Assassination Records Review Board
Final Determination Notification
AGENCY :
HSCA
RECORD NUMBER :
180-10060-10480
RECORD SERIES : STAFF PAYROLL RECORDS
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
December 8, 1995
Status of Document:
Postponed in Part
Number of releases of previously postponed information: 13
Reason for Board Action: The Review Board's decision was premised on several factors
including: (a) the significant historical interest in the document in question; (b) the
absence of evidence that the release of the information would cause harm to the United
States or to any individual.
Number of Postponements: 5
Postponements: All the postponements in this document represent Social Security numbers.
Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because the public disclosure of the redaction could
reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, and that invasion of
privacy would be so substantial that it outweighs the public interest.
Substitute Language: SSN
Date of Next Review: 2017
Board Review Completed: 10/24/95
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Released under the John F.
Kennedy Assassination
Records Collection Act of
1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).
Case#: NW 88326 Date:
2025
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
Date: 08/20/93
Page: 1
AGENCY : HSCA
RECORD NUMBER:
180-10060-10480
RECORDS SERIES :
STAFF PAYROLL RECORDS
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
ORIGINATOR : HSCA
FROM:
TO :
TITLE :
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
DATE : 12/13/76
PAGES:
SUBJECTS :
HSCA, ADMINISTRATION
MCCRAY, DENISE L.
DOCUMENT TYPE :
13
PRINTED FORM
CLASSIFICATION : U
RESTRICTIONS : 3
CURRENT STATUS: P
DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/04/93
OPENING CRITERIA :
COMMENTS :
Box 2.
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ITEM IS RESTRICTED
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7-12
_Time 10:52
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Number
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3332 Curtis Dr.
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Hillcrest Heights, Md.
20023
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June 16, 1977
Mrs. Denise L. McCray
2515 R Street,
Apt. 327
S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20020
Dear Denise:
I want you to know how much the Committee
and I appreciate your service add how much we
regret that you will no longer be a member of
the staff.
You have our best wishes always.
LS: tle
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Sincerely yours,
Louis Stokes
Chairman
LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN
RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.
WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.
YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.
HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.
FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.
SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO
JOHN B. ANDERSON, ILL.
STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN.
CHARLES THONE, NEBR.
OBERT W. EDGAR, PA.
(202) 225-4624
Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
3342 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
May 4, 1977
Mr. Alvin B. Lewis, Jr.
Acting Chief Counsel
and Staff Director
Select Committee on Assassinations
Dear Al:
I herewith submit my resignation from the Select
Committee effective May 15, 1977.
I have not lost my convictions about this investigation
which brought me here to work last December. However,
personal and financial obligations have made it necessary
for me to obtain more secure employment.
I wish the Committee all success in the future and
I sincerely hope that it is never again plagued with the
problems it has previously faced.
Sincerely,
Wexise
Denise L. McCray
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Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
Denisi
426-6593
Letion & Corgun
Садин
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May 5, 1977
Mrs. Denise L. McCray
Select Committee on Assassinations
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Denise:
I was very sorry to receive your letter
of resignation, but I understand your reasons.
We will miss you here, for you were
certainly one of our most conscientious and efficient
members of the staff.
Good luck in all your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
ABL: elb
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Alvin B. Lewis, Jr.
Acting Chief Counsel and Director
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen).
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last).
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.).
Effective Date
Denise Louise McCray
5/15/77
Employee Social Security Number
Type of Action
577 72 8453
Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
Assassinations
Salary Adjustment
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑ Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res.
465 95th
_of_
Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)*
Position Number:
If applicable, Level
Step_
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date_
May 10
19 77.
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration:
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code
Monthly Annuity $_.
.00
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APPROVED:..
Chairman, Committee on House Administration":
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee.
Fo
FO 5/11.
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last).
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Denise Louise McCray
5/1/77
Employee Social Security Number.
Type of Action
577 72 8453
Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
☐ Salary Adjustment
Assassinations
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary
$12,000
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2.
Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res.__
465 of 95th Congress:
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below:):
Position Number_
If applicable, Level
Step_
"
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date
May 10
77
19.
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code __
Monthly Annuity $
.00
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
ро
FO 5/11
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
Denise Louise McCray
4/1/77
Employee Social Security Number
Type of Action
577 72 8453
Appointment
Employing Office or Committee
☑Salary Adjustment
Assassinations
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Gross Annual Salary
$18,000
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.).
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑ Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res... 465 of 95th Congress.
