Mr. Oliver. But Mr. Capell does serve as a research consultant for me.
Mr. Jenner. But at the time you made the statement as published in your article you were relying on what source and what source alone?
Mr. Oliver. I would not say on any source alone. There were news reports as to how Oswald had obtained his job. There were further the reports from Mr. Capell and quite possibly some of these conversations with people in Dallas.
Mr. Jenner. When you say people in Dallas, who are they, are they people who had any firsthand knowledge of this?
Mr. Oliver. Most of them residents of Dallas whom I knew in one way or another in speaking and so on, but none of them had any personal knowledge of the assassination, so far as I know.
Mr. Jenner. My question related to your statement that he was sent in Dallas in November of 1963 where a job in a suitably located building had been arranged for him. Did any of these people purport to have any personal knowledge of that matter?
Mr. Oliver. Only what they had heard concerning the way in which he obtained his employment; yes.
Mr. Jenner. Their sources, in turn, were newspaper reports and rumors and things of that nature at large in the community.
Mr. Oliver. I would think so; yes.
Mr. Jenner. Proceeding to page 14, I won’t read all of the paragraph, it begins at the bottom but you just glance at it, you refer to the fact that he shot the President from ambush, and then he escaped and you surmised that he would have reached Mexico but for some mischance and the intervention of Officer Tippit, and you conclude that paragraph with a sentence, “He was accordingly liquidated before he could make a complete confession.” The implication of that sentence is that he was killed, his death was procured by some evil source, being, I take it, the Communist conspiracy or Communist Party to which you have had reference. Am I correct about that?