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    "ocrText": "He next worked for the St. Raphael School, also on\nElysian Fields Avenue, cleaning 9 classrooms daily and helping\nout in the lunch room. He worked there some months, but less\nthan a year.\nHis next job, and present job, is at Tulane University\nSchool of Medicine. He has been employed there for 1 year and\n4 months, working in the Plumbing Divison of the Maintenance\nDepartment.\nMr. HERNANDEZ was asked if he was familiar with\nBreakwater Road, also known as The Point\" or \"Lover's Lane\" on\nthe Lakefront in New Orleans. Ha stated it was not familiar to\nhim. As far as he knows, he has never been on that street. He\nwas also asked if he ever did any electronics repair work, radio\nrepair or TV repair. He stated that he has not and does not\nknow anything about it. When asked what type of vehicle he now\nowns - automobile or truck - he stated he has never owned a\nvehicle of any kind, nor has he ever had a driver's license, in\nfact, he doesn't know how to drive. He was then asked if he\nknew anyone in the electronics business on Broad Street to which\nhe replied that he has never known anybody in the electronics\nbusiness, but that one time he was introduced to a fellow that\nlived in the St. Thomas project by the name of MARIO who was from\nNicaragua who owned an automobile; that MARIO did repair I'V sets.\nMARIO did not have a repair shop. He did the work at home.\nHERNANDEZ described MARIO as being in his middle 50's, real short,\nmedium build, but he did not have a mustache. HERNANDEZ said\nthis would be the only person he would know to do this type of\nwork. HERNANDEZ was then asked to name the organizations that\nhe now belongs to, and has belonged to in the past. He stated\nthat he belongs to the Cuban Students Directory in which he is\nSecretary. He stated he has helped other Cuban organizations,\nbut that he only belongs to this one. He also belongs to the\nCuban Liceum Club which is a social organization located on\nUniversity Place upstairs, across the street from the Roosevelt\nHotel. He belongs to the T66 which is a small club the Mainten-\nance Department at Tulane University has. This is a social club\nfor the maintenance workers where they donate their money and\nhave parties every so often.\nMr. HERNANDEZ was shown a group of photographs to see\nif he could identify any of them. He picked out 2 photographs;\none of LEE HARVEY OSWALD and one of himself. He stated that he\nsaw OSWALD when he was walking back and forth on Canal Street\ngiving out Castro Communist literature. He stated that this is\nthe one and only time that he has ever been in a police station,\nand that is why we have his photograph. He said that on that\nday, he grabbed this traitor man ( oswald) and CARLOS BRINGUIER\ntold him not to hit him (OSWALD) that ha would get in trouble.\nHe further stated that on this particular day he was going to\nlook for a job as a dishwasher Across the street he noticed\nthis man with a large sign which read \"VIVA FIDEL\" and he felt\nsomething inside that this man is a traitor or Communist and he\njust wanted to do something about it. With all this commotion,\nAmerican psoble is tarted gathering around there and started calling\nOSWALD a traitor to the United States. A few minutes later the\npolice pulled up and took him (HERNANDEZ) to jail, and he recalls\n-2-"
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