Mr. Hubert.

Well, what I had in mind to ask you was this: On the face of the paragraph that I have just read from Exhibit 5321, it looks like there was an attitude on your part that you didn't wish to cooperate with the FBI--I am just simply wanting to get the record straight from your point of view--as to what was your intention.

Mr. Decker.

As I said at that time I didn't care to discuss it any further at that time. That's all there is to .it.

Mr. Hubert.

Yes; I understand, but this paragraph is correct and stands as it is ?

Mr. Decker.

Yes, sir; I did not--at that time I didn't discuss it. There was no reason to go into why, and why--I told him my reasons a moment ago.

Mr. Hubert.

Now, sheriff, I have noticed that you have looked from time to time at a book which I gather must be your own or the official record?

Mr. Decker.

No; it's part of my records there. It doesn't have all the .statements in it as it should have.

Mr. Hubert.

Were copies of those statements-- made are they available?

Mr. Decker.

They are yours--you can have them if you want them to keep them.

Mr. Hubert.

This copy?

Mr. Decker.

You can have the whole thing. The only thing that is not in there is McCoy's and about three or four other statements. I will submit the whole thing to you if you want it right now. You can take it with you. I have no objections.

Mr. Hubert.

DO you wish to have this returned to you--this seems to be a copy anyway--this is not the original.

Mr. Decker.

Yes; those are photostatic copies. I can furnish you those others--I can furnish you that copy on McCoy and I can furnish the copy on two or three others that I have down there but I don't know where McCoy's is and I don't know whether they left it out of there or not--since McCoy's I have testified to, I would like to furnish it to you.

Mr. Hubert.

All right.

Mr. Decker.

And will send it to you shortly.

Mr. Hubert.

Let me mark this document, then--I am marking it, "Dallas, Tex., April 16, 1964, as Exhibit 5323, Deposition of Sheriff J. E. Decker," and I am signing my name to it.
The document is actually a dark brown heavy folder with an Acco fastener. It is called Acco Press on the inside and bears the label on the outside, "Harvey Lee Oswald, WM 24, Murder-- 11-22-63 of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; W-M-46, President of the United States. Assault to murder: Gov. John B. Connally." On the left hand bottom side of the cover is a sticker on which there is typewritten "File of: Sheriff's Department, Dallas, Tex., Bill Decker, Sheriff," under which I have written the identification of it as I dictated it a moment ago into the record. Turning on to the inside-of the book, it seems to be divided up into parts. There is a yellow, light cardboard division marker, which in the left hand bottom says, "Crime Reports." In that are 2 yellow sheets and 10 white sheets. I am marking the cover with my initials and the yellow and white sheets with my initials, all in the lower right hand corner. The next subdivision which is made by a light cardboard sheet, is entitled, "Witness affidavits." I am marking it with my initials.

Mr. Decker.

Now, you are supposed to have copies of all of those affidavits come to you from some agency--I don't know which.

Mr. Hubert.

And, each of the sheets thereof I am marking with my initials. There are 35 of such sheets.

Then, in the last part of the book, also divided by a light yellow cardboard sheet on which I am putting my initials, that division sheet is entitled "Officers supplement," and there are 42 sheets which I have marked with my initials. Is this document, Sheriff Decker, that you have handed me a complete record of what you have concerning Oswald? I think you mentioned that there might be one document or two that you wished to send me?

Mr. Decker.

I would like to send you a copy of McCoy's statement, a copy of McCoy's report in there and maybe a couple of other statements, that's all.