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ARCACHA, SERGIO JW. JAMES L. ALCOCK, CORDON NOVEL, and one SERGIO ARCACHA SMITH, each, between the first day of August, 1961, and the /xxxxx thirty-first August sixty-one did wilfully and unlawfully conspire with DAVID W. FERRIE, herein named but not charged and others, not herein named, to commit simple burglary of a munitions bunker located in Houma, Leuisiana, in order to obtain explosives and other forms of munitions, belonging to SCHLUMBERGER WELL SERVICES, a corporation authorized to do business in the State of Leuisiana, MEMORANDUM 14 February 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH INVESTIGATOR SUBJ: SERGIO ARCACHA - CURRENT RESIDENCE In my report of 6 February 1967, I noted that the former neigh- bors of SERGIO ARCACHA at 10746 LAKE GARDENS, DALLAS, TEXAS, were very reluctant and curious as to why I wanted to locate him. It was only after convincing reasons that MRS. ROBERT (BARBARA) YOUNG gave me his new address. MRS. CRAWFORD was equally curious. Both gave the impression they were protecting him. It is my opinion that one or both of these women have since told ARCACHA of my visit. Recalling his obvious intensive interest in LOISEL and me near his residence, 9915 DONEGAL DRIVE, DALLAS, TEXAS, coupled with the subsequent news from his former neighbors, ARCACHA may well be aware he has been located and is the subject of an investi- gation. He might regard us as some of the revolutionariesswho have good reason to look for him regarding funds he form ly handled in New Orleans. Or, he might have more accurately identified us as investigators. Therefore, I am offering the suggestion that some method of keeping tab on ARCACHA be instituted. Should he move again, I would expect him to be even more difficult to locate. William WILLIAM H. GURVICH WHG:wg MEMORANDUM 14 February 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH INVESTIGATOR SUBJ: SERGIO ARCACHA - PERSONAL AUTOMOBILES Your attention is invited to my report of 6 February 1967. The following information is relative to the two automobiles seen and photographed in the drive at ARCACHA'S residence, 9915 DONEGAL DRIVE, DALLAS, TEXAS. TEXAS (1966) KXZ 108 1962 Ford (Thunderbird), Motor No. 2Y83Z103747 Purchased 1-31-66 by SERGIO ARCACHA, 10476 (10746) Lake Garden, Apt. D, Dallas, Texas, from JACK ROACH FORD, HOUSTON, TEXAS. TEXAS (1966) KXZ 314 1963 Pontiac, Motor No. 163K5941. Title issued 4-7-66 to MARISOL ARCACHA, 10476 (10746) Lake Garden, Dallas, Texas, by EVANS PONTIAC GMC COMPANY, GARLAND, TEXAS. Additional information regarding cost, trade-in, method of pay- ment, is being sought. William 10. Sunich WILLIAM H. GURVICH WHG:wg UNIT STATES DEPARTMENT Commission No. 551 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE: Copy for Report oh SA ROBERT A. MOFFATT Officer NEW HAVEN Dollar March 10, 1964 Firld Office File Now 105-71 Bureau File Now 100-32965 Title GEORGE DeMOHRENSCHILDT; JEANNE DeMOHRENSCHILDT Character INTERNAL SECURITY - R DIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT, born 3/29/02 in Russia, attended school Petrograd, Russia, served with Russian Imperial Black Sea Fleet 1516, took part in White Counter Revolutionary Movement in Russia 1918, imprisoned, flod Russia 1919, attended Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1922-1926 receiving Ph.B, received MA degree 1930. Background data from Tale Alumni records also set forth. Subject and relatives unknown to confidential informants having some knowledge of Communist Party activities in New Haven area. RUC DETAILS: RE: DIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT On March 5, 1964, Mrs. OLIVIA ROSS, Administrative RESISTRAT, Yale University Alumni Records, 100 Wall Street, New Envon, Connecticut, made available if biographic data sheet dated October 5, 1922 concerning DIMITRI SERGIUS It indicated that be WAS born March 29, 1902 at Minsk, Russia to SERGIUS ALEXANDER VonMOHRENSCHILET and ALEXANDRA UMY-RUKKO-ZAPOLSKAJA, who died in June, 1922. He had one brother, name not indicated. Aa of 1922 his home address was listed AG 1324 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City, The morement exither - labour not expirations of the Fill, D 4 the property of the you and is leased to your 11 and the contents ATE not 3 In INVOICE - NH 105-71 In 1925, he furnished information which indicated that he Attended Russian intermediate schools at Minsk and Petrograd, two years at Imperial Naval Academy, Petrograd. He stated that he participated in operations of the Russian Imperial Black Sea Fleet in the Summer of 1916, He also stated that be took part in the White Counter Revolubtionary Movement in Russia in 1918. As & result of this action he was arrested and kept at the Smolensk Eard Inker Prison until the Spring of 1919. Re indicated that he fled Russia in 1919; resided at Warsay, Poland and London, England during 1919-1920; in New York until the 7:12 of 1920; took & round the world cruise during 1920-1922; entered Yale in the Fall of 1922. While at Yale, he received a special full tuition scholarship, He received A Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1926. Also contained in his Alumni Record folder WAS a clipping from the "New Enven Register," a local daily newspaper dated MATCH 28, 1926, which contained the caption, "Nobelman of Russia is Now Tale Student." The article relates that DINITRI SERGIUS Von- MOHRENSCHILDT WAS born in Petrograd, Russia, attended>school there and had just entered the University of Petrograd when var brake out. He joined the Imperial Navy. For two years be served 16 : nid-shipman with the Imperial Black Sea Fleet. He later VAA imprisoned, reportedly spending one year in jail. His whole family was imprisoned. He later escaped to Poland, where the other members of his family are now reportedly residing (1926). Sis father, SERGIUS ALEXANDER VonMOHRENSCHILDT was = Marshal of Nobility, 2. Governor of a Province, R prominent land owner, : nobelman of the Enpire. He graduated from the University of Potrograd in 1885 and went to Minsk AS Governor of the Province for the Cztr. Altho contained in his Alumni folder is the following data relating to his actvities after completion of his undergraduate studies: During the period September, 1927 through June, 1930, he took COUTROL in the graduate school at Yale University rectiving an HA cagree in June, 2960. 2, NH 105-71 During the period 1926-1927, he was employed by Johnson and Higgins, 87 Wall Street, New York City, as an Assistant Adjuster of Marina Insurance. From September, 1928, to 1931 he was employed as = Haster at The Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut. During the period 1931 to 1935 he indicated that he was doing research and journalistic work in New Haven and New York City. During 1934 be indicated that he worked part-time for the Institute of Relations, Yale University as an Investigator. Prom 1935 to 1936 be indicated that he was an Assistant Supervisor with the Connecticut Rehabilitation Project of the Instituto of Himan Relations. Since 1941 he has been the Managing Editor of "The Russia Review, 215 West 23rd Street, New York City. From March, 1942 until September, 1942, he indicates that be was a foreign language examiner with the Bureau of Consorship, New York City, Since September, 1942 he has been associated with Dartmouth Colluge, Ennover, New Hampshire. As of May 10, 1949, he lists bimmelf 42 6, Director of Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., New York City. As of April 23, 1950 he indicated that he also was associated with Modern Language Association, Foreign Policy Association 556 Histordcal Association. In 1936 he published "Russia in the Intellectual Life of Century France. " On January 18, 1837 he married Mrs. WINIFRED CARTERIGHT FOLMAN AT New York City, she having been previously divorced it Occuber, 1935 at Reno, Nevada. They resided at 950 Park Avenue, Now Tark City. They were divorced in 1946. His folder contains copies of letters which indicated that LE of June 15, 1942, he changed his name from VonMOHRENSCHILET to CE- MCHRENSCHILDT and :8 of January 27, 1944 he again changed 1.1s name from EBMOHRENSCHILDT to VonMOHRENSCHILDT. On both occasions to advised Tale that the change WAS not by at court order. On March 6, 1964, Miss KATHERINE E. J. HAUSCHILD, Executive Secretary to Dean, Yale College, Yale University, advince DINITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT attended Yale College, 20002 is Bachelor of Philosophy degree at commencement exercises 12 1983. NH 105-71 She stated that the only record she possesses of his attendance was a transcript of his marks. She could not advise as to whether he received a scholarship or not, nor could she advise as to the facts concerning his receipt of one as WAS reflected in his Alumni Record. She noted that the Dean's records only go back to 1947 and, therefore, could locate no record that would furnish additional information regarding the financial arrangements dealing With his attendance at Yale. Oz March 2, 1964, Mrs. RUTH HILL, Administrative Assistant to Assistant Dean, Hall of Graduate Studies, Vale University, advised that DIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILET attended The Graduate School at Yale during the period September, 1527 through June, 1930 at which time he received a Master of Arto degree. His field of specialization was in the Romance languages and, in particular, French study of literature. Her records contain DO information as to whether besattender Yale on a scholarship 02 how his tuition was paid for, During March, 1964, confidential informants who are acquirimed with some phases of Communist Party activities in the Nom Haven area advised that captions di individual and his relatives DEO to them. 4.4 E.M NY 100-10310 Army each summer. (GEORGE denied ever having stated that he was a foreign correspondent during the Spanish Revolution, but stated that he had submitted some articles on the effects of the Revolution from Italy, but had not at any time actually been assigned to nor had he covered any phase of the Revolution itself.) GEORGE stated that on withdrawing from the business, he had decided to come to the United States for the following reasons: to seek employment as a newspaper reporter, to visit his brother, DIMITRI, to meet his other American relatives, to observe Democracy at work since he was interested in Democracy. GEORGE stated that he had sailed from Le Havre, France, on the "SS Manhattan" under a Belgian quota number and had arrived at New York City on May 13, 1938. On arriving he had lived for a while with his brother, DIMITRI, at 950 Park Avenue, and during this approximate one to two month visit he visited English classes at the University of Columbia in order to improve his speech. (He stated that he could read and write Russian, Polish, French, Spanish, German, and English.) GEORGE continued that he had been dissuaded from employment as a newspaper reporter by reporters he had met from the "New York Times", who told him of the arduous work and also of the difficulty of getting printed anything that they really wanted to write, and further, they persuaded him that his accent would be a detriment to such work. Shortly thereafter, GEORGE stated, that through his brother, DIMITRI, he met MARGARET WILLIAMS from New Orleans, Louisiana, and he was invited to visit them during the summer of 1939 to observe the oil business since the WILLIAMS family was engaged in this business. This invitation was accepted, according to GEORGE, and the visit made, and, after visiting in New Orleans for a while, he continued on to Houston, Texas, where he had met Mr. BLAFFER, President of the Humble 011 Company, through a letter from his father to BLAFFER. Through Vice-President JOHN SUMAN he was started into the business as a "roughneck", and later as a "rig-man", up until November, 1939, when he sustained a severe cut on his right arm. This, in addition to his weakened condition from amoebic dysentery, caused his return to New York City in December of 1939. 56 1 1 4406 Holland Dallas, Texas 75219 September 26, 1977 Mr. Jim Garrison 710 Carondelet New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Dear Jim: It was so good to hear from you Saturday, and to know that you are still interested in the assassination. I guess one never completely gets over the interest once it has "bitten" you. Some of my documents are on microfilm (about 18 rolls that I need to have printed out). I am sending CD 551 and one page from CD 533. Before Buck and I visit New Orleans, which I hope will be soon, I will try to have the microfilm printed out. The following is a short chronology which points out the proximity of these players. I know that somewhere in my files I have a detailed account which brings out even more. 1935 - Clay Shaw goes to New York City. He takes course at Columbia and becomes supervisor for Western Union in mid-town Manhattan. The Kennedy Conspiracy, Flamonde, p. 71 New Orleans Times Picayune, Feb. 28, 1969 1936 - Dimitri von Mohrenschildt gets a Ph.D. at Columbia. CD 538, p. 2 Clay Shaw did free-lancing in publicity and advertising and then worked for Lee-Keedick Lecture Bureau; was in New York City until 1942. The Kennedy Conspiracy, p. 72 May 29, 1936 - Deimitri von Mohrenschildt obtains his first American passport, #296641. Residence at that time, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. May to July 1938 - George deMohrenschildt attends English classes at Columbia University for one or two months. CD 533, p. 56 I hope this little bit will help you until I can dig out my other documents and chronologies Best regards, how 7 DISTRICT ATTORNEY STATE OF PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA GITY NEW 2700 TULANE AVENUE / NEW ORLEANS 70119 JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY August 31, 1967 Re: SHAW Ra: SHAW (as BERTRAND Mr. Edward Girnus No. 90428 United States Penitentiary Atlanta, Georgia Dear Mr. Girnus: This office is writing you in regard to confidential information that was received which revealed that you may be in possession of certain facts concerning the investigation being conducted by this office into the conspiracy to assassinate the late President John F. Kennedy. Since we are not in receipt of any voluntary information from you, we are soliciting your cooperation in this matter mainly to determine if this confidential information is true and correct and, if so, to gain your complete confidence in assisting this office. The main points of this confidential information stated that you have knowledge about Clay Shaw as Clay Bertrand and also Lambert. It further relates to a Sanchez Diaz. We feel that if these facts are true, you could greatly assist this office. Your prompt reply in this matter will be appreciated. If you are able to make a long distance phone call, we may be able to clear up the matter much faster. If so, call Area Code 504 - 822-0584 collect. Very truly yours, c. J. NAVARRE Investigator District Attorney's Office CJN/bb Box F.C. B 90428 Sept. 7,1967 C. I. navarre 2700 Julane are. Ro: SHAW n.o. L. a. 70119 CENSOR R: SHAW (ar" 'BERTRANN") 29 Dear Sir: your letter arrived yesterday, however I could not telephone you ad they do not allow it here. I don't know what information you possess or how you acquired it, but I can say this: yes I knew both of them under various nom de plumes and at various places such as Harnmond, Lake Charles, Oah Cliff and Mexico, however I do not care to discuss it then the mails If you should be is atlanta in the future and would come out here I would talk to you. I remain, Suiverely Edward J.Liruus 90428 Box P. M.B. attanta, Da. 30315 T MEMORANDUM Re: SHAW (+ Canada) SHAW (gennal file) SHAW (+ FERRIE October 9, 1968 SHAW (+ Rula) TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A. RE: CLAY SHAW During my recent interview with MR. JAMES J. PLAINE of Houston, Texas, MR. PLAINE informed me that he had been contacted by a MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur in regards to a possible assassination plan for Fidel Castro. MR. PLAINE said that MR. WHITE was only one of the many oil and import people that he had occasion to talk to from New Orleans regarding Castro. MR. PLAINE also informed me that he thought that the picture of CLAY SHAW was very familiar, and that he may have met him in Houston, either at his apartment or at the Normandy Club which the oil people of Texas frequent. A memo in the GUY BANISTER file indicates that there is information which reports that DICK WHITE, a high official of Freeport Sulphur, and CLAY SHAW wer e flown to Cuba probably taking off from the Harvey Canal area in a Freeport Sulphur plane piloted by DAVE FERRIE. The purpose of this trip was to set up import of Cuba's nickle ore to a Canadian front Corporation which would in turn shipt to the Braithwaite nickle plant. The plant was built by the U. S. Government at a cost of about one million dollars. The report is that the combine of Freeport Sulphur, WHITE, and SHAW purchased the plant for a million dollars and intended to get ore through & Canadian corporation they had formed. There is also a report that GUY BANISTER hired FERRIE and JACK MARTIN as investigators to check out the nickle plant deal. MEMORANDUM October 23, 1968 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A. RE: SHAW FERRIE & WHITE (Freeport Sulphur) I contacted Mr. PLAINE by telephone in regard to MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur and DAVID FERRIE. PLAINE told me that he distinctly remembers either SHAW or FERRIE talking about some nickel mines which were located on the Western tip of Cuba. He says he does not remember exactly the gist of the conversation, but he distinctly remembers that it was regarding these nickel mines. He said he cannot positively say that FERRIE knew WHITE or vice versa, but he somehow feels that they must have known each other. Alcock and I will call in MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur and ask him about our previous memorandum from KIMBALL which mentions SHAW, FERRIE and WHITE being together. Ro: SHAW (or CIA) SHAW (geard) Statement by JUSTICY a Department Spokesman SHAW (ssociation)V Mr. Edward F. Wegmann, a lawyer in New Orleans, wrote the Department of Justice on May 24, 1967, requesting a public clarification of news stories concerning his client, Mr. Clay Shaw. He referred to an impromptu press interview of the Attorney General on March 2, 1967. This statement is in response to Mr. Wegmann's request. The FBI investigation in New Orleans following the assassination of President Kennedy covered allegations by Dean A. Andrews, Jr. which included a reference to "Clay Bertrand." "Clay Bertrand" was not identified as a real person. No evidence was found that-Clay Shaw was ever-called "Clay Bertrand." The Attorney General's comment on March 2 that Mr. Shaw was involved in the investigation was based on a briefing that morning. The Attorney General has since determined that this was erroneous. Nothing arose indicating B. need to investigate Mr. Shaw. As the Attorney General stated in the interview, no connection between Mr. Shaw and the assassination was found in the thorough investigation by the FBI. The Department of Justice is convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald alone assassinated President Kennedy. XERO XERO COPY YERO Press intervisw with Ramsey Clark March 2, 1967. Question: General Clark, you said two days ago after your nomination was announced that you would hope that District Attorney Garrison would turn over any information he has from his New Orleans probe. Has he turned over any information on the arrest of this latest gentleman? Answer: No, he has not. We haven't heard from District Attorney Garrison and I feel that, as I said the other day, if he really has any information or evidence he has an obligation to bring it to the Federal authorities who have been involved in the overall investigation. He has not at this date. I remain doubtful that he has anything. Question: Has the Justice Department made any attempt to contact District Attorney Garrison about this? Answer: No have not made any contact in view of his state- the last week or 50. Question: Mr Clark, do you have information yourself about Clay Shaw? Answer: He was involved in an FBI investigation in the New Origans area 12 Noysmbar-Uecembsr 1963. No have the evidence that's there involved and you can assume what the conclusions were from the Warren Commission report. Question: He was not mentioned in the Warren Commission report, was he? Answer: Ha was not. Question: So, you don't believe he did have any connection with the Answer: On the evidence that the FBI had there YES no connection found. Question: You TAY that he was checked out and found clear, more OI 10082 Answer: That's right, That's true. 100 on XERO COPY COPY credit Ro: SHAW It FERRIE CONTACT) + 1977 Open Leade fite Route 1, Box 275 Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 January 28, 1967 Tom Bethell District Attorney's Office 2700 Tulane Ave New Orleans, La. 70119 Dear Mr. Bethell: For what it is worth I am passing on a bit of repar ting from a friend and admirer of Jim Garrison that I heard tonight. My friend is acquainted with a man, whose name I will not include here, who told my friend that his mother in Nee Orleans had been housekeeper to Clay Shaw. This Vinginia Jones lady is reported as terrified about the hazard to her from what she knows. This includes knowing of Ferrie's association with Shaw, knowledge of the sadistic stuff (whips, etc) in the closet, and the mysterious death or killing of somebody in the house, whether an associate or not is not known. There had been no police investigation, but a coroner had come and picked up the body. Two men lived in the house of which the lady was housekeeper. My friend is not sure of all the details, but this is the general picture be got. My friend is a businessman whose motives are saund. He saw no reason to discount this report, but cannot vouch for it beyond what he told me. I was particulary pleased to read of Garrison's evidence that Lee Oswald had informed the FBI of the assassination plot. I have had an increasingly strong conviction that this must have taken place from my reading of Oswald's character. I do doubt that it was Lee Oswald that was Ruby's bedmate. That sounds to me more like the Leon Oswald who was an assassin. With best wishes for your work, Sincerely (riscom margon Griscom Morgan 9/1/77 NOTE: LONG SHOT, BUT STRONG IF IT COMES THRU. MORGAN SHOULD BE CONTACTED 50 THAT THE LEAD CAN BE FOLLOWED UP. Jt P.S. The writer of this letter took the trouble -, be ture we'd get it. Doesn't some like a crackpot to get Penn Jones to pass it ron to us to letter. Sept from OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY STATE OF LOUISIANA Rs: DAVID FERRIS PARISH OF ORLEANS CLAY SHAW fil) "JACK HELMS" October 10, 1967 WALTER SHERIDAN (+Townly) CUBANS STATEMENT OF: JULES RICCO KIMBLE, w/m 24 RESIDING AT: 4839 Babylon Street New Orleans, Louisiana STATEMENT I met DAVID FERRIE in early 1960 in a barroom named The Golden Ferris: Lantern in the French Quarter. I would see DAVE from time to time in the same bar and I flew with him in his airplane on several occasions. One night while drinking in the Golden Lantern, DAVE introduced me to CLAY SHAW. I was with CLAY SHAW and DAVE for several hours that night which was in Late 1960 or early 1961. From that time on I use to see CLAY SHAW on different occasions, you know drinking and so forth. One day in late '61 or early '62 I received a phone call 5 2005 from DAVE and he asked me if I would like to take an overnight plane trip with him. I said, all right, and then met FERRIE at the airport Farri: at which time I found out that CLAY SHAW was coming with us. At this time I also found out that we were going to Canada to pick some- one up. No other explanation was given. While on the trip, CLAY SHAW sat in the back of the airplane reading books and slept. SHAW also had a brown brief case with him. On the flight we stopped at different places to gas up and stretch our legs. We stopped in Nashville, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Toranado, Canada. Canada Our final stop was in Montreal, Canada. FERRIE and myself stayed (Montral) in a hotel overnight. I believe it might have been the Hilton Air or something like that. The hotel was located in Dovral which was right outside of Montreal. CLAY SHAW disappeared after we landed and I did not see him until the next morning which was about 8 o'clock when we were ready to leave and come back to New Orleans. When SHAW arrived at the plane, he had this Mexican or Cuban with him. This Cuban: guy was kind of heavy set, dark complexion, balding in the front, in his early 30's or middle 30's. He sat in the back of the airplane with SHAW and spoke only to SHAW in broken English. The airplane that we used was a Cessna 172 which I believed belonged to a friend of FERRIE's. We bought our gas with a Gulf credit card which FERRIE had. When we got back to the Lakefront Airport, I got into my auto- mobile and FERRIE and SHAW and the other guy got into another auto- mobile and left. About a month or two later I got another phone call from FERRIE asking me if I wanted to make the return trip withhim to Canada, but I told him no. I have seen SHAW on different occasions in barrooms and at the International Trade Mart up until the time that the District Attorney's Show: office started their investigation. I have heard other people intro- duce CLAY SHAW as CLAY BERTRAND, but he has never been introduced to -2- me as CLAY BERTRAND. I would also like to state that about two or three weeks after DAVE FERRIE died I got a phone call from JACK HELMS who was formerly with the Federal Government and later connected with the Klu Klux "Dack Klan asking me if I would take a ride with him by FERRIE's house to Hallons" pick up some papers. I said, yes, and a short while later he picked me up at my house in a 1966 white chevrolet. We drove to FERRIE's house and parked a little way down the block. JACK got out of the Farm's automobile with a flashlight and it appeared that he went around the papers back of the house or into the back yard. A short while later he came back with a black briefcase and got into the automobile at which time we drove off. Later I believe that the contents of this briefcase were put into a safety deposit box in the Bank of Louisiana. Later I believe that these papers were removed from the Bank of Louisiana and put into a big black box in St. Bernard Parish which belonged to the Klan. The fellow who kept this box is called oTTo. I do not know him by any other name. I believe that these papers were then removed from this black box, but I don't know where they were removed to. I did manage to get some papers from this black box, but they pertained to the Klan, and I turned these papers to CLEMENT HOOD, an FBI Agent I was working for. I also had contact with CIA Agents. Their names being STEINMEYER, who has since been transferred to Texas, and NAT BROWN who is still in New Orleans and another guy by the name of RED, last name unknown. I used to have meetings with the Agents in different motel rooms where I would give them reports, pictures, recordings, etc., and would also receive my pay check or cash which I would sign a voucher for and would also receive further instructions. They would mail different things to me at my post office box number which is 701-30252, Lafayette Street Branch. Several months ago RICK TOWNLEY with WDSU called me and told me that he had information that I had tape recordings that someone wanted to buy from me. I asked him how he had found out that I had them and he said that didn't matter. He asked me if I would meet him some place and I told him yes, to come over to my house. He said, no, he wouldn't do that, that it would have to be some public place. So I met him in the Kopper Kitchen on Tulane Avenue. After we talked for Shindan a while I went home and put on a suit and we went down to WDSU. When (and we got to WDSU, TOWNLEY called WALTER SHERIDAN in New York and I sat Truely): there while TOWNLEY talked to SHERIDAN. After TOWNLEY hund up he said that SHERIDAN would be in town the following morning. TOWNLEY asked me what I wanted for the tapes that I had, and I told him $500. The next morning they gave me the $500 for the tapes and asked me if I would do a film for WDSU consisting of what I know about the Cubans, FERRIE, SHAW, etc. The tape that I sold them contained some informa- tion about the Klan and other information about the papers that were picked up at FERRIE's house. WALTER SHERIDAN is the one who gave me the $500 for the tapes. This $500 was in a sealed envelope and was all one hundred dollar bills. This was given to me in an office in in WDSU which was located by their newsroom. We then went upstairs and they locked the doors and placed a guard on the door and started asking questions and taking pictures of me. I even remember that there was a man from Sweden who was talking to the cameramen and they asked him to leave. They asked me questions such as, Do I know CLAY SHAW: Did I ever fly with CLAY SHAW and DAVID FERRIE: If I knew GENE DAVIS, which I told them that I knew GENE DAVIS very well because he was a personal friend of mine; If I knew GORDON NOVEL: If I ever worked for the FBI, CIA, to which questions I said, yes of which -3- questions WALTER SHERIDAN said he had already known that I would Shared say yes to. T was then told to say that I didn't know anything that would help Garrison in his investigation and this was also put on film. 1 don't remember everything that he told me to say but 1 + he did tell Be to go to Canada. He also said that he would edit and cut the films after I was gone. He also said that they would get me an attorney if I needed one. I told SHERIDAN And TOWNLEY not to re- lease this film if they were going to cut any part of it. They said that when I got to Canada they would call me and ask if it could be released. They called my wife later and asked her if she would let them release it and she also told them no. I understand that this film has been cut and released. MR. HOOD told me not to get involved with the District Attorney's Office and if the District Attorney's Office tried to subpoena me, that he would take care of it. MR. HOOD told me to give all the cooperation necessary that WALTER SHERIDAN required. SHERIDAN and TOWNLEY also told me not to talk with the District Attorney's Office' and to call them right away so they could get an attorney for me. That is about all I can remember at this time. S/Jules Ricco Kimble JULES RICCO KIMBLE 7 Rs SHAW (+PERRIE, CANADA 5 ASSOCIATIONS, atc) SHAW : (as "BERTRAND 7) SHAW'S FLIGHT TO CANADA WITH FERRIE: 4 1977 Open Leads file Day me WIGHT) The man whose name we first thought to be WHITE Saimha apparently is WIGHT, Vice President of Freeport Sulphur who reputedly made the flight. Currently an effort is being made to locate WIGHT, who now Burns Y lives in New York, by a contact of Mark Lane's. Despite the fact that the original source of this information was JULES RICCO KIMBLE a man with a brung record, this lead keeps growing stronger. From the very outset it had been reported that the flight had something to do with the import of nickle meel following the loss of the original import supply from Cuba. Recent information developed on WIGHT in a separate memo, indicates that he is now on the Board of Directors, of the Freeport Nickl Company, a subsidiary of Freeport Sulphur. (The separate file on this is a rather detailed report from Placquemine Parish and should be included in the new SHAW file. RICHARD ROLFE: Has information from a contact of his in Clinton Secamber that SHAW is much better known in Clinton than it *G would appear. He is willing to bring this witness down from Clinton and have him Nine up some new leads for us in this regard. 