Mr. Jenner. Commission Exhibit No. 427.
Mr. Graef. Now, it says here he was employed October 12, 1962, so I would say probably 2 weeks prior to that time, roughly about the 1st of October was when I placed the call.
Mr. Jenner. Do you recall whether anybody other than or in addition to Lee Oswald had been sent you before he came?
Mr. Graef. Yes. I don't remember the sequence—whether Lee was first or whether Lee was last. As I recall, there were about two or three—all of them young men, average young men—Lee Oswald was average.
Mr. Jenner. Would you have in your files—what do you call that that is marked "Commission Exhibit 427"?
Mr. Graef. I am holding in my hand this same Commission Exhibit No. 427, and it's an employee identification questionnaire of our firm Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall.
Mr. Jenner. Would you have had a card, would it still be retained in your files for the other people you might have interviewed?
Mr. Graef. No. No—I wouldn't. Normally, when the Texas Employment Commission sends someone over for an interview, I meet them and we sit down, of course, and discuss their past history, employment history, and the various personal histories of that person. The Texas Employment Commission sends a card over from them, telling who the bearer is and it also has a space on it that says "Was this employee hired?", which you will mail back to them and "Not hired," and the reason why you didn't hire them, and in every case, as I recall, the people whom I did not hire, I would just mark it in the appropriate space and drop it in the mail and it is returned to them.
So, of these two or three young men who came to me after—at this period, about October 1, Lee was one of them and seemed to me to be the most serious and a shade—I'm searching for the right word—when I say "serious" and just a shade more determined, perhaps—he seemed like he had had a slight edge on the other one or two fellows that came there, and I thought—well——
Mr. Jenner. I take it that you personally did the interviewing of all of these?