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    "ocrText": "After we got to Perinsylvania, we were watching the news one night\nwith Cara's family and it was announced that Garrison believed that\nFidel Castro had sent \"nine assassination teams\" into the U.S. to\nkill JFK. This was a false leak, but I did not learn that until *\nmany months afterwards. My immediate reaction was to conclude that\nGarrison thought the American people were stupid, if he expected\nthem to buy that one, and to decide that his investigation was not\ngoing to be much of a threat to me after all.\nI want to pause now and insert some corrections and additions\nto my earlier material.\nThe date at this writing is 1 February 1976. I have been work-\ning on this affidavit draft for about three months. During that\ntime I have uncovered some additional memories, etc.\nOn 8 January 1976 I wrote an \"Introductory Note to Affidavit\"\nwhich I would like to have considered as part of the document.\nIn reference to the first page, I am no longer\na\nstudent\nassistant at Georgia State; I am now earning my living primarily\nas an artists model.\nRegarding page 6 : I am not sure that the \"where Have All the\nFlowers Gone\" incident was an early memory: whenever it took place,\nthat particular song was probably among the top ten or so in the\nnation. It also seems to me that we may have returned to that\nsame drug store again that evening and that, once more, Gary might\nhave excused himself to go on a \"little errand.' This could have\nbeen the same day as the abortion-pill incident or it could even\nhave been the day talked about asrassinating Kennedy. One\npossibility is that Gary borrowed a small tape recorder from Guy\nBannister, taped our discussions of the day, and then returned it\nto him that evening. I am very unsure of this business of the two\nvisits, but it seems to ring a bell.\nRegarding page 11 and also page 13: I now believe that the\ndiscussion regarding killing President Kennedy took place two\nweeks previous to the assassination, and that it was indeed\n\"sanitized\" by Slim who, a few days afterd it happened, told\nme in good-natured anger, that the discussion had been the result\nof a bet, and that I had cost him ten dollars because he had bet\nGary that I would not want to kill JFK. I am far from absolutely\ncertain of this. I seem to have some memories of exchanging the\nrelevant words with Slim, but I have no visual imagery to go with\nthem. It seems to me that immediately after the assassination,\nwhich is to say anywhere between a few hours and a day, I ran into\nSlim and commented that it was certainly a weird co-incidence that\nGary and I had been discussing killing JFK just three weeks ago,\nand I seem to recall Slim correcting me and saying it was two weeks\nago. Again, this material is extremely vague in my mind, but it\nkeeps nagging me as a distinct possibility, so I thought I had\nbetter include it. Over the past few weeks it has seemed increasingly\nmore possible, but my feclings of certainty on this score did not\nmake themselves felt until I woke up one morning after a full night's\nworth of dreams about Gary and Slim, so on an intellectual level I\ntend to distrust my subjective feelings of certainty.\n*Or so Garrison claimed; I believe that in 1968 Billings\ntold me it was actually one of Garrison's early notions."
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