You can read that if you want to--that's the only copy I have--no; I believe I do have a copy of that. I have furnished the FBI with a copy of this also. Here is a copy of it which I Will be glad to give you and that's a photostatic copy made by me.
This is my report that I wrote up starting. on Monday morning after all of these incidents had occurred. If I might answer--you also asked me if I was called--I was asked by Assistant District Attorney William Alexander when we were leaving the property on North Beckley to please come on to Captain Fritz' office at the Dallas Police Department for the purpose of being present to be able to accept a complaint and issue warrant, which was done.

Mr. Hubert.

When was that request made of you ? I think the arraignment was at 7:05?

Mr. Johnston.

Yes, sir; and I .think I could tell you approximately .the time he asked me to, if I can find the time I have written in here when it was flied. I would say it was around 5 o'clock in the afternoon when he asked me this search warrant was filed at 3:55 p.m. on November 22, and I also have a copy which I will give you of the officers' names who I personally know were involved in the investigation, officers whom I had contact with both at the Dallas Police Department and at the sheriff's office; to clear this up also, about how I came into this thing--my first contact--I was attending the luncheon, when one of the sergeants of the Dallas Police Department came to my table and asked me to please come with him, and I was then informed of what had happened, and was asked to go immediately to Parkland Hospital, and upon arriving there found Judge Theron Ward, the justice of the peace, Precinct 3, from Garland, handling the inquest on President Kennedy. They did not know Judge Ward and that's the reason they had called me, not knowing he was already there.

Mr. Hubert.

You have handed me a photostatic copy of the document I referred to a moment ago as being a 4-page document on yellow, legal-sized lined pads, and you are retaining the original, but have furnished me with a photo-static copy of it.

Mr. Johnston.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Hubert.

I have marked that document for identification with this deposition as follows: "Dallas, Texas, June 26, 1964, Exhibit No. 1 of the deposition of David L. Johnston," and I have signed my name. That's on the left margin of the first page, and I have placed my initials in the right lower corner of the second, third, and fourth pages. I notice that on the third page in the middle, there is a reproduction of a Carousel Club card and I state for the record that I have examined the original card which is attached to the third page loosely, and that the picture on the photostatic copy is identical, except that it doesn't show the color, the vertical lines being in Sort of an orange color.

Mr. Johnston.

This is the card that was handed to me also, sir.

Mr. Hubert.

Yes, as I understand it--that was the card that was handed to you by Jack Ruby, and you have testified about that a little while ago. You also handed me a photostatic copy of another document which I have marked for identification: "Dallas, Texas, June 26, 1964, Exhibit No. 2 of the deposition of David L. Johnston," and I have placed my name under that on the left margin and on the second page in fine lower right-hand corner I have placed my initials I see that this is a photostatic copy, because I am examining it With the original, the original being on yellow legal-sized lined paper, and I compare them and state for the record that the photostatic copy which I have marked for identification is identical with the original which I now return to you.
Now, you stated that Exhibit No. 2 is a list of the people you know who had something to do with the examination in causes F-153, 154, and 155, is that correct ?

Mr. Johnston.

That's correct, sir.

Mr. Hubert.

How did you obtain this information?

Mr. Johnston.

Part of these I took at the actual time, which was on November 22 and November 23. Some of them I had to obtain from the reports.

Mr. Hubert.

You mean the names?

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