The following affidavit was executed By John Bryan McFarland and Meryl McFarland on May 28, 1964.
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
AFFIDAVIT
GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, County of Lancaster, City of Liverpool, Consulate of the United States of America, ss:
Before me Wilfred V. Duke, Consul of the United States of America, duly commissioned and qualified, personally came John Bryan McFarland and Meryl McFarland, of 7a Riversdale Road, Liverpool, 19, England, who being duly sworn, depose and say that:
Q. When and where did you board the bus for Mexico
City
A. We boarded the Continental Trailways bus at Jackson,
Mississippi, and traveled via connecting buses to Mexico City where we arrived
September 27, 1963
Q. When and where did you first see the man later identified
as Lee Harvey Oswald?
A. We changed buses at Houston. Texas, at. 2:00 a.m.
September 26th and it was probably about 6:00 a.m. after it became light that we
first saw him.
Q. What reason did Oswald give for traveling to
Mexico?
A. He stated that he was en route to Cuba and that he could
not travel there from the United States as it was against the law.
Q. Did you see Oswald speaking to any other
persons?
A. Yes. We observed him conversing occasionally with two
young Australian women who boarded the bus on the evening of September 26th at
Monterrey, Mexico. He also conversed occasionally with an elderly man who sat in
the seat next to him for a time.
Q. When did it first occur to you that Lee Harvey Oswald was
the man you had met on the bus?
A. When we saw his pictures in the newspapers.
Q. How many suitcases was Oswald carrying when he boarded the
bus at Houston, Texas, or any or-her time?
A. We did not see him carrying any suitcases at any
time.
Q. Did Oswald check any luggage with the bus company so it
would have been carried underneath the bus in the baggage
compartment?
A. We never actually saw him check any luggage in with the
bus company. but in the bus station at Mexico City the last we saw of him was
waiting at the luggage check-out place obviously to collect some luggage.
Q. What kind of luggage was he carrying?
A. We did not notice but presume he must have been carrying
some hand luggage.
Q. Did he check any suitcases or other packages at a place en
route to Mexico City or otherwise dispose of them?
A. We never actually saw him check any luggage in with the
bus company, but in the bus station at Mexico City the last we saw of him was
waiting at the luggage check-out place obviously to collect some luggage.
Q. What kind of clothing was he wearing?
A. As far as we recollect, ordinary slacks and, a more
definite recollection, a sort of zipper Jerkin.
Q. Did he mention any names or places either in the United
States or Mexico, in any connection whatever?
A. Only New Orleans, whence he said he had come. In the
course of conversation, we worked out that he must have left New Orleans at
about the same time we had left Jackson, Mississippi, i.e. 2:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, September 25th, 1963.
Q. Did he show you any documents, such as passport or Fair
Play for Cuba Committee Card, or letters, newspaper clippings or other similar
material? If so, describe them as fully as possible.
A. We saw no document, but he said he was the secretary of
the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Organization. and that he was
on his way to Cuba to see Castro if he could. We saw him at the next table to
ourselves in the Customs Shed at Laredo, but did not notice his passport or
tourist card.
Signed the 28th day of May 1964.
(S) J.B. McFarland,
JOHN BRYAN McFARLAND.
(S) Meryl McFarland,
MERYL McFARLAND.