Mr. Mccloy.

It may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibit No. 767 was received in evidence.)

Mr. Stern.

I now show you a document marked for identification Commission No. 768. Can you identify that, Mr. Lawson?

Mr. Lawson.

Yes, sir; that is a final survey report which I prepared upon my return from Dallas.

Mr. Stern.

And that is the final report in this preliminary-final report arrangement----

Mr. Lawson.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Stern.

Which you have described? And can you identify this additional document marked for identification Commission Exhibit No. 769?

Mr. Lawson.

Yes, sir; this is a statement of the activities that I had, to the best of my knowledge, in connection with the Presidential visit to Dallas covering my activities only pertaining to the Dallas trip from November 4 through 21.

Mr. Stern.

This, I take it, was not a routine report?

Mr. Lawson.

No, sir; it was not.

Mr. Stern.

It was prepared because of what transpired at Dallas? Mr. Chairman, may we have admitted 768 and 769?

Mr. Mccloy.

They may be admitted.
(Commission Exhibits Nos. 768 and 769 were received in evidence.)

Mr. Stern.

Now, beginning November 8, can you tell us the preparations for your trip that you did here in Washington?

Mr. Lawson.

Yes.. Acting on the instruction to come into the office on November 8 for the additional instructions that I had been told I would receive, Mr. Roy Kellerman, who is an assistant special agent in charge of the detail, gave myself and other members of the advance teams going out what information they had up to that time on their respective stops. Mr. Kellerman told me the name of Mr. Jack Puterbaugh, whom I would meet on an airplane taking the advance agents to Dallas the next week. I contacted the White House Communications Agency to see if they were sending a communications representative along to help out as they usually did, and was given his name. Mr. Kellerman gave me the name of a car contact in the Dallas area so that we would be able to obtain cars for the motorcade, which is normal.

Mr. Stern.

These are cars, as I understand it----

Mr. Lawson.

For the Presidential party.

Mr. Stern.

Furnished to you by----

Mr. Lawson.

The Ford Motor Co.

Mr. Stern.

By people in the area that you visit----

Mr. Lawson.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Stern.

For use during the visit of the President? Were you told anything about the assistance you would have in doing advance work for the Dallas trip?

Mr. Lawson.

Could you be more explicit, please?

Mr. Stern.

Whether you would have another agent assigned to do the work with you?

Mr. Lawson.

Oh, yes. I had been told earlier, sometime between November 4 and 8, that another agent would be accompanying me. but, because of the Presidential trips which were occurring right at that time, that they would not be able to send out one at the same time, and he would have to join me later in Dallas after some of the other trips had been taken care of.

Mr. Stern.

What were the usual arrangements as far as assignments?

Mr. Lawson.

Quite often two agents would go out at the same time; yes, sir.

Mr. Stern.

And your responsibilities and those of this other agent when he joined you pertained only to Dallas; is that correct?

Mr. Lawson.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Stern.

You were not concerned with any other city in the President's route?

Mr. Lawson.

Not on that occasion; no, sir.

Mr. Stern.

And each of those cities had its own advance agent or agents?

Mr. Lawson.

That is correct.

Mr. Stern.

Doing the same work you were doing?

Mr. Lawson.

That is correct.

Mr. Stern.

When, in fact, did the other agent join you?