Mr. McCloy. Back on the record.
Mr. Stern. Well, Mr. Bouck, if the pivotal ingredient is his employment at that Depository, is that because that showed some, to your mind, some intention, some desire to be on the route, because access to the route——
Mr. Bouck. No; it relates him to the President. This, I think if all the information that was known about him, indicates that he was a pretty untrustworthy individual, I think there was no indication that that untrustworthiness might be of a danger to the President until you associated that he had a vantage point where he might use it toward the President.
There was nothing previous that indicated that the President might be an object of this, and——
Mr. Stern. As far as any of us know, any citizen had pretty much the same sort of access to the parade route. Is there any difference——
Mr. Bouck. We would feel the same way if we knew this much derogatory type of information about any citizen if we knew he had a particular vantage point on a route.
Mr. Stern. But a citizen, possessing all the characteristics you believe to have been known about Oswald but not having access through employment or residence or some comparable relationship to the parade route, would not have been of concern to you under the criteria and practices in effect at the time of Dallas, is that what you are saying?
Mr. Bouck. I think a little broader than that. Access of any kind, working in a hotel or any point where he might have unusual access.
If you broaden the question to that, I would say that is what I am saying.
Mr. Stern. Unusual access?