(Testimony of Curtis Laverne Crafard Resumed)
Mr. Crafard.
remembered--because I had rewrote the letter just about exactly as it is here, but in a heater hand.
Mr. Griffin.
And you actually did mail that letter?
Mr. Crafard.
I believe so.
Mr. Griffin.
How long before you left Dallas did you mail that letter?
Mr. Crafard.
It would have been about a week. About the same time I wrote it. I am not sure of it, I am not definite of that. But I believe that is the reason, I have done so on several occasions, wrote a letter and then rewrote it so it would be heater.
Mr. Griffin.
I realize the letter is a personal letter. However, I think it reflects some things about your state of mind while you were in Dallas and your relationship to Jack Ruby that we would like to have for the record and maybe we can handle this by my giving you a copy of that letter.
Mr. Crafard.
Have you got a copy?
Mr. Griffin.
I don't have a photocopy of it but I have it has been written up in an FBI report and simply ask you if that is an accurate the FBI report is an accurate rendition of the letter and then we can refer to it.
Mr. Hubert.
Mr. Crafard, I understand you have asked us to return to you the original of the letter written by you to "Dear Gale" covering the front and back of a page, which has a letterhead on it "Jack Ruby Associates, Dallas, Texas" and which has been identified in this deposition as Exhibit 5227. Normally when a witness produces a document before the Commission we make a photostatic copy, keep the copy and then give the witness his document back. However, this document did not come into our possession in that way, you see.
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
We got this document from the FBI. Therefore, we do not have authority to give it back to you. I will be glad to have a copy made for you if you would like to do that.
Mr. Crafard.
That is all right.
Mr. Hubert.
Would you like a copy?
Mr. Crafard.
No; there is no need to go to that trouble. It is just I had no idea I had left that particular letter. I know I didn't do it on purpose. It was accidental, but I left it.
Mr. Griffin.
Larry, I want to hand you what has been marked for identification as "Exhibits 5228-A" and "5228-B". Now, do you recognize those as photographs of anything?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes; these are photographs of my DD-214, my Army discharge, the front and back sides.
Mr. Griffin.
Are those, that DD-214, is the paper that you turned over to us on Wednesday?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
Are those true and accurate copies of the DD-214 that you gave to us?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
All right. I am going to return to you your copy of the DD-214, and thank you for producing that. I am also going to hand you two photographs which I will mark in the following manner--hand you one photograph--I am going to hand you two photographs which I may have marked "Washington, D.C., April 10, 1964, C. L. Crafard, Exhibits 5229-A and B," and I will ask you to look at those and tell us if you recognize those as photographs of anything which you have seen before.
Mr. Crafard.
Yes; they are exhibits of the front side and reverse side of the subpena that I was handed for the Jack Ruby murder trial in Dallas, Tex.
Mr. Griffin.
All right. You brought this subpena to us and turned it over to us on Wednesday, is that right?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
I am going to return you, then, the subpena which you gave us on Wednesday, and thank you for bringing that in. Did you also produce on Wednesday a diary?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
I am going to hand you a series of 10 photographs which are
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