9) TAXI CAB DRIVER: Louis DiRose Went out of his way one night to drive by FERRIE'S house and told the passenger that he had taken SHAW to that address on many occasions. I have more details on this coming in and will dictate a separate memo for the file on this taxi cab driver. I am including it in this listing in order to insure follow-up. 10) "BERTRAND LIBRARY CARD": It will be recalled that some time ago library Alford employees while going through their records, came across a library card made out to CLEM or CLAY BERTRAND of the "International Trade Mart". We discounted this lead as being negative because the phone number turned out to have no meaning, however this lead may deserve re-examination. It is entirely possible that this library, as well as others, were used as meeting places by SHAW and other individuals. The signature appears to be in SHAW'S handwriting. Furthermore, this card was not thrust upon us but came to us through an official on the Library Board who had been informed about its discovery by a library employee. We may have here a situation parallel to that in which SHAW signed his name CLAY BERTRAND at the V.I.P. Room. In the latter instance the strong possibility exists that he was there on that occasion for an intelligence contact. I suggest that we keep our minds open to the possibility of the libraries having been used in the same way. NOTE: Wherever pre-existing memos or information can be located concerning the above leads, it is suggested that they be located and placed in our new jackets for SHAW LEADS. JIM GARRISON -4- Re: SHAW + Canada MEMORANDUM R.: SHAW + Cuba Re: SHAW-+ + FERRIE October 9, 1968 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A. RE: CLAY SHAW During my recent interview with MR. JAMES J. PLAINE of Houston, Texas, MR. PLAINE informed me that he had been contacted by a MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur in regards to a possible assassination plan for Fidel Castro. MR. PLAINE said that MR. WHITE was only one of the many oil and import people that he had occasion to talk to from New Orleans regarding Castro. MR. PLAINE also informed me that he thought that the picture of CLAY SHAW was very familiar, and that he may have met him in Houston, either at his apartment or at the Normandy Club which the oil people of Texas frequent. A memo in the GUY BANISTER file indicates that there is information which reports that DICK WHITE a high official of Freeport Sulphur, and CLAY SHAW wer e flown to Cuba probably taking off from the Harvey Canal area in a Freeport Sulphur plane piloted by DAVE FERRIE. The purpose of this trip was to set up import of Cuba's nickle ore to Canadian front corporation which would in turn ships to the Braithwaite nickle plant. The plant was built by the U. S. Government at a cost of about one million dollars. The report is that the combine of Freeport Sulphur, WHITE, and SHAW purchased the plant for a million dollars and intended to get ore through a Canadian corporation they had formed There is also a report that GUY BANISTER hired FERRIE and JACK MARTIN as investigators to check out the nickle plant deal. Ziopies 7 who want to Houston Februay/Mark are Follow us vehicle transfer records chronologistics filed ther? Here is flight plan. Check light colored station wagon bought in Houston, Re:SHAW Texas in Feb. or Mar. (Wagon was 1959 model) of 1963. Check this wagon at FERRIE Walkers on April 10th 1963 and at Garland Texas airport and on railroad OSWALD to alcock, Burnes, ZHORNLE To: archwes For new lead fries copy Scienbra Bokley, Inon 4 Novel) parking lot behind book depository. (See Hollands testimony to Commission on this wagon. YVI, P 245et sey, Holland describe muddy footprints on bumper of a station wagon laked picket feace). FEDERAL AVIATION AL FLIGh AGENCY PRIORITY INDICATOR ADDR. ORIG ESSEES AND/OR ORGINATE BLING 4-8-63 TIME N63 Type CP MESSAGE A. T PE OF FLIGHT PLAN B. RADIO IDENTIFICATION C. TYPE OF AIRCRAFT D. PROFOSED/ACTUAL TIME or DEPARTURE OFR BESSNA 37 1300 E. AERODROME OF DEPARTURE, ROUTE, . IE AIRSPEEDIS CRUSING LIVEL(S): ETE FOR POUTE SEGMENT REPORTING POINT(5), ABRODROME OF INTENDED LANDING HAMMOND lidk 7500 P.RECT GARIANO, TE/ F. ALTERNATE AERODROME G. ET to MEROGROME OF 12 H FUEL I. ANY OTHER PERTINENT (CONTROL) INFORMATION INTENDED LANDING HOURS MINUTES DALLAS 3-2) 5 30 J. TRANSMITTING PREOVENCIES K. NAVIGATION AND APPROACH L. TOTAL NUMBER MOUNS NY. NAME OF PROT IN C OMMAND N. IDENTITY OF OPERATOR ADS (USE CODE NUMBER) ABOARD (M necessary) 4 1.162215 Navigation and Approach Aids Code Numbers: T-ILS; 2-DECTRA; 3-DECCA; 4-DME; 5-VOR GEE, LORAN; 8-RADIO COMPASS Supplementary Data-Not to be transmitted COLOR OF AIRCRAFT ADDRESS CF PROT IN COMMAND OR ADACRAFT HOME BASE MISCHLANEOUS For Station Line) NOLA HIDELL RED. w LAMBER NAZ SEE REVERSE- Form FAA-398.1 (4-61) Nate passengers Q:Why is number of plane blunked out? Review LHO time schedule for april 8th. For Indicated Edo (Copy to Richard Burns MEMORANDUM for November 7, 1967 Ra: CUBANS (general) Re: Areacha p.2 Rx: BANISTER Re: CARLOT QUIROLA TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney to FBI statement FROM: TOM BETHELL Note: Apparently Newman Cuban rented 544 Camp Street to on 2 occasions: RE: Unidentified men at 544 Camp Stree (2) For an "MARCH 07 APRIL period 1963 (i) OCT '61 them FEB 162 (But beginning contradute statement to 5/5 Summary of interviews with SAM NEWMAN this he says 544 teat to Cubsum since Saylember (62) 85 1. 11/23/63 S.A. ANTHONY GERRETS S.S. CE 3119 2. 11/25/63 S.A. WALLE & FOLSE FBI Archives, CD 75 3. 11/27/63 SGT. AUSTIN & DET. FREY (N.O.P.D.) CE 1413 4. 12/2/63 S.A. RICE S.S. CE 1414 5. 1/18/67 GEORGE ECKERT (BANISTER file) 1. NEWMAN's initial interview on 11/23/63 resulted from the discovery that some of OSWALD's literature bore the address 544 Camp Street stamped on it. NEWMAN related that he had rented office space to "Cuban revolutionaries" over a period of three or four months, but that he had evicted them because they got behind on the rent. After he had evicted these revolutionaries, he discovered that "an unknown subject (white; male; 22/24; 5'9½"; 185 lbs.; fair complexion; light brown hair; spoke with Spanish accent) had moved into the space in the building vacated by the Cubans without notifying him. NEWMAN only saw him once "and had no idea as to what his name might be." NEWMAN gives no indication of the date of this encounter (either month or year). According to the same Secret Service report (CE 3119), one JAMES ARTHUS ("apparently harmless protective Research subject of file CC-2-32, 791") at 544 Camp Street who "stated that an unknown man had attempted to rent an office at 544 Camp Street, but that he discouraged him." 2. In his interview with the FBI, NEWMAN advised that he rented the office space to the Cubans "approximately 8 or 9 months ago, i.e. March or April 1963 He added that he did not recollect seeing OSWALD in or around the building, nor had he rented any office space to the FPCC, or anyone by the name of OSWALD. Someone called him, in September 1963, however, wanting to rent office space, but NEWMAN did not see this individual, as he put him in touch with the aforementioned JAMES ARTHUS the janitor. NEWMAN added that "9 or 10 months ago" (Jan. or Feb. 1963) a tall, thin man, aged about 38, with dark hair, did contact him and paid one month's rent for an office, which he was going to use to teach Spanish. This is presumably not the same man NEWMAN had mentioned two days earlier to the Secret Service, whom NEWMAN does not mention in this interview. On this statement connect 87 Dn "Prints" an 3. When interviewed by the New Orleans Police Department on November 27, 1963, NEWMAN said he had rented office space to the "Cuban Revolutionary Society" "about 15 months ago", (about August 1962), which group was run by "young Monteleone" of the Monteleone Hotel. GUY BANISTER was, according to NEWMAN, "Well acquainted with this organization.' NEWMAN then adds a similar story to his initial version to the Secret Service, recounting the intrusion of a man who evidently had a key to the office; he is described here as "white male, blond hair, and red complexion." 4. In his second interview with the Secret Service on 12/2/63, NEWMAN specifies that he rented office space to the Cuban Revolutionary Council from October 1961 through February 1962 In April 1963 he was paid $100 by CARLOS GRIMADER, accountant for the C.R.C. in partial payment of the rent. When the C.R.C. departed, they left a lot of literature in the office, which he turned over to the Salvation Army "or some such organization". About two weeks after the Cubans moved, Mr. NEWMAN relates the young man with the Spanish accent appeared. This would have been in or about March 1962, which is a time when OSWALD was in Russia. NEWMAN adds in this interview that JACK MARTIN introduced both SERGIO ARCACHA and CARLOS QUIROGA to him, and that QUIROGA "appeared to have a short wave radio transmitter. He also said at this time that no office space in 544 Camp Street has been rented since September 1962, but again mentions the incident (which he had earlier told the FBI, but not the Secret Service) of the man who paid a month in advance to teach Spanish. This was "four or five months ago", i.e., June or July 1963. 5. George Eckert's interview pertains to the subject of GUY BANISTER'S files and does not reveal any new information about people who rented from NEWMAN, except to say that NEWMAN cannot remember the names of the people who were his tenants in 1963. DISPOSITION: In my view NEWMAN should be interviewed again and asked more specifically about the two still unidentified males who attempted to rent from him. JAMES ARTHUS should be interviewed with regard to a third unidentified man who visited 544 Camp Street in September 1963, whom NEWMAN did not see. Rechard me picor to I've perman. ft OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY Re: GENTRY: (1) Fruit of SHAW'S living * STATE OF LOUISIANA 4907 Magageri from 1981 to PARISH OF ORLEANS 1964. (2) LAYTON MARTENS and 4900 bent Magazine Shut April 18, 1967 STATEMENT OF: DAVID F. GENTRY 922 Dumaine Street New Orleans, Louisiana INTERROGATED BY: OFFICERS KENT SIMMS and CLIENCY NAVARRE IN RE: DR. MARY SHERMAN and SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Dr. SHERMAN camein the shop I would say occasionally, not frequently, but I can look up on the ledger and see. She never made any extensive or large purchases. I was never in her apartment. If she ever came to the shop with anyone, it was possibly with someone who lived in the same apartment complex in which she lived. Probably the entire time she lived at 3101 St. Charles Avenue she came in the shop, and she was in the shop the late afternoon before she was murdered. I do not know any of her friends. I don't recall my first meeting with CLAY SHAW. However, it was probably in '58 or '59, The original interest in meeting was through business at the International Trade Mart and the possibility of purchasing and restoring Vieux Carre property myself. I am a designer of interiors and interior furnishings and I am also Director of the Oriental Gallery at the 20th Century Shop. One other person that I do know through the International Trade Mart and CLAY SHAW, is J. B. DAUENHAUER. But only through the Trade Mart and through CLAY do I know J. B. I moved to 4919 Magazine Street in February of 1961. I don't recall, or don't know the date that OSWALD moved into 4907 Magazine Street I never had occasion to speak to him (OSWALD) but passed him on several occasions going to Rex Laundry and Drv-cleaners. I don't recall ever seeing him untidy or with a beard. Then on December 15th of 1964, I moved back to the Quarter. The Sunday before Mardi Gras of 1965, CLAY attended a buffet party that afternoon in my apartment at 619 Gov. Nichols. After moving back to the Quarter, I did see CLAY passing on the street, or once in a while at the Coffee Shop Restaurant on St. Peter next to Pat O'Brien's. I can't recall the number of times that I have. Not that frequently. But there have been times I have been in CLAY's apartment for drinks. It was at 1313 or 1331 Dauphine, I am not sure. The first few times it was just for drinks. The gathering that would have been -1- 7 termed a party, if I recall correctly, was in October of '66 on a Sunday afternoon. As I say, there was a gentleman there that was Spanish, or Cuban, or Latin. He could even have been Mexican as far as that goes. He was about 53 years, 6'2", almost, but not as tall as CLAY. He weighed about 175 lbs, ruddy complexion, and I think he did have a mustache. If I recall correctly, he had a rather full head of hair with some grey, which he parted. I am pretty sure his hair was parted. He had no scars. He had a Spanish accent. There was also a younger person that had painted CLAY's apartment and he was to do some work for this gentleman. He was doing painting for these people and he was supposedly an artist or writer. CLAY's apartment had just been completed being painted. This young man had painted the apartment for CLAY and was to do some work for the older man. This younger person was in his early 20's. There were some 8 to 12 people at this party but I can't recall their namas, Q. Did you know any of these people personally? A. I knew several of them. Just a "Hello" acquain- tance, not personally. There were some there whose names I knew, but I can't recall. Q. Did the name SERGIO ring a bell? A. It could have been this person I am describing at this party, but I am not positive. Q. I show you a picture of SERGIO ARCACHA SMITH, could this be the fellow you described as a Spanish-type individual at the party? A. No, because he is much more lean than the person in this picture, and older. In other words, his face was a lean as yours (SIMMS), and if I recall correctly, the hair was longer and more full than that. CLAY knew a lot of Spanish and Mexican people. It didn't seem unusual for them to be there. He knew them from the Quarter, from the Trade Mart and from Mexico. After the party, I went to another party around 7:00 o'clock. I went to CLAY's around 5:00 and left around 7:00. I think this was in October. Being at two parties the same even- ing, it is hard to remember who was where. (Shown picture of Spanish and other people, and referring to AL BEAUBOUEF) This could have been the person who painted CLAY's apartment and was to do some work for the Spanish person. First-hand, I know nothing of CLAY's personal or sexual life, but maybe he has made some remark of someone he has met; that he thought the person was very attractive or something like that. I can't recall him saying he ever went to bed with some person, but he did mention to me his liking of men. It is relatively common knowledge among friends. I know nothing first- hand of his private life, but he did say something about liking men. He never mentioned anyone specifically. -2- Let me see that picture again. The one I saw before. This person I know. JERRY WINTERS, is that his name? Q. Are you a homosexual? A. I would rather be termed bi-sexual. I have had sex with both sexes. I was married for 5½ years; I had 2 children; I have had sex with women before I married and since then. Q. I show you a picture of a single person dressed in a sailor outfit, can you identify this picture? A. It appears to be a person I know as JERRY WINTERS who worked for Nunez Employment Agency about 3 years ago, I think. He lives, or did live on Josephine Street or somewhere up in that area. I know nothing about him personally. Q. Do you ever recall CLAY SHAW having a room-mate? A I think many years ago a JEFF BITTERSON lived with him. I think this was many years ago, I am not sure. I would think - I think he is "gay". Q. Do you know what type of work JEFF BITTERSON did? A. As far as I know, he always sold real estate. He Nate 24 persons identified worked for Marylin Tate. I know, because MARGIE law GENTRY: The GERACi O*DAIR who works in the office is a good friend of mine. met had a 050ARD write at BRINGUISHIS from Quanting if CARLOS DRIVANDER they arrasted them anth the is GERACi - who group deal IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS IN PHOTOGRAPHS: PHILIP GERACI 14 the GERACI referred to her related ? M (Reading from left to right in all photos) SEE JOULE PHOTO NO. 26: ALSO ARRESTED WITH PHALIP GERACI ( ARRIL, REPORT, 1989) 3rd - LENNY FRANK - in a Hawaiian sarong, lei and sandals. 4th - LEE (somebody) - in cape and sequined toga. 5th - I have seen him, but I can't recall his name. I think he is a hairdresser. 6th - I can't recall the name. He lives now on 1023 or in the vicinity of St. Ann. His first name may be HOWARD. PHOTO NO. 27A: First Row: 2nd - I think his name is CHRIS. He works for the Times-Picayune. 4th - This fellow looks almost like the Spanish person I am talking about. sue SOULE ALSO ABAKSTED WITH PHILIP GERACI (APRIL,'84, 5th - HERBIE TROSCLAIR - He is a hairdresser and lives on Bourbon over the Bourbon House which would be 7 something. -3- 9th - C. M. DAVIS who resides at Chartres and Explanade. Back ROW: 5th - DON (somebody). He is a school teacher. 7th - TOMMY HERFORD or something like that. ALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI- 11th- TRACY (somebody) (SEE NOTE BY BARCELONA, NEX T PAGE. SEE SOULE STATEMENT, APRIL 7, 1969 PHOTO NO. 27B: (sse JOULE STATEMENT R2 PERSONS ABRESTED NITH PHILIP GSAAGI ) 1st - JOE JOE LANDRY. He lives right across the street from me. DALSA ARRIFTED WITH PHILIP SKRACI 5th - CLAUDE DUGAS ALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI - (S#$ SOULE STATEMENT REPEARED To) 6th - DOUG JONES. He lives on Carrollton and I think he has a printing company. ALSO ARRW780 WITH PHILIP GERACI. 7th - JAMES ELSEY. He is an interior designer for Nu-Idea. 8th - Is connected with Nu-Idea also. PHOTO NO. 27C: Back Row: ALSO ARRESTED NITH PHILIP GEHASI 2dn - JIMMY SCHEXNAIDER - He is a designer for Hemenway's. Also in that picture is LEE somebody and LENNY FRANK. PHOTO NO. 27D: 1st - right end - is called POLLY PONTCHARTRAIN, but I think his name is --- I can't recall it. I don't know. PHOTO NO. 27E: ALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI. 4th - JEAN PIERRE SCHWEITZER - He works at Nahan Galleries on Louisiana. ALSO ARRESTED WITH CHILIP GERACi 5th - LOU or LOUIS TUCKER. 6th - I can't recall his name. He lived upstairs from me on Magazine Street. I don't think he knew OSWALD because he had just moved in and didn't stay there for very long. He moved into the Quarter. PHOTO NO. 27F: (SOULE 1st - They called him "Mousey", but I don't know his real name. SEE "WELDON" ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI 4th WELDON I can't recall his name. He is Display Director for Gus Mayer. 5th - He works for "This Week in New Orleans". I know because he has been in the shop many times. I know the name but I can't recall it. -4- PHOTO NO. 27F - Continued: Back Row: 4th I know he is a friend of CLAY's. If he is not now working. at the London Shop, he did work there and he lived on Gov. Nichols. CLAY, J. B. DAUENHAUER and this fellow knew each other. 6th - JOEY BARCELONA - He works for Permanent Foliage on St. Claude Avenue. ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI ERIMO 02 she on PHOTO NO. 27G: many AT Back Row: (SEE SOULE STATEMENT or APRIL 7,1969) HOMOSEXUAL PARTY ON 2/25/52 1st - CARLOS (somebody). He is from Cuba and he lives on Barracks with OTTO STERLE, (NOTE FREQUENT REFERENCE To "CARLOS" IN OTHER MEMOS) SEE CARLOS 7th - DAVID BAILEY - He lives on St. Peter Street ROPRIGUEZ, ARRESTED WITH SCKBASL ALJO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACi. 508 STEALE ALSO PHOTO NO. 27H: BARCELONA, ABOVE WAS PAILIP This person I have seen but I don't know his name. WITH 1500 sould REPORT The articles, such as a cape and pieces of chain, that' were taken from his (SHAW's) apartment, were SHAW's Mardi Gras costume he has worn for the past few years. I don't know, have never seen, or been introduced to FERRIE. Block where OSWALD livid 163. I don't know BAYTON know AYTON MARTENS, but I saw him in the neighbornood of the 4900 block of Magazine. I was of the opinion MARTENS: that his father rented a room across the street, and I was of the opinion that he (MARTENS) visited his father. This was at the time I lived on Magazine Street. The last time that I recall seeing CLAY SHAW was two Sundays before Mardi Gras 1967, and we happened to bump into each other on Royal Street and stood together and watched a parade for a time. At that time, I did invite him to the annual buffet I give the Sunday before Mardi Gras, but he didn't attend this year. Q. Before '63, did you attend any parties at CLAY SHAW's? A. No. He also lived on Dauphine Street then, about the 500 block. I don't think I was in his apartment before 1301 Dauphine. -5- Q. From reading the newspapers and reading the names of persons involved in the probe, do you recall knowing any of these other people. A. I thought I recognized him (LAYTON MARTENS) as being a person I recognized on Magazine Street, but any other names have no familiar ring. Q. If need be, would you be willing to take a lie detector test in regard to this matter? A. Yes. DAVID F GENTRY -6- OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY STATE OF LOUISIANA Rs: DAVID FERRIS PARISH OF ORLEANS CLAY SHAW (+ fil) "JACK HELMS" October 10, 1967 WALTER SHERIDAN (+ Townlay) CUBANS STATEMENT OF: JULES RICCO KIMBLE, w/m 24 RESIDING AT: 4839 Babylon Street New Orleans, Louisiana STATEMENT I met DAVID FERRIE in early 1960 in a barroom named The Golden Ferri Lantern in the French Quarter. I would see DAVE from time to time in the same bar and I flew with him in his airplane on several occasions. One night while drinking in the Golden Lantern, DAVE introduced me to CLAY SHAW. I was with CLAY SHAW and DAVE for several hours that night which was in Late 1960 or early 1961. From that time on I use to see CLAY SHAW on different occasions, you know drinking and so forth. One day in late '61 or early '62 I received a phone call 5 Dans from DAVE and he asked me if I would like to take an overnight plane + trip with him. I said, all right, and then met FERRIE at the airport Farri: at which time I found out that CLAY SHAW was coming with us. At this time I also found out that we were going to Canada to pick some- one up. No other explanation was given. While on the trip, CLAY SHAW sat in the back of the airplane reading books and slept. SHAW also had a brown brief case with him. On the flight we stopped at different places to gas up and stretch our legs. We stopped in Nashville, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Toranado, Canada. Canada Our final stop was in Montreal, Canada. FERRIE and myself stayed (Montral) in a hotel overnight. I believe it might have been the Hilton Air or something like that. The hotel was located in Dovral which was right outside of Montreal. CLAY SHAW disappeared after we landed and I did not see him until the next morning which was about 8 o'clock when we were ready to leave and come back to New Orleans. When SHAW arrived at the plane, he had this Mexican or Cuban with him. This Cuban: guy was kind of heavy set, dark complexion, balding in the front, in his early 30's or middle 30's. He sat in the back of the airplane with SHAW and spoke only to SHAW in broken English. The airplane that we used was a Cessna 172 which I believed belonged to a friend of FERRIE's. We bought our gas with a Gulf credit card which FERRIE had. When we got back to the Lakefront Airport, I got into my auto- mobile and FERRIE and SHAW and the other guy got into another auto- mobile and left. About a month or two later I got another phone call from FERRIE asking me if I wanted to make the return trip withhim to Canada, but I told him no. I have seen SHAW on different occasions in barrooms and at the International Trade Mart up until the time that the District Attorney's Show: office started their investigation. I have heard other people intro- duce CLAY SHAW as CLAY BERTRAND, but he has never been introduced to - -2- me as CLAY BERTRAND. I would also like to state that about two or three weeks after DAVE FERRIE died I got a phone call from JACK HELMS who was formerly "fack with the Federal Government and later connected with the Klu Klux Klan asking me if I would take a ride with him by FERRIE's house to Kim pick up some papers. I said, yes, and a short while later he picked me up at my house in a 1966 white chevrolet. We drove to FERRIE's house and parked a little way down the block. JACK got out of the Ferri's automobile with a flashlight and it appeared that he went around the papers back of the house or into the back yard. A short while later he came back with a black briefcase and got into the automobile at which time we drove off. Later I believe that the contents of this briefcase were put into a safety deposit box in the Bank of Louisiana. Later I believe that these papers were removed from the Bank of Louisiana and put into a big black box in St. Bernard Parish which belonged to the Klan. The fellow who kept this box is called OTTO. I do not know him by any other name. I believe that these papers were then removed from this black box, but I don't know where they were removed to. I did manage to get some papers from this black box, but they pertained to the Klan, and I turned these papers to CLEMENT HOOD, an FBI Agent I was working for. I also had contact with CIA Agents. Their names being STEINMEYER, who has since been transferred to Texas, and NAT BROWN who is still in New Orleans and another guy by the name of RED, last name unknown. I used to have meetings with the Agents in different motel rooms where I would give them reports, pictures, recordings, etc., and would also receive my pay check or cash which I would sign a voucher for and would also receive further instructions. They would mail