(Testimony of Robert G. Klause)
Mr. Jenner.
How many children do you have?
Mr. Klause.
We have three.
Mr. Jenner.
I exhibit to you another handbill which we will mark as Commission Exhibit No. 1053.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1053 for identification.)
Mr. Jenner.
For the purpose of the record, this is entitled "Wanted for Murder," and it had a front view and profile of Mr. Khrushchev. It is signed "Minutemen" in printing, with quotations.
Have you ever seen that document before or one like it?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Do you see any form of type there that is the kind of type that is reproduced in Lettercraft Printing?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Does that appear to be any type font or printing with which you became familiar at Johnson Printing Co.?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir; actually from a printers viewpoint--just looking at it from this angle here--that could be done off of a typewriter. That looks more like a typewriter than it does off a Linotype machine.
Mr. Jenner.
And after its having been typed, then reproduced in the fashion in which Commission Exhibit No. 996 was reproduced?
Mr. Klause.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
The mechanical processes you have described. You called it a blanket?
Mr. Klause.
Plate.
Mr. Jenner.
Make up a plate of the whole sheet--you photograph the sheet, then make a plate, and reproduce from the plate?
Mr. Klause.
Yes, sir.
Now why I say it doesn't look like Linotype---in Linotype most of your columns or your paragraphs are butted up straight. In other words, you got straight edges on both sides. Whereas on a typewriter you cannot flush. It takes somebody exceptionally skilled with a typewriter to flush the corners. These edges here are not flush.
Mr. Jenner.
You. are talking about the right-hand margin?
Mr. Klause.
Yes, sir; you see your left hand is flush. Now on a Linotype those on the right can be flushed.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, directing your attention to Commission Exhibit No. 996, are the right-hand margins of that material flushed as you call it?
Mr. Klause.
These I would say were pretty close to being flush. It would be more of a Linotype than this Exhibit No. 1053 here.
Mr. Jenner.
That would lead you to believe, then, that the copy on Commission Exhibit No. 996 was produced in the first instance on a Linotype machine?
Mr. Klause.
Linotype or----
Mr. Jenner.
A Ludlow?
Mr. Klause.
Possibly I was getting ready to Varitype. Varitype would come up dose to flushing it.
Mr. Jenner.
But Commission Exhibit No. 1053 does not stimulate your recollection in any respect whatsoever?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
You never heard about that handbill?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Wholly apart from never having seen it?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
My handing it to you a moment ago was the first time you ever knew of the existence of a handbill of that type?
Mr. Klause.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
You never heard any discussion of it heretofore?
Mr. Klause.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Chairman, I have covered all of the details with Mr. Klause. I have no further questions of him.
Mr. Dulles.
I have no more questions. We thank you very much, Mr. Klause, for coming. We appreciate your testimony.
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