Mr. Jenner.

May I see it, please?

Mr. Thornley.

Yes, sir; here is the draft completed in February of 1962.

Mr. Jenner.

Yes; I am interested in seeing that in its condition as of that time.

Mr. Thornley.

Right. That is it. There is only one addition and there is some blank paper on top. There is one addition, and that is the short preface written yesterday to give some idea of how much was fact and how much was fiction.

Mr. Jenner.

All right- the page numbered 2?

Mr. Thornley.

There was a table of contents once and it took two pages.

Mr. Jenner.

Which I might identify in addition thereto as having the word "Preface," at its toy and your name and the date May 17, 1964, Arlington, Va., at the bottom. That is what you prepared yesterday, is that correct?
Mr. THORNLEY, Correct.

Mr. Jenner.

All of the balance, therefore, commencing with the pages numbered 3 and running through, I assume, consecutively?

Mr. Thornley.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

To page 250 is the article as it was when you completed it in February 1962?

Mr. Thornley.

Precisely.

Mr. Jenner.

I would like the opportunity of reading through this and, of course, 200-odd pages, we don't have the time to do it as of the moment, and the Commission would like to have it among its records. May I have the material and I will take it in the back room. We have a Xerox, and have it duplicated? This, I appreciate, is your personal property and it is of value. It is not something that the Commission will place in the hands of others who may make commercial use of it.

Mr. Thornley.

I am quite sure that it will be perfectly safe.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. It is in the same condition now, that is, pages 3 through 250, as those pages were when you completed this manuscript in February 1962?

Mr. Thornley.

Yes; there might have been a couple of spelling errors corrected since then or typographical errors but that is all.

Mr. Jenner.

And that article of which we now speak and which for purposes of identification I will mark as Thornley Exhibit No. 2, and I offer Thornley Exhibit No. 2 in evidence.
(The document referred to was marked Thornley Exhibit No. 2 for identification.)

Mr. Jenner.

Subsequently thereto, I understand from my conversation with you, you prepared a revision of that paper.

Mr. Thornley.

I have been working on a revision.

Mr. Jenner.

And you were kind enough to say you would bring that along with you as well. Have you done so?

Mr. Thornley.

I have been between this draft

Mr. Jenner.

When you said "this draft" you are referring to Thornley Exhibit No. 2?

Mr. Thornley.

Exhibit No. 2, and the draft I am now giving you--several illegible drafts were made. This represents not the latest draft, but the latest typewritten draft. It represents a fragment of it.
The first third, almost the first third, minus a couple of pages of a novelette based upon this Exhibit No. 2.

Mr. Jenner.

For purposes of identification the witness has now handed me a set of letter-sized pages numbered I through 37, consecutively. Are they consecutive?

Mr. Thornley.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

And I take it, as against the length of the other paper, that these pages I through 37, represent an incomplete novel.

Mr. Thornley.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

That is it covers only a portion of the areas and times covered by Thornley Exhibit No. 2.

Mr. Thornley.

This ones takes a completely different approach in. that this did not take a chronological approach to the development of the character based on Oswald, but takes a flashback approach.