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June 1, 1967 (Dictated and transcribed)
TO:
JIM GARRISON, District Attorney
FROM:
ANDREW SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney
RE:
MR. HENRY EARL PALMER - INTERVIEW WITH
REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, CLINTON, LOUISIANA
ON MAY 29, 1967
Lt. Francis Fruge and I talked to Mr. Palmer at
his office which is located across the street from the Courthouse
in Clinton, Louisiana.
Mr. Palmer said that some time between September
lst and October 15th of 1963 he had occasion to talk to LEE
HARVEY OSWALD. Mr. Palmer said he feels very strongly that it
was in the first week of October, possibly around the 6th or 7th.
He said he was the Registrar of Voters at the time and his office
was on Main Street located across the street from the Courthouse.
Mr. Palmer said that on this particular day there was some Civil
Rights activities in town and the colored people had a voter
registration drive on. He said there was a long line of colored
people lined up to register with him.
Mr. Palmer said that as he left his office for a
coffee break around 10:30 in the morning he noticed 2 white men
in line with the colored people and that they were very conspi-
cuous as they were the only 2 white people in the line. When
he talked to these two people he learned they were LEE HARVEY
OSWALD and ESTES MORGAN; that ESTES MORGAN is from Livingston
Parish, born in Sun, Louisiana. Mr. Palmer said OSWALD and MORGAN
were in the hallway of the building and that OSWALD had on a
T-shirt, dark trousers and sneaker-type crepe soled shoes. He
was normally clean and shaven. Mr. Palmer said he passed OSWALD
and MORGAN in the line and never said anything to them, and he
walked out of his office on the way to the cafe. On his way to
the cafe he noticed a black Cadillac parked about 20 feet from
the entrance to his building; that he noticed 2 people sitting
in the Cadillace, both of whom were white males and were sitting
in the front seat. Mr. Palmer said he was sure it was a black
Cadillac and looked to be around a 1962. He did not write down
the license number. Mr. Palmer said the Cadillac was parked in
front of Cochran's Drug Store which is right close to his build-
ing. Mr. Palmer said the man in the passenger side of the auto-
mobile had heavy eyebrows and this was his distinguishing feature
as far as he would say. He said the othe I man was sitting behind
the steering wheel and was looking straight ahead; that he
appeared to be tall and was gray haired and had a ruddy complex-
ion. Palmer said that he was also wearing that
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