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number __
If applicable, Level __
Step_
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date_
April 29
1977
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Louis Stokes
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification: Act and for Committee em-
☐ ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees; must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code.
Monthly Annuity $…….
.00
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APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Please consider this verification that
Denise L. McCray began employment, permanent full-
time status, with the House of Representatives
Select Committee on Assassinations December 13,
1976, and is so currently employed.
February 8, 1977
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Rebecca Wheeler Martin
Chief Clerk
GPO 1975 O-57-255
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter
☐ or Ballpoint Pen)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515.
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
Denise L. McCray
Employee Social Security Number
577 72 8453
Employing Office or Committee
Select Committee on Assassinations
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Effective Date
1/3/77
Type of Action
Appointment
Salary Adjustment
☐ Termination (At close of business on effective date)
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
Gross Annual Salary
$10,000.
Standing Committee: Staff ☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2.
Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res...
Congress.
95
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number
relatives.
Date
If applicable, Level_
Step
certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
1977
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Henry B. Gonzalez-
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official).
Chairman
(Title If Member, District and State)
All appointments, and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em-
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
NW 88326
Office Code
Monthly Annuity $.
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00
APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
PAYROLL AUTHORIZATION FORM
(Please Use Typewriter.
or Ballpoint Pen).
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, D.C. 20515
To the Clerk of the House of Representatives:
I hereby authorize the following payroll action:
Employee Name (First-Middle-Last)
(Any erasures, corrections, or changes..
on this form must be initialed by the
authorizing official.)
Denise L. McCray
Employee Social Security Number
577 72 8463
Employing Office or Committee
Appointment
Salary Adjustment
Effective Date
12/13/76
Type of Action
Termination (At close of business on effective date)
Select Committed on Assassinations
(If type of action is an Appointment or Salary Adjustment, complete the following information.)
Position Title
Secrctary
(If Committee Employee, complete appropriate item below.)
1. ☐ Standing Committee: Staff -☐ Clerical or ☐ Professional.
2. ☑Special or Select Committee: Authority-H. Res. 1540
3. ☐ Joint Committee.
(If Employee of an Officer of the House, complete item below.)
Position Number__
Gross Annual Salary
$12,000
of 94th Congress.
If applicable, Level __
Step
- handharried to
F0 12/16/76
I certify that this authorization is not in violation of 5 U.S.C. 3110(b), prohibiting the employment of
relatives.
Date__
December 16
1976
(Signature of Authorizing Official)
Thomas N. Downing, Chairaan
(Type or print name of Authorizing Official)
Select Committee on Assassinations
(Title If Member, District and State)
... All appointments and salary adjustments for employees under the House Classification Act and for Committee em
ployees, except those of the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Committees, must
be approved by the Committee on House Administration.
Office of Finance use only:
Office Code
APPROVED:
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
Monthly Annuity $_
.00
_ Copy for Initiating Office or Committee
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
All Staff Employees
FROM:
Budget Officer
DATE:
January 3, 1977
RE:
Payroll Certification
Starting with the January, 1977 payroll, the certification
to the House Finance Office requires, among other things, the
relationship, if any, of each staff employee to any current
Member of Congress (those taking office January 3, 1977).
The following are the relationships to be included in
the certification:
father
mother
son
nephew
niece
brother-in-law.
sister-in-law
stepfather
daughter
brother
sister
uncle
aunt
first cousin
husband
wife
father-in-law
mother-in-law
son-in-law
daughter-in-law
stepmother
stepbrother
stepsister
half-brother
half-sister
All staff employees are requested to complete this
form and return it to the Budget officer.
Approved
Richard A. Sprague
I am not related
I am related by the following relationship
Signature of Employee
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1/10/77
NAME:
Denise L. McCray
ADDRESS:
Mind child
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9720.
2515 R Street, S.E. #327
Washington, D.C. 20020
TELEPHONE: 584-9560 (Home)
426-5821 (Work)
DATE OF BIRTH:
EDUCATION:
January 30, 1954
Anacostia High School
16th & R Streets, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
20020
Graduated: June 1972 (Cum Laude)
Virginia Union University
Richmond, Va. 23220
(Completed one year, [30 semester hours], Business
Administration major)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
National Honor Society, January, 1971
Graduated #7 in Senior Class (1972)
Scholastic Honor Roll (High School, 1969-1972)
SKILLS & MACHINES OPERATED:
Typing: 70 wpm
Dictaphone Transcriber
Lexitron Videotype Machine™
IBM/ATS Computer Terminal
Xerox 4500 Copier (Authorized Key Operator)
Xerox 4000 Copier
Adding Machine
Calculator
WORK EXPERIENCE:
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Library of Congress
Government Division
--
Congressional Research Service
-
Information Assistant Assistant Division Secretary,
August 4, 1975 to Present
In this position I am responsible for performing the duties of the
Administrative Secretary in her absence. I also perform duties assigned
by the Administrative Secretary designed to expedite her work.
