Mr. Jenner. You are Mr. Charles Hall Steele, Sr., is that right?

Mr. Steele. Right.

Mr. Jenner. And you have seen the letter received by your son from Mr. Rankin, general counsel of the President's Commission, have you not?

Mr. Steele. Yes.

Mr. Jenner. You have read it?

Mr. Steele. Yes.

Mr. Jenner. Did you also read the documents that were enclosed with that letter?

Mr. Steele. No, sir.

Mr. Jenner. Well, those documents, Mr. Steele, consist of Senate Joint Resolution 137, authorizing the creation of the Commission to investigate the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; the Executive Order No. 11130 of President Lyndon B. Johnson, appointing that Commission and fixing its powers and its duties, and a copy of the rules and regulations under which we take testimony before the Commission and also by deposition, as in this case.

The Commission is directed to investigate all the facts and circumstances surrounding or bearing upon the assassination of our late President Kennedy. I am Albert E. Jenner, Jr., one of the various members of the legal staff of the Commission, and we are here today taking depositions of witnesses who may have in some way touched the lives of the Oswald family during their residence here in New Orleans.