different things to me at my post office box number which is 701-30252, Lafayette Street Branch. Several months ago RICK TOWNLEY with WDSU called me and told me that he had information that I had tape recordings that someone wanted to buy from me. I asked him how he had found out that I had them and he said that didn't matter. He asked me if I would meet him some place and I told him yes, to come over to my house. He said, no, he wouldn't do that, that it would have to be some public place. So I met him in the Kopper Kitchen on Tulane Avenue. After we talked for a while I went home and put on a suit and we went down to WDSU. When and we got to WDSU, TOWNLEY called WALTER SHERIDAN in New York and I sat Townday): there while TOWNLEY talked to SHERIDAN. After TOWNLEY hund up he said that SHERIDAN would be in town the following morning. TOWNLEY asked me what I wanted for the tapes that I had, and I told him $500. The next morning they gave me the $500 for the tapes and asked me if I would do a film for WDSU consisting of what I know about the Cubans, FERRIE, SHAW, etc. The tape that I sold them contained some informa- tion about the Klan and other information about the papers that were picked up at FERRIE's house. WALTER SHERIDAN is the one who gave me the $500 for the tapes. This $500 was in a sealed envelope and was all one hundred dollar bills. This was given to me in an office in in WDSU which was located by their newsroom. We then went upstairs and they locked the doors and placed a guard on the door and started asking questions and taking pictures of me. I even remember that there was a man from Sweden who was talking to the cameramen and they asked him to leave. They asked me questions such as, Do I know CLAY SHAW: Did I ever fly with CLAY SHAW and DAVID FERRIE: If I knew GENE DAVIS, which I told them that I knew GENE DAVIS very well because he was a personal friend of mine; If I knew GORDON NOVEL: If I ever worked for the FBI, CIA, to which questions I said, yes of which -3- questions WATTER SHERIDAN said he had already known that I would fored say yes to. I was then told to say that I didn't know anything that would help Garrison in his investigation and this was also put on film. I don't remember everything that he told me to say but he did tell 1002 to go to Canada. Пе also said that he would edit and cut the films after I was gone. He also said that they would get me an attorney if I needed one. I told SHERIDAN And TOWNLEY not to re- lease this film if they were going to cut any part of it. They said that when I got to Canada they would call me and ask if it could be released. They called my wife later and asked her if she would let them release it and she also told them no. I understand that this film has been cut and released. MR. HOOD told me not to get involved with the District Attorney's Office and if the District Attorney's Office tried to subpoena me, that he would take care of it. MR. HOOD told me to give all the cooperation necessary that WALTER SHERIDAN required. SHERIDAN and TOWNLEY also told me not to talk with the District Attorney's Office' and to call them right away so they could get an attorney for me. That is about all I can remember at this time. S/Jules Ricco Kimble JULES RICCO KIMBLE LA R: SHAW (2) (Travel rute on train, (From PORTLAND, OREGON, beganning Nov 15, 1963. [From paper) Note two ORKGON Portland, Origon papers] addresses given by F.LEE CRISMAN - home address Re: F. LEE CRUMAN Shaw Visited Here Shaw-Ferrie Tie In November, 1963 business leader arrested in Clay Shaw, the New Orleans Viewed Doubtful conspiracy to murder Presi- the Louisians city for alleged By JAMES LONG parted by train for Chicago Journal Staff Writer and New Orleans. with 2 Portland appearance dent Kennedy, was tied in According to Carter Bran- the same month the President If Clay L. Shaw conspired don, manager of the Columbia was assassinated. with David Ferrie to murder Basin World Trade Center. He was scheduled 85 one of Amport? President Kennedy, it was a here, the conference later the principal speakers at the strange alliance. reimbursed the travel agency 5th Annual Columbia Basin Shaw has a lifelong dread $346.66 for Shaw's transporta- tion and hotel bills. Import-Export Conference on flying. Ferrie was a veteran airline Davis said the New Orleans Nov. 25, 1853, describing acti- district attorney's office has Trade Mart of New Orleans. vities of the International pilot. The odd sidelight or Shaw's made no inquiries about the personality was brought to trip. dent's murder in Dallas, Tex. ed because of the Presi- The conference was cancel- light Fridav 25 The Journal obtained information which The presidential funeral was suggests that Shaw was on being held on Nov. 25. route to Portland by train at for the conference anyways the But Shaw showed up in town the time of the assassination, It the New Or- couldn't locate Shaw to natify Colum big Basin people leans travel agency accurate. ly reflect Shaw's movements Thim of the cancellation. between Nov. 15 and Nov 23 the silver-haired foreign trade expert was riding Southern Pacific passencer train on a iesurely trip to Portland "MR. SHAW didn't care for UM3 Davis on Travel Consultants, airplanes." said Richard Inc., New Orleans, who took care of transportation 2r- Trangements frequently for his neighbor in the International Trade Mart Building. Shaw Visited City In 1963 When Shaw was invited to speak in Portland at the 5th Annual Columbia Basin Im- Clay the Shaw, retired port-Export Conference on Monady. Nov 25 1953, he ask- Portland in International Mart of the ed Davis to arrange the trip for him by rail. lowing and Tuesday on the flow assembly at the club had addressed an in over 1953 Davis said his records show that Shaw was given a reser- SHAW'S TRAVEL President the the fol. vation on 2. Southern Pacific ROUTE NOV 15, '63 Shaw has been accused 22. subject "How A Trade passenger train leaving New the New Orleans Nov. 15 2nd soinz to at sequitur Mart Functions." scheduled to The visitor had Poriland by way of Houston San Antonio Los SHAW APPEARED port the San Francisco, 'However, we moved our HERE ON NOV. F. office not long ago and we 22, 1983, AT has bail since director The former mart but celed was long longer have records older MID- MID-DAY. DAY. dent's death. following the Presi- can than 1964 which would show made his the when 2. ticket 25 actually cayune The New Orteans Times-Pi used, and how," Davis said. Notel Officials and the of both Rotary the Club Bensort 03 San Hotel Francisco Nov. said at he St. that Shaw He added that the lost rec- ords also would indicate merely that a ticket was used 22-24. not who used it. Train and pullman records are kept for only six months. Presumably, Shaw was 02 the train or somewhere CO route on Saturday Nov 23 when officials of the trade conference were trying to reach him to SAV the confor: enca had been canceled. Shaw checked into the Ben- son Hotel on Monday, Nov. 25. and left 05 Tuesday, Nov. 26. He ran #2 2 bill of $23.70 but made no long-distance tele- phone calls through the hotel switchboard. records indicate, ON TUESDAY he addressed a meeting of the Portland Rotary Ciub, told them how Portland could increase its port commence. and then de- 1965 1964 1962 Lowerlice Intersects 7400 Maes Virgiola @ UN6-0402 Lowerline Intersects 7400 Vacant Milaudon ends 7407 Baehr Jerome C 0 UNI-9059 7400 Maes Virginia $ UN6-0402 Milaudon ends Milaudon ends Williams Berlyn W Mrs 7407 Baebr Jerome C 9 UNI-9059 7407 Bachr Jerome C @ UN1-9059 UN6-0373 7431 Farnsworth Olln J @ UN6-0184 7431 Farnsworth Olin so UN6-0184 Mask Walter S -9967 7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442 7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442 Williams Berlyn W Mrs 7444 Avenue Apartments The UN6-0373 7444 Avenue Apartments The 1A Edwards Anne B UN6-4834 7431 Farnsworth Olin J D UN6-0184 2A Hutchison Helea E UN1-4787 Apartments: 1a Edwards Anne B UN6-4834 7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442 3A Russ F Rayne UN1-7155 2a Hutchison Helen E UN1-4787 7444 Azenue Apartments The 13 Dickson Alma T Mrs 861-7933 3a Russ F Rayne UN1-7155 Apartments: 23 Watson Elvera 3 851-0885 1b Dickson Alma T Mrs 861-7933 la Edwards Anne B UN6-4884 3B Simony Aurella 861-0369 2b Watson Elvera B SS1-0385 2a Hutchison Helen E UN1-4787 1C Price Dorothy F UN1-4224 3b Simony Aurella 351-0369 3a Russ F Rayne UNI-7155 2C Drouet Adele M UN5-1825 Ic Price Dorathy F UN1-4224 1b Diettel Leland J 3C VonHadnagy Andrew J 2c Drouet Adele M UN3-1825 2b Proctor Ruth C UNL-3947 10 Whaley Kath P Mrs UN5-1937 3c Vacant 3b Vacant 20 Schochet Sidney S jr Id Whaley Kath P Mrs UN5-1937 1c Price Dorothy F UN1-4224 3D Haas Edda 856-5240 2d Sachet Sidney S j= 2c Drouet Adele M UN5-1825 IE Balch Robt W 861-0234 3d Haas Edda 866-5240 3c Vacant 2E Chambers Wes D UN1-9445 1e Balch Robt W 861-0234 1d Whaley Kath P Mrs 3E Harrison Anna M 861-0848 2e Chambers Wes D UN1-9445 2d Bourque Chas C 866-0770 1F Vacant 3e Harrison Anna M 861-0348 3d McGee Mary L 866-5753 23 Reily Esther Q Mrs UN1-0156 If Vacant le Harrison 3 Randolf 356-8720 3F Thompson Robt I If Reily Eather or Mrs UNI-0156 2e Chambers Wm D UNL-9445 1G McGina Maureen 3f Inez Micht H 866-2317 3e Harrison Anna M 861-0848 1H Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324 1g McGinn Maureen If Sachel Tim 865-4290 2H Clesl Victor UN1-3833 1h Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324 2f Reily Esther or Mrs UNI-0156 3H McDaniel Edith 866-2517 2h Clesi Victor UN1-3833 3f Vazzana Anita Mrs 861-1530 13 Cassegrain Octave C phys 3b McDaniel Edith 856-2617 1g McGian Maurcen 861-3594 11 Cassegrain Octave C phys 1h Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324 23 Offerman Bornard J 2H Clesi Victor UN1-3833 861-3591 3J Jones Hazel A 851-1985 3h McDaniel Edith 866-2517 2K Brun Jeanne UN1-7297 7446 Under Consta 1j Cassegrain Octave C 861-3594 3K No Return 7447 Apartments 2j Offerman Bernard J UN1-4048 11. Vacant 2j Offerman Bernard J 3j Jones Hazel A 8GL-1985 2L Kramer Lloyd 3j Jones Hazel A 861-1985 1k Pearlman Bertha Mrs UN6-4430 3L Bates Norma 866-7503 2k Brun Jeanne UN1-7297 2k Brun Jeanne UNI-T207 3% Vacant IM Moore Mary 3k Vacant 2M O'Donnell Herbert 866-3462 11 Bresler Rae Mrs 861-1272 11 Vacant 3M Johnston Laura 21 No Return 21 Vizard Anthony Mrs IN Mondshine Jos E UNS-0483 31 Bates Norma C 31 Landry Gloria UN1-9777 2N Pecot All A UN1-4762 Im Schneider John R Mrs 1m Schneider John R Mrs 2m O'Donnell Herbert 866-3452 3N Tiell Maureen C 2m O'Donnell Herbert UN6-3462 (A) Murphy Arth A o real est 3m McAlister Terese E UN1-3258 3m McAlister Terese E UN1-3258 10 Mondshine Jos E UN6-0483 UNI-9353 In Mondshine Jos E UN6-0483 20 Pecot ALA UN1-4752 (B) Bodenhelmer Carroll 861-2504 2n Pecot Alf A UN1-4762 (C) Pearce James I 861-8503 3n Boyd Wm P 861-8496 ST CHARLES AV-Coard (D) Odderstol Thos C UNI-3302 7447 Apartments Apartments-Con'd 7445 No Return (A) Murphy Arth A 3 real est 7450 Lichtentag Alvin P o 3n Boyd Wm P 351-8495 (A) Murphy Arth A 0 real est ST CHARLES AV-Contd 7456 Vacant 7457 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros UNI-9333 Apartments-Contd (B) Bodenheimer Carroll 861-2504 (B) Bodenheimer Carroll 861-2304 UNI-9501 Cherokee Intersects (C) Pearce James 851-3505 (C) Pearce James I 861-8508 (D) Odderstol Thos C UN1-3302 (D) Odderstol Thos C UN1-3302 7450 Lichtentag Alvin P 0 7457 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros UNL-9901 7437 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros UNI-9901 ADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW 1313 Dauphine Street Change of Address 1414 Chartres Street 9/21/66 Post Office 927 Burgundy Street Title 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird Convertible 124 Camp Street Title 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird Convertible 511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La. 2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title) 1445 Pauger Street Lafayette Insurance Company Canceled insurance on property 1014 Royal Street Military Record 1/14/47 457 Eagon, Shreveport, La. Draft Registration 3607 Banks Street 1925 School Records 906-8 Esplanade Avenue 1954 Owned 529 Esplanade Avenue (Garrison memo) Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada 1952-53 716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street Statement from Marilyn Tate, Realtors ADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW 1313 Dauphine Street Change of Address 1414 Chartres Street 9/21/66 Post Office 927 Burgundy Street Title 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird Convertible 124 Camp Street Title 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird Convertible 511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La. 2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title) 1445 Pauger Street Lafayette Insurance Company Canceled insurance on property 1014 Royal Street Military Record 1/14/47 457 Eagon, Shreveport, La. Draft Registration 3607 Banks Street 1925 School Records 906-8 Esplanade Avenue 1954 Owned 529 Esplanade Avenue (Garrison memo) Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada 1952-53 716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street Statement from Marilyn Tate, Realtors ADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW 1313 Dauphine Street Change of Address 1414 Chartres Street 9/21/66 Post Office 927 Burgundy Street Title 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird 0 Convertible 124 Camp Street Title 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird Convertible 511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La. 2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title) 1445 Pauger Street Lafayette Insurance Company Canceled insurance on property 1014 Royal Street Military Record 1/14/47 457 Eagon, Shreveport, La. Draft Registration 3607 Banks Street 1925 School Records 906-8 Esplanade Avenue 1954 Owned 529 Esplanade Avenue (Garrison memo) Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada 1952-53 716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street Statement from Marilyn Tate, Realtors anyw Ra: SHAW (gennal full Ser WALKER File STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY PARISH OF ORLEAN 2700 Tulane Avenue NEW ORLEANS 13.399 203. D D.A. NO. DATE 3-7- 68 ITEM NO. C Z228-68 DIST. ACCEPTED REFUSED OTHER STATE OF LOUISIANA VS: LOCATION: BOND SUGGESTED 1) WALKER, ROBERT N/m(22) P 75000 2330 MONTICELLO B/I No. 115-427 2) B/I No. 3) B/I No. FACTS: THEFT of 1961 Two Door (HEVXOLL) VALUED AT 2 1000 belonging Po MARILYNNE TATE DATE OF OFFENSE: 3-3-68 CHARGE: 14:67 OTHER REMARKS: ARREST NO. 62082 COMMITTING MAGISTRATE NO. No.A 14642 Organ ASSISTANT meinti DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: George Higginbotham Info provided by (alse re: BANISTER OPERATION) 4-12-68 Barbana Raid 4-16-68 4-17-68 Thomas Former investigator for Guy Banister, 1960-61. Only social con- tact 62-63. This is Louis P. Davis, Minite Man type, associated with go At present Higgenbotham has been arraigned on a charge of Marijuana possession. His attorney is Gill, Jr. who Beckham at his 1968 Grand Jury reppeared appearance The first night he was here (538 St. Phillip) he showed me stats of three letters from Banister to him conerning Banister's providing him with false credentials and a cover for infiltrating Communist groups. His code name was to be "Dale". He Higgenbotham, says he saw Martin McAullife in Banister's office a few times. His reason for severing ties with Banister he attri- butes to a definite nervousness upon seeing crates obviously of with Roswell Thompson military supplies in the back room. There were apparently meetings were also held there. (Kent) For some time he said that Banister and Courtney worked closely, however Banister did not have a good opinion of Courtney, consid- ering him too mercenary and a "loose-mouth". Higgenbotham also says there was quite a bit of radio equipment in the back room. Lou Davis was at Banister's frequently. Rockewll Nazi party stayed at Mike Slatter's apartment on Royal Levels Rockwall was at Benester office arending to then The Street, before they were removed to Plaquemines Parish. we Young man named Eddie Porter, who is now on the west coast, told George he know Oswald was a "hustler" on Royal street. George said Porter did not specify the time, or if he did, George doesn't remember. Porter is gay. Higgenbotham was kidding Banister about sharing a bldg. with people passing out leaflets of the street and Bannister said, "Cool it one of them, is one of mine." well Anown Castro framy reamy month of stake Ministe Man setimit, arrested at P. Higgenbotham 'suggested' following up the possibility of a connecti between Richard Lauchli and Bannister. He said; "Rumour has it that the FBI arrested Lauchli in the Covington area for selling arms to Latin America". But Higgenbotham considered it odd that Lauchli Appearity was never out of business and business seemed to even improve. He had a publication called "The Counter Insurgency Council" and was friends with the Bab Pauthin lications Pab. V Denver, Colorado. It was all literature concerning demolition procedures, guerrila warfare, Army manuals of warfare, text books and instructions of how to organize a fihting group. Much of whay George said was difficult to orientate. He would say, "You might check this out", or "Here's a name," and when I asked woul say, "I'd rather not say." And then he kept throwing in "This may have no meaning, I"m not sure I have anything that might help." until I was never sure whether this was meant to be bait or not. A lot of things he said he would prefer to discuss in detail only with Jim Garrison. Concerning the camp across the Lake. Higgenbotham suggested the following names: DEREK FRIER (was unsure of spelling) Was a Coucier for the Nazi Party Lived on St. Charles Avenue in '62 They now live in covington area. GEORGE HIGGENBOTHAM 2 LOREN BUTLER Suggested looking for this man, who was a friend of Frier's, and was a high official in Nazi Party. RAY LEEHEART (Or Earhart) A bus driver out of the Magazine St. depot very active in the Nazi party. Used to place Party slogan and posters on the walls of the depot. Higgenbotham knows Joe Newbrough of course, but insists he did not know Bill Dalzell. When he brought the Lauchli material, etc., he did not go into too much detail, probably assuming (correctly) that I wouldn't understand too much, although he trusts me as much as he does any woman. Whether much of this is significant or not, I can't say. But Higgenbotham is NOT playing games; he is in too much of a bind and he is willing to cooperate in any way. This is one person TOMMY BAUMLER will go to any lengths for, (regardless of the consequences) and the first person Tommy has begged me to help in any way you can". Higgenbotham was a pallbearer at Tommy's Daddy's funeral and Tommy says "When I was a crippled kid without a friend in the world, George came and played Chess with me and was my only friend." Higgenbotham has lived at the same Lowerline Street address for about fifteen years. Is a gun collector, has survived many political changes, and apparently his sexual proclivities tend to young males. He believes the Pot found belonged to a young man with whom he is no longer friendly. His attorney is Gill, Jr. (mentioned previously). He felt that much of his information would not be considered, be- cause in his opinion Lou Davis was and is a key factor in the sub merged activities in this area, and because of would not follow them to a conclusion. He feels there was organization locally in respect to a conspiracy than appears so far on the surface. Particularly in respect to the acquisition of supplies, training organization and leadership. He says it's logical because these things were available. It certainly wouldn't hurt to talk with him. BARBARA GLANCEY REID -1- Well, to make a long story short, I was in the same outfit as Oswald was in the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" only apparently he wasn't in it so deeply and in & different part of the country and, at the same time; now bear with me now because this is a very difficult ex- planation to a certain extent. My wife gives me a bit of a rough time when I discuss this situation. I think I'll bust her in the eye to be truthful about it. Anyway the FBI contacted me when I came back and I blew the whistle to them for a year while I was still an officer in that outfit in Chicago "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" I appeared in a hearing with the rest of them. Now, I was never a communist, right winger or left winger or anything you see. I was merely interested in the revolution which I hated a little bit. I could fly a little or push an airplane around a little. Now, Can I make a more important point, after my time was up there, which was a year, when a hearing was to be held, I was told by the FBI that they wanted more information from me and that was it, they didn't explain or anything, and it was sort of a let down. I was going to whistle on my former friends. I thought I was convinced by them that I was doing a proper job and they kicked me down so, I blew out of there and came to California and that was in 1961, the day they were holding the hearing. They didn't want me around appa- rently, so here in 1962, I joined up with a bunch of anti-Castro people, Cubans, Americans and others. And then I found my way into circles of the political right, you see, who were very effective in trying to do away with Castro. At least they were talking about it. That's all they did was talk about it. Believe me, I bought the right wing line of thing and I am not against them right now, as a matter of fact, except that I found out a lot of things that horrified me; I peddled their line for them, because I thought in turn that they were going to help us get rid of Castro. They were anti-communist, anti-Castro and all that stuff and I hated Castro, because what the communist were doing embarrassed me, made a fool out of me and wasted all my efforts, so I was going to get even. So this right wing thing was the way to do it and I swallowed it. I thought it was a greatidea; the Americanism, patriotism and all that stuff. As time went on and as I look back I didn't know it at that time, it was always the anti- cunity bit: (he's a dirty communist, and this and that) and I figured it was just a bunch of hog wash and I'll go along with the people just to get action against Castro. And the individuals were donating heavily, you see. Well, the Birch Society was talking against Castro. In other words, "Cuba free in 1963" and everything. The individuals were actually doing something about it by donating money to these different orga- nizations preferably to Hall, and Howard got it and the other people got it in New Orleans, Dallas, Florida and so forth, the money finally got to them and the medicine that came from the doctors. Q. When you say Hall, you mean Lorenz D. Hall? It is... a nickname by the way, his name is Lorenzo. And Lawrence Howard is Larry Howard. I am sure Weisberg knows this, the rest know this too that Larry Howard is a Mexican American. Lorenzo Hall is a Cuban American. The number three man was a guy by the name Aof Guy Gabaldin, a Mexican American, the one time big hero they made a movie about called "Hell to Eternity", a former marine, if you recall it. Q. I do vaguely. They play it every year on Channel 9. Well, anyway, the point is, these people, I find later were in it long before Weisberg and all the rest of those people came along writing books and it bore on my conscience. I informed the proper authorities about my involvements so I wouldn't become pinned down -2- when they finally arrested them for associating with assassinators of President Kennedy. Now, I immediately thought, and I told old lady Oswald so, "My gosh woman, your son is doing the same job as I was." That was my impression. You don't get wrong impressions when you are in.a mess like that. And later on the evidence came out that he was this and that. So I said well apparently those people were the ones that did it and then I thought they didn't want Kennedy dead, but the right wing was always trying to kill him. Gebaldin said he was going to kill him in 1962, when Kennedy visited Mexico City. He had an office in Mexico City, by the way, run- ning an anti-communist fron called "Drive against Communist Aggression". & This was Gabaldin? Gabaldin, Howard, Hall, me and all the rest. He was financed by some big business men here of whom I have the list of names and whom I became very friendly with. Now, I don't know if you are getting this proper or not, but you can ask me questions. He had an office there, he had some friends in Mexican Federal Police. The FBI of Mexico, who he tried to get to help with this Kennedy deal down there. To shoot Kennedy in Mexico City when he was on parade there. And I thought, well, the guy was crazy, he is not talking sense and he didn't really mean that he was going to kill Kennedy. These people, Oswald and whoever they blame for it and even if he was involved or not which I doubt that he was in a way, at least I think he was finking on him just like I was on those people up there. They hated Kennedy, you get it, no "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" say they hated him, but I heard the right wing say they hated him. "Them dirty should be dead. G---D---him and all that sort of thing". When I was on the other side, I believed what they believed in. I didn't believe what the left wing believed. I finally got to believe what they believed. I couldn't follow it, it didn't make sense. But I understood that they called him a communist. Actually I was against communism, but I wasn't long with them, just to do away with Castro and to aid the people that were going against Castro. Okay, now they had this office in Mexico City, this Federal police officer, Captain Juan A. Aranda practically had him assassinated, Gabaldin assassinated for try- ing to present the problem of killing Kennedy there. He ran him out of Mexico City. Q. He knew what he was up to, in other words? Sure, he told the, they had been friends for a long time, this anti- communist stuff. Then Gabaldin tried to sell remembering Gabaldin, Howard and Hall was one group with a bunch of other people Q. Of course, I remember. They all associated. I knew this and I thought it was great. Anyways, he couldn't swallow the whole trap that Kennedy was a communist. Being Mexican and he wouldn't believe it. He just couldn't see it, so they rounded them all up and threw them out of Mexico City. That was it, they took his furniture that he had in his office and seized him. And no one knows about those things. If Oswald went to Mexico City, he went there (now here is another shot) Gabaldin and I went one day to John Rousselot of the Birch Society and Sam Moreno in their old office down the street from there, the present one) to get $10,000. You might think I am some kind of a damn fool, but I am not. I want to see these dirty double crossing finks get what they got coming, because they continue to be a threat to me, what we believe is true, and obviously it is as true as the daylight now showing. I dont' care to prove it and all that garbage where you've got to prove stuff, that doesn't mean anyting to me. Q. But you want the information to get out? That's right. I've written all of this down and I am looking at my briefcase that contains every name and address and everything I ever did. & Do you remember that portion that Mr. Weisberg spoke and he talks about the visit to Sodio Audeo's apartment? Right in my organization, sure. Certainly I remember that. When I saw that in October 1964, I said, My God, they have really did it. -3- They have really reached out, when Howard and Hall's name appeared. & What about William Seymour? Billy Seymour. It looked like Oswald And I would say that come no one?---How come no one has ever gotten the whereabouts of Gabaldin? You know the FBI Now let me tell you first one thing before the $10,000 bit is finished here. Senator Hoover---Now, you know what I know about the Bureau is this, and you can't blame him, No, I mean you can blame hi, but, for this point National Security was always drummed into our minds --And any time I open my mouth, they talk about National Security---please don't say anything to me. Now, I agree with National Security and it is immoral sometime, but, for National Security reasons alone he has done what he has done. & He put the lid on this thing, in other words? He put the lid on, he aimed to keep it on there at all costs. He has to, because, these people, their representatives, of the people I am dis- cussing now, are so powerful in the United States, that they can knock the President off, if they want, if he doesn't tow the line. The right wing said this about the communists. But it isn't so, it is the right wing that is really that way. Mr. Hunt and a lot of the big shots that I agreed with, they can do these things and they will. If things don't go right. Now, I am sur- prised, the right used to cry, we don't have any money, we don't have any power, we don't have this, why, they organized the Birch Society and got it financed. