Mr. Stern. It was prepared because of what transpired at Dallas? Mr. Chairman, may we have admitted 768 and 769?
Mr. McCloy. They may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibits Nos. 768 and 769 were received in evidence.)
Mr. Stern. Now, beginning November 8, can you tell us the preparations for your trip that you did here in Washington?
Mr. Lawson. Yes. Acting on the instruction to come into the office on November 8 for the additional instructions that I had been told I would receive, Mr. Roy Kellerman, who is an assistant special agent in charge of the detail, gave myself and other members of the advance teams going out what information they had up to that time on their respective stops. Mr. Kellerman told me the name of Mr. Jack Puterbaugh, whom I would meet on an airplane taking the advance agents to Dallas the next week. I contacted the White House Communications Agency to see if they were sending a communications representative along to help out as they usually did, and was given his name. Mr. Kellerman gave me the name of a car contact in the Dallas area so that we would be able to obtain cars for the motorcade, which is normal.
Mr. Stern. These are cars, as I understand it——
Mr. Lawson. For the Presidential party.
Mr. Stern. Furnished to you by——
Mr. Lawson. The Ford Motor Co.
Mr. Stern. By people in the area that you visit——