Record Number 180-10101-10259  Agency File Number 013318
     Originator-HSCA
     From:     Johnson, Marion M.
     To:
     Date:     11/27/78
     Pages:    3

     Subjects: 
          Kennedy, John, Autopsy
          NARA, Administration
          Photographs and Films
          X-rays

     Date of release:  12/16/93
     
     Contents: Affidavit of Marion M. Johnson, Archivist of the
               National Archives at the time of the HSCA
               investigation, dated 11/27/78, regarding the
               custody of the autopsy materials.  Document
               follows in full.





































     IN RE [sic] PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS
                                 
                            AFFIDAVIT OF MARION M. JOHNSON
                                 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA)
                    )    ss.:
CITY OF WASHINGTON  )


I, MARION M. JOHNSON, Archivist, Office of the National Archivist, National Archives and Records Service, United States General Services Administration, Eighth and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., do hereby solemnly swear:

1.   In mid-May 1965 I was assigned the responsibility for the records of the Warren Commission.  These records were stored in the sixth stack level, West [sic] side, third vault.  This was a security stack area, and I was given a desk in it.

2.   A number of other groups of sensitive materials were stored in the same stack area that contained the Warren Commission materials.  In particular, the Office of Presidential Libraries stored both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy materials in this area.

3.   Because I was working in the area, I occasionally overheard discussion by Presidential library [sic] staff members about the Presidential and other materials in their custody that were stored in the area.  On one ocasion [sic] I heard Herman Kahn, at that time the Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries,
tell Robert Bahmer, at that time the

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Archivist of the United States, that he had been called by someone connected with the Kennedy family who said they wanted to transfer some materials here.  From the context of the conversation, I concluded that they were referring to the autopsy materials.  I cannot remember the date of this conversation.

4.   I was not present when the footlocker containing the autopsy photographs and X-rays was brought into the security area.  I remember that the footlocker was on a shelf near my desk for some time prior to October 31, 1966, when the autopsy photographs and X-rays were donated to the United States, but I cannot recall when I first noticed its presence.  I was not aware of its contents before the transfer of those materials.


I have read the statement above, which I have made freely and voluntarily, and it is true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.  I understand that this affidavit may be introduced and received into evidence by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.


                              /s/  Marion M. Johnson
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                              MARION M. JOHNSON

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Eighth and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., on this 27th day of November 1978.


/s/  Francis J. Heppner
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NOTARY PUBLIC

My commission expires:   August 31, 1979


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