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not an enemy of theirs. I read their book right now, and their material and I agree with a great deal of it, but nevertheless, it doesn't make this fellow any less guilty of associating with Gabaldin and that bunch of creeps. The ten grand Gabaldin said he didn't get when I waited outside the office, he went inside and talked to Rousellot. He said he didn't get it, but they talked forfour hours. The ten grand was supposed to go to Mexico City operation, whatever that means, I know when I was invited down there, Gabaldin and I were both flying airplanes, he invited me to co-pilot for him. I never went down, I was afraid to go to Mexico because of the mess I had been in with Castro and he got more effective agents. Q. In Mexico? Yes, the ten grand apparently he didn't get. But I think he did get it. And John Rousselot was supposed to kick back whatever benefits to the Birch Society. That was Gabaldin's work. It didn't ring a bell with me then. Later on, a personal friend of mine was working in a little Savings and Loan place and it turns out that this very poor fellow, Mr. Rousselot, whom I know quite well, and as I have said many times, he was in cahoots. To many people, I have said this, but I never went into an explanation of the whole thing. He made a loan of $19 or 24,000 on the first of 1963. So you can't say he didn't have the ten grand to do it with. I've got a copy of the loan. When I saw that, it even added up more so. I am not one given to fear, but I am just telling you that is the way things are. And when I see all these guys like Mr. Weisberg and Mark Lane. I have talked to him on the phone, he kind of figured out I was some kind of crackpot. But they are aiming at a thing that I have known for years. And if they really are wanting to do something, let them do this. Let them say these things. Let me get up and say these things and I'll say them. We'll bring this thing to a head. I'll tell you why exactly Mr. Hoover is covering up from my point of view is having been an undercover fink for them for a year is for National Security reasons. I agree with him, but he is still covering up. And that's it. And many another Ching has happened in the interim. They're all written down here. & I don't know if you recall, I just wanted to ask if there was a Leopoldo. That could have been his underground name of Lorenzo. Q. That came to Sodio Audeo's apartment too? I think it was Lorenzo. Leopoldo was working with an underground name. Howard wanted me to run an office here in 1963, before Kennedy was assassinated, to inform the press, make press releases and collect money, which I didn't do because I was doing other things along right wing lines; to run an office here, to get press releases under way, just as they were about to happen against Castro. Howard is a warrior. Hall was political person that made speeches at Birch Society meetings open meetings and closed meetings and was very well accepted by them. He made a lot of money. I found out, I said to Gabal- din one day, "what is he doing with all this dough? Is he really putting it into the anti-Castro operations. He said "every penny of it goes in there, I guarantee you", and I took his word for it at that time, because he was a sort of the leader of things. And another thing, Gabaldin, when he came back from Mexico, he ran this drive against communist aggression which was financed from here. I have all the literature on it and remember all the details. He made speeches all around Arizona, Canada, Detroit. He was all around and therefore, helped build up the network we had. Everything is ABC & Was there such a network in Dallas too? Well sure it is in Dallas. It was part of our---I am associated with juror members here now, they're inactive by the way. If there is some- thing going on at least they are keeping it quiet. They probably sus- pect me of being at fink, I suppose. But I really think, because we were such good friends, awhile back, that there is really nothing popping just now. They work and naturally take advantage of the situation. Right now it is not profitable or possible. & Where is Gabaldin now? Oh, he's hiding out in Mexico. See, all those guys took trips quietly. You know when the FBI can't find the, they are well hidden. They couldn't find Howard or Hall for a long time. I saw Gabaldin about six months ago, over in E1 Monte, a Mexican restaurant here, he and one of his former backers, who was a big wheel in Freedom Forum, and his name was Ray Fleischman. Now for Ray in whose opinion, doctors and so forth, we $10,000 worth of medicine for anti- Castro operation in the Mexico City deal. Q. Was there any link between group and Ruby with his activities in Cuba? I don't even like to talk about that guy because, I can't stand anyone, I feel sorry for him and the way he died and so forth, but I knew he and I knew he would just like Lane and Mr. Weisberg knew. He was a dirty rat that was in the scheme somewhere. I don't even like to talk about a back shooter in other words. I got no use for him. He's cheated everyone and helped make the big lie. Obviously, if that woman said he was involved, he probably was involved. I'd discuss it with her if I were researching the situation. Q. Which woman are you referring to? I think Mr. Lane or Mr. Weisberg wrote about some woman who put the finger on Ruby as being the payoff man. You see, we were all in Cuba at different times. Q. You were there too? Well, sure, just for a short time, after the war. -5- This is some of the government there, some of the big wheels, Any of them that went there were either for or against. They had some deal going with the government, see. They were involved in other words, they didn't just go there to look around, because the peasant armies are marching and people are building and things are really going on down there. So you just don't go there to look around, it is not just a good tourist spot. It's a revolutionary activity, so Ruby was there, and that convinces me he was involved. & Did you know anyone there by the name of Praskins or Pratkins, or anyone by the name of McWilly? I knew those names. They're in the same report that I am in. Oh, no, no, no. I just heard the names. I don't know them. Q. They don't ring a bell. Theydo ring a bell, but not with my activities; I don't know them at all. I just read about them and I don't want to bring them in with the reality of what I know. Q. Certainly. Well, it has been very interesting, in any case, and I don't know when Harold will be out here again, but I know that he would enjoy meeting you when he does come and I am sure that can be arranged. In any case, remember that I called and that wasn't your home phone was it. Am I talking to you from there? That is my business and home both. It's a little printing business. Q. Well, I'll be in touch with you in any case. I am very grateful for your call and that is all I can say. Well, these guys are batting their brains out. I don't know what their angles are. They may be very honest upstanding non-political non- religious people that are really trying to do their job, and I'd like to think that was the case. It doesn't matter what their real motives are, the point is, they are fishing around and finding out a whole lot of things and I don't want to be embroiled in the middle of it when they fish my name out of the hat. If you know what I mean. I'd rather blow the whistle now and get it over with, If someone used it, then I am in the clear. & You speak about people knowing how to fly airplanes, you know it was speculated that a plane did take off or was scheduled to take off at Redbury Field at Dallas the afternoon of the assassination. Oh, I never heard that. Q. Yes, that is in one of the articles by one of the authors of the case. Schebody felt that a plane really did take off for Mexico or one of the South American countries. I know Gabaldi flew a lot of miles back and forth. Look, here is a very simple solution. Gabaldi naturally wouldn't be involved directly, he might even be sitting there in an airplane, I don't know, I don't care about that. But where was Billy Seymour that day, to whom I think, you know, run upstairs and put uncle on the spot, I really think that. He was just a dirty little rat like some of these people who are trying to make a name for themselves. These big movies heros. Q. Did these people have expertees, firearms and weapons? Well, yes. I learned stuff myself and they had people who wrote manuals by hand and passed them around to the Greeks that wer training on Nonamekey. That's name of t'.e key. That's "no name". There was also a place near New Orleans. They had expertees there. There was & local guy training them there, a Canadian, and Howard and several others. What they wanted from us was medicine. If you've got a wound, they want to throw a powder on it. What kind of powder it is I forget now. And aspirin and stuff like that in case they were wounded you see. -6- So they knew all the fundamentals of killing, wounding. They knew all the fundamentals in a raid. I would say Howard was an expert because he sure taught an awful lot of men in the army --Castro. I don't give a hoot about any of those people anymore. I think they've used me up. I don't want to be around when the ax falls and at the same time I wan't to see it fall. & You want to get your information out while you have the chance? Right. And these birds which I did definitely imagine was the case, were involved, whether Oswald was or not doesn't matter. I still think he was doing the same job I was doing. Before, I even read a word of it, I knew it. Q. That Oswald was down here? brought I'm the one/his old lady on the "Joe Pine Show". Did you see that? & No, I didn't, I heard that she was here though. That was in 1965, I appeared down there and I told briefly what I was involved in and I said you know I got the impression your son was doing the same thing I was"; they shut me up and I though the Federal Bureau wouldn't ever speak to me again, because they told me to shut my trap, see, Q. Tell me can I reach you at this number? When is the best time to call? Or do you want to leave it as just where you can reach me? Well, it would be sensible just to have it that way, wouldn't it? & Allright, whatever you like, but this is a good time to call me, early in the morning and I will transfer some of this to Harold, if you like, at least I will give him a report on the facts as they are. -7- & What do you think of General Walker? I mean you say you know Walker, Do you think it is true that he might be involved? First of all, you know that Oswald was to have taken the shot at General Walker? A. I don't believe it. I think Howard took a shot. Q. Oh, you think Howard took a shot? Certainly, he was in Dallas with all those other crums. I don't believe Oswald did it. I don't care, you see. I don't want to try to prove anything. I am just trying to tell you who did what, and why. & Well Oswald supposedly had someone with him? There were perhaps two people involved in it. Like Billy Seymour and Howard who was always hauling his big Mexican carcass around trying to pull some kind of & caper. Oswald was a fink, just like I was. A fink for the Feds. Let's face it. We did things that were completely opposed. We committed treason for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You know what I mean. The things we blame the committee for doing, we did, we led them, we organized them and we would do things that would put us in such a light, such a position and we would even go take a shot at someone, if we had to, if that was part of getting us to infiltrate some organization. There it is, it is horrible, but true. And then it was very likely that Oswald did it in- tending to infiltrate never intending to hit, you never know, it is something that bears investigation, if possible The very cover up of the situation, obliterations here and there of things, indicates some more things involved which I am glad to see people investigate it. Q. Do you think it is conceivable when Oswald went to Mexico City that he was endeavoring to sea Gabaldin or was Gabaldin there at that time? Exactly what I am thinking. Look at Billy Seymour--And another thing Gabaldin told me that hit me pretty hard and I hated his guts for it, not hate him, I wouldn't burn his house down, but I hated him because he said later on before Kennedy died, "I know a guy that looks just like you." Now here's me. A picture of me. I'm going around wearing a Texas hat, I've got a rifle and I go out and shoot all the time and Gabaldin knows this. I'm a chewing tobacco, Texas hat wearing gunman, you get it. He's got this picture of me like I am some kind of a big fat fool. He's telling me, I know a guy looks exactly like you and I said "poor b and so forth. But he told me this several times and that gave me the impression he was trying to tell me something. Then later on I realized By God it could have been another one of these Billy Seymour deals trying to get me with my own reputation as an NRA member and a shooter and get me involved in all this deal. So this isn't from what somebody else investigated, this is what I realized later on, and it worried me plenty. Any ay it is a long miserable situation and with both people it was hate drove them ever forward and I suppose with a little money too. But more and more actual hate than money. a. I think that is obvious. I think I had better hit the trail as I am holding you up there. & I appreciate it in any case and we will be in touch then. A. Good show. a. Okay, thank you so much. Bye Bye now. MEMORANDUM Re FERRIE April 24, 1969 TO: JAMES L. ALCOCK, Exec. Assistant D. A. FROM: CAPT. FREDERICK A. SOULE, SR., Investigator RE: INTERVIEW WITH: CLARA FLOURNOY "BOOTSIE" GAY UNDER ITEM #2, AL CLARK INTERVIEW. In answer to a subpoena, Bootsie Gay came into the office on this date at about 2:45 p.m. She stated to Soule and Mr. James Alcock that she resides at 528 Dumaine Street, and is employed at Max Hills Painting Suppliers located at 629 St. Peter Street - telephone: 523-9302. She stated that just prior to the assassination she was having G. WRAY GILL do some legal work of a civil nature for her. She made several trips to GILL'S office and observed DAVID FERRIE who had an office at GILL'S office, and she understood that FERRIE was an investigator for GILL. The day following the John Kennedy assassination, a Saturday, she (MRS. GAY), went to GILL'S office and observed that two female employees were cleaning out FERRIE'S desk. She saw a chart or a sketch, and what caught her eye was the fact that this chart had ELM written on what appeared to be a street. There was also a building and on the street was a square with letters "VIP" written in this square. MRS. GAY stated that she remarked to the receptionist that this should be turned over to the F.B.I. The receptionist then picked it off the desk and threw it in the trash can stating it was nothing. MRS. GAY stated that she then took the document from the trash can stating that she would give it to the F.B. I. The receptionist then grabbed the document from Mrs. Gay's hand and again threw it in the trash can. MRS. GAY seemed to be about 60 years, reasonably intelligent, slightly nervous and very cooperative. She appears to be the type of individual that likes to see justice prevail. CAPT. FRED SOULE, SR. MEMORANDUM April 4, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT. ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH SPECIAL AIDE SUBJECT: SERGIO ARCACHA-SMITH- 25 FEBRUARY 1967 - DALLAS, TEXAS On 25 February 1967, James Alcock and I flew to Dallas, Texas to interview SERGIO ARCACHA-SMITH and conduct other business relating to the current special investigation. After our arrival in Dallas, Alcock telephone the residence of ARCACHA-SMITH. He was told by MRS. ARCACHA-SMITH "just a minute" and when she returned to the phone she asked Alcock to call back in one hour. At 5:00 P.M. Alcock called again and MRS. ARCACHA said her husband was not there and was with the District Attorney of Dallas and had expressed his desire to meet in a group with this District Attorney. On both calls Alcock identified himself. He had previously spoken with ARCACHA who expected to hear from us on this date. At 9:30 P.M. this same date, a third call was made and a man answered the phone and identified himself to Alcock as Detective Rodgers of the Dallas Police Department. He said ARCACHA was present but preferred to be interviewed in Police Headquarters and we were asked to meet them there in Room 316. At 10:00 P.M. we arrived in Room 316. ARCACHA arrived at 10:20 P.M. accompanied by Detectives Rodgers and Burnley. We were then taken to a conference room on the same floor and exchanged identification. Alcock explained our presence was to have ARCACHA identify certain persons and give us back- ground information. ARCACHA said "O.K. shoot". Alcock said we could not talk in the presence of others except an attorney if ARCACHA wanted one present. ARCACHA said this was the only way he would talk to us - in front of these detectives. I then said we might as well go as we could not conduct an interview under these conditions and again reminded ARCACHA his attorney could be present. ARCACHA then addressed me and said someone had been looking for him displaying identification similar to that which I had displayed. ARCACHA shook his finger at me and was visibly nervous and excited. -1- I asked ARCACHA why he needed police protection which was the reason the detectives gave for being with him. I asked if he thought he needed police protection from the District Attorney of New Orleans and he made no comment. I then asked the detectives if ARCACHA needed protection from anyone and if he had been threatened or feared he would be harmed. I then said the District Attorney of New Orleans would assist in funish- ing such protection if it were needed. There was no comment from anyone. Detective Burnley then stated they had told ARCACHA he would be arrested if we had a warrant. For this we expressed our gratitude. We explained we had no warrant and had not come to Dallas to arrest ARCACHA but were here simply to interview him adding that should it be necessary we would get a warrant. At this point Detective Rodgers sarcastically asked, "And who do you think would serve that warrant?" I then asked Rodgers, "Are you saying you wouldn't?" Rodgers then repeated his question and I repeated mine. Detective Burnley then interrupted as if recognizing Rodgers' mistake. ARCACHA was again informed no one but his attorney could be present. He said he could arrange for this on Monday (three days hence) but could not remember his own attorney's name Detective Rodgers then said the attorney's name was Alexander. Alcock asked ARCACHA if this was his attorney and Burnley and Rodgers both spoke up and admitted Alexander was the First Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County. Alcock then said we could not consent to this. Alcock and I explained this was a confidential matter and it should be understood we had no intention of revealing any part of this to anyone and trusted they, as police officers, should understand this better than anyone. Alcock and I then walked out of the conference room and ARCACHA, Burndey and Rodgers followed us into the hallway. The detectives then said the press room was close by and asked that we return to the conference room. We returned there only to ask that our feelings not be construed as rudeness and then Alcock and I departed. WILLIAM GURVICH WG/leb MEMORANDUM Re: SHAW JULES R. KIMBLE April 17, 1969 TO: SGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator FROM: SGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator RE: GOLDEN LANTERN BAR 1239 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana The following information was obtained by the under- signed from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN: In March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee of the above. In 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee. In 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was opened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued since under his operation Prior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal, Chico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was permittee from 1948 through 1964. BLAKE It is also believed that one CHRIS 3HeK, a personal friend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern. The Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class homosexual element in this City. SgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS MEMORANDUM Re: SHAW JULES R. KIMBLE April 17, 1969 TO: SGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator FROM: SGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator RE: GOLDEN LANTERN BAR 1239 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana * The following information was obtained by the under- signed from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN: In March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee of the above. In 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee. In 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was opened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued since under his operation Prior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal, Chico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was permittee from 1948 through 1964. BLAKE It is also believed that one CHRIS BEECK, a personal friend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern. The Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class homosexual element in this City SgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS MEMORANDUM Re: SHAW JULES R, KIMBLE April 17, 1969 TO: SGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator FROM: SGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator RE: GOLDEN LANTERN BAR 1239 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana The following information was obtained by the under- signed from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN: In March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee of the above. In 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee. In 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was opened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued since under his operation Prior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal, Chico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was permittee from 1948 through 1964. BLAKE It is also believed that one CHRIS BEDCK, a personal friend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern. The Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class homosexual element in this City. SgP SGT. FRED Fredt I. WILLIAMS William MEMORANDUM Ra: SHAW JULES R. KIMBLE April 17, 1969 TO: SGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator FROM: SGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator RE: GOLDEN LANTERN BAR 1239 Royal Street New Orleans, Louisiana The following information was obtained by the under- signed from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN: In March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee of the above. In 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee. In 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was opened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued since under his operation Prior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal, Chico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was permittee from 1948 through 1964. BLAKE It is also believed that one CHRIS зыек, a personal friend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern. The Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class homosexual element in this City. SgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS William MEMO TO: c. J. DELSA RE: Possible questions for T. E. BECKHAM I Where and when did he meet CRISMAN? Who introduced them? Give the names of all persons in whose company he has ever seen CRISMAN. After meeting CRISMAN, in what places, when and under what circumstances did he subsequently encounter CRISMAN? (Itemize and give full details). If travel was involved, what were the arrangements and who made them? Did CRISMAN ever use a credit card in his presence? (What kind? For example, did CRISMAN possess an Air Travel Card? Other credit cards? Does he recall the user's name in the left hand corner?) Has he ever been to hotels, restaurants, or stores with CRISMAN? Where and when? Did CRISMAN seem known at any of these places? Did CRISMAN, to his knowledge, ever use any other names? How did CRISMAN usually dress when he saw him? What was his customary mode of travel between cities? How did he custom- arily move about within a city? (Taxi-cabs? Car? If car, who was the owner or the alleged owner?) What was CRISMAN's evident economic level of living? (Food, lodging, kind of wrist watch, et cetera) What did CRISMAN give as his source of income? (BECKHAM, as a minister for a non-existent church, would have to have known that this parallel role of CRISMAN'S would produce no income). - 1 - II. Did BECKHAM ever see CRISMAN in the presence of GUY BANISTER or CLAY SHAW? (Much less likely, but possible: DAVID FERRIE? KERRY THORNLEY? LAYTON MERTENS? LAVERNE "LARRY" CRAFARD? LEE OSWALD? CUBANS? REV. RAYMOND BROSHEARS? BOB LAVENDER? WILLIAM DALZELL? BRUCE RAY CARLIN? GEORGE de MOHRENSHILDT?) Where and when? Under what circumstances? Who introduced who to whom? Who appeared to be the dominant (in the sense of inference of command) personality? Did BECKHAM ever meet or see any of these persons separately? Was anyone else present on any such occasion? (Repeat same questions with regard to unknown personalities encountered with CRISMAN. Their detailed descriptions). In any and all such instances, what were the subjects of conversation? What were CRISMAN's stated - or demonstrated - sexual preferences? Any indications of homosexuality (as in the cases of FERRIE or SHAW)? Any indications of sadism (as in the case of SHAW) ? Did BECKHAM ever have any sexual relations with CRISMAN? With SHAW? With FERRIE? With any others whose names have been mentioned above? With anyone apparently connected with CRISMAN? What contacts did you have with CRISMAN in New Orleans in 1962 or 1963? Under what circumstances? Were you given any assignments or duties as a result? Did you receive any payments as a result? From whom? Did you have occasion to use CRISMAN outside of New Orleans at any time in 1963? Where? Under what circumstances? Receive any assignments or duties to perform? (Follow up with relevant questions depending upon his answers). Did you ever leave New Orleans in 1963? (Example: Mandeville in January, 1963). Describe the places and the dates. For what purpose did you leave on each occasion? How did you travel? Where did you stay? What did you do? Who made the arrangements for you? In connection with any of the other names previously mentioned, did you ever receive any assignments or things to do from them? Any subsequent remuneration? From whom? III. What were your sources of income in 1963? For doing what? How often in 1962 or 1963 did you have occasion to visit the Newman Building (BANISTER'S place) at 531 Lafayette Street (or 544 Camp Street)? Did you receive job assignments in that connection? Any payments to you? By whom? Why? What other persons did you see at that location? How often? What activity were they engaged in? Who appeared to be in charge? (If BANISTER, who appeared to you to be in charge of BANISTER?) Have you ever had occasion to see any of these individuals outside of that building? Under what circumstances? - 3 - Did you have a mail box key to the Post Office Building across from BANISTER'S office? Why? Did any other persons, who hung around his office, have such keys? Why? Have you ever had occasion to to the Mancuso Restaurant in that building? How frequently? With whom have you gone there? Who else did you ever have occasion to see there? How frequently? What seemed to the BUY BANISTER's main activity? What appeared to you to be the source or sources of his income? What appeared to be the sources of income of other persons frequenting his office? Did they ever indicate the sources to you? Did any of them indicate who, other than BANISTER, they were working for? Did you ever have occasion to see any of these individuals receive money or envelopes apparently containing money? Did you ever have