Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

by United States. Warren Commission

APPENDIX XV

[A15-1] CE 1114.

[A15-2] He had made out his application for admission on Mar. 19, 1959. See CE 228, p. 1.

[A15-3] CE 1114.

[A15-4] CE 946.

[A15-5] 5 H 262 (Richard E. Snyder).

[A15-6] 5 H 295-296.

[A15-7] 5 H 262, 288-289.

[A15-8] CE 101.

[A15-9] Oswald’s appearance at the Embassy has been reconstructed from the testimony of Richard E. Snyder, 5 H 262-265, 269-270, and 287-291, and of John A. McVickar, 5 H 300-304 and 322-324, from memoranda and communications made at the time, CE 908, 909, 910, 941, and 958 and from Oswald’s own notes, CE 24 and 101.

[A15-10] 5 H 300 (McVickar); 5 H 289 (Snyder).

[A15-11] 5 H 262 (Snyder).

[A15-12] 5 H 263 (Snyder).

[A15-13] 5 H 263 (Snyder).

[A15-14] 5 H 289 (Snyder).

[A15-15] 5 H 270 (Snyder); CE 101.

[A15-16] 5 H 263; 289-290 (Snyder).

[A15-17] 5 H 289 (Snyder); CE 908, p. 1; CE 101.

[A15-18] 5 H 289 (Snyder); see passport, CE 946, p. 1.

[A15-19] 5 H 263 (Snyder).

[A15-20] CE 913; 5 H 263, 289 (Snyder).

[A15-21] CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-22] CE 946, pp. 8-9; CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-23] CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-24] CE 908, p. 1.

[A15-25] CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-26] CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-27] Ibid.

[A15-28] Ibid.

[A15-29] 5 H 290 (Snyder); see CE 908, p. 3.

[A15-30] 5 H 264, 290-291 (Snyder).

[A15-31] CE 908, p. 2; CE 909, pp. 2-3; 5 H 264, 290-291 (Snyder).

[A15-32] 5 H 291 (Snyder); see CE 910.

[A15-33] 5 H 266-267 (Snyder); CE 910.

[A15-34] CE 908, p. 2.

[A15-35] CE 950, p. 3; 5 H 341 (Abram Chayes).

[A15-36] CE 910.

[A15-37] CE 2750 (see stamp); CE 834, p. 1.

[A15-38] CE 2752; and see CE 2750.

[A15-39] CE 908.

[A15-40] Id. at p. 3.

[A15-41] CE 2749 (see stamp); CE 834, p. 2 (FBI); CE 2752 and enclosure.

[A15-42] CE 910.

[A15-43] CE 916, 961.

[A15-44] Ibid.; 5 H 347-348 (Waterman).

[A15-45] CE 909, p. 3; CE 911, p. 2; CE 920.

[A15-46] CE 919, 920.

[A15-47] CE 912.

[A15-48] CE 920.

[A15-49] CE 919.

[A15-50] CE 942, 943, 2683, 2684, 2715.

[A15-51] Ibid.

[A15-52] 11 H 444 (Johnson).

[A15-53] CE 911.

[A15-54] CE 911, p. 2; 11 H 446-447, 450-451 (Priscilla Johnson).

[A15-55] CE 921.

[A15-56] CE 24, entry of Jan. 4, 1960.

[A15-57] CE 985. Doc. Nos. 1(A), 2(A) and 3(A)(1).

[A15-58] CE 921; 5 H 274 (Snyder).

[A15-59] CE 923.

[A15-60] CE 927.

[A15-61] Ibid.

[A15-62] CE 928.

[A15-63] CE 925.

[A15-64] CE 926.

[A15-65] 5 H 348-349 (Bernice Waterman).

[A15-66] 5 H 349 (Waterman); CE 948, question No. 12, pp. 1-2, and regulations attached thereto.

[A15-67] CE 950, pt. 2, pp. 204; 5 H 317 (Chayes).

[A15-68] 5 H 80 (Knight); CE 950, pt. 2, pp. 3-4; and see CE 948, question No. 12 and all attachments thereto for a general description of the lookout card procedure.

[A15-69] CE 948, question No. 12, pp. 1-2 and regulations attached thereto.

[A15-70] CE 962; 5 H 348-349 (Waterman).

