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part my '62 his.
Meanwhile, the focus of my own attention was in areas that had
progressively less and less to do with Slim and nothing to do with
Gary
Quite awhile before going to kvork for the American Photocopy
Equipment Company I had shaved off my beard.
a Hey!
Towards the end of 1961 I moved from one place on Napoleon
Avenue to another one, jus down the strect.
Dent he
On 20 January of 1962 I yas laid off the job at American already in the
Photocopy. In the that followed I had mother difficult Quarter?
period economically, I took a job# that didn' t work
out. I took temporary work. And finally I got a job as a shoe
Keep
salesman at Marks-Isaacs - Department Store for the VHOL Shoe
in
Company.
This job I kept until whenever it was that Lee Osura returned
mind.
to the U.S. from the U.S.S.R.
During the time I was working at larks-Isaacs, or shortly before,
I moved from the rooming house on Napoleon Avenue to a place on
Barracks Street in the French Quarter.
Sometime in the early spring of 1962 Jessica and I broke up for
all practical purposes, though we dated from time to time afterwards
Where
and tried to get it back together. (I think David Ferrie's party
was one of these occasions.)
in the
In the autumn of 1962 -- after another spate of temporary jobs
Quarter ?
and (mi-starvation
I got a jab afa busboy and as a waiter Burnance
at the Sheratarcharles llotels ( we componed this
Stude ?
At about the same time I found a small room for $20 a month at
the corner of Royal and Dumaine in the Quarter.
(ouch!)
I _cannot ascertain exactly when it was that Gary and I discussed
assassinating President John F. Kennedy, but it must have been at
Teart several months after the weckend of riding in Carlos Marcello's
car, and would have had to have been before I left town for a visit
)
to California in early May of 1963. *
*
I would guess that it was either late in 1962 or early in 1963. (O.K.
Anyhow, one day Slim said to me, "Let's go spend some time with
and
brother-in-law Sunday.' " Possibly "Saturday. 11
some
I agreed, and Slim and Gary and I wound up together out at Gary's
moral
house the neet weekend.
At same point dusing the conversation, Gary said, how would
you to about assassinating Kenacyy!" concidence nassa stochool)
I immediately obliged him with a very gory murder survestion.
Gary did not accept or reject or comment upon this idea, but simply
gave Slim an extremely pleased, significant look.
The suggestion I had made was one someone had made to me at some
earlier time. I speculate that it could have been made by someone
working for Gary -- an anti-Castro soldier of fortune passing through
the Bourbon llouse, for example -- but I am not sure where I heard it.
I am now pretty sure that Gary was taping this session and that its
main purpose was to set me up for future incrimination, should that
become necessary.
The conversation went on along the same pattern, of Gary asking me
for assassination ideas and me supplying then, for a short while,
until I ran out of ideas. When that happened, Gary quiped in his
typically cheerful manner: "And next weill get Martin Luther King."
* I virorously opposed the idea of killing King.
** Incorrect see footnote on page 13.
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