Quote:"Delivered herewith are three preliminary memoranda prepared by John Ely at my request made in late February or early March.

My purpose was to obtain a chronology based on these existing data in our files of the background facts -- life, school, places of residence, etc -- of Mrs Oswald, her several marriages, her husbands and her three children and, in particular, Lee Harvey Oswald, from the time she married Edward John Pic, Jr., in the fall of 1929, to the time Lee Harvey Oswald entered military service in October, 1956.
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On the whole, Mr. Ely's memoranda present a good over-all picture of the course of events involving the Oswalds up to the time of Lee Harvey Oswald's entry into the military service.  Our depositions and examination of records and other data disclose that there are details in Mr. Ely's memoranda which will require material alteration and, in some instances, omission."
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