[A15-71] CE 963; 5 H 349 (Waterman).

[A15-72] CE 963, 929.

[A15-73] CE 948, question No. 13, pp. 2-3; 5 H 313 (Chayes).

[A15-74] CE 948, question No. 13, p. 1.

[A15-75] 5 H 349-351.

[A15-76] Passport Office Instruction No. 2300.3 (reproduced in CE 948, question No. 12).

[A15-77] 5 H 380 (Frances Knight); CE 948, Question 12, p. 3; CE 3111.

[A15-78] CE 2748.

[A15-79] CE 930.

[A15-80] See date stamped on CE 2681 and see CE 2757.

[A15-81] 5 H 276 (Snyder).

[A15-82] CE 931; 5 H 276-277 (Snyder).

[A15-83] 5 H 277 (Snyder).

[A15-84] CE 24, entry of Feb. 1, 1961.

[A15-85] CE 933.

[A15-86] CE 251, 940.

[A15-87] CE 932.

[A15-88] CE 940.

[A15-89] CE 1085.

[A15-90] 5 H 352-354 (Waterman).

[A15-91] Ibid; CE 970. See CE 934.

[A15-92] CE 971, 5 H 353-354 (Waterman).

[A15-93] CE 1111; CE 24, entry of Apr. 31 [sic], 1961.

[A15-94] CE 936.

[A15-95] CE 252.

[A15-96] CE 937.

[A15-97] 5 H 281 (Snyder); CE 24, entry of July 8, 1961.

[A15-98] CE 24, entry of July 8, 1961; and see 1 H 96-97 (Marina Oswald), and CE 1401.

[A15-99] CE 935, p. 3

[A15-100] CE 935, pp. 1-2.

[A15-101] 5 H 281 (Snyder); CE 938.

[A15-102] CE 946; 5 H 284 (Snyder).

[A15-103] 5 H 283 (Snyder).

[A15-104] 5 H 283 (Snyder).

[A15-105] CE 947; 5 H 282-283, 286 (Snyder).

[A15-106] CE 938.

[A15-107] 5 H 283 (Snyder).

[A15-108] 5 H 359-360 (Waterman).

[A15-109] CE 938, pp. 3-4.

[A15-110] CE 946, p. 6; 5 H 284 (Snyder).

[A15-111] CE 935; 5 H 283-285 (Snyder).

[A15-112] CE 935, p. 3.

[A15-113] CE 935, p. 2.

[A15-114] 5 H 318-319 (McVickar).

[A15-115] CE 1122 (letter of July 15, 1961).

[A15-116] CE 979; 5 H 357-358 (Waterman); 11 H 198 (Carroll Hamilton Seeley, Jr.).

[A15-117] CE 939.

[A15-118] CE 2747.

[A15-119] CE 981; 5 H 361-362 (Waterman).

[A15-120] CE 253-255, 246, 249, 256, 247, 1083, and 1093 (Oswald to Embassy, from Embassy files); CE 1076-1082, 1086, 1088 (Embassy to Oswald, from Embassy files); CE 1085, 1087, 1094, 1124; and 1100-1106 (Embassy to Oswald, found among his effects).

[A15-121] CE 946.

[A15-122] CE 1061, 1098.

[A15-123] 5 H 283 (Snyder).

[A15-124] CE 979; 5 H 347, 357 (Waterman); CE 948, question No. 11, pp. 1-2.

[A15-125] 5 H 362 (Waterman); 5 H 286 (Snyder).

[A15-126] CE 989; 5 H 372-376 (Knight); 5 H 308-312 (Chayes).

[A15-127] Fourteenth amendment; United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898).

[A15-128] 12 U.S.C., sec. 1481(a)(1).

[A15-129] See pp. 1, 2, 7, 9-12, supra.

[A15-130] 12 U.S.C., sec. 1481(a)(6).

[A15-131] 22 CFR, secs. 50.1-50.2; 8 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 225.6.

[A15-132] CE 955; 5 H 263-265 (Snyder).

[A15-133] See pp. 2-4, supra.

[A15-134] 12 U.S.C., sec. 1481(a)(2).

[A15-135] CE 913.

[A15-136] CE 244, 913.

