(Members present: Chief Justice Warren, Representative Ford, and Mr. Dulles.)
The Chairman. The Commission will be in order. Mr. Flannery, you are here representing Mr. Weissman?
Mr. Flannery. Yes; Your Honor.
The Chairman. Mr. Jenner, would you mind making a brief statement of the testimony we expect to develop here?
Mr. Jenner. Yes; Mr. Chief Justice.
Mr. Bernard William Weissman, who is the witness today, played some part in the preparation of and the publication of the advertisement in the Dallas Morning News on the 22d of November 1963, and we will seek to develop the facts with respect to that. It has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 1031, entitled "Welcome, Mr. Kennedy."
The Chairman. Yes.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1031 for identification.)
Mr. Jenner. Mr. Weissman's deposition was taken in part. He was not then represented by counsel, and he had some qualms about it and raised the issue, and as soon as it was raised we suspended the deposition. He appears this morning with Mr. Flannery as his counsel.
Mr. Flannery, would you be good enough to state your full name?