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Books before 1/1/1965 (Query to Google Books for Saturn V payload orbit):
A few NASA and US Congress documents ( Fourth National Conference on the PEACEFUL USES OF SPACE (1964) 1964 NASA authorization: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth congress, first session Manned Space Flight-- 1963 and ) states:
The three-stage Saturn V in its present configuration is optimized for the Apollo program. It is capable of injecting a payload of 90,000 pounds into a lunar trajectory. It could also carry approximately 240,000 pounds of payload into a 100-mile Earth orbit.