[A15-137] III Hackworth, “Digest of International Law,” 219-220 (1942); see Jalbuena v. Dulles, 254 F. 2d 379, 381 footnote 2 (3d Cir. 1958).

[A15-138] In re Bautista, 183 f. Supp. 271, 274 (D. C. Guam, 1960); see also, Department of State to consul at Guadalajara, May 27, 1937, at 218; Department of State consular official in charge at Birmingham, May 10, 1938; Director of Consular Service to Counsel Glazbrooke, Oct. 30, 1914; Department of State to consul general in Berlin, Mar. 21, 1934; Roche, “The Loss of American Nationality—The Development of Statutory Expatriation,” 99 U. Pa. L. Rev. 25, 33 (1950); III Hackworth, op. cit. supra, footnote 138, at 218-219.

[A15-139] III Hackworth, op. cit. supra, footnote at 138 at 218; In the Matter of L., 1 Dec. Imm. & Nat. Laws 317, 320, (B.I.A., 1942).

[A15-140] See e.g. CE 913.

[A15-141] 12 U.S.C., 1481(a)(4).

[A15-142] 5 H 310 (Chayes).

[A15-143] Cf. Fletes-Mora v. Rogers, 160 F. Supp. 215 (S.D. Cal. 1958); Kenji Kamada v. Dulles, 145 F. Supp. 457, 459 (N.D. Cal. 1956) (both arising under sec. 401 of the Nationality Act of 1940); Roche, supra, footnote 138, at 51.

[A15-144] Insogna v. Dulles 116 F. Supp. 473 (D.D.C. 1953); Stipa v. Dulles, 233 F. 2d 551 (3d Cir. 1956).

[A15-145] 5 H 304-306, 318-319 (McVickar).

[A15-146] CE 944, 959.

[A15-147] CE 944.

[A15-148] CE 945; 5 H 305 (McVickar).

[A15-149] CE 944; 5 H 305 (McVickar).

[A15-150] 1 H 89-90, 97; 5 H 607-608 (Marina Oswald).

[A15-151] CE 944.

[A15-152] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1155 (1953).

[A15-153] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a)(28)(C); 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a)(28)(I) (1953).

[A15-154] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a)(15) (1953).

[A15-155] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1253(g).

[A15-156] CE 950, pt. IV, pp. 3-5; 5 H 339-340 (Chayes).

[A15-157] CE 944.

[A15-158] See CE 2746.

[A15-159] 11 H 184-185 (Virginia James); CE 2745 (code phrase used).

[A15-160] CE 190, 193, 247, 256, 1081, 1093, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1104, 1124; CE 2692.

[A15-161] CE 2740, 2742, 2743, 2744.

[A15-162] CE 1095, pp. 1-2.

[A15-163] CE 2653 (taken from the Immigration and Naturalization Service file on Marina Oswald, p. 17 of CD 363); CE 196.

[A15-164] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1155; 8 CFR, sec. 9.5 a, b.

[A15-165] CE 1073.

[A15-166] CE 1072.

[A15-167] CE 1073.

[A15-168] CE 1071.

[A15-169] CE 1069, 1070, 2751.

[A15-170] CE 1070, pp. 3-4.

[A15-171] CE 1070, p. 3.

[A15-172] CE 1070.

[A15-173] CE 1068.

[A15-174] Ibid.

[A15-175] Ibid.

[A15-176] CE 1067.

[A15-177] Ibid.

[A15-178] CE 1121.

[A15-179] CE 1066.

[A15-180] CE 1055, 1066, and see also 11 H 185-188 (James).

[A15-181] CE 1065.

[A15-182] Ibid.

[A15-183] CE 1064.

[A15-184] CE 249; see also CE 1103 (the notice itself).

[A15-185] CE 2735.

[A15-186] CE 1095.

[A15-187] CE 1096.

[A15-188] See CE 1095, p. 1, and CE 2734.

[A15-189] 11 H 186 (James).

[A15-190] CE 1123, p. 1.

[A15-191] CE 2741.

[A15-192] CE 1123, p. 2.

[A15-193] James DE 6.

[A15-194] CE 1777; James DE 4.

[A15-195] James DE 5.

[A15-196] James DE 7.

[A15-197] CE 2653, 2654, 2689, 2690, 2702, 2704, 2705.

