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OCR Page 1 of 160having made this statement. (In 1968 Garrison asked me if I had
told anyone that I was going to Washington in order to investigate
the assassination and I said I had not, thinking this was the
truth.)
Another speculation of Barbara's at that time concerned an
airliner loaded with Dallas municipal officials which crashed
in the lake near New Orleans around the time of the assassination;
she believed the plane had been sabotaged as part of the JFK murder
conspiracy.
After I got to Arlington I wrote Barbara a letter in which I
told her of the rumor which was going around Washington at that
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time that Jimmy Hoffa was behind the assassination. This was
something I passed on and forgot about without giving it much
thought at all -- and, again, in 1968, Garrison asked me if I
had ever told anyone that Jimmy Hoffa was behind the assassination
and, not recalling this letter, I told him I had not.
I also stopped by for a visit with Barbara in 1964. All I
remember about this visit is that she repeated the assertion that
she would swear to her dying day that she had seen- me with Oswald
in the Bourbon House, and she gave me a copy of Huxley's The
Doors of Perception, which she inscribed "with love -- and defiance!"
This brings me back to the 1965 confrontation. As I arrived
at Barbara's some people were delivering or picking up some films --
in large movie film cans or boxes and Barbara was either very
busy or on her way out, so I didn't stay very long. Again she
said she would swear until her dying day that she had seen me with
Oswald that September day in the Bourbon House, and she also added
her opinion that the death of former mayor Morrison of New Orleans
in a plane crash was connected with the assassination conspiracy.
It is worth noting that Barbara's husband, Bill Edmundson, worked
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in the pharmacy of the drug store at the corner of Canal and Camp
which was next door to Guy Bannister's office. Barbara was to tell
Greg Hill, in 1965 or so, of her "Mafia boyfriend" and by 1968 she
had acquired a reputation around the Quarter as a heroin pusher.
Barbara has also been active in the Discordian Society and claims
she is, in fact, the Goddess Eris Herself.
I have never known quite what to make of Barbara, and my
speculation that she may have been wittingly involved could very
easily be entirely wrong -- but someone should certainly question
her concerning Kirstein and her alleged Mafia contacts. If she
was not wittingly a party to the assassination she has perhaps
somehow been used by the assassins over the years and she
could in that case provide some valuable information,
It was largely on the basis of Barbara's suspicions about me
that I began darkly joking about my "role in the assassination"
in 1964.
David Lifton's visit deprived me of my sense of humor in this
area for a couple: of years.
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