occasion to see men in green Army-type fatigues in that area? Americans or Cubans? Why did they seem to be coming there? Did anyone seem to be in charge of them? Do you know where their training camps were? Did you ever have occasion to visit any of them? (If so, with whom and under what circumstances?) Did anyone ever tell you what they were training for? Did anyone ever tell you who they were working for? - 4 IV. Have you ever been to CLAY SHAW's apartment (on Dauphine Street)? DAVID FERRIE's apartment (on Louisiana Avenue Parkway)? The International Trade Mart? Any of the residences of any persons previously mentioned? For what purpose? Prior to November 22, 1963, did you hear the assassination discussed in any way? (By whom? Where? Give full details). Did you have occasion to see FRED CRISMAN in November, 1963? Where and under what circumstances? Do you know what cities CRISMAN was in in November, 1963? Do you know whether CRISMAN was ever in Dallas, Texas? When? What for? Were you ever in Dallas, Texas? When? What for? Do you know any persons who were in Dallas in November, 1963? Did you ever hear the names of any persons who were in Dallas in November, 1963? On November 22, 1963, do you know where GUY BANISTER was? (Note: apparently in New Orleans, but not at his office all day). Do you know who was with him? Do you know why he didn't come to the office that day? (Or did you later have occasion to hear where he was, what he did and with whom?) With regard to the individuals who hung around BANISTER'S office - or anyone whose name I have mentioned to you - do you know of any unusual activity on their part that day? Did you hear of any unusual activity on their part? Describe where you spent November 22, 1963, and describe - in detail - what you did all day? Did you have any occasion to go to a hotel or motel? (If so, for what purpose? Who else did you see there? What were they doing?) V. After November 22, 1963, when did you next see CRISMAN? Where? For what purpose? (Same question re BANISTER, SHAW, FERRIE - or any other persons with whom he acknowledged a relationship). Was the assassination discussed in any way? (If so, what was said - and by whom?) Describe, in full detail, subsequent occasions in which you saw CRISMAN in 1963. In 1964. From 1964 to 1968. - 6 - Did you ever have occasion to visit CRISMAN in the State of Washington? When and for what purpose? How often? Who else was present? How long did you visit? Did you ever see him in Oregon? (same follow up questions) In Nebraska (same questions)? In any other States? Have you ever been to CRISMAN's home? His ranch? (In either case, describe). Have you ever been to Tacoma or Olympia, Washington? (For what purpose, et cetera). Have you ever been to Carlston or Turner, Oregon? (Same follow up). In connection with CRISMAN, have you ever heard of a COLONEL WHITE (WILBERT)? What do you know about him? Has CRISMAN ever discussed the assassination in your presence? Has he ever mentioned the name of LAVERNE "LARRY: CRAFARD to you? VI. When did you decide to move to Nebraska? Whose idea was it? Did you meet with - or talk to - CRISMAN before moving there? Who made the arrangements for you to go to Omaha? Who paid for your transportation there? When you went to Nebraska, what State had you been in before that? And what State before that? What was the purpose in your going to Omaha and settling there? Were you given instructions and an assignment? Through whom did you meet your officer contact at Offutt Air Force Base there? What other contacts did you have at Affutt AFB? How frequently did you meet your officer contact? What was the usual purpose of your meeting? What did you usually talk about? What "business" were you supposedly engaged with him? Whose idea was it? How long did it last? Where was it located? Who was the landlord? What was the rent? Who paid it? Did the "business" show a profit? Is it not a fact that your "church" and "business" actually were merely covers? What was your real function in Omaha? For whom were you working? (or: for whom did you think you were working?) What was the real source of your income? How were you paid? How frequently? Describe in full detail the nature of your relationship with any and all persons at Offut Air Base. Was it a SAC base? (If affirmative, how did you know that?) - 8 - Going back to FRED CRISMAN, of Washington, you are aware - are you not - that he was not a real minister of a real church? What do you consider to have been the actual nature of his activity? His real job, his real function? What do you think was the real source of his income? By the time you had spent several years in Omaha - and certainly by 1968 you must have acquired your own ideas as to what CRISMAN's real activity was. What did you conclude that it was? Who did you believe him to be working for? Who did you consider to be his real boss? What did you think he was attempting to accomplish while using the cover of "minister"? VII. In 1968, when you were subpoenaed by District Attorney Garrison's Grand Jury in New Orleans, did you call CRISMAN? (If so, why? What did he tell you to do?) Why did you then leave Nebraska and go over into Iowa in an effort to avoid extradition to New Orleans? - 9 - When you arrived in New Orleans in 1968, as the result of your extradition to testify, you were driving a 1968 car. What was your financial condition then? Where was the money coming from? What had you been doing to earn it? Who paid for the car? During that time, while you were in New Orleans, you told a man by the name of DAVID LEWIS that you were working for the C.I.A. What did you mean by that? After you testified before the New Orleans Grand Jury, did you contact anyone and discuss with them the questions asked and your answers? After that Grand Jury appearance, when did you next talk to CRISMAN? Why? About what? After that Grand Jury appearance, were you questioned about it by representatives of any federal agency? (What agency? What did they ask you?) Prior to the assassination on November 22, 1963, were you questioned by any federal agency? (If so, what was the subject of this questioning?) After the assassination, were you questioned by any federal agency? (Same follow up). - 10 - 6 VIII. What contacts have you had with CRISMAN since 1968? By phone? (who phoned whom?) By mail? (same). By intermediary? (details). By visit (who visited whom? Place. Reason. Subject of discussion. Details?) Have you received any assignments or things to do from him since then? (Or from anyone else?) Any remuneration? (How much?) How frequently? What for?) What was the first "church" for which you became a "minister"? (Whose idea? Who told you how to get your creden- tials? What was the reason?) What subsequent "churches" did you purport to become a "minister" or"bishop" for? (Same follow up questions). What "church" was FERRIE a "priest" for? What "church" did CRISMAN represent? What "church" does he represent now? What was their apparent reason for these phoney religious convictions? - 11 - Why is this non-existent "church" business so recurrent with you and persons with whom you have associated? Is it not a fact that the non-existent "church" and the title of "minister" or "bishop" serves as a cover for other activities? What activities were these? (With regard to you? With regard to others? Go into indicated follow-up questions). Have you ever heard of the Church of the Abundant Life located in Oak Park (Dallas) in 1963? (Scene of Officers' Tippit's murder). Have you ever heard of the REVEREND O.B. GRAHAM of Dallas? Have you ever heard anyone discuss the use of an evangelical church building, in Dallas, in connection with the assassination? Are you aware of the use of any of these "odd churches"? - existent or non-existent - used anywhere in connection with the assassination? Have you ever heard anyone discuss these "odd churches" with regard to the assassination? With regard to any clandestine or undercover activity? (If answer is affirmative, give names and full details) Who introduced you to Sergio Arcacha? When and where did you meet him? Did you ever perform any assignments or duties or jobs for him? (When? Where? Under what circumstances?) Did you ever receive any payment for this? Have you ever seen or met Arcacha outside of New Orleans? Where? On what occasion? -12- Do you know when Arcacha moved from New Orleans? Do you know what city he moved to? (Houston). Do you know what city Arcacha was living in in November, 1963? (Dallas). Do you know whether or not CRISMAN knew ARCACHA? (In 1962 or 1963 ? Later?) Did ARCACHA know CRISMAN? (Same follow-up) Have you ever heard one mention the other? (Under what circumstances?) Do you know whether CRISMAN knew JACK RUBY? OFFICER TIPPIT? (If so, follow up for details). Have you ever seen CRISMAN supply money to anyone? Under what circumstances? For what purpose? Did CRISMAN fly to New Orleans, to your knowledge, very often? (If yes, how often? Approximate number of times each year: 1962. 1963. 1964 through 1968. Since 1968). Have you ever had CRISMAN'S home phone number? What city was it in? Why were you given it? How often have you used it? Do you know his present number? When did you last know his home phone number? Do you know whether or not ARCACHA knew CLASMAN'S home phone number? CLAY SHAW ? BANISTER? Have you ever heard that any of these men ever called CRISMAN long distance? Under what circumstances? Have you ever heard of anyone else calling CRISMAN long distance? Under what circ unstances? ; Did you ever have occasion to deliver money to or for CRISMAN? To or for ARCACHA? (Under what circumstances?) Did you ever have occasion to deliver money to or for anyone else? In any instance, how much was involved? Who assigned you to this task? Have you ever held any sums of money for any of the individuals I have names? For any Cuban organizations? For any organizations whatever? (When and under what circumstances?) Since 1962, how often would you estimate you have made commercial airline flights? In 1962. 1963? From 1963 to 1968? Since 1968? What cities (and in what years) have you travled to by air? Who paid the air fare? What was the purpose of each flight? (If his answer is affirmative but to the effect that there were too many flights to remember, shift to question concerning the amount and source of his income during those years. Develop any disproportionate ratio of air travel to yearly income). Do you know whether or not CRISMAN is or was a pilot? Did he ever describe his military service to you? Has he ever indicated to you that - at any time since 1962 - he has been in government service? How did he indicate that? (Details). -14- How well would you say that CRISMAN and SHAW knew each other? When and where did you ever see them together? Under what (total) circumstances? Has either one ever mentioned the other to you? (Same questions re: GUY BANISTER. DAVID FERRIE. SERGIO ARCACHA. KERRY THORNLEY ). (In the following question, the first and the fourth names are fictional to avoid Beckham memorizing the two interior names:) Have you ever heard CRISMAN mention any of the following names: William Walter Jordan? Charles B. Cabel1 (General) ? George Lyman Paine (father of Michael Payne) ? Harold M. Jackson? Have you ever seen any of these men? Have you ever heard anyone else mention them? Regardless of Beckham's early answer re whether he had known KERRY THORNLEY, show him a variety of THORNLEY photographs and ask him whether he has ever seen him. Recall when and where. (Press for details as to where and when seen). Repeat this photograph exhibition with regard to FRED CRISMAN, DAVID FERRIE and CLAY SHAW. (Press for details as to where and when seen). (If subject answers all of the above questions, it should open up additional avenues for questioning. But this list should serve for openers). Copies: Clif Fenton Jon Blackmer Gaeton Fonzi -16- 3 It Friends Homey 21.2x Ther 24 Re: SHAW (3) SNY CITY NEW CITY OF NEW ORLEANS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL TRADE MART NEWORLEANS, LA. TEL. 523-3240 VICTOR H. SCHIND MAYOR November 11, 1963 MARIO BERMUDEZ DIRECTOR Mr. J. M. Sullivan Executive Director World Trade Center Ferry Duilding San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Sullivan: I tried to got in to noh with you by telephone today but, pending completion of the call, I an writing you on the same subject I would like to discuss with you by telephene. Hr. Clay Show, Managing Director of the International Erado Hart hare in New Orleans, 10 going to be in San Francisco from November 21 to 23 end, 1.0 you consider 0020 loan] business groups there would be interested, be would be willing to address them on the subject of our International Trade Hart and his experience 12 founding the present one and promoting the zew building, which has just started construction, and the effect of the Mart ON international trado through the Port of Now Orleans. I look forward to hearing from you in this regard, or If you wish you could telephone 523-6137, and measwhile, with kind regards, I an, contact Mr. Shar directly: International Trado Hart, New Orleans, Is., 504- Sincerely yours, mb/bd Navio Homelica, Masetor ".1.0. Coxillistory in entil Relations 30,100 onett Center 3 Ra: SHAW (3) Fil TERNATIONAL TRADE MART NEW ORLEANS, U.S.A. November 13, 1963. WORLD TRADE CENTER Mr. Monroe Sullivan, Executive Director * Nov 1 41903 World Trade Center San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Sullivan: This will confirm ONE telephone conversation that I will speak before B luncheon meeting on Friday, November 22nd at the World Trado Center. My topic will be "New Orleans-- A Case History in International Relations." I an enclosing herewith photograph and biographical sketch for your uso, 1f needed. I am also onclosing fact sheet and photographs of the new International Trade Mart project for which we have broken ground. This may be useful for your bulletin. I appreciate your offer to arrange a room for De for arrival on Thursday morning, November 21st. I will call you early Thursday morning. ClaySlean Clay Show Cordially, CS:GN Encls. Managing Director. AirNail-Special Delivery. 3 Re: SHAW (3) WORLD TRADE CLUB NOVEMBER 1963 Published by World Trode Club World Trade Center Son Francisco 11, California CONSULAR CORPS HONORS GOVERNOR COMING EVENTS San Francisco's Consular Corps chose the World Nov. 22 - Luncheon - S.F. Area World Associa- Trade Club as the setting for a reception and dinner tion, World Trade Center Authority, and World honoring Governor and Mrs. Edmund G. Brown earlier Trade Club. Speaker: Clay Shaw, managing this month. The Acting Dean of the Corps, Adolfo G. director, New Orleans International Trade Dominguez, Consul General of Mexico, is shown below Mart. will discuss "New Orleans Case His- (left) greeting California's Governor Brown in the Game tory in International Relations." Room of the Club. On the right is the Secretary of the Nov. 25 - Luncheon - S.F. Area World Trade Associa- Corps, Consul General Alessandro Savorgnan of Italy. tion and the German-American Trade Advi- sory Board. Speaker: Dr. Schmitz-Lenders, German Ministry of Economics, currently in charge of German International Exhibitions and Trade Promotion. Dec. 17 - Christmas Around the World Dinner. Dec. 18 - Christmas Around the World Luncheon. CLUB NEWS The traditional Christmas Around the World luncheon will be held on Wednesday, December 18, for members, Albert L. Reeves, chairman, membership committee, and senior vice president, Utah Construction & Mining Company, will represent the Club Board of Directors at this event, This year, for the first time, a Christmas Around the World Dinner will be held on Tuesday evening, December 17, to enable members, their ladies and guests to attend. Club President George Killion, presi- den!. American President Lines, will represent the Board of Directors at the dinner. which replaces the Since the opening of the Club in April, 1960, the local usual Tuesday International Buffet. An outstanding mu- Consular Corps members have sponsored many of the sical program (identical at the two events) is promised most interesting events in the Club. Receptions for vis- by Club Manager D.T.T. Mackinnon. Announcements iting foreign government officials, trade missions and concerning these special Christmas celebrations will business leaders, and the celebration of "National Day" be in the mail shortly. of the various countries have all been occasions lending an intern tional flair. HOLIDAY SEASON SCHEDULE In his welcoming speech, Mr. Dominguez said: The Club will be open: Tuesday, December 24, Christmas Eve - Until 4 p.m. "The Consular Corps of San Francisco, in whose Tuesday. December 31, New Year's Eve - Until 4 p.m. name I speak, is now tied with Hamburg, Germany, as The Club will be closed: the second largest in the world with 54 representations, Wednesday, December 25, Christmas Day - all day preceded only by New York. And this fact is important Wednesday, January 1, New Year's Day - all day when we remember that there are some 3,200,000 aliens in the United States, of which over 661,000. or 21% of them, live in your beautiful State of California. Many Among recent visitors to the Club were Michael, of them will no doubt become your fellow citizens this Prince von Hohenzollern, and Hubertus, Prince von year; but until they do so, we the Consuls present, will Lowenstein, of Germany: Ambassador Braj Kuman Nehru be entrusted by our governments to look after their of India; Ambassador Gilbert Spence of British Gulana; interests, their welfare and their relations with their Sir Berkley and Lady Ormerod, of England; and Pancho new place of abode. Gonzalez. 3 RE:SHAW (3) MEISCO The Pan Francisco Area OF I World Trade Association CHARLER in cooperation with the World Trade Center and World Trade Club World Business Luncheon Meeting "New OPLEANS - OPT A CASE HISTORY IM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS" The Role of America's First World Trade Center by CLAY SHAW Managing Director, International Trade Mart, New Orleans Mr. Shaw helped to found and develop the International Trade Most and Club, and is responsible for promoting the NEW -30 million International Center which is now under construction in New Orleans. Much of San Fran- cisco's early planning for a World Trade Center and Club evolved from the New Orleans "case history." All of us shall find particular interest in hearing Mr. Shaw's report on the role of the New Orleans operation in world trade promotion. ANd Hour: FRIDAY, November 22, 1963 - 12 noon World Trade Club, Game Room $4.00 Bar Facilities PURCHASE TICKET AT THE DOOR FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO: 12428 San Francisco, Calif. BUSINESS REPLY CARD No postage Hamp necessary if mailed in the United State: POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY- San Francisco Area World Trade Association 333 Pine Street San Francisco 4 3 R: R:5HAW SHAW (3) Trade Director Lunch Speaker S, Examiner-Page 3 Friday. Nov. 22. 1963 * 5C2H* Clay Shaw. managing di- will address a luncheon tion of the Chamber of Com- rector of the International meeting of the San Francisco merce at noon today in the Trade Mart*at New Orleans, Area World Trade Associa- World Trade Club. in: Bethell For Oswald +, MEMORANDUM andrews files December 4, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: TOM BETHELL RE: AL CLARK * On Sunday, December 3, 1967, I spoke to AL CLARK at Dixieland Hall, and asked him about his state- ment to HAROLD WEISBERG that he had seen DEAN ANDREWS talking to LEE HARVEY OSWALD. CLARK stated that when he saw OSWALD on television after the assassination his immediate reaction was that he had seen him before. After thinking about it he came to the conclusion that he had seen OSWALD with ANDREWS. ANDREWS, CLARK recollects, was in the habit of bringing his friends into the back door of Dixieland Hall, and he believes he saw ANDREWS and OSWALD sitting together in the patio right behind Dixieland Hall. CLARK said he did not mention this before because he thought it was common knowledge. that ANDREWS knew OSWALD, and he didn't think it was important. ANDREWS had always told him that he knew OSWALD, and therefore he attached no significance to it. CLARK did not see OSWALD on television in New Orleans when he passed out leaflets in front of the Trade Mart. For: Oweld your MEMORANDUM November 29, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: ANDREW SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A. RE: LEE OSWALD Upon further conversation with JS, it was learned that while JS was employed at Dixie's Bar of Music when it was the biggest and most prominent "gay" bar in the City, he had occasion to meet LEE HARVEY OSWALD who used to hang around Dixie's and seemed to want to associate with the gay guys. JS remembers him due to the fact that many times he had to run him out of Dixie's because he was under age and prohibited by law from going into bars. JS says that he cannot say what OSWALD's relationship or intentions were in regards to the gay people who were there. He could not say that he had ever seen him associate with any particular people. It should be noted that CLAY SHAW was a frequent visitor to Dixie's Bar of Music, and therefore the possibility exists that they could have met at this time. In the same vein, SHAW was a frequent visitor to Pat O'Brien's which at one time had a side bar which catered almost exclusively to gay people. That particular bar has since been remodeled and the gay people have gone on to greener pastures. ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA AJS/leb vices Committee. made slight secret of ticated new technology and a raft of Free- ren Commission report. They are ready his disenchantment with the com- dom of Information lawsuits. they have to believe almost any explanation. how- mission's report and encouraged private uncovered additional evidence pointing ever crazy. as long as it doesn't come investigators to challenge its findings. "I to the existence of a conspiracy- con- from the government." never believed that he [Oswald] did it spiracy in which Harvey Oswald was The proposition that Oswald without any consultation or encourage- not involved. if indeed there ever was a wasn't acting alone has always seemed a ment whatsoever." Russell said in 1970. Lee Harvey Oswald. Within the last few little crazy. Because. if he wasn't. then "Too many things caused me to doubt months. Congressman Henry Gonzalez. a there must have been a conspiracy, a that he planned it all by himself." And Democrat from San Antonio. has intro- word that does not go down easily among then there were the witnesses to the as- duced a resolution calling for a congres- many Americans. And. if there was a con- sassination itself. Fifty-two of them insist- sional investigation of the assassination. spiracy. then there must have been an ef- ed that at least some of the shots that A petition backing it has collected more fort to cover it up. an effort so monu- killed President Kennedy came from in than 250.000 signatures on the West mental that it would have had to include front of him. from the direction of the in- Coast alone. A bootlegged copy of the the Dallas police. the CIA. the Secret Ser- famous grassy knoll. The commission dis- long-suppressed Zapruder film. showing vice, the FBI and. yes. possibly the Presi- counted all of them. President Kennedy being driven violently dent of the United States. Ten years ago. Small wonder. then. that the com- backward by a shot that rips off the top of that was a little hard to swallow. Even mission's report proved a breeding his head. has been shown on national tele- now, it is a story one would rather not be- ground for skeptics. In the years imme- vision twice. Perhaps most significant of lieve. But there are the questions that diately following the assassination. 26 all. the Justice Department. according to won't go away. And there is Watergate: a books and dozens of articles. some of reliable sources. has very quietly begun a conspiracy involving the CIA. the FBI. them serious. some simply scurrilous. high-level, internal review of Oswald's the Department of Justice and, yes. the challenged the finding that Oswald acted background. In the past. rumors have cir- President of the United States. Suddenly, alone or. in the opinion of many of the culated that Oswald was an agent of one it becomes possible. doubters-including Mark Lane and Syl- or more intelligence agencies. perhaps in- via Meagher. author of the seminal cluding the FBI. Now, the rumors are tak- The commission and the critics Accessories After the Fact-at all. By ing on some substance. Impossible, said the commission. 1967. the holes in the Warren Com- Much of the evidence that is being from the moment it began its work. Con- mission report had become so numerous gone over today is precisely the same spiracy was the one thing the commission and obvious. and the public furor about ground that the critics went over a de- did not want to hear. much less discover. them so great. that several congressmen cade ago. What has changed is belief. Earl Warren, who had accepted the chair- were demanding a new investigation. The strongest selling point of the Warren manship of the commission only after Then. another one of those coincidences. Commission is not what it said but the considerable arm-twisting from President In New Orleans a district attorney named people who said it: some of the most re- Johnson. made it clear at the first. secret Jim Garrison. a figure of large ambition spected men in the land. among them the staff meeting of the commission that his and unsavory reputation. indicted Clay chief justice of the United States. two di- mission and theirs was more political Shaw. director of the New Orleans Trade rectors of the CIA and a man who a de- than investigatory. He had taken the job. Mart. for conspiracy to murder John Ken- cade later would assume the presidency. Warren told the commission. because the nedy. Garrison claimed that Shaw was the Gerald R. Ford. If a senior public figure President had convinced him that if ringleader of a CIA cabal. He proved only stated something in 1964. there was a ten- rumors about a conspiracy were not that Clay was a devotee of kinky homo- dency to take him at his word. In the af- squelched. it could conceivably lead the sexuality. After a ludicrous trial. in which termath of Watergate and Vietnam. few country into war. As Melvin Eisenberg. a Garrison made almost no attempt to pro- people are prepared to believe anything commission lawyer. later recalled the duce evidence. Shaw was acquitted. Sub- that comes out of Washington. In a sense. chief justice's charge in a memo, "He sequently. Shaw died and Garrison was that is part of the problem. As Mark placed emphasis on quenching rumors, driven from office. The Warren Com- Lane, who has returned to investigating and precluding further speculation such mission's critics were scattered in dis- the assassination after sojourns into Viet- as that which has surrounded the death of array. nam protests and Indian rights struggles, Lincoln." Now the critics have returned. puts it: "It's not a question any longer of Thus. under extreme political pres- stronger than before. Armed with sophis- persuading people to disbelieve the War- sures. the commission set about its task. 18 NEW TIMES The best of the Warren Commission just over the knot of the president's tie Interestingly enough, when Groden critics are as serious as Hoch and their -then entered the right side of Gov- showed this film at Bernard Fenster- names may well 80 down some day on ernor Connally's back (breaking his wald's home in November 1973, nei- an honor roll of those who cared right fifth rib), emerged from his chest, enough to get involved: Vincent Sal- ther he nor anyone else made any men- shattered a bone in his wrist and en- tion of a rifleman on the knoll. Groden andria, Harold Weisberg. Sylvia Meag- tered his left thigh. After all this the her, Josiah Thompson, Edward Jay Ep- says it wasn't until January 1974 that bullet had only lost two grains from stein, David Lifton, Lillian Castellano, its original weight and, said Wecht, Fred Newcomb, Perry Adams, Ray he started scanning the last 18 frames the upper two centimeters of the bullet Marcus, Marjorie Field, Shirley Mar- of his Zapruder film and then began to "show no grossly visible deformities, tin, Mary Ferrell, Richard Popkin, Bill see that what he thought was the wheel areas of mutilation, loss of substance Turner, Richard Sprague and the early well of the presidential Lincoln wasn't or any kind of significant scathing." the wheel well at all, but the rifleman- Mark Lane. There is one small piece that was re- Among the most important critics "because the car was moving forward moved from the bullet's jacket by an still hard at work and making new con- and the 'wheel well' was moving back- FBI agent "for spectrographic analysis" tributions are: ward." (which analysis might show that JFK Bernard Fensterwald, a successful David Lifton is an engineering- and Connally were not hit by the same Washington D.C. lawyer, who out of physics graduate of Cornell and a drop- bullet). his own well-haberdashered pocket, out from graduate school at UCLA who finances the activities of something he Furthermore, says Wecht, there was ought to have three doctorates by now calls the Committee to Investigate As- something strange about the trajectory in the disciplines he has picked up dur- of that bullet from the sixth floor of the sassinations, a loose confederation of ing ten years of work on the assassina- Texas School Book Depository. It was citizens whose worry about the assas- tion: history, political science and his- sination of two Kennedys and a King supposed to have been traveling down- was once signalized by the flag they ward and passing through JFK from toriography (a study of the way history printed on their metered mailings: WHO right to left. It should, therefore, have is written). In 1967 Lifton did a 30,000- Is KILLING OUR LEADERS? Fensterwald missed Governor Connally completely. Under the Warren Commission's hy- word analysis (with David Welsh) in helped set up a special assassination Ramparts which argued that there were archive at Georgetown University and pothesia the bullet may have made an was the chief honeho for a conference acute angular turn in midair. Wecht three assassins firing in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963. believes a second assassin may have at Georgetown on the tenth anniversary In 1968, shortly after most of the of JFK's assassination. With attorney been firing at JFK from the rear, pos- transcripts of the Warren Commission James Lesar, he is handling legal ap- sibly even from the front, but he says he cannot know for sure until he ex- executive sessions were declassified, Lif- peals for James Earl Ray, having been amines the materials that are missing. ton published them privately as Docu- brought into the Ray case by Harold ment Addendum to the Warren Report. Weisberg. Though Fensterwald has Robert Groden, a young expert Lifton has served as a consultant to Dr. avoided entangling his assassination in optics from New York City, has conspiracy theories with the Ray case, magnified the central part of each Cyril Wecht and it was he who pro- vided the producers of Executive Ac- frame of the Zapruder film and pro- Weisberg says that was the strategy be- tion with the documentary record which duced what he calls a reframed copy. hind the move to get a new trial for The result is like a new film of the Ray. "If we walk Ray, then the govern- assassination, made through a zoom supported that movie's attempt to prove ment will have to find Dr. King's real lens, with much of the jiggle removed. how several assassination teams might killers." This seems to be the commit- Now, even more starkly than before, have worked in Dallas. Lifton is a 35- tee's basic thrust: to push the govern- ment to find the real killers-of JFK, to the lay observer at least, it appears year-old bachelor whose Brentwood that the shot which took off the top apartment has 22 filing drawers on the MLK, RFK. of the president's head and splattered assassination. Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, coroner of two trailing police motorcycles came Lifton has a work in progress which Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and di- from the front. The president's head challenges the authenticity of the evi- rector of the Institute of Forensic Sci- clearly snaps back and to the left. Mrs. dence on which the Warren Commis- ences at Duquesne University, is the Kennedy's description of the president sion based its major findings. first pathologist outside the federal at that moment was deleted from her George O'Toole, a former com- government to examine the assassina- testimony as published by the Warren puter. analyst for the CIA, has turned tion evidence at the National Archives. Commission, but her actual words, re- to a new technological tool as an impor- Trouble is, he reported in August 1972, leased by the Archives in 1972, may be tant adjunct in his assassination re- the president's brain is missing from significant here: "I was trying to hold search. The tool is [Cont. on 37] the medico-legal exhibits at the Ar- his hair OR. But from the front there Cont. from 33] something called a chives. So are certain important skin was nothing. I suppose there must have Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE), sections taken from the point where been. But from the back you could see, a machine which a skilled operator can bullets were supposed to have entered you know, you were trying to hold his apply to anyone's recorded words and the scalp and upper back of JFK. So hair on and his skull on." tell, by evaluating the stress patterns in are photos of the sections. Neverthe- Groden, who reconstituted the Zap- the speech (seen on the machine's scan- less, even without the missing materials, ruder film from a pirated copy belong- ners as a series of mountains and val- Dr. Wecht concludes that the physical ing to Time Inc., has had his film shown leys), whether that person is telling the evidence which he has examined recently on scattered TV stations all truth or lying. doesn't support the Warren Commis- over the U.S. and Canada. According The PSE presents advantages over sion's findings. "More than one per- to Groden, his blowup shows not only the old polygraph exam (which is why son," he says, "was involved in the old-time polygraph examiners don't shooting of President Kennedy." that President Kennedy was killed by like it). A skilled PSE examiner can Wecht says he bases his conclusion a shot from the front (and therefore play the PSE game with remote subjects on an analysis of the famous single from a shot on or near the grassy who don't even know they're partici- bullet (Commission Exhibit 399) knoll); it also shows the rifleman stand- pants. All O'Toole needed in order to which the Warren Commission said ing there on the grassy knoll holding find out whether some of the actors in was supposed to have entered the right the rifle up in the air as the presidential the JFK assassination scenario were side of the president's back, coursed car disappears through the railroad through the uppermost portions of the telling the truth was access to old taped underpass. thorax and mediastinum and emerged interviews they'd given out years ago. DEPARTMEN T OF POLICE NEW ORLEANS, LA. ARREST REGISTER MAGISTRATE OR MUNICIPAL COURT COPY ARRESTEE DATA ANRESTED NAME RACE SEX BIRTH DATE HEIGHT WEIGHT HAIR EYES SKIN ARREST NUMBER DALZELL BILLY W W M 120426 509 200 CRY HAZ RUD 00478183 ADDRESS CITY STATE BIRTH STATE NATIONALITY BUREAU OF ID NO. 507 S TOULOUSE ST CITY LA OK US 100-187 OCCUPATION EMPLOYER MOTION NUMBER SEAMAN 00253513 ASASNAME MARITAL STATUS SOCIAL SEC. NO. OPERATOR'S LICENSE NO. LIC. ST. 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MAHER 020576 AT 531AM. 52677 SIGNATURE SIGNATURE BACKUP 0504 AM G. CEASAR DOORMAN (TYPE NAME) TIME IN DESK SERGEANT (TYPE NAME) 12/3 Ruby Murder Trial Postponed Wade, Howard OFFICER RECALLS Oswald in N.Y.: Report Cases Are Not Ready A Bitter Truant District Court Judge Joe B. Brown Tuesday post- - poned the trial Jack L. of the a they next to They and New Tom in the has first in the had his would a of » Probe Hints Say the $ Oswald Unaided and Ris to had for - be - his & - The The Used this of week is # to be in - of a % ready the the 1. withe and the Solon Hits At Actions By Agents & of is the 20% 20 to be in the the - of the # de I D. be the @ las. Mr - - there Inc. in If I is no is to # a they la The 12/5 12/4 Thersday Dec. 1043 Walker Says DECEMBER 4. 1963 City Leaders Urge THE DALLAS TIMES HERALD He May Run 54 DALLAS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 4. 1963 For Governor Unity, Dedication Editorials INSURVEPORT he WARREN BORWORTH - Truths and Half-Truths to of les 4-A. the AS people had concluded vidual can stomach much of that par- . of the presidential assessination, titular outlet's spearings, an the work of one man, and number of Interners will the Federal trayed tato these be of of qualified truths the has gained the This instruction, like 60 # the of of 5 not was made by stop the of One kernel of to of and old fabrication sumption = conted and with The will the of untruth and frenzied read Kennedy you have presented that the assessination of Abraham large ball that is called Lincoln # grist specu- The Investigation of the assessine- of book came out cel tion of President Kennedy will The : the only this fall. doubtedly be the most through of What to the attitude research in modern history. The men, at and and both Texas and national levels, sift- is to feater the myth that the in- through the mountains of facts are the shooting does the best minds the nation can offer. # & No orders of State Department" to cannot believe the findings of R the truth and name that no this Investigation, then there is little for " break occurred the close believe. other « PRESIDENT'S that department and the Krem- On . broader basis, numor has tried the and Castro's Cuba." the two principals, Lee Cowald PROBES Dr. quotations were and Jack Ruby, Into some kind of sinis- Oswald: Crybaby PROBE PANEL by . Southern radio station network. From across the nation Page and DO really same Indi- have corre curtive relesives hintleg that With Delusions sanity the writer knows " gambling tions, of political and redul conjune- JAMES MARLOW, Associated Press News again Analyst TO ASSEMBLE if tures them. Here the THE at & to connect the PICTURE of Lee which I except for the inflamed 3 that of a The Longer Death both shared which to poor to both to what 1 . with about and the the in First Amendment when are may look the different. Probe Asked But Into columns onto the ex-Marine their assessinated after of by they being the needing, questioning half-truths charged F. Kennedy WASHINGTON and of which vi- to be imaginings somebody may was of # to is compounded. The bruth, conspiracy. But to . of at any recement, hard enough to He . w with - the with. to a le revolution is - Orwald was too will relige to organization be He about the be read. but be Secret Service spell well He was with 4 society but how to do visa . the no to be could him- was made self in society. - Needn't Talk? And while he of a more perfect - city cirty, in this he on his rest. He MOVES la and Mr He the Soviet I wanted . of The book condemning it. of - for Complaints, But No Support . - after the be pay is the . of for a peace about to M in - the if and be to - . about short is r end for # 1 & is and . . He # # Secret Service Men Seen be nall - Jan He proba would 3 In Club Reported Off Duty # - of * - I to - . to - the . and # the that will all the - in the This at - about bis today. is - - and . . . minury Disilusioned With Russia . : - be and I as = for I in be 0 the agents - is 5 being . - to P to to the the at - the in chief is - . of " any the of - . - is - 1 sever is The the . # " - - the and of Last . be in - . to be Inco 2 the . beth and This I for is the killed that be be show the 1 Less Stalla, - - : A - - - bet . is 12/L THE DALLAS TIMES HERALD FINANCIAL CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED FOR #7 YEARS THE TIMES 1876 THE HERALD 1006 CONSOLIDATED EDITION 87th Year-No. 305 DALLAS, TEXAS, PRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER & 1963 Price Five Centa INVESTIGATORS MUM Oswald Reported Walker Sniper Wife Told FBI Issues FBI Report on JFK Mate Boasted, of 'Sources' Say trial der Killing Stays Secret Lee to No wife that be the Gee ware ren - ain # - the - MUM - by In - that The I report he the public Mother Still Says the Rep. the Oswald Not Guilty Zip found On of poke and ? 12/7 arriles other K Ped the 1 Boy's Story Clouds Probe general Grand Of JFK-Walker Attack Tie - or - the in il this . into and Jahn The I by window said - - - by in or. The If with work - Jound support - *tempts & - the M alder, the - - and revesled I stayed the be - per- Mrs trues - or and - in the Albert . The bettered less to ? for - i - of - dug believe 2 by Mr. End entrece the I - - - - Mm - in my in I 12/7 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES DECEMBER 7, 1963 Carr Calls Off Texas Inquiry WASHINGTON Reveal Oswald (AP)-The of John for The Wrote About His Shot At Walker @ By Sandy Smith CHICAGO TN In SUN-TIMES by Gen = FBI Seeking To Link The r in Oswald To Sniper's the - the Shot At Gen. Walker EXCLUSIVE 5 Top Hoffa Aides tax Said To Have Quit vas in # that ist of the hage to Oswald Wrote Of Walker Earl Abuse Stuns - 0 at Goldwater, # ¥ the Report Says el in a by said I is in to the the the is search - the is come his On M 2 - can - for P the E for the 2 of & I of 1961 M 35c can be the be the - - The CHICAGO the of is for SUN-TIMES - but . Voll or time TXX that HARVEY DOWALD - NOVE (4% FORMER THE SAID THAT 1 I NPW 12/8 DECEMBER 8. 1953 OFFICER SAYS Weissman Says Conservatives Paid for Ad Rapping JFK HE SAW RUBY NY. Time appeared is the Dallas/Mede will Kinday with an spoligable at the president's terrible be will "Njoben . had been extablished - Community - the - A played asked newepaper A 1. 1 no - . the I Owned 1 - A Dallas - - intervations police I fan and * of M is THE DALLAS TIMES HERALD Lee DALLAS, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 8, 1963 the Commerce of " Street The & wild He Jack - the - day and valieted be Editorials the the - to ⑉ area. patient the U.N. and Human Rights passed at be - the - HELPFUL now and then, to be that they are inherent with our human Tea & - sure we have things to their proper birth 1 police No people 3 perspective. One each Item is how Our own government has proclaimed Dec. 15 as Bill of Rights Day. within by people feel about U.S. membership in the framework of Human Rights Week prive if the United Nations - We page armusly to renew our accosed On the eve of the United Nations' the the acquiredance with this remarkable, is Human Rights Week (Dee 10-17) : document which can * read in 10 the parter find . national pell reported that the missin but explored for generations MATCH cerrying United Nations is widely respocted by Every sentence of our Bill of Rights has - of this country or these ques the boals for a series of docu- " chrisgh The a tioned, # per cent said they believed Howard. ments and backs seeking to exhaust its said can't good to have the United States in particular meaning and application. type the be 8a the Dated Nationa Only per cest The United National was formed in of UNI otherwise and only 13 per ceel an attengt to bring to the whole world BLAMED I RETURY TO LIBERALS expressed convictions one way the some of the benefits of the Ideas of ether the The other. which the United States has been prin- An for F. % The poll above reported that U.S. practitioner. To say that the - - of the the be public support for the United Nations its United National has surreded fully is plant The - has completed are the 18 been years i but the United Nations has - that organization MI been S existence falied or in filling or must chrase fall is - and The margin of disapproval is smaller a not only shertwighted but untrue the Depart saw than it was in 1951. for instance. The idea of human rights faces a I The Mrs. of hurnan rights. which constant battle around the world. Some- strong tenet the United Nations' times the buttle la in Africa, sometimes in the - in of or primarily AS in sometimes in Dallas. Be 1 lesgue out American political We gave to cause we are human MO fall heir to to & world an alternative in right" these weakness of the spirit 10 which The and the rigid rights in humanity is so sunceptible. Given power, a. wish end is de concession form such M became prt of we about preose to USE It on the less offer something - ast the the legal processes of England In other A provectful (Y) to use 11 for our cun ends. yards be words. from America curos the I - for when it may and Inc. 1 " declaration that some things are shore Twice hunte rights is more A. the granting of kings or governments, that political need, human rights is BITS engling something we need to lake personal STILL Other Voices of Sometimes we need to take surb cognitience every & tainly week, or one day, . of of Ignorance About Communism overtes our capacity to kain about such TUMEROUS AMERICAN . and the If we to of will - the . id at is One it an this . . line spring. # # her thre - this of firity of - and la 6 that the We the - reports I # . - is for - number found to I - The what hereby minet the - De eralt 1 - to the study a bis - - - Tertle Crerk Bederard - is - makes # * . - . 94. 1 the state of I 1 of # . ⑉ , in " to 1 - is and la I : MAIL the of - # - & the K. will - Aut - * is I 3 - 12/9 12/10 A-21 Tuesday. Dec. DALLAS TIMES lat. *A-11 Man Placing Ad Explains Views Attorneys Confer On Ruby Defense Out-of-State Lawyers May Participate in Case Two preminent California trial attorneys visited kitter Ruby in the Dallas County admitted they were enter- Ing the of the one of to top in the personal S. Brody, said make about the LIVE SHELL REPORTED FOUND ON OSWALD of Or in in if 2 . of at TIMES Bes, ***A-23 the FOR ASSASSINATION Joe w RUSSIAN VISIT it Air-Tight Case Enmeshed Oswald's Letters that d Oswald, Sources Report To Mother Printed is of eped by The be is 6 A. in The THE DALLAS TIMES HERALI DALLAS, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1963 Editorials on - - is (1) The at # Wise To Bow Out is I THE DECISION of State Attorney but in case of such vast Importance # The who he - need for R. Carr to cancel does not appear to multify the J. D. Type - . the Texas of the the highest national legal participation. the I at is accound The nation must know all, and must The Mr. Carr and his staff can know that all the facts offered by the the the believable. There be and * doubtedly contribute their share temptation in order in fancy. But # - to of The expert like this. of the 1 - - that the be of the ilk that would à Texas, pain 1 in by A his the I be the involves the are a number of Texas happened I and must be torted of what of president. in # hint question of why to the death of President 2 50 officers in the findings. Every day office more # and - action will 8 propositions in in in and conflict and will speed up the letters from people all over the be * was He commended It will be almost Impossible to keep been - deciding. from over has been criticlam re- of the Chief Ing or believing that have some wide garding the appointment Supreme this truth that of cliss, acros Justice « the Court to suppressed about the President's death. I believe the committee. This criticlem is on Capt. and - the idea that, at some time or another. But the wide majority of Intelligent, to some principal in the affair might have citizens will appear before the Supreme Court on to accept what the presidential fact finders They I out as appeal. record. this is why (Cled at This is . possibility, rather remote. to give the committee the best Pastice of the tion, the best minds and plenty of time 1 to evaluate its findings. " be was president to all. The bey be Just % 1 1 for of the facts In the death of John F. Ken- the and pairs nedy belong to us all, and in full and Orwald to the - And this not in unclouded truth AMERICAN EACLE PUBLISHING Co. P. BOX 150 DALLAS 21. TEXAS January 1, 1964 Since the assessination of President Kennedy on the 22nd of November last, No have been flooded with letters from *11 parts of the country (and of the world, too) asking for information. It is evident from these letters that a great deal of the news avail- able here in Dallas has not been made available elsowhere. Even in these days of a controlled national nown media system, it is difficult to muzzle the local reporter in his own local news- paper. Although #0 cannot, of course, guarantee the complete accuracy of the clippings assembled in this book, it undoubt- edly will give the reader a better coverage of the incidents involved, anower a fee questions, and pose same additional ones. A Cow, perhaps, that the Warren Commission will not noo fit to answer. We trust that this convenient book will prove of value to you. R. A. Surrey President American Bagle Publishing Co.

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ROBERT (BARBARA)\nYOUNG gave me his new address. MRS. CRAWFORD was equally curious.\nBoth gave the impression they were protecting him. It is my\nopinion that one or both of these women have since told ARCACHA\nof my visit.\nRecalling his obvious intensive interest in LOISEL and me near\nhis residence, 9915 DONEGAL DRIVE, DALLAS, TEXAS, coupled with\nthe subsequent news from his former neighbors, ARCACHA may well\nbe aware he has been located and is the subject of an investi-\ngation. He might regard us as some of the revolutionariesswho\nhave good reason to look for him regarding funds he form ly\nhandled in New Orleans. Or, he might have more accurately\nidentified us as investigators.\nTherefore, I am offering the suggestion that some method of\nkeeping tab on ARCACHA be instituted. Should he move again,\nI would expect him to be even more difficult to locate.\nWilliam\nWILLIAM H. GURVICH\nWHG:wg\nMEMORANDUM\n14 February 1967\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY\nFROM:\nWILLIAM GURVICH\nINVESTIGATOR\nSUBJ: SERGIO ARCACHA - PERSONAL AUTOMOBILES\nYour attention is invited to my report of 6 February 1967.\nThe following information is relative to the two automobiles\nseen and photographed in the drive at ARCACHA'S residence, 9915\nDONEGAL DRIVE, DALLAS, TEXAS.\nTEXAS (1966) KXZ 108\n1962 Ford (Thunderbird), Motor No. 2Y83Z103747\nPurchased 1-31-66 by SERGIO ARCACHA, 10476 (10746)\nLake Garden, Apt. D, Dallas, Texas, from JACK ROACH\nFORD, HOUSTON, TEXAS.\nTEXAS (1966) KXZ 314\n1963 Pontiac, Motor No. 163K5941.\nTitle issued 4-7-66 to MARISOL ARCACHA, 10476 (10746)\nLake Garden, Dallas, Texas, by EVANS PONTIAC GMC\nCOMPANY, GARLAND, TEXAS.\nAdditional information regarding cost, trade-in, method of pay-\nment, is being sought.\nWilliam 10. Sunich\nWILLIAM H. GURVICH\nWHG:wg\nUNIT STATES DEPARTMENT\nCommission No.\n551\nFEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE:\nCopy for\nReport oh\nSA ROBERT A. MOFFATT\nOfficer\nNEW HAVEN\nDollar\nMarch 10, 1964\nFirld Office File Now\n105-71\nBureau File Now\n100-32965\nTitle\nGEORGE DeMOHRENSCHILDT;\nJEANNE DeMOHRENSCHILDT\nCharacter\nINTERNAL SECURITY - R\nDIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT, born 3/29/02 in Russia,\nattended school Petrograd, Russia, served with Russian\nImperial Black Sea Fleet 1516, took part in White Counter\nRevolutionary Movement in Russia 1918, imprisoned, flod\nRussia 1919, attended Yale University, New Haven,\nConnecticut 1922-1926 receiving Ph.B, received MA degree\n1930. Background data from Tale Alumni records also set\nforth. Subject and relatives unknown to confidential\ninformants having some knowledge of Communist Party\nactivities in New Haven area.\nRUC\nDETAILS:\nRE: DIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT\nOn March 5, 1964, Mrs. OLIVIA ROSS, Administrative RESISTRAT,\nYale University Alumni Records, 100 Wall Street, New Envon,\nConnecticut, made available if biographic data sheet dated\nOctober 5, 1922 concerning DIMITRI SERGIUS\nIt indicated that be WAS born March 29, 1902 at Minsk,\nRussia to SERGIUS ALEXANDER VonMOHRENSCHILET and ALEXANDRA\nUMY-RUKKO-ZAPOLSKAJA, who died in June, 1922. He had one\nbrother, name not indicated. Aa of 1922 his home address\nwas listed AG 1324 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City,\nThe morement exither - labour not expirations of the Fill, D 4 the property of the you and is leased to your 11 and\nthe contents ATE not 3 In INVOICE -\nNH 105-71\nIn 1925, he furnished information which indicated that he Attended\nRussian intermediate schools at Minsk and Petrograd, two years\nat Imperial Naval Academy, Petrograd. He stated that he participated\nin operations of the Russian Imperial Black Sea Fleet in the\nSummer of 1916, He also stated that be took part in the White\nCounter Revolubtionary Movement in Russia in 1918. As & result\nof this action he was arrested and kept at the Smolensk Eard Inker\nPrison until the Spring of 1919.\nRe indicated that he fled Russia in 1919; resided at Warsay, Poland\nand London, England during 1919-1920; in New York until the 7:12\nof 1920; took & round the world cruise during 1920-1922; entered\nYale in the Fall of 1922.\nWhile at Yale, he received a special full tuition scholarship,\nHe received A Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1926.\nAlso contained in his Alumni Record folder WAS a clipping from\nthe \"New Enven Register,\" a local daily newspaper dated MATCH 28,\n1926, which contained the caption, \"Nobelman of Russia is Now\nTale Student.\" The article relates that DINITRI SERGIUS Von-\nMOHRENSCHILDT WAS born in Petrograd, Russia, attended>school there\nand had just entered the University of Petrograd when var brake\nout. He joined the Imperial Navy. For two years be served 16 :\nnid-shipman with the Imperial Black Sea Fleet. He later VAA\nimprisoned, reportedly spending one year in jail. His whole family\nwas imprisoned. He later escaped to Poland, where the other\nmembers of his family are now reportedly residing (1926).\nSis father, SERGIUS ALEXANDER VonMOHRENSCHILDT was = Marshal of\nNobility, 2. Governor of a Province, R prominent land owner, :\nnobelman of the Enpire. He graduated from the University of\nPotrograd in 1885 and went to Minsk AS Governor of the Province\nfor the Cztr.\nAltho contained in his Alumni folder is the following data relating\nto his actvities after completion of his undergraduate studies:\nDuring the period September, 1927 through June, 1930, he took COUTROL\nin the graduate school at Yale University rectiving an HA cagree\nin June, 2960.\n2,\nNH 105-71\nDuring the period 1926-1927, he was employed by Johnson and Higgins,\n87 Wall Street, New York City, as an Assistant Adjuster of Marina\nInsurance. From September, 1928, to 1931 he was employed as =\nHaster at The Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut. During the\nperiod 1931 to 1935 he indicated that he was doing research and\njournalistic work in New Haven and New York City. During 1934\nbe indicated that he worked part-time for the Institute of\nRelations, Yale University as an Investigator. Prom 1935 to\n1936 be indicated that he was an Assistant Supervisor with the\nConnecticut Rehabilitation Project of the Instituto of Himan\nRelations. Since 1941 he has been the Managing Editor of \"The\nRussia Review, 215 West 23rd Street, New York City. From March,\n1942 until September, 1942, he indicates that be was a foreign\nlanguage examiner with the Bureau of Consorship, New York City,\nSince September, 1942 he has been associated with Dartmouth Colluge,\nEnnover, New Hampshire. As of May 10, 1949, he lists bimmelf 42\n6, Director of Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., New York City. As of\nApril 23, 1950 he indicated that he also was associated with\nModern Language Association, Foreign Policy Association 556\nHistordcal Association.\nIn 1936 he published \"Russia in the Intellectual Life of\nCentury France. \"\nOn January 18, 1837 he married Mrs. WINIFRED CARTERIGHT FOLMAN\nAT New York City, she having been previously divorced it Occuber,\n1935 at Reno, Nevada. They resided at 950 Park Avenue, Now Tark\nCity. They were divorced in 1946.\nHis folder contains copies of letters which indicated that LE of\nJune 15, 1942, he changed his name from VonMOHRENSCHILET to CE-\nMCHRENSCHILDT and :8 of January 27, 1944 he again changed 1.1s\nname from EBMOHRENSCHILDT to VonMOHRENSCHILDT. On both occasions\nto advised Tale that the change WAS not by at court order.\nOn March 6, 1964, Miss KATHERINE E. J. HAUSCHILD, Executive\nSecretary to Dean, Yale College, Yale University, advince\nDINITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILDT attended Yale College, 20002\nis Bachelor of Philosophy degree at commencement exercises 12 1983.\nNH 105-71\nShe stated that the only record she possesses of his attendance\nwas a transcript of his marks. She could not advise as to\nwhether he received a scholarship or not, nor could she advise\nas to the facts concerning his receipt of one as WAS reflected\nin his Alumni Record.\nShe noted that the Dean's records only go back to 1947 and,\ntherefore, could locate no record that would furnish additional\ninformation regarding the financial arrangements dealing With\nhis attendance at Yale.\nOz March 2, 1964, Mrs. RUTH HILL, Administrative Assistant to\nAssistant Dean, Hall of Graduate Studies, Vale University,\nadvised that DIMITRI SERGIUS VonMOHRENSCHILET attended The\nGraduate School at Yale during the period September, 1527 through\nJune, 1930 at which time he received a Master of Arto degree.