Pursuant To Executive Order 11130 an Executive order creating a Commission to ascertain evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination and S.J. Res. 137 88th Congress a concurrent resolution conferring upon the Commission the power to administer oaths and affirmations examine witnesses receive evidence and issue subpoenas.

The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume I: Mrs. Marina Oswald the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald; Mrs. Marguerite Oswald Oswald’s mother; Robert Edward Lee Oswald Oswald’s brother; and James Herbert Martin who acted for a brief period as Mrs. Marina Oswald’s business manager.