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money, but that it had to do with some sort of financial
transaction and involved MR. SHAW.
After being questioned at Gulfport Hospital by
Secret Service agents, one of the agents returned from
Washington, D. C., and told BROSHEARS, "You'll get a com-
pensation pension. You will have to report to us every time
you move from one city to another. If you do not do these
things, you will be put in a federal jail mental institution.
If you do cooperate, you will receive your compensation pension
regularly. At that time the agents gave him $1700 (BROSHEARS
believes it was either $1300 or $1700) as "back compensation",
BROSHEARS was told by the agents never to return to New Orleans)
but to go back to his home.
BROSHEARS was given a ticket by the agents to take
a Southern Airlines flight from New Orleans to St. Louis to
go to his counsin's farm in St. Louis and remain there. He
was told to stay out of New Orleans.
BROSHEARS said that he wanted to talk with DR. STONE
in Cincinnatti. He said that he purchased a Chevrolet and
did visit his counsin in Cotaville. He said tha t he crossed
a bridge at New Harmony and the Indiana State Police at that
border stopped him. He was questioned by the police and then
taken to a small cafe which BROSHEARS called a "truck.stop"
At that cafe an agent of the Secret Service was waiting. Mr.
BROSHEARS could not remember whether this was RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD
or agent SHERWOOD. This was in May of 1966.
The Secret Service agent asked BROSHEARS, at the cafe,
where he was going. BROSHEARS told him he was going to see DR.
STONE in Cincinnatti. The agent told him that he had no need
to see anybody and should return immediately to his counsin's
farm. The agent did ask him, however, if he was going to see
DAVID FERRIE in New Orleans, and BROSHEARS denied that.
BROSHEARS then went to theSecretService office in
St. Louis and said that he was going to leave this part of the
country and go to California. He told the agents there that
he was. going to San Francisco. They said that would be all
right, and that he should report to a MR. NEWMAN at the Secret
Service Bureau in San Francisco.
Once in San Francisco, BROSHEARS said that he didn't
report to anyone, but took an apartment in a suburb.\ The agents
found. him onelweek later at 347 Eddy Street. NEWMAN and another
agent *called HAMMOND told him that he had violated his instructions
and that he was going to be put in a hospital if he ever did
that again. They also told him to call the federal building
twice a week. BROSHEARS followed their instructions.
In explanation of BROSHEARS' background, he told us
the following story.
BROSHEARS said that he had been living in 1964 in
Bellville, East St. Louis. HOMER RANDOLF, head of the Congress
of Racial Equality there, was REV. BROSHEARS' superior in Civil
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