene Kaiser, Seymour Weitzman, Tom D. McWatters (a fellow employee), Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Mrs. Bledsoe, Roger Craig, and William Whaley (all witnesses to portions of Oswald’s flight from the Depository), Captain Will Fritz and other Dallas police officers involved in the investigation, Domingo Benavides, Helen Markham, Barbara and Virginia Davis, Ted Callaway, Sam Guinyard, William Smith, William Scoggins, and Warren Reynolds (Tippit murder witnesses), Gerald Hill, Captain Jesse Curry, James Leavelle, L. C. Graves, Forrest Sorrels, and Captain J. W. Fritz, as well as other officers connected with the assassination investigation. The footnotes also reference the testimony of Robert Oswald, Ruth Paine, George and Jeanne De Mohrenschildt, Major Eugene D. Anderson, Sergeant James A. Zahm, Ronald Simmons, and Bobby M. Patterson and L. J. Lewis (regarding the discovery of CE 399), Michaelis (a Babushka lady witness), and various documentary exhibits relating to the rifle, the palm print, the backyard photographs, Oswald’s Selective Service card, the revolver, and other physical evidence. Cross-references to earlier portions of the Report and to Chapter III are noted, and citations include Commission Exhibits 1 through 2964 and pages from the CE series of documents.
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