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    "ocrText": "PR\nOnly four - Julian, Manuel and two others - everybody\nwent to the kitchen. I drank a Coke and the record\nwas taken off and we sat around talking and these\nguys spoke Spanish.\nDr. F\nLook over there, Perry, tell me what Leon is doing.\nPR\nHe is sitting beside the piano - just sitting. He\ndoes the same thing. I don't like him because\nhe doesn't like me. He told Dave the first time I\nsaw him in front of me - why did he have to bring\nevery little prick off the street in the house and\nI told Dave I wanted to go home.\nDr. F\nLet your mind go completely blank, Perry - - -\nsee\nthat television screen again, it is very vivid --\nnot notice the picture on the screen - there will\nbe Bertrand, Ferrie and Oswald and they are going\nto discuss a very important matter and there is\nanother man and girl there and they are talking\nabout assassinating somebody. Look at it and\ndescribe it to me.\nPR\nWe are sitting around on the sofas and I came in\nlate. Dave offered me a drink and I said no\nI didn't want anything, and I sat down and played\nlike I belonged. I didn't know what was going on.\nDave went and got drinks for everybody - all the\ndrinks were coffee and they resumed the conversation\nand I was just sitting. They planned to assassinate\nPresident Kennedy.\nDr. F\nTell us exactly what everybody said, Perry.\nPR\nDave paced the floor back and forth and he talked\nand talked and told them if they were to get the\nPresident they would fly to Mexico or Cuba on\nto Brazil and Clem said they could not go to Mexico\nand Brazil - it involved too much gas expense and\nthe cooperation of Mexican authorities and that\nwouldn't be possible. Leon snapped at Bertrand\nand said leave him alone. I guess Ferrie and\nLeon had made up and Leon said leave him alone\nbecause he is right because if he said we go, we can\ndo it. It doesn't make any difference, Japan\nor Mexico.\nDr. F\nI wonder what they said about Dallas, Perry?\nPR\nNothing about Dallas. Ferrie had a bunch of newspaper\nclippings about one inch thick all of them about\nKennedy - Kennedy's picture or Kennedy's name in\nthe headline. Had rubber bands and clips on them\nand carried them around with him.\nDr. F\nI wonder if Ferrie ever told you that he was going\nto assassinate the president in Dallas?\n-8-"
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