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     1        immediate release.  Contact Elna Christoffer or Ron
     2        Dusek", with couple of telephone numbers; is that right?
     3        A.  It is headed that, yes, sir.
     4
     5   Q.   Who are Elna Christoffer and Ron Dusek?
     6        A.  Those were at the time -- Miss Christoffer was the
     7        Press Secretary for the Attorney General Mattox; Ron Dusek
     8        was Deputy Press Secretary, or words to that effect.
     9
    10   Q.   The telephone numbers then would be the office of those
    11        two people in Austin or Dallas?
    12        A.  The telephone numbers are certainly Austin state
    13        numbers.  From my memory I could not tell you for sure,
    14        but I believe them to be the telephone numbers of the
    15        press office.
    16
    17   Q.   Look at the right-hand side of the page.  In handwriting,
    18        you see: Rough draft.  Copies to Rensi, Yastrow, Horwitz,
    19        Horwitz, Shrager, Nelson and Green, signed by somebody
    20        called -- I think it is possibly Paul Marshall, though I
    21        do not know -- copies to some other people.  24th April at
    22        2.40 p.m. do you see that?
    23        A.  I see it.
    24
    25   Q.   Would you agree that it looks from that as though somebody
    26        in Austin has telephoned the text of this press release
    27        through to McDonald's in Oak Brook?
    28        A.  It does appear to be the text of a press release.
    29
    30   Q.   Yes.
    31        A.  Whether it is someone in Austin telephoned or
    32        whatever, I do not know.  I do not think Miss Christoffer
    33        would have misspelt her own name, as is the case here. I
    34        doubt that she would have misspelt Texas.
    35
    36   Q.   I am suggesting that somebody at McDonald's took it down?
    37        A.  I do not know.  It does suggest to me that this is a
    38        dictated transcript of a press release from the Attorney
    39        General's office.
    40
    41   Q.   Now turn back to 123.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are the phone numbers at the top of 125
    44        Austin or Dallas numbers?
    45        A.  Those are, under Mr. Dusek's name, those two numbers,
    46        those are both Austin numbers.  The 512 tells me it is the
    47        Austin area.  463 tells me it is the State of Texas.  That
    48        is the specific prefix the State has.  The 250, I am
    49        almost certain, was the press office's number at the time,
    50        although that might be wrong.  I am sure those would be 
    51        the numbers of the press office. 
    52 
    53   Q.   On page 123 we can see that this version is on McDonald's
    54        writing paper.  It has their address at the top.  It has
    55        the Golden Arches on the left.  This one is headed:
    56        Actual draft".  It is to Chuck Rubner who is a McDonald's
    57        person, Stephanie Skurdy who is a publicity person.  It
    58        comes from Brenda Duncan, in case you want to cross-check
    59        against your copy, and copies go to Rensi, Yastrow,
    60        Horwitz, Horwitz, Schrager, Nelson, Green, Goldblatt,

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