WARREN PANEL CLOSES 7 MONTHS' PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600170025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK
HERALD TRIBUNE,
JUN 1 9 1964
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Byi Don1 Bonafcde
W A GNTNC'7Y)N
which thousands of pages of
testimony were taken, the
Warren Commission yester-
day ended the examination
phase of 'Its investigation
Into the assassination of
President Kennedy.
But the commission's re-
port, tentatively set for June
30, is unlikely to be turned
over to President Johnson
for another month or so, a
source close to the commis- ?
sion said.
The last scheduled witness
was James J. Rowley, chief
of the Secret Service, tho''
agency whose record of 02
years of success in nplai'ding
Presidents was hatfel'ed Nov.
22 in Callas, Tcx.
Since its appointment by
President .Johnson on Nov.
29 the commission, headed
by Chief ,Justice Earl Warren,
has directly questioned 88
witnesses and received deposi-
tions from 3.3 others.
A spokesman'-said that In
a review of testimony, the
(panel may decide to call ad-
ditional witnesses or recall
some already heard.
In a separate development,
CPYRGHT
while being questioned by assassination.
the commission last Thurs-
day, The possibility that the
Mays. Oswald was asked Secret Swas remiss in
about reports her husband Secret
duties Service that fateful day
Mr. . had hohnsn? contemplated shooting is being thoroughly explored
"She e said didn't know by the commission.
" saishe anything about it," com- Mr. Rowley was not in
mented Mr. McKenzie. Dallas when the President
He then quoted Mrs. Os- was shot and has yet to issue
wald as telling the commis- a public statement concern-
s ion, "at that time I did not ing the assassination and the
even know the name of John- role played by his agents.
son or know who he was." ' He was also expected to be
During a 3 y>-hour session asked about present security
before the commission Mr. methods employed to protect
Rowley was reportedly ques- President Johnson and ?
tioned in detail about proce- whether, co-operation with
dures usefl to guard Presi- the FBI has increased.
dent Kennedy the day he Afterward, when asked by
newsmen if the commission
had given him "a hart: time,"
Mr. Rowley replied that the
discussion was "very. pleas-
ant.
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a story which appeared In a erring o o nson, w is v is- was i e and about reports
Houston newspaper that Lee. ited Dallas that time." ' that some Secret Service
Harvey Oswald, the suspected In a denial of the story, agents were seen drinking in
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nedy, had planned to kill
then Vice-President Johnson
in April, 1963, instead of
former Vice-President Nixon
as previously reported, was
labeled "totally untrue" by
William A. MrXenzie, Dallas
attorney for Oswald's? widow.
The story was given fur-
ther credibility , by a wire.
service report which claimed
that Mrs. Oswald "told the
commission that Oswald
picked tip his .gun and left
the house in April, 1963, tell-
ing her he was going down
town to 'see our friend who
is coming to town.' The
young widow said she as-
sumed her husband was re-,