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Winnipeg Free Press
Company Limited
300 CARLTON STREET. WINNIPEG 2. CANADA
TELEPHONE 943-9331
JOHN SIFTON
PRESIDENT
R.S. MALONE
PUBLISHER AND VICE-PRESIDENT
SHANE MACKAY
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
R. H. SHELFORD
BUSINESS MANAGER
)
Mr. William R. Martin,
Assistant District Atborney,
New Orleans, La.
Dear Mr. Martin,
Following is the promised memorandum on a few Canadian leads
in your case against Clay Shaw.
The affidavit from the Winnipeg man who overheard the conversation
at the airport is. being made this week and will reach you later.
Mr. Malcolm Campbell, of 1099 East lawn, Sarnia, Ontario, who wrote
your office about an eyewitness to the Dallas shooting, cannot provide
any more information on the subject. The eyewitness, Liberty magazine
editor Norman Similas, is unavailable. Liberty magazine was published
by Consolidated Press until 1964 when it was sold to another company
and folded after a few issues. When it wound up its operations, ir.
Similas was writing a serial on his experiences in Dallas and in the
last issue Mr. Similas said the next issue, which never appeared, would
carry a picture taken of shots being fired at Kennedy. I made some
enquiries regarding the sudden collapse of the publication, but people
in the business seem to be convinced that it was genuine financial trouble.
"They went broke,' as one spokesman put it. Mr. Similas can't be located
at the moment. A relative, Helen Similas of Toronto (probably an estranged
wife or a mad sister) doesn't want to tall: about him at all and becomes
irritated when someone mentions his name. The people he formerly worked
with have lost track of him. His name has been mentioned, however, by
Ramparts magazine and other critics of the Warren report as one of a
list of witnesses never interviewed by the Warren commission. Ramparts
misspelled his name quite badly.
Mr. Keith Allen, 40, a Seattle accountant whose mother lives at 1189
Matthews Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia (the address listed in
Shaw's notebook) is a service buddy of your man. He's single and probably
queer, but the last time hels seen Shaw was 20 years ago. They've been
exchanging Christmas cards since: line Allen has never heard of Kootenay
Bay
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Kootenay Bay, B.C. June-Septembor (1963) seems a very mysterious
notation. The place is in the interior nountainous country of B.C. on
the shore of a lake. A ferry runs across the lake to Kootenay Bay and
one can also reach the place from the south, from the U.S. by marrow,
winding mountain road. There is one motel in the town, the Mary Ann motel,
but it doesn't seem to have a telephone. There are also camp grounds and
cabins and the whole area is a prime tourist region in the summer, especialdy
from June to September.
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