Mr. Hubert.

In particular, with reference to your duties as a dispatcher of the Dallas Police Department.
Now, Mrs. Cason, you have appeared here today by virtue of an informal request made by the General Counsel of the staff of the President's Commission, and under the rules adopted by the Commission you would normally be entitled to a 3-day written notice prior to the taking of your deposition, but those rules also provide that that 3-day written notice may be waived, and I ask you if you are willing to waive that notice at this time?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes, I will.

Mr. Hubert.

All right, stand and raise your right hand, please, Ma'am, so as to be sworn.
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?

Mrs. Cason.

I do.

Mr. Hubert.

State your name, please.

Mrs. Cason.

Frances Gason.

Mr. Hubert.

Your age?

Mrs. Cason.

Age 26.

Mr. Hubert.

Are you married, Mrs. Cason?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes, I am.

Mr. Hubert.

Then I suppose we should have your husband's name?

Mrs. Cason.

Jimmy D. Cason.

Mr. Hubert.

What was your name prior to the marriage?

Mrs. Cason.

Shanz [spelling] S-h-a-n-z.

Mr. Hubert.

Where do you reside?

Mrs. Cason.

2822 Greene [spelling] G-r-e-e-n-e, in Irving, Tex.

Mr. Hubert.

What is your occupation?

Mrs. Cason.

Telephone clerk in the telephone dispatcher's office at the Dallas Police Department.

Mr. Hubert.

How long have you been so employed?

Mrs. Cason.

Since September 6, 1963. Before that I had a 6 months' leave of absence and was employed for the police department for 2 1/2 years.

Mr. Hubert.

Were you on duty between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., on November 24, 1963?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes, I was; actually, it is 6:30 to 3:30.

Mr. Hubert.

Now, Mrs. Cason, I have marked for the purposes of identification a document which is to be found in Commission's report 81-A, which is entitled "Investigation of the Operational Security Involving the Transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24th, 1963." On page 14, thereof, I have also marked Exhibit EE in that document, the following for the purposes of identification, "Dallas, Texas, April 1, 1964. Exhibit 5135, Deposition of Frances Cason and C. E. Hulse." I have signed my name below that and ask you if you have not signed your name, for the purposes of identification, also on this same document?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Hubert.

Will you state in your own words just exactly what part you had to do with this Exhibit 5135, which you now have before you?

Mrs. Cason.

You want me to just go ahead?

Mr. Hubert.

Yes.

Mrs. Cason.

At approximately 11:20, or 11:21, I received a call from the basement of city hall there from Officer Slack, who works in the jail office.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you know Officer Slack prior to this time?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Hubert.

Had you spoken to him on the telephone before?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes; I have.

Mr. Hubert.

0an you state that you are able to recognize his voice?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you recognize the voice then speaking to you as being the voice of Officer Slack?

Mrs. Cason.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Hubert.

All right; now, go ahead.

Mrs. Cason.

In addition, he told me it was Officer Slack when he called. It is not unusual for them to say, "This is Slack in the jail office." So he would