\nHis field of specialization was in the Romance languages and,\nin particular, French study of literature.\nHer records contain DO information as to whether besattender\nYale on a scholarship 02 how his tuition was paid for,\nDuring March, 1964, confidential informants who are acquirimed\nwith some phases of Communist Party activities in the Nom Haven\narea advised that captions di individual and his relatives DEO\nto them.\n4.4\nE.M\nNY 100-10310\nArmy each summer. (GEORGE denied ever having stated that he\nwas a foreign correspondent during the Spanish Revolution,\nbut stated that he had submitted some articles on the\neffects of the Revolution from Italy, but had not at any\ntime actually been assigned to nor had he covered any phase\nof the Revolution itself.)\nGEORGE stated that on withdrawing from the business,\nhe had decided to come to the United States for the following\nreasons: to seek employment as a newspaper reporter, to visit\nhis brother, DIMITRI, to meet his other American relatives,\nto observe Democracy at work since he was interested in\nDemocracy. GEORGE stated that he had sailed from Le Havre,\nFrance, on the \"SS Manhattan\" under a Belgian quota number\nand had arrived at New York City on May 13, 1938. On\narriving he had lived for a while with his brother, DIMITRI,\nat 950 Park Avenue, and during this approximate one to two\nmonth visit he visited English classes at the University of\nColumbia in order to improve his speech. (He stated that he\ncould read and write Russian, Polish, French, Spanish,\nGerman, and English.)\nGEORGE continued that he had been dissuaded from\nemployment as a newspaper reporter by reporters he had met\nfrom the \"New York Times\", who told him of the arduous work\nand also of the difficulty of getting printed anything\nthat they really wanted to write, and further, they persuaded\nhim that his accent would be a detriment to such work.\nShortly thereafter, GEORGE stated, that through his brother,\nDIMITRI, he met MARGARET WILLIAMS from New Orleans, Louisiana,\nand he was invited to visit them during the summer of 1939\nto observe the oil business since the WILLIAMS family was\nengaged in this business. This invitation was accepted,\naccording to GEORGE, and the visit made, and, after visiting\nin New Orleans for a while, he continued on to Houston,\nTexas, where he had met Mr. BLAFFER, President of the Humble\n011 Company, through a letter from his father to BLAFFER.\nThrough Vice-President JOHN SUMAN he was started into the\nbusiness as a \"roughneck\", and later as a \"rig-man\", up until\nNovember, 1939, when he sustained a severe cut on his right\narm. This, in addition to his weakened condition from\namoebic dysentery, caused his return to New York City in\nDecember of 1939.\n56 1 1\n4406 Holland\nDallas, Texas 75219\nSeptember 26, 1977\nMr. Jim Garrison\n710 Carondelet\nNew Orleans, Louisiana 70130\nDear Jim:\nIt was so good to hear from you Saturday, and to know\nthat you are still interested in the assassination. I\nguess one never completely gets over the interest once it\nhas \"bitten\" you.\nSome of my documents are on microfilm (about 18 rolls\nthat I need to have printed out). I am sending CD 551 and\none page from CD 533. Before Buck and I visit New Orleans,\nwhich I hope will be soon, I will try to have the microfilm\nprinted out.\nThe following is a short chronology which points out the\nproximity of these players. I know that somewhere in my\nfiles I have a detailed account which brings out even more.\n1935 - Clay Shaw goes to New York City. He takes\ncourse at Columbia and becomes supervisor for\nWestern Union in mid-town Manhattan.\nThe Kennedy Conspiracy, Flamonde, p. 71\nNew Orleans Times Picayune, Feb. 28, 1969\n1936 - Dimitri von Mohrenschildt gets a Ph.D. at\nColumbia. CD 538, p. 2\nClay Shaw did free-lancing in publicity and\nadvertising and then worked for Lee-Keedick Lecture\nBureau; was in New York City until 1942.\nThe Kennedy Conspiracy, p. 72\nMay 29, 1936 - Deimitri von Mohrenschildt obtains\nhis first American passport, #296641. Residence at\nthat time, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City.\nMay to July 1938 - George deMohrenschildt attends\nEnglish classes at Columbia University for one or\ntwo months. CD 533, p. 56\nI hope this little bit will help you until I can dig out\nmy other documents and chronologies\nBest regards,\nhow\n7\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY\nSTATE OF\nPARISH OF ORLEANS\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA\nGITY NEW\n2700 TULANE AVENUE\n/\nNEW ORLEANS 70119\nJIM GARRISON\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY\nAugust 31, 1967\nRe: SHAW\nRa: SHAW\n(as\nBERTRAND\nMr. Edward Girnus\nNo. 90428\nUnited States Penitentiary\nAtlanta, Georgia\nDear Mr. Girnus:\nThis office is writing you in regard to confidential\ninformation that was received which revealed that you\nmay be in possession of certain facts concerning the\ninvestigation being conducted by this office into the\nconspiracy to assassinate the late President John F.\nKennedy.\nSince we are not in receipt of any voluntary information\nfrom you, we are soliciting your cooperation in this\nmatter mainly to determine if this confidential information\nis true and correct and, if so, to gain your complete\nconfidence in assisting this office.\nThe main points of this confidential information stated\nthat you have knowledge about Clay Shaw as Clay Bertrand\nand also Lambert. It further relates to a Sanchez Diaz.\nWe feel that if these facts are true, you could greatly\nassist this office. Your prompt reply in this matter\nwill be appreciated.\nIf you are able to make a long distance phone call, we may\nbe able to clear up the matter much faster. If so, call\nArea Code 504 - 822-0584 collect.\nVery truly yours,\nc. J. NAVARRE\nInvestigator\nDistrict Attorney's Office\nCJN/bb\nBox F.C. B 90428\nSept. 7,1967\nC. I. navarre\n2700 Julane are.\nRo: SHAW\nn.o. L. a. 70119\nCENSOR\nR: SHAW (ar\" 'BERTRANN\")\n29\nDear Sir:\nyour letter arrived yesterday, however\nI could not telephone you ad they do not\nallow it here.\nI don't know what information you\npossess or how you acquired it, but I can\nsay this: yes I knew both of them under\nvarious nom de plumes and at various places\nsuch as Harnmond, Lake Charles, Oah Cliff\nand Mexico, however I do not care to discuss\nit then the mails If you should be is\natlanta in the future and would come out\nhere I would talk to you.\nI remain,\nSuiverely\nEdward J.Liruus 90428\nBox P. M.B.\nattanta, Da. 30315\nT\nMEMORANDUM\nRe: SHAW (+ Canada)\nSHAW (gennal file)\nSHAW (+ FERRIE\nOctober 9, 1968\nSHAW (+ Rula)\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A.\nRE:\nCLAY SHAW\nDuring my recent interview with MR. JAMES J. PLAINE\nof Houston, Texas, MR. PLAINE informed me that he had been\ncontacted by a MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur in regards to a\npossible assassination plan for Fidel Castro.\nMR. PLAINE said that MR. WHITE was only one of the\nmany oil and import people that he had occasion to talk to\nfrom New Orleans regarding Castro.\nMR. PLAINE also informed me that he thought that the\npicture of CLAY SHAW was very familiar, and that he may have\nmet him in Houston, either at his apartment or at the Normandy\nClub which the oil people of Texas frequent.\nA memo in the GUY BANISTER file indicates that there\nis information which reports that DICK WHITE, a high official\nof Freeport Sulphur, and CLAY SHAW wer e flown to Cuba probably\ntaking off from the Harvey Canal area in a Freeport Sulphur\nplane piloted by DAVE FERRIE. The purpose of this trip was\nto set up import of Cuba's nickle ore to a Canadian front\nCorporation which would in turn shipt to the Braithwaite nickle\nplant. The plant was built by the U. S. Government at a cost\nof about one million dollars.\nThe report is that the combine of Freeport Sulphur,\nWHITE, and SHAW purchased the plant for a million dollars and\nintended to get ore through & Canadian corporation they had\nformed. There is also a report that GUY BANISTER hired FERRIE\nand JACK MARTIN as investigators to check out the nickle plant\ndeal.\nMEMORANDUM\nOctober 23, 1968\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A.\nRE:\nSHAW FERRIE & WHITE (Freeport Sulphur)\nI contacted Mr. PLAINE by telephone in regard\nto MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur and DAVID FERRIE. PLAINE\ntold me that he distinctly remembers either SHAW or FERRIE\ntalking about some nickel mines which were located on the\nWestern tip of Cuba. He says he does not remember exactly\nthe gist of the conversation, but he distinctly remembers\nthat it was regarding these nickel mines. He said he cannot\npositively say that FERRIE knew WHITE or vice versa, but he\nsomehow feels that they must have known each other.\nAlcock and I will call in MR. WHITE of Freeport\nSulphur and ask him about our previous memorandum from\nKIMBALL which mentions SHAW, FERRIE and WHITE being together.\nRo: SHAW (or CIA)\nSHAW (geard)\nStatement by JUSTICY a Department Spokesman\nSHAW (ssociation)V\nMr. Edward F. Wegmann, a lawyer in New Orleans, wrote\nthe Department of Justice on May 24, 1967, requesting a\npublic clarification of news stories concerning his client,\nMr. Clay Shaw. He referred to an impromptu press interview\nof the Attorney General on March 2, 1967. This statement\nis in response to Mr. Wegmann's request.\nThe FBI investigation in New Orleans following the\nassassination of President Kennedy covered allegations by\nDean A. Andrews, Jr. which included a reference to \"Clay\nBertrand.\" \"Clay Bertrand\" was not identified as a real\nperson. No evidence was found that-Clay Shaw was ever-called\n\"Clay Bertrand.\"\nThe Attorney General's comment on March 2 that Mr. Shaw\nwas involved in the investigation was based on a briefing\nthat morning. The Attorney General has since determined\nthat this was erroneous. Nothing arose indicating B. need to\ninvestigate Mr. Shaw. As the Attorney General stated in the\ninterview, no connection between Mr. Shaw and the assassination\nwas found in the thorough investigation by the FBI.\nThe Department of Justice is convinced that Lee Harvey\nOswald alone assassinated President Kennedy.\nXERO\nXERO\nCOPY\nYERO\nPress intervisw with Ramsey Clark March 2, 1967.\nQuestion: General Clark, you said two days ago after your\nnomination was announced that you would hope that\nDistrict Attorney Garrison would turn over any\ninformation he has from his New Orleans probe.\nHas he turned over any information on the arrest\nof this latest gentleman?\nAnswer:\nNo, he has not. We haven't heard from District\nAttorney Garrison and I feel that, as I said the\nother day, if he really has any information or\nevidence he has an obligation to bring it to\nthe Federal authorities who have been involved in\nthe overall investigation. He has not at this\ndate. I remain doubtful that he has anything.\nQuestion: Has the Justice Department made any attempt to\ncontact District Attorney Garrison about this?\nAnswer:\nNo have not made any contact in view of his state-\nthe last week or 50.\nQuestion: Mr Clark, do you have information yourself about\nClay Shaw?\nAnswer:\nHe was involved in an FBI investigation in the New\nOrigans area 12 Noysmbar-Uecembsr 1963. No have\nthe evidence that's there involved and you can\nassume what the conclusions were from the Warren\nCommission report.\nQuestion: He was not mentioned in the Warren Commission\nreport, was he?\nAnswer:\nHa was not.\nQuestion: So, you don't believe he did have any connection\nwith the\nAnswer:\nOn the evidence that the FBI had there YES no\nconnection found.\nQuestion: You TAY that he was checked out and found clear,\nmore OI 10082\nAnswer: That's right, That's true.\n100\non\nXERO\nCOPY\nCOPY\ncredit\nRo: SHAW It FERRIE CONTACT)\n+ 1977 Open Leade fite\nRoute 1, Box 275\nYellow Springs, Ohio 45387\nJanuary 28, 1967\nTom Bethell\nDistrict Attorney's Office\n2700 Tulane Ave\nNew Orleans, La. 70119\nDear Mr. Bethell:\nFor what it is worth I am passing on a bit of repar ting\nfrom a friend and admirer of Jim Garrison that I heard\ntonight.\nMy friend is acquainted with a man, whose name I will\nnot include here, who told my friend that his mother\nin Nee Orleans had been housekeeper to Clay Shaw. This\nVinginia Jones\nlady is reported as terrified about the hazard to her from\nwhat she knows. This includes knowing of Ferrie's\nassociation with Shaw, knowledge of the sadistic stuff\n(whips, etc) in the closet, and the mysterious death\nor killing of somebody in the house, whether an associate\nor not is not known. There had been no police investigation,\nbut a coroner had come and picked up the body. Two men\nlived in the house of which the lady was housekeeper.\nMy friend is not sure of all the details, but this is the\ngeneral picture be got.\nMy friend is a businessman whose motives are saund. He\nsaw no reason to discount this report, but cannot vouch\nfor it beyond what he told me.\nI was particulary pleased to read of Garrison's evidence\nthat Lee Oswald had informed the FBI of the assassination\nplot. I have had an increasingly strong conviction that\nthis must have taken place from my reading of Oswald's\ncharacter. I do doubt that it was Lee Oswald that was\nRuby's bedmate. That sounds to me more like the Leon\nOswald who was an assassin.\nWith best wishes for your work,\nSincerely\n(riscom margon\nGriscom Morgan\n9/1/77\nNOTE: LONG SHOT, BUT STRONG IF IT COMES\nTHRU. MORGAN SHOULD BE CONTACTED 50 THAT\nTHE LEAD CAN BE FOLLOWED UP.\nJt\nP.S. The writer of this letter took the trouble -,\nbe ture we'd get it. Doesn't some like a crackpot\nto get Penn Jones to pass it ron to us to\nletter.\nSept\nfrom\nOFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA\nRs: DAVID FERRIS\nPARISH OF ORLEANS\nCLAY SHAW\nfil)\n\"JACK HELMS\"\nOctober 10, 1967\nWALTER SHERIDAN (+Townly)\nCUBANS\nSTATEMENT OF:\nJULES RICCO KIMBLE, w/m 24\nRESIDING AT:\n4839 Babylon Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nSTATEMENT\nI met DAVID FERRIE in early 1960 in a barroom named The Golden\nFerris:\nLantern in the French Quarter. I would see DAVE from time to time\nin the same bar and I flew with him in his airplane on several\noccasions.\nOne night while drinking in the Golden Lantern, DAVE introduced\nme to CLAY SHAW. I was with CLAY SHAW and DAVE for several hours\nthat night which was in Late 1960 or early 1961. From that time on\nI use to see CLAY SHAW on different occasions, you know drinking and\nso forth. One day in late '61 or early '62 I received a phone call\n5 2005\nfrom DAVE and he asked me if I would like to take an overnight plane\ntrip with him. I said, all right, and then met FERRIE at the airport\nFarri:\nat which time I found out that CLAY SHAW was coming with us. At\nthis time I also found out that we were going to Canada to pick some-\none up. No other explanation was given. While on the trip, CLAY\nSHAW sat in the back of the airplane reading books and slept. SHAW\nalso had a brown brief case with him. On the flight we stopped at\ndifferent places to gas up and stretch our legs. We stopped in\nNashville, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Toranado, Canada.\nCanada\nOur final stop was in Montreal, Canada. FERRIE and myself stayed\n(Montral)\nin a hotel overnight. I believe it might have been the Hilton Air\nor something like that. The hotel was located in Dovral which was\nright outside of Montreal. CLAY SHAW disappeared after we landed and\nI did not see him until the next morning which was about 8 o'clock\nwhen we were ready to leave and come back to New Orleans. When SHAW\narrived at the plane, he had this Mexican or Cuban with him. This\nCuban:\nguy was kind of heavy set, dark complexion, balding in the front, in\nhis early 30's or middle 30's. He sat in the back of the airplane\nwith SHAW and spoke only to SHAW in broken English. The airplane\nthat we used was a Cessna 172 which I believed belonged to a friend\nof FERRIE's. We bought our gas with a Gulf credit card which FERRIE\nhad. When we got back to the Lakefront Airport, I got into my auto-\nmobile and FERRIE and SHAW and the other guy got into another auto-\nmobile and left.\nAbout a month or two later I got another phone call from FERRIE\nasking me if I wanted to make the return trip withhim to Canada,\nbut I told him no.\nI have seen SHAW on different occasions in barrooms and at the\nInternational Trade Mart up until the time that the District Attorney's\nShow:\noffice started their investigation. I have heard other people intro-\nduce CLAY SHAW as CLAY BERTRAND, but he has never been introduced to\n-2-\nme as CLAY BERTRAND.\nI would also like to state that about two or three weeks after\nDAVE FERRIE died I got a phone call from JACK HELMS who was formerly\nwith the Federal Government and later connected with the Klu Klux\n\"Dack\nKlan asking me if I would take a ride with him by FERRIE's house to\nHallons\"\npick up some papers. I said, yes, and a short while later he picked\nme up at my house in a 1966 white chevrolet. We drove to FERRIE's\nhouse and parked a little way down the block. JACK got out of the\nFarm's\nautomobile with a flashlight and it appeared that he went around the\npapers\nback of the house or into the back yard. A short while later he came\nback with a black briefcase and got into the automobile at which time\nwe drove off. Later I believe that the contents of this briefcase were\nput into a safety deposit box in the Bank of Louisiana. Later I\nbelieve that these papers were removed from the Bank of Louisiana and\nput into a big black box in St. Bernard Parish which belonged to the\nKlan. The fellow who kept this box is called oTTo. I do not know him\nby any other name. I believe that these papers were then removed from\nthis black box, but I don't know where they were removed to. I did\nmanage to get some papers from this black box, but they pertained to\nthe Klan, and I turned these papers to CLEMENT HOOD, an FBI Agent I\nwas working for. I also had contact with CIA Agents. Their names\nbeing STEINMEYER, who has since been transferred to Texas, and NAT\nBROWN who is still in New Orleans and another guy by the name of RED,\nlast name unknown. I used to have meetings with the Agents in different\nmotel rooms where I would give them reports, pictures, recordings, etc.,\nand would also receive my pay check or cash which I would sign a\nvoucher for and would also receive further instructions. They would\nmail different things to me at my post office box number which is\n701-30252, Lafayette Street Branch.\nSeveral months ago RICK TOWNLEY with WDSU called me and told me\nthat he had information that I had tape recordings that someone wanted\nto buy from me. I asked him how he had found out that I had them and\nhe said that didn't matter. He asked me if I would meet him some\nplace and I told him yes, to come over to my house. He said, no, he\nwouldn't do that, that it would have to be some public place. So I\nmet him in the Kopper Kitchen on Tulane Avenue. After we talked for\nShindan\na while I went home and put on a suit and we went down to WDSU. When\n(and\nwe got to WDSU, TOWNLEY called WALTER SHERIDAN in New York and I sat\nTruely):\nthere while TOWNLEY talked to SHERIDAN. After TOWNLEY hund up he\nsaid that SHERIDAN would be in town the following morning. TOWNLEY\nasked me what I wanted for the tapes that I had, and I told him $500.\nThe next morning they gave me the $500 for the tapes and asked me if\nI would do a film for WDSU consisting of what I know about the Cubans,\nFERRIE, SHAW, etc. The tape that I sold them contained some informa-\ntion about the Klan and other information about the papers that were\npicked up at FERRIE's house. WALTER SHERIDAN is the one who gave me\nthe $500 for the tapes. This $500 was in a sealed envelope and was\nall one hundred dollar bills. This was given to me in an office in\nin WDSU which was located by their newsroom. We then went upstairs\nand they locked the doors and placed a guard on the door and started\nasking questions and taking pictures of me. I even remember that\nthere was a man from Sweden who was talking to the cameramen and they\nasked him to leave. They asked me questions such as, Do I know CLAY\nSHAW: Did I ever fly with CLAY SHAW and DAVID FERRIE: If I knew GENE\nDAVIS, which I told them that I knew GENE DAVIS very well because he\nwas a personal friend of mine; If I knew GORDON NOVEL: If I ever\nworked for the FBI, CIA, to which questions I said, yes of which\n-3-\nquestions WALTER SHERIDAN said he had already known that I would\nShared\nsay yes to. T was then told to say that I didn't know anything\nthat would help Garrison in his investigation and this was also\nput on film. 1 don't remember everything that he told me to say but\n1 +\nhe did tell Be to go to Canada. He also said that he would edit and\ncut the films after I was gone. He also said that they would get me\nan attorney if I needed one. I told SHERIDAN And TOWNLEY not to re-\nlease this film if they were going to cut any part of it. They said\nthat when I got to Canada they would call me and ask if it could\nbe released. They called my wife later and asked her if she would\nlet them release it and she also told them no. I understand that\nthis film has been cut and released.\nMR. HOOD told me not to get involved with the District Attorney's\nOffice and if the District Attorney's Office tried to subpoena me,\nthat he would take care of it. MR. HOOD told me to give all the\ncooperation necessary that WALTER SHERIDAN required. SHERIDAN and\nTOWNLEY also told me not to talk with the District Attorney's Office'\nand to call them right away so they could get an attorney for me.\nThat is about all I can remember at this time.\nS/Jules Ricco Kimble\nJULES RICCO KIMBLE\n7\nRs SHAW (+PERRIE, CANADA\n5\nASSOCIATIONS, atc)\nSHAW : (as \"BERTRAND\n7) SHAW'S FLIGHT TO CANADA WITH FERRIE:\n4 1977 Open Leads file\nDay\nme WIGHT)\nThe man whose name we first thought to be WHITE\nSaimha\napparently is WIGHT, Vice President of Freeport\nSulphur who reputedly made the flight. Currently\nan effort is being made to locate WIGHT, who now\nBurns\nY\nlives in New York, by a contact of Mark Lane's.\nDespite the fact that the original source of this\ninformation was JULES RICCO KIMBLE a man with a\nbrung\nrecord, this lead keeps growing stronger. From\nthe very outset it had been reported that the flight\nhad something to do with the import of nickle\nmeel\nfollowing the loss of the original import supply\nfrom Cuba. Recent information developed on\nWIGHT in a separate memo, indicates that he is now\non the Board of Directors, of the Freeport Nickl\nCompany, a subsidiary of Freeport Sulphur. (The\nseparate file on this is a rather detailed report\nfrom Placquemine Parish and should be included in\nthe new SHAW file.\nRICHARD ROLFE:\nHas information from a contact of his in Clinton\nSecamber\nthat SHAW is much better known in Clinton than it\n*G\nwould appear. He is willing to bring this witness\ndown from Clinton and have him Nine up some new\nleads for us in this regard.\n9) TAXI CAB DRIVER:\nLouis DiRose\nWent out of his way one night to drive by FERRIE'S\nhouse and told the passenger that he had taken SHAW\nto that address on many occasions. I have more\ndetails on this coming in and will dictate a separate\nmemo for the file on this taxi cab driver. I am\nincluding it in this listing in order to insure\nfollow-up.\n10) \"BERTRAND LIBRARY CARD\":\nIt will be recalled that some time ago library\nAlford\nemployees while going through their records, came\nacross a library card made out to CLEM or CLAY\nBERTRAND of the \"International Trade Mart\". We\ndiscounted this lead as being negative because the\nphone number turned out to have no meaning, however\nthis lead may deserve re-examination. It is entirely\npossible that this library, as well as others, were\nused as meeting places by SHAW and other individuals.\nThe signature appears to be in SHAW'S handwriting.\nFurthermore, this card was not thrust upon us but\ncame to us through an official on the Library Board\nwho had been informed about its discovery by a\nlibrary employee. We may have here a situation\nparallel to that in which SHAW signed his name CLAY\nBERTRAND at the V.I.P. Room. In the latter instance\nthe strong possibility exists that he was there on\nthat occasion for an intelligence contact. I suggest\nthat we keep our minds open to the possibility of\nthe libraries having been used in the same way.\nNOTE:\nWherever pre-existing memos or information\ncan be located concerning the above leads,\nit is suggested that they be located and\nplaced in our new jackets for SHAW LEADS.\nJIM GARRISON\n-4-\nRe: SHAW + Canada\nMEMORANDUM\nR.: SHAW + Cuba\nRe: SHAW-+ + FERRIE\nOctober 9, 1968\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A.\nRE:\nCLAY SHAW\nDuring my recent interview with MR. JAMES J. PLAINE\nof Houston, Texas, MR. PLAINE informed me that he had been\ncontacted by a MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur in regards to a\npossible assassination plan for Fidel Castro.\nMR. PLAINE said that MR. WHITE was only one of the\nmany oil and import people that he had occasion to talk to\nfrom New Orleans regarding Castro.\nMR. PLAINE also informed me that he thought that the\npicture of CLAY SHAW was very familiar, and that he may have\nmet him in Houston, either at his apartment or at the Normandy\nClub which the oil people of Texas frequent.\nA memo in the GUY BANISTER file indicates that there\nis information which reports that DICK WHITE a high official\nof Freeport Sulphur, and CLAY SHAW wer e flown to Cuba probably\ntaking off from the Harvey Canal area in a Freeport Sulphur\nplane piloted by DAVE FERRIE. The purpose of this trip was\nto set up import of Cuba's nickle ore to Canadian front\ncorporation which would in turn ships to the Braithwaite nickle\nplant. The plant was built by the U. S. Government at a cost\nof about one million dollars.\nThe report is that the combine of Freeport Sulphur,\nWHITE, and SHAW purchased the plant for a million dollars and\nintended to get ore through a Canadian corporation they had\nformed There is also a report that GUY BANISTER hired FERRIE\nand JACK MARTIN as investigators to check out the nickle plant\ndeal.\nZiopies\n7\nwho want to Houston\nFebruay/Mark are\nFollow us\nvehicle transfer records\nchronologistics filed ther?\nHere is flight plan. Check light colored station wagon bought in Houston,\nRe:SHAW\nTexas in Feb. or Mar. (Wagon was 1959 model) of 1963. Check this wagon at\nFERRIE\nWalkers on April 10th 1963 and at Garland Texas airport and on railroad\nOSWALD\nto alcock, Burnes,\nZHORNLE\nTo: archwes For new lead fries copy Scienbra\nBokley, Inon 4 Novel)\nparking lot behind book depository. (See Hollands testimony to Commission\non this wagon.\nYVI, P 245et sey,\nHolland describe muddy\nfootprints on bumper of\na station wagon laked\npicket feace).\nFEDERAL AVIATION\nAL FLIGh\nAGENCY\nPRIORITY INDICATOR\nADDR.\nORIG\nESSEES AND/OR ORGINATE\nBLING 4-8-63 TIME\nN63\nType CP MESSAGE\nA. T PE OF FLIGHT PLAN\nB. RADIO IDENTIFICATION\nC. TYPE OF AIRCRAFT\nD.\nPROFOSED/ACTUAL TIME\nor DEPARTURE\nOFR\nBESSNA 37\n1300\nE. AERODROME OF DEPARTURE, ROUTE, . IE AIRSPEEDIS CRUSING LIVEL(S): ETE FOR POUTE SEGMENT REPORTING POINT(5), ABRODROME OF INTENDED LANDING\nHAMMOND\nlidk\n7500\nP.RECT\nGARIANO, TE/\nF. ALTERNATE AERODROME\nG. ET to MEROGROME OF 12\nH FUEL\nI. ANY OTHER PERTINENT (CONTROL) INFORMATION\nINTENDED LANDING\nHOURS\nMINUTES\nDALLAS\n3-2)\n5\n30\nJ. TRANSMITTING PREOVENCIES\nK. NAVIGATION AND APPROACH\nL. TOTAL NUMBER MOUNS\nNY. NAME OF PROT IN C OMMAND\nN. IDENTITY OF OPERATOR\nADS (USE CODE NUMBER)\nABOARD\n(M necessary)\n4\n1.162215\nNavigation and Approach Aids Code Numbers: T-ILS; 2-DECTRA; 3-DECCA; 4-DME; 5-VOR GEE, LORAN; 8-RADIO COMPASS\nSupplementary Data-Not to be transmitted\nCOLOR OF AIRCRAFT\nADDRESS CF PROT IN COMMAND OR ADACRAFT HOME BASE\nMISCHLANEOUS For Station Line)\nNOLA\nHIDELL\nRED. w\nLAMBER\nNAZ\nSEE REVERSE-\nForm FAA-398.1 (4-61)\nNate passengers\nQ:Why is number of plane blunked out?\nReview LHO time schedule for april 8th.\nFor Indicated Edo\n(Copy to Richard Burns\nMEMORANDUM\nfor\nNovember 7, 1967\nRa: CUBANS (general)\nRe: Areacha p.2\nRx: BANISTER\nRe: CARLOT QUIROLA\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nto FBI statement\nFROM:\nTOM BETHELL\nNote: Apparently Newman Cuban rented\n544 Camp Street to\non 2 occasions:\nRE:\nUnidentified men at 544 Camp Stree\n(2) For an \"MARCH 07 APRIL period 1963\n(i) OCT '61 them FEB 162\n(But beginning contradute\nstatement to 5/5\nSummary of interviews with SAM NEWMAN\nthis he says 544 teat to Cubsum\nsince Saylember (62) 85\n1.\n11/23/63 S.A. ANTHONY GERRETS\nS.S.\nCE 3119\n2. 