Affidavit Of Francis L. Martello

The following affidavit was executed by Francis L. Martello on July 31, 1964.

PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

AFFIDAVIT

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Orleans, ss:

I, Lt. Francis L. Martello, Police Headquarters, 2700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, La. being first duly sworn, depose and say:

  1. I am a Lieutenant in the New Orleans Police Department.
  2. When a suspect is arrested, an arrest report is filled out. The notations concerning the height and the weight of the suspect are the figures supplied by him.
  3. When a suspect is booked, he is fingerprinted, photographed, weighed and measured. Thus, the weight figure on the Bureau of Identification Card would be the result of an actual weigh-in.
Signed this 31st day of July 1964, at New Orleans, La.

(S) Francis L. Martello,
Lieutenant FRANCIS L. MARTELLO.