I type
reports (legal and technical in nature) with responsibility for ac-
curacy and consistency and for adherence to established editorial form;
I receive inquiry slips requesting research information and forward
to appropriate section head for assignment; I receive and direct phone
calls to appropriate persons, and receive and route incoming mail.
As assistant supervisor for 9 editorial assistants, I am also respon-
sible for orientating new clerical staff members. I operate as
alternate Time and Attendance clerk. Supervisor: Mrs. Linda Bailey
Library of Congress
-
Congressional Research Service
Government Division Editorial Assistant 4/74 - 8/3/75
I was responsible for editorial review of material (research
studies, articles, speeches, committee reports); determining proper
format and typing rough drafts into final form. I made revisions
and corrections (minor) in format and grammer of researched material.
I operated the Lexitron Videotype machine; IBM/ATS; Xerox 4500
machines and performed related clerical duties as necessary.
Supervisor: Mrs. Linda Bailey
Library of Congress
Section
-
Loan Division
-
Charge Records
Library Technician January 1974 April 1974
In this position I charged books internally to Library staff and
to Congressional Offices; filed charge slips; and discharged returned
books (internal and Congressional). Temporary position.
Supervisor: Mrs. A. Kolarick
Virginia Union University
-
Financial Aid Office
Clerk Typist (Work Study Position).
I assisted the Director of Financial Aid and his Secretary in
the processing of financial aid papers for students. This involved
typing and filing and related clerical duties. I held this postion
from January 1973
and August 1973 to December 1973.
Supervisor: Mr. Philip Brunson
-
May 1973
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3
Library of Congress
-
Equal Opportunity Office
Secretarial Assistant Dictaphone Transcriber
July 1973 to August 1973
I was responsible for the typing of testimony from tapes for
rough and final copy. Filing and carrying out of EO procedures
(complaints). I answered phones and fulfilled the duties of the
EO Secretary in her absence. (This was only a two secretary.
office and therefore I filled in for the Secretary quite often).
I also handled mail and appointments for the Director. (Temporary
position)
Supervisor:
Thomas Brackeen
Associate Mortgage Company
Washington, D.C.
-
1715 15th Street, N.W.
Tax Clerk May 1973 July 1973
In this position I handled all mortgage foreclosures for
County's in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. I also did
light typing and filing.
Library of Congress
Clerk Typist
-
Procurement and Supply Division
October 1972 December 1972
I was responsible for typing supply orders for materials
procured from other government agencies and private industry.
I also handled purchase orders and assisted in paying invoices.
During the absence of the Division Secretary I filled in as
Secretary to the Chief and also worked as Alternate Time and
Attendance Clerk.
Supervisor:
Mr. Earl Matlock
Department of Transportation
Safety Administration
National Highway Traffic
Clerk-Typist (Summer Aid)
June 1972
-
September 1972
I assisted the Division Secretary in any assigned duties.
major duties were typing and filing. I also answered phones and
acted as receptionist in the Secretary's absence.
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My
-
Department of the Navy Naval Reconnaissance and
-
Technical Support Center Supply Clerk Summer Aid
June 1971 to September 1971
I worked as an assistaant supply clerk responsible for filling
orders for other sections of the Center. I also was responsible for
ordering supplies from GSA for the center; inventory; paying invoices;
and shipping and receiving duties.
Department of the Navy Naval Reconnaissance and
Technical Support Center
June 1970 to August 1970
Summer Aid
I worked as an assistant carrying out assigned duties in the
supply office of the center. Light typing and filing were involved.
REFERENCES:
Mrs.
Linda Bailey RPA
Government Division CRS
Library of Congress
426-5834
Mr. Kenneth Gray - Chief
Government Division CRS
Library of Congress
426-5834
[Temporarily assigned to Select Committee to Study the Committee
System, 401 Senate Courts 224-1848 (Assignment Terminates 3/1/77)]
Mr. Steven Langone
Specialist in Indian Affairs
Government Division
Library of Congress
426-5834
-
CRS
Mrs. Mattie Coleman Teacher
3905 Que Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
20020
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