11/25/63 S.A. WALLE & FOLSE\nFBI\nArchives, CD 75\n3.\n11/27/63\nSGT. AUSTIN & DET. FREY\n(N.O.P.D.)\nCE\n1413\n4.\n12/2/63\nS.A. RICE\nS.S.\nCE 1414\n5. 1/18/67\nGEORGE ECKERT\n(BANISTER file)\n1. NEWMAN's initial interview on 11/23/63 resulted from the\ndiscovery that some of OSWALD's literature bore the address\n544 Camp Street stamped on it.\nNEWMAN related that he had rented office space to \"Cuban\nrevolutionaries\" over a period of three or four months, but that\nhe had evicted them because they got behind on the rent. After he\nhad evicted these revolutionaries, he discovered that \"an unknown\nsubject (white; male; 22/24; 5'9½\"; 185 lbs.; fair complexion;\nlight brown hair; spoke with Spanish accent) had moved into the\nspace in the building vacated by the Cubans without notifying him.\nNEWMAN only saw him once \"and had no idea as to what his name\nmight be.\" NEWMAN gives no indication of the date of this\nencounter (either month or year).\nAccording to the same Secret Service report (CE 3119), one\nJAMES ARTHUS (\"apparently harmless protective Research subject of\nfile CC-2-32, 791\") at 544 Camp Street who \"stated that an unknown\nman had attempted to rent an office at 544 Camp Street, but that he\ndiscouraged him.\"\n2. In his interview with the FBI, NEWMAN advised that he rented\nthe office space to the Cubans \"approximately 8 or 9 months\nago, i.e. March or April 1963 He added that he did not\nrecollect seeing OSWALD in or around the building, nor had he\nrented any office space to the FPCC, or anyone by the name of\nOSWALD. Someone called him, in September 1963, however, wanting\nto rent office space, but NEWMAN did not see this individual, as\nhe put him in touch with the aforementioned JAMES ARTHUS the\njanitor.\nNEWMAN added that \"9 or 10 months ago\" (Jan. or Feb. 1963) a\ntall, thin man, aged about 38, with dark hair, did contact him and\npaid one month's rent for an office, which he was going to use to\nteach Spanish.\nThis is presumably not the same man NEWMAN had mentioned two\ndays earlier to the Secret Service, whom NEWMAN does not mention\nin this interview.\nOn this statement connect 87 Dn \"Prints\" an\n3. When interviewed by the New Orleans Police Department on\nNovember 27, 1963, NEWMAN said he had rented office space to\nthe \"Cuban Revolutionary Society\" \"about 15 months ago\", (about\nAugust 1962), which group was run by \"young Monteleone\" of the\nMonteleone Hotel. GUY BANISTER was, according to NEWMAN, \"Well\nacquainted with this organization.' NEWMAN then adds a similar\nstory to his initial version to the Secret Service, recounting\nthe intrusion of a man who evidently had a key to the office; he\nis described here as \"white male, blond hair, and red complexion.\"\n4. In his second interview with the Secret Service on 12/2/63,\nNEWMAN specifies that he rented office space to the Cuban\nRevolutionary Council from October 1961 through February 1962\nIn April 1963 he was paid $100 by CARLOS GRIMADER, accountant for\nthe C.R.C. in partial payment of the rent. When the C.R.C.\ndeparted, they left a lot of literature in the office, which he\nturned over to the Salvation Army \"or some such organization\".\nAbout two weeks after the Cubans moved, Mr. NEWMAN relates the\nyoung man with the Spanish accent appeared. This would have been\nin or about March 1962, which is a time when OSWALD was in Russia.\nNEWMAN adds in this interview that JACK MARTIN introduced both\nSERGIO ARCACHA and CARLOS QUIROGA to him, and that QUIROGA \"appeared\nto have a short wave radio transmitter. He also said at this time\nthat no office space in 544 Camp Street has been rented since\nSeptember 1962, but again mentions the incident (which he had\nearlier told the FBI, but not the Secret Service) of the man who\npaid a month in advance to teach Spanish. This was \"four or five\nmonths ago\", i.e., June or July 1963.\n5. George Eckert's interview pertains to the subject of GUY\nBANISTER'S files and does not reveal any new information about\npeople who rented from NEWMAN, except to say that NEWMAN cannot\nremember the names of the people who were his tenants in 1963.\nDISPOSITION:\nIn my view NEWMAN should be interviewed again and asked more\nspecifically about the two still unidentified males who attempted\nto rent from him. JAMES ARTHUS should be interviewed with regard\nto a third unidentified man who visited 544 Camp Street in\nSeptember 1963, whom NEWMAN did not see.\nRechard\nme picor\nto I've\nperman. ft\nOFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY\nRe: GENTRY:\n(1) Fruit of SHAW'S living *\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA\n4907 Magageri from 1981 to\nPARISH OF ORLEANS\n1964.\n(2) LAYTON MARTENS and 4900\nbent Magazine Shut\nApril 18, 1967\nSTATEMENT OF:\nDAVID F. GENTRY\n922 Dumaine Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nINTERROGATED\nBY:\nOFFICERS KENT SIMMS and CLIENCY NAVARRE\nIN RE:\nDR. MARY SHERMAN and\nSPECIAL INVESTIGATION\nDr. SHERMAN camein the shop I would say\noccasionally, not frequently, but I can look up on the ledger\nand see. She never made any extensive or large purchases. I\nwas never in her apartment. If she ever came to the shop with\nanyone, it was possibly with someone who lived in the same\napartment complex in which she lived. Probably the entire time\nshe lived at 3101 St. Charles Avenue she came in the shop, and\nshe was in the shop the late afternoon before she was murdered.\nI do not know any of her friends.\nI don't recall my first meeting with CLAY SHAW.\nHowever, it was probably in '58 or '59, The original interest in\nmeeting was through business at the International Trade Mart\nand the possibility of purchasing and restoring Vieux Carre\nproperty myself. I am a designer of interiors and interior\nfurnishings and I am also Director of the Oriental Gallery at\nthe 20th Century Shop. One other person that I do know through\nthe International Trade Mart and CLAY SHAW, is J. B. DAUENHAUER.\nBut only through the Trade Mart and through CLAY do I know J. B.\nI moved to 4919 Magazine Street in February of\n1961. I don't recall, or don't know the date that OSWALD moved\ninto 4907 Magazine Street I never had occasion to speak to him\n(OSWALD) but passed him on several occasions going to Rex Laundry\nand Drv-cleaners. I don't recall ever seeing him untidy or with\na beard. Then on December 15th of 1964, I moved back to the\nQuarter.\nThe Sunday before Mardi Gras of 1965, CLAY\nattended a buffet party that afternoon in my apartment at 619\nGov. Nichols. After moving back to the Quarter, I did see CLAY\npassing on the street, or once in a while at the Coffee Shop\nRestaurant on St. Peter next to Pat O'Brien's. I can't recall\nthe number of times that I have. Not that frequently. But there\nhave been times I have been in CLAY's apartment for drinks. It\nwas at 1313 or 1331 Dauphine, I am not sure. The first few\ntimes it was just for drinks. The gathering that would have been\n-1-\n7\ntermed a party, if I recall correctly, was in October of '66 on a\nSunday afternoon. As I say, there was a gentleman there that was\nSpanish, or Cuban, or Latin. He could even have been Mexican as\nfar as that goes. He was about 53 years, 6'2\", almost, but not\nas tall as CLAY. He weighed about 175 lbs, ruddy complexion, and\nI think he did have a mustache. If I recall correctly, he had\na rather full head of hair with some grey, which he parted. I am\npretty sure his hair was parted. He had no scars. He had a\nSpanish accent. There was also a younger person that had painted\nCLAY's apartment and he was to do some work for this gentleman.\nHe was doing painting for these people and he was supposedly an\nartist or writer. CLAY's apartment had just been completed being\npainted. This young man had painted the apartment for CLAY and\nwas to do some work for the older man. This younger person was\nin his early 20's. There were some 8 to 12 people at this party\nbut I can't recall their namas,\nQ.\nDid you know any of these people personally?\nA.\nI knew several of them. Just a \"Hello\" acquain-\ntance, not personally. There were some there\nwhose names I knew, but I can't recall.\nQ.\nDid the name SERGIO ring a bell?\nA.\nIt could have been this person I am describing at\nthis party, but I am not positive.\nQ.\nI show you a picture of SERGIO ARCACHA SMITH,\ncould this be the fellow you described as a\nSpanish-type individual at the party?\nA.\nNo, because he is much more lean than the person\nin this picture, and older. In other words, his\nface was a lean as yours (SIMMS), and if I recall\ncorrectly, the hair was longer and more full than\nthat. CLAY knew a lot of Spanish and Mexican\npeople. It didn't seem unusual for them to be\nthere. He knew them from the Quarter, from the\nTrade Mart and from Mexico.\nAfter the party, I went to another party around\n7:00 o'clock. I went to CLAY's around 5:00 and left around 7:00.\nI think this was in October. Being at two parties the same even-\ning, it is hard to remember who was where. (Shown picture of\nSpanish and other people, and referring to AL BEAUBOUEF) This\ncould have been the person who painted CLAY's apartment and was\nto do some work for the Spanish person.\nFirst-hand, I know nothing of CLAY's personal or\nsexual life, but maybe he has made some remark of someone he has\nmet; that he thought the person was very attractive or something\nlike that. I can't recall him saying he ever went to bed with\nsome person, but he did mention to me his liking of men. It is\nrelatively common knowledge among friends. I know nothing first-\nhand of his private life, but he did say something about liking\nmen. He never mentioned anyone specifically.\n-2-\nLet me see that picture again. The one I saw\nbefore. This person I know. JERRY WINTERS, is that his name?\nQ.\nAre you a homosexual?\nA.\nI would rather be termed bi-sexual. I have had\nsex with both sexes. I was married for 5½ years;\nI had 2 children; I have had sex with women before\nI married and since then.\nQ.\nI show you a picture of a single person dressed\nin a sailor outfit, can you identify this picture?\nA.\nIt appears to be a person I know as JERRY WINTERS\nwho worked for Nunez Employment Agency about 3\nyears ago, I think. He lives, or did live on\nJosephine Street or somewhere up in that area.\nI know nothing about him personally.\nQ.\nDo you ever recall CLAY SHAW having a room-mate?\nA\nI think many years ago a JEFF BITTERSON lived with\nhim. I think this was many years ago, I am not\nsure. I would think - I think he is \"gay\".\nQ.\nDo you know what type of work JEFF BITTERSON\ndid?\nA.\nAs far as I know, he always sold real estate. He\nNate 24 persons identified\nworked for Marylin Tate. I know, because MARGIE\nlaw GENTRY: The GERACi\nO*DAIR who works in the office is a good friend\nof mine.\nmet had a 050ARD write at BRINGUISHIS from Quanting\nif\nCARLOS\nDRIVANDER\nthey arrasted them anth the is GERACi -\nwho\ngroup\ndeal\nIDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS IN PHOTOGRAPHS: PHILIP GERACI\n14 the GERACI referred to her related ?\nM\n(Reading from left to right in all photos)\nSEE JOULE\nPHOTO NO. 26: ALSO ARRESTED WITH PHALIP GERACI ( ARRIL, REPORT, 1989)\n3rd - LENNY FRANK - in a Hawaiian sarong, lei and sandals.\n4th - LEE (somebody) - in cape and sequined toga.\n5th - I have seen him, but I can't recall his name. I think he\nis a hairdresser.\n6th - I can't recall the name. He lives now on 1023 or in the\nvicinity of St. Ann. His first name may be HOWARD.\nPHOTO NO. 27A:\nFirst Row:\n2nd - I think his name is CHRIS. He works for the Times-Picayune.\n4th - This fellow looks almost like the Spanish person I am\ntalking about.\nsue SOULE\nALSO ABAKSTED WITH PHILIP GERACI (APRIL,'84,\n5th - HERBIE TROSCLAIR - He is a hairdresser and lives on Bourbon\nover the Bourbon House which would be 7 something.\n-3-\n9th - C. M. DAVIS who resides at Chartres and Explanade.\nBack ROW:\n5th - DON (somebody). He is a school teacher.\n7th - TOMMY HERFORD or something like that.\nALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI-\n11th-\nTRACY\n(somebody)\n(SEE NOTE BY BARCELONA, NEX T PAGE.\nSEE SOULE STATEMENT, APRIL 7, 1969\nPHOTO NO. 27B:\n(sse JOULE STATEMENT R2 PERSONS\nABRESTED NITH PHILIP GSAAGI )\n1st - JOE JOE LANDRY. He lives right across the street from me.\nDALSA ARRIFTED WITH PHILIP SKRACI\n5th - CLAUDE DUGAS\nALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI -\n(S#$ SOULE STATEMENT REPEARED To)\n6th - DOUG JONES. He lives on Carrollton and I think he has a\nprinting company.\nALSO ARRW780 WITH PHILIP GERACI.\n7th - JAMES ELSEY. He is an interior designer for Nu-Idea.\n8th - Is connected with Nu-Idea also.\nPHOTO NO. 27C:\nBack Row:\nALSO ARRESTED NITH PHILIP GEHASI\n2dn - JIMMY SCHEXNAIDER - He is a designer for Hemenway's. Also\nin that picture is LEE somebody and LENNY FRANK.\nPHOTO NO. 27D:\n1st - right end - is called POLLY PONTCHARTRAIN, but I think his\nname is --- I can't recall it. I don't know.\nPHOTO NO. 27E:\nALSO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI.\n4th - JEAN PIERRE SCHWEITZER - He works at Nahan Galleries on\nLouisiana.\nALSO ARRESTED WITH CHILIP GERACi\n5th - LOU or LOUIS TUCKER.\n6th - I can't recall his name. He lived upstairs from me on\nMagazine Street. I don't think he knew OSWALD because\nhe had just moved in and didn't stay there for very\nlong. He moved into the Quarter.\nPHOTO NO. 27F:\n(SOULE\n1st - They called him \"Mousey\", but I don't know his real name.\nSEE \"WELDON\" ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI\n4th WELDON I can't recall his name. He is Display Director\nfor Gus Mayer.\n5th - He works for \"This Week in New Orleans\". I know because he\nhas been in the shop many times. I know the name but\nI can't recall it.\n-4-\nPHOTO NO. 27F - Continued:\nBack Row:\n4th\nI know he is a friend of CLAY's. If he is not now working.\nat the London Shop, he did work there and he lived on\nGov. Nichols. CLAY, J. B. DAUENHAUER and this fellow\nknew each other.\n6th - JOEY BARCELONA - He works for Permanent Foliage on St.\nClaude Avenue.\nARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACI\nERIMO 02 she on\nPHOTO NO. 27G:\nmany AT\nBack Row:\n(SEE SOULE STATEMENT or APRIL 7,1969)\nHOMOSEXUAL PARTY ON 2/25/52\n1st - CARLOS (somebody). He is from Cuba and he lives on Barracks\nwith OTTO STERLE, (NOTE FREQUENT REFERENCE To\n\"CARLOS\" IN OTHER MEMOS) SEE CARLOS\n7th - DAVID BAILEY - He lives on St. Peter Street ROPRIGUEZ, ARRESTED\nWITH SCKBASL\nALJO ARRESTED WITH PHILIP GERACi. 508\nSTEALE ALSO\nPHOTO NO. 27H:\nBARCELONA, ABOVE\nWAS PAILIP\nThis person I have seen but I don't know his name.\nWITH\n1500\nsould REPORT\nThe articles, such as a cape and pieces of chain, that'\nwere taken from his (SHAW's) apartment, were SHAW's Mardi Gras\ncostume he has worn for the past few years.\nI don't know, have never seen, or been introduced to\nFERRIE.\nBlock where OSWALD livid 163.\nI don't know BAYTON know AYTON MARTENS, but I saw him in the\nneighbornood of the 4900 block of Magazine. I was of the opinion\nMARTENS:\nthat his father rented a room across the street, and I was of the\nopinion that he (MARTENS) visited his father. This was at the\ntime I lived on Magazine Street.\nThe last time that I recall seeing CLAY SHAW was two\nSundays before Mardi Gras 1967, and we happened to bump into each\nother on Royal Street and stood together and watched a parade for\na time. At that time, I did invite him to the annual buffet I\ngive the Sunday before Mardi Gras, but he didn't attend this year.\nQ.\nBefore '63, did you attend any parties at CLAY SHAW's?\nA.\nNo. He also lived on Dauphine Street then, about the\n500 block. I don't think I was in his apartment before\n1301 Dauphine.\n-5-\nQ.\nFrom reading the newspapers and reading the names of\npersons involved in the probe, do you recall knowing\nany of these other people.\nA.\nI thought I recognized him (LAYTON MARTENS) as being a\nperson I recognized on Magazine Street, but any other\nnames have no familiar ring.\nQ.\nIf need be, would you be willing to take a lie detector\ntest in regard to this matter?\nA.\nYes.\nDAVID F GENTRY\n-6-\nOFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA\nRs: DAVID FERRIS\nPARISH OF ORLEANS\nCLAY SHAW\n(+ fil)\n\"JACK HELMS\"\nOctober 10, 1967\nWALTER SHERIDAN (+ Townlay)\nCUBANS\nSTATEMENT OF:\nJULES RICCO KIMBLE, w/m 24\nRESIDING AT:\n4839 Babylon Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nSTATEMENT\nI met DAVID FERRIE in early 1960 in a barroom named The Golden\nFerri\nLantern in the French Quarter. I would see DAVE from time to time\nin the same bar and I flew with him in his airplane on several\noccasions.\nOne night while drinking in the Golden Lantern, DAVE introduced\nme to CLAY SHAW. I was with CLAY SHAW and DAVE for several hours\nthat night which was in Late 1960 or early 1961. From that time on\nI use to see CLAY SHAW on different occasions, you know drinking and\nso forth. One day in late '61 or early '62 I received a phone call\n5 Dans\nfrom DAVE and he asked me if I would like to take an overnight plane\n+\ntrip with him. I said, all right, and then met FERRIE at the airport\nFarri:\nat which time I found out that CLAY SHAW was coming with us. At\nthis time I also found out that we were going to Canada to pick some-\none up. No other explanation was given. While on the trip, CLAY\nSHAW sat in the back of the airplane reading books and slept. SHAW\nalso had a brown brief case with him. On the flight we stopped at\ndifferent places to gas up and stretch our legs. We stopped in\nNashville, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Toranado, Canada.\nCanada\nOur final stop was in Montreal, Canada. FERRIE and myself stayed\n(Montral)\nin a hotel overnight. I believe it might have been the Hilton Air\nor something like that. The hotel was located in Dovral which was\nright outside of Montreal. CLAY SHAW disappeared after we landed and\nI did not see him until the next morning which was about 8 o'clock\nwhen we were ready to leave and come back to New Orleans. When SHAW\narrived at the plane, he had this Mexican or Cuban with him. This\nCuban:\nguy was kind of heavy set, dark complexion, balding in the front, in\nhis early 30's or middle 30's. He sat in the back of the airplane\nwith SHAW and spoke only to SHAW in broken English. The airplane\nthat we used was a Cessna 172 which I believed belonged to a friend\nof FERRIE's. We bought our gas with a Gulf credit card which FERRIE\nhad. When we got back to the Lakefront Airport, I got into my auto-\nmobile and FERRIE and SHAW and the other guy got into another auto-\nmobile and left.\nAbout a month or two later I got another phone call from FERRIE\nasking me if I wanted to make the return trip withhim to Canada,\nbut I told him no.\nI have seen SHAW on different occasions in barrooms and at the\nInternational Trade Mart up until the time that the District Attorney's\nShow:\noffice started their investigation. I have heard other people intro-\nduce CLAY SHAW as CLAY BERTRAND, but he has never been introduced to\n-\n-2-\nme as CLAY BERTRAND.\nI would also like to state that about two or three weeks after\nDAVE FERRIE died I got a phone call from JACK HELMS who was formerly\n\"fack\nwith the Federal Government and later connected with the Klu Klux\nKlan asking me if I would take a ride with him by FERRIE's house to\nKim\npick up some papers. I said, yes, and a short while later he picked\nme up at my house in a 1966 white chevrolet. We drove to FERRIE's\nhouse and parked a little way down the block. JACK got out of the\nFerri's\nautomobile with a flashlight and it appeared that he went around the\npapers\nback of the house or into the back yard. A short while later he came\nback with a black briefcase and got into the automobile at which time\nwe drove off. Later I believe that the contents of this briefcase were\nput into a safety deposit box in the Bank of Louisiana. Later I\nbelieve that these papers were removed from the Bank of Louisiana and\nput into a big black box in St. Bernard Parish which belonged to the\nKlan. The fellow who kept this box is called OTTO. I do not know him\nby any other name. I believe that these papers were then removed from\nthis black box, but I don't know where they were removed to. I did\nmanage to get some papers from this black box, but they pertained to\nthe Klan, and I turned these papers to CLEMENT HOOD, an FBI Agent I\nwas working for. I also had contact with CIA Agents. Their names\nbeing STEINMEYER, who has since been transferred to Texas, and NAT\nBROWN who is still in New Orleans and another guy by the name of RED,\nlast name unknown. I used to have meetings with the Agents in different\nmotel rooms where I would give them reports, pictures, recordings, etc.,\nand would also receive my pay check or cash which I would sign a\nvoucher for and would also receive further instructions. They would\nmail different things to me at my post office box number which is\n701-30252, Lafayette Street Branch.\nSeveral months ago RICK TOWNLEY with WDSU called me and told me\nthat he had information that I had tape recordings that someone wanted\nto buy from me. I asked him how he had found out that I had them and\nhe said that didn't matter. He asked me if I would meet him some\nplace and I told him yes, to come over to my house. He said, no, he\nwouldn't do that, that it would have to be some public place. So I\nmet him in the Kopper Kitchen on Tulane Avenue. After we talked for\na while I went home and put on a suit and we went down to WDSU. When\nand\nwe got to WDSU, TOWNLEY called WALTER SHERIDAN in New York and I sat\nTownday):\nthere while TOWNLEY talked to SHERIDAN. After TOWNLEY hund up he\nsaid that SHERIDAN would be in town the following morning. TOWNLEY\nasked me what I wanted for the tapes that I had, and I told him $500.\nThe next morning they gave me the $500 for the tapes and asked me if\nI would do a film for WDSU consisting of what I know about the Cubans,\nFERRIE, SHAW, etc. The tape that I sold them contained some informa-\ntion about the Klan and other information about the papers that were\npicked up at FERRIE's house. WALTER SHERIDAN is the one who gave me\nthe $500 for the tapes. This $500 was in a sealed envelope and was\nall one hundred dollar bills. This was given to me in an office in\nin WDSU which was located by their newsroom. We then went upstairs\nand they locked the doors and placed a guard on the door and started\nasking questions and taking pictures of me. I even remember that\nthere was a man from Sweden who was talking to the cameramen and they\nasked him to leave. They asked me questions such as, Do I know CLAY\nSHAW: Did I ever fly with CLAY SHAW and DAVID FERRIE: If I knew GENE\nDAVIS, which I told them that I knew GENE DAVIS very well because he\nwas a personal friend of mine; If I knew GORDON NOVEL: If I ever\nworked for the FBI, CIA, to which questions I said, yes of which\n-3-\nquestions WATTER SHERIDAN said he had already known that I would\nfored\nsay yes to. I was then told to say that I didn't know anything\nthat would help Garrison in his investigation and this was also\nput on film. I don't remember everything that he told me to say but\nhe did tell 1002 to go to Canada. Пе also said that he would edit and\ncut the films after I was gone. He also said that they would get me\nan attorney if I needed one. I told SHERIDAN And TOWNLEY not to re-\nlease this film if they were going to cut any part of it. They said\nthat when I got to Canada they would call me and ask if it could\nbe released. They called my wife later and asked her if she would\nlet them release it and she also told them no. I understand that\nthis film has been cut and released.\nMR. HOOD told me not to get involved with the District Attorney's\nOffice and if the District Attorney's Office tried to subpoena me,\nthat he would take care of it. MR. HOOD told me to give all the\ncooperation necessary that WALTER SHERIDAN required. SHERIDAN and\nTOWNLEY also told me not to talk with the District Attorney's Office'\nand to call them right away so they could get an attorney for me.\nThat is about all I can remember at this time.\nS/Jules Ricco Kimble\nJULES RICCO KIMBLE\nLA\nR: SHAW (2)\n(Travel rute on train,\n(From PORTLAND, OREGON,\nbeganning Nov 15, 1963. [From\npaper) Note two ORKGON\nPortland, Origon papers]\naddresses given by F.LEE\nCRISMAN - home address\nRe: F. LEE CRUMAN\nShaw Visited Here\nShaw-Ferrie Tie\nIn November, 1963\nbusiness leader arrested in\nClay Shaw, the New Orleans\nViewed Doubtful\nconspiracy to murder Presi-\nthe Louisians city for alleged\nBy JAMES LONG\nparted by train for Chicago\nJournal Staff Writer\nand New Orleans.\nwith 2 Portland appearance\ndent Kennedy, was tied in\nAccording to Carter Bran-\nthe same month the President\nIf Clay L. Shaw conspired\ndon, manager of the Columbia\nwas assassinated.\nwith David Ferrie to murder\nBasin World Trade Center.\nHe was scheduled 85 one of\nAmport?\nPresident Kennedy, it was a\nhere, the conference later\nthe principal speakers at the\nstrange alliance.\nreimbursed the travel agency\n5th Annual Columbia Basin\nShaw has a lifelong dread\n$346.66 for Shaw's transporta-\ntion and hotel bills.\nImport-Export Conference on\nflying. Ferrie was a veteran airline\nDavis said the New Orleans\nNov. 25, 1853, describing acti-\ndistrict attorney's office has\nTrade Mart of New Orleans.\nvities of the International\npilot. The odd sidelight or Shaw's\nmade no inquiries about the\npersonality was brought to\ntrip.\ndent's murder in Dallas, Tex.\ned because of the Presi-\nThe conference was cancel-\nlight Fridav 25 The Journal\nobtained information which\nThe presidential funeral was\nsuggests that Shaw was on\nbeing held on Nov. 25.\nroute to Portland by train at\nfor the conference anyways the\nBut Shaw showed up in town\nthe time of the assassination,\nIt the New Or-\ncouldn't locate Shaw to natify\nColum big Basin people\nleans travel agency accurate.\nly reflect Shaw's movements\nThim of the cancellation.\nbetween Nov. 15 and Nov 23\nthe silver-haired foreign trade\nexpert was riding Southern\nPacific passencer train on a\niesurely trip to Portland\n\"MR. SHAW didn't care for\nUM3\nDavis on Travel Consultants,\nairplanes.\" said Richard\nInc., New Orleans, who took\ncare of transportation 2r-\nTrangements frequently for his\nneighbor in the International\nTrade Mart Building.\nShaw Visited City In 1963\nWhen Shaw was invited to\nspeak in Portland at the 5th\nAnnual Columbia Basin Im-\nClay the Shaw, retired\nport-Export Conference on\nMonady. Nov 25 1953, he ask-\nPortland in International\nMart of the\ned Davis to arrange the trip\nfor him by rail.\nlowing and\nTuesday on\nthe flow assembly at the club\nhad addressed an in over 1953\nDavis said his records show\nthat Shaw was given a reser-\nSHAW'S TRAVEL\nPresident the the fol.\nvation on 2. Southern Pacific\nROUTE NOV 15, '63\nShaw has been accused 22.\nsubject \"How A Trade\npassenger train leaving New\nthe New\nOrleans Nov. 15 2nd soinz to\nat sequitur\nMart Functions.\"\nscheduled to\nThe visitor had\nPoriland by way of Houston\nSan Antonio Los\nSHAW APPEARED\nport the\nSan Francisco,\n'However, we moved our\nHERE ON NOV.\nF.\noffice not long ago and we\n22, 1983, AT\nhas bail since director\nThe former mart\nbut\nceled was\nlong longer have records older\nMID- MID-DAY. DAY.\ndent's death. following the Presi- can\nthan 1964 which would show\nmade his the\nwhen 2. ticket 25 actually\ncayune The New Orteans Times-Pi\nused, and how,\" Davis said.\nNotel Officials and the of both Rotary the Club Bensort 03 San Hotel Francisco Nov. said at he St.\nthat Shaw\nHe added that the lost rec-\nords also would indicate\nmerely that a ticket was used\n22-24.\nnot who used it. Train and\npullman records are kept for\nonly six months.\nPresumably, Shaw was 02\nthe train or somewhere CO\nroute on Saturday Nov 23\nwhen officials of the trade\nconference were trying to\nreach him to SAV the confor:\nenca had been canceled.\nShaw checked into the Ben-\nson Hotel on Monday, Nov. 25.\nand left 05 Tuesday, Nov. 26.\nHe ran #2 2 bill of $23.70 but\nmade no long-distance tele-\nphone calls through the hotel\nswitchboard. records indicate,\nON TUESDAY he addressed\na meeting of the Portland\nRotary Ciub, told them how\nPortland could increase its\nport commence. and then de-\n1965\n1964\n1962\nLowerlice Intersects\n7400 Maes Virgiola @ UN6-0402\nLowerline Intersects\n7400 Vacant\nMilaudon ends\n7407 Baehr Jerome C 0 UNI-9059\n7400 Maes Virginia $ UN6-0402\nMilaudon ends\nMilaudon ends\nWilliams Berlyn W Mrs\n7407 Baebr Jerome C 9 UNI-9059\n7407 Bachr Jerome C @ UN1-9059\nUN6-0373\n7431 Farnsworth Olln J @ UN6-0184\n7431 Farnsworth Olin so UN6-0184\nMask Walter S -9967\n7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442\n7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442\nWilliams Berlyn W Mrs\n7444 Avenue Apartments The\nUN6-