Well, Mr. McCloy, it is quite satisfactory with me and I agree with you we cannot run down all of the rumors in all of the press and it is quite satisfactory with me to wait and see whether we have adequate information to deal with this situation when we get in the complete tapes of the various television, radio and other appearances, so that we have a pretty complete record of what these two witnesses and others have said on the points we have been discussing here today.
So I quite agree we will await this presentation to the doctors until we have had a further chance to review this situation.
What I wanted to be sure was that when we are through with this we do have in our files and records adequate information to deal with a great many of the false rumors that have been spread on the basis of false interpretation of these appearances before television, radio, and so forth and so on.

Representative Ford.

Is that all, Mr. Dulles, and Mr. McCloy?

Mr. Dulles.

Yes.

Mr. Mccloy.

May I ask at this point, did you examine Governor Connally, too?
Dr. PERRY. I was in the operating room briefly to see about his leg.

Mr. Mccloy.

You haven't come to that point in your interrogation.

Mr. Specter.

I did not.

Mr. Mccloy.

I understood you to say you did examine Oswald.
Dr. PERRY. Yes, sir; I operated on Oswald.

Mr. Specter.

Have you now described in general the press conferences in which you participated immediately after the treatment which you rendered to President Kennedy and following the treatment which you assisted in rendering to Mr. Oswald?
Dr. PERRY. To the best of my knowledge.

Mr. Specter.

And did you make an effort to leave the area of Dallas immediately following the Monday after the weekend of the assassination and the killing of Oswald in an effort to get away from the press conferences?
Dr. PERRY. I left Monday afternoon approximately 3 o'clock.

Mr. Specter.

Where did you
Dr. PERRY. I went to McAllen, Tex., to the home of my mother-in-law.

Mr. Specter.

And how far is that from Dallas?
Dr. PERRY. About 560 miles.

Mr. Specter.

Did you leave instructions as to revealing the destination that you set upon?
Dr. PERRY. No, only with Dr. Shires and my secretary.

Mr. Specter.

And were you contacted by the press in McAllen?
Dr. PERRY. The following day.

Mr. Specter.

And were your whereabouts given either by Dr. Shires or your secretary?
Dr. PERRY. No, it was not.

Mr. Specter.

Will you relate briefly the sequence that followed in McAllen, Tex.
Dr. PERRY. The gentleman from UPI came out and knocked on the door, and I was quite surprised, not having told anyone where I was going, and I asked him if he would mind telling me how he found out how I was there, and looking back at it I was kind of naive, I went to a relative and told no one else. He had a wire in his hands which he showed me indicating it had come from the Dallas office, naming the place where I was, and the exact address, and who I was staying with.

Mr. Specter.

Did he ask to take pictures of you?
Dr. PERRY. He did.

Mr. Specter.

What was your response?
Dr. PERRY. This was denied.

Mr. Specter.

And did he ask you questions?
Dr. PERRY. He did, essentially the same questions which I have reiterated as to the emergency treatment that was undertaken. He did not press the point as to the number of bullets or anything of that, and I told him I had no knowledge

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