[A15-198] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1155.

[A15-199] CE 1070, pp. 3-4.

[A15-200] See CE 1073.

[A15-201] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a)(15).

[A15-202] 22 CFR, sec. 42.91(a)(15) (1963 Supp.).

[A15-203] 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a)(28)(I) (1953).

[A15-204] CE 944; 5 H 607-608.

[A15-205] CE 950, pt. 4, pp. 203.

[A15-206] 1 H 89-90, 97; 5 H 607-608 H (Marina Oswald).

[A15-207] 5 H 321 (McVickar); Cf. Galvan v. Press, 347 U.S. 522, 527 (1954); Rowoldt v. Perfetto, 355 U.S. 115, 120 (1957) (cases arising under sec. 22 of the Internal Security Act of 1950 as amended in 1951).

[A15-208] Immigration and Nationality Act, sec. 212(a)(19); 8 U.S.C., sec. 1182(a) (19) (1953).

[A15-209] See generally, Gordon and Rosenfield, “Immigration Law and Procedure,” 229, 424-427 (1959); Appleman, “Misrepresentation in Immigration Law: Materiality.” 22 Fed. B.J. 267 (1962).

[A15-210] Langhammer v. Hamilton, 295 F. 2d 642, 648 (1st Cir. 1961); see also Chaunt v. United States, 364 U.S. 350, 355 (1960) (denaturalization proceeding).

[A15-211] E.g., Calvillo v. Robinson, 271 F. 2d 249 (7th Cir. 1959).

[A15-212] Visa Office Bulletin 90, Mar. 2, 1962.

[A15-213] CE 950, pt. 4, p. 4.

[A15-214] Ibid.

[A15-215] Operation Instructions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 205.3. (This revised Instruction was effective Feb. 15, 1962-June 30, 1962. Other versions which may have been considered during Oswald’s case were different only in irrelevant respects.)

[A15-216] 22 CFR, 42, 120 (1964 Supp.).

[A15-217] 22 CFR., sec. 42.120 (1964 Supp.). Procedural note 2 (reproduced in CE 950, pt. 4, p. 5).

[A15-218] 11 H 184, 180, 190-191 (James).

[A15-219] CE 950, pt. 4, p. 10; 11 H 190-191 (James).

[A15-220] CE 1058, pp. 1-2.

[A15-221] CE 1058, p. 11.

[A15-222] Id. at 4.

[A15-223] Id. at 5.

[A15-224] Id. at 6-11.

[A15-225] Id. at 2.

[A15-226] CE 246.

[A15-227] CE 1102.

[A15-228] CE 189, 2660, 2731.

[A15-229] CE 1138, 2660, 2680, 2760.

[A15-230] CE 223.

[A15-231] CE 197, 1086.

[A15-232] CE 2737, 2738, 2739.

[A15-233] CE 2736.

[A15-234] CE 1098.

[A15-235] CE 950, pt. 5, pp. 1-2. E.g., 60 Stat. 452, 79th Cong., 2d sess. (1946); 75 Stat. 546, 87th Cong., 1st sess. (1961).

[A15-236] CE 950, pt. 5, pp. 1-2. E.g., H. Rept. 442, 87th Cong., 1st sess. (1961) 4; H. Rept. 1996, 87th Cong., 2d sess. (1962) 4; H. Rept. 388, 88th Cong., 1st sess. (1963) 4.

[A15-237] CE 950, pt. 5, exhibit 2.

[A15-238] 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 2-1.

[A15-239] 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 1-2.

[A15-240] CE 950, pt. 5, p. 3.

[A15-241] 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 3-2.

[A15-242] 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 3-5; CE 223, 2660, 2766.

[A15-243] 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 3-3.

[A15-244] See supra, p. 758; cf. 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423, 7-1.

[A15-245] CE 950, pt. 5, p. 6; 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423.5; CE 950 (repatriation loan, p. 7); 7 Foreign Affairs Manual sec. 423.6.

[A15-246] CE 948, question No. 13, p. 3.

[A15-247] CE 1098.

[A15-248] CE 948, question No. 13, pp. 3-4.

[A15-249] CE 1099, 1401.

[A15-250] CE 29, 946, 1099.

[A15-251] CE 1099.

[A15-252] See generally CE 834 (communications to FBI) and CE 2752 (communications to CIA).

[A15-253] CE 1059.

[A15-254] CE 1060, 1776.

[A15-255] CE 2657.

[A15-256] CE 1120.

[A15-257] CE 781, 952, 1969.

[A15-258] CE 781.

[A15-259] CE 781.

[A15-260] CE 952; 5 H 335 (Chayes).

[A15-261] CE 1969.

[A15-262] CE 2754, 2755; and see CE 952 (all applications that were made on June 24 for New Orleans in same teletype as Oswald’s were authorized within 24 hours).

[A15-263] CE 948, question No. 1; 5 H 335 (Chayes). The accuracy of their statement was confirmed, see CE 1057.

[A15-264] 5 H 334-335 (Chayes).

[A15-265] CE 950, pt. 2, p. 8.

[A15-266] CE 948, question No. 13, pp. 1-3.

[A15-267] Id. at question No. 13, pp. 3-4.

[A15-268] Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958).

[A15-269] Aptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500 (1964).

[A15-270] 64 Stat. 993; 50 U.S.C. 785.

[A15-271] 22 CFR 51.135 (1964 Supp.).

[A15-272] See ch. VI, [pp. 287-290].

[A15-273] 66 Stat. 190 (1952); 8 U.S.C. sec. 1185(b).

[A15-274] Proclamation No. 2914 (Dec. 16, 1950), 64 Stat. A454; Proclamation No. 2974 (Apr. 18, 1952), set out preceding 50 U.S.C. app. 1; Proclamation No. 3004 (Jan. 21, 1953), 18 Fed. Reg. 489.

[A15-275] 22 CFR sec. 51.136 (1964 Supp.).

[A15-276] CE 948, question No. 17; 5 H 327-328, 337 (Chayes).

[A15-277] 5 H 333 (Chayes).

[A15-278] CE 2750; Folsom DE 1.

[A15-279] CE 834, pp. 1-2; CE 2749, 2750; 5 H 333 (Chayes).

[A15-280] 5 H 333 (Chayes) and see 11 H 200 (Seeley) and 5 H 383 (Knight).

[A15-281] Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Department of State Passport Policies, 85th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 38-39 (1957).

[A15-282] 11 H 186-187 (James); 5 H 332 (Chayes); CE 950 (Repatriation Loan, p. 3); see Comment, “Passport Refusals for Political Reasons: Constitutional Issues and Judicial Review,” 61 Yale L.J. 171, 174-178 (1952), for examples of passport refusals prior to Kent v. Dulles.

[A15-283] 357 U.S. 116 (1958).

[A15-284] 357 U.S. 144 (1958).

[A15-285] 357 U.S. 116, 125-126.

[A15-286] Hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on S. 2770, et al., 85th Cong., 2d sess., p. 35 (1958); id. at 41 (Roderic O’Connor, Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs of the Department of State); id. at 22; hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on S. 806 et al., 86th Cong., 1st sess., p. 58 (1959); see also testimony of John W. Hanes, Jr., Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State; Hearings before a special subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Government Operations on S. 2095, 86th Cong., 1st sess. 157 (1959); compare id. at 369. The regulation was reenacted in 1962. 22 CFR sec. 51.136 (1964 Supp.).

[A15-287] CE 949; 5 H 327-328, 331-332 (Chayes); 5 H 379-380 (Knight).

[A15-288] 5 H 327-329, 333 (Chayes); id. at 338-339; CE 2756, attachment pp. 2-3. However, the Department had stamped Oswald’s passport valid for direct return to the United States only, prior to granting him a repatriation loan. CE 946, p. 6, and 5 H 284 (Snyder).

[A15-289] 5 H 327-329, 333 (Chayes).

[A15-290] Copy of communication cannot be shown for security reasons.

[A15-291] CE 948, question No. 16.

[A15-292] 11 H 201-203 (Carroll Hamilton Seeley, Jr.); 11 H 191-193 (James L. Ritchie); CE 948, question No. 16.

[A15-293] CE 948, question No. 16; see 5 H 382-383 (Knight).

[A15-294] 11 H 482 (James D. Crowley).

[A15-295] CE 2688; cf. 5 H 278, 280, 288.

[A15-296] James DE 9.