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Joyce introduced me to her professor, saying that she had told
him about my book and he was interested in meeting me. At that time
I knew him only as Hartin. (It was in 1968 that a member of Jim
Garrison's staff told me his full name. ) Hartin, to the best of my
memory, had brown hair and a pock-marked face. We spent part of an
evening -- Martin, Joyce, and Jessica and I -- sitting in the
Bourbon House in the French Quarter talking, about writing in gen-
eral and The Idle Warriors in particular.
At some point shortly thereafter, Martin arranged to meet me in
the Bourbon House again. This time he was with a friend of his,
Guy Bannister, who was introduced to me as a man witk a great in-
perant in literature. Again we discussed my novel, ! The only detail
from this discussion I remember was that Bannister was very favorably
impressed when I told him my writing was influenced in part by
Sherwood Anderson.
One more time after that I met with Martin in the Bourbon House.
This time, for the first time in our conversations, I had some of
the chapters from The Idle Warriors with me for Hartin to read.
Those present this time were Hartin, Jessica, and me. Martin read
one of the chapters ("One Windy Night") and became very upset to find
that it had a "political message" in it. He became even more upset
>when I explained to him the over-all message of the entire book. He
Ésaid that people should not clutter up literature with their
"half-baked political ideas." He was quite emphatic and even emotional
on this score, as if the way I was writing my book was really a
personal affront to him of some sort.
I chanced to see Martin in the Bourbon House -- which 'was then
five
kind of a central clearing house for Brench Quarter life --
enough
a couple of times after that, but we never sat together and talked
again.
I'm not sure of the significance of the above information, except
that IE indicates that (Guy Bannister was interested enough in my book
on (Uswald toospend awhile discussing It with me and that, therefore,
by the autumn of 1961 the CIA knew I was writing a book on Lee Uswatd
(who was still in Russia) if they did not know sooner.
Someone who will remember Joyce and Martin is Victor Charles
Latham who was a close friend of mine in New Orleans and who was
still living in the New Orleans area in 1968.
a
In December of 1961 (on information weekend of that month) Gary
took Jessica and Slim and my riding in a black car. I've never
paid much attention to cars and did not notice the make, but it
was an expensive automobile and I believe the windows rolled up and
down when the driver pushed a button.
I believe on Saturday the four of us went for a ride in the
country and may have stopped somewhere and had a picnic under a
tree (possibly even the same tree that figured in the abortion
pill episode). And I believe it was on Sunday that Gary and Slim
and I went out to Gary's house, and I think this was my first visit
there since it had been completed by the builders.
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