Under this Executive order and joint resolution, the Commission has been given authority to promulgate certain rules and regulations. Pursuant to those rules and regulations I have been designated to take your deposition. Our particular purpose in calling you here today, as you probably well would imagine, is to find out what you know about Jack Ruby. But if you have any information about the assassination of President Kennedy or any other matters that we are inquiring into, we would like to have any of that that you can give us.
Let me ask you if you received a letter from the Commission.
Mr. Wright. Well, the letter is in St. Louis, but I didn’t receive it while I was there. I was on my way when it came to East St. Louis.
Mr. Griffin. I should tell you under the rules of the Commission you are entitled to receive written notice from us 3 days before you appear here, and I would ask you at this point if you are willing to go forward without actually having received the letter.
Mr. Wright. Yes. I spent a lot of money on this.
Mr. Griffin. Do you have any questions about this proceeding before I administer the oath?
Mr. Wright. None whatsoever, because I have been through this with the FBI quite a few times on the west coast, and I imagine it is along similar lines.
Mr. Griffin. Let me ask you to raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. Wright. I do.
Mr. Griffin. Will you state to the reporter your full name?