Testimony of

The testimony of Danny Patrick McCurdy was taken at 4:15 p.m., on June 26, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Leon D. Hubert, Jr., assistant counsel of the President's Commission.

Mr. Hubert.

This is the deposition of Danny Patrick McCurdy.
Mr. McCurdy, my name is Leon Hubert. I'm a member of the advisory staff of the general counsel on the President's Commission. Under the provisions of Executive Order 11130 dated November 29, 1963 and the joint reSolution of 0ongress No. 137, and the rules of procedure adopted by the President's Commission in conforms ace with the Executive order and the joint resolution, I have been authorized .to take a sworn deposition from you. I state to you now that the general nature of the Commission's inquiry is to ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relative to the assassination of President Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of Lee Harvey Oswald.
In particular, as to you, Mr. McCurdy, the nature of the inquiry today is to determine what facts you know about the death of Oswald and any other pertinent facts you may know about the general inquiry and about Jack Ruby and his operations and movements and associates and so forth on a certain

Mr. Hubert.

Now, I believe you have appeared here today by virtue of a letter written to you by Mr. J. Lee Rankin, general counsel of the staff of the President's
Commission asking you to be present.

Mr. Mccurdy.

Right.

Mr. Hubert.

Do you remember the date of the letter ?

Mr. Mccurdy.

I am not sure. I think it was the 22d, if I'm not mistaken, is
when I got it. It was dated the 22d at the top of the letter.

Mr. Hubert.

When did you get it?

Mr. Mccurdy.

About the 23d or 24th.

Mr. Hubert.

Well, under the rules adopted by the Commission every witness is entitled to a 3-day-written notice prior to the taking of his deposition, dating from the date of the request, and it is probable therefore that the rules have been complied with, but in any case the rules do provide that a witness may waive that 3-day notice, and I ask you whether you are willing to go ahead and testify now?

Mr. Mccurdy.

Yes; I will go ahead and testify right now.

Mr. Hubert.

Would you stand up and take the oath, please, sir?
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give in this matter will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Mr. Mccurdy.

I do.

Mr. Hubert.

Mr. McCurdy, I have heretofore, a little while ago, handed you a document consisting of two pages which I have marked for identification as follows: On the first page in the right-hand margin I have marked the words "Dallas, Texas, June 26, 1964, Exhibit No. 1, Deposition of Danny Patrick McCurdy" and on the second page I have placed my initials in the lower right-hand corner. This document purports to be the report of an interview of you by FBI Agent Colenman Mabray on November 29, 1963. Have you read this, sir?

Mr. Mccurdy.

Yes; sure have.

Mr. Hubert.

Can you tell us whether this is a correct report of the interview?

Mr. Mccurdy.

Well, basically it is. There are two or three discrepancies at the end. I suppose they misunderstood me, 'but they're not earth shattering
or anything about the conversation that I had with Jack.

Mr. Hubert.

You are referring to page 2?

Mr. Mccurdy.

Right--it says, "McCurdy advised that he ended his conversation with Ruby and he entered the diskjockey room, Now, our conversation took place in the diskjockey room, that is, our console room, and not the newsroom.
Now, Jack spent the majority of the time in. the newsroom with our news-man, Glenn Duncan, the-man that just left, and a man by the name of Russ