TESTIMONY OF BELL P. HERNDON
The testimony of Bell P. Herndon was taken at 2:05 p.m., on July 28, 1964, at 200 Maryland Avenue NE., Washington, D.C., by Mr. Arlen Specter, assistant counsel of the President’s Commission.
Mr. Specter. May the record show that this is a deposition proceeding of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
Present today is Mr. Bell P. Herndon, a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who has been asked to testify concerning the results of the polygraph examination administered to Jack Ruby in Dallas, Tex., on July 18, 1964.
With that preliminary statement of purpose, would you rise, please, Mr. Herndon, and raise your right hand?
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you shall give in this deposition proceeding before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. Herndon. I do.
Mr. Specter. Would you state your full name for the record, please?
Mr. Herndon. My name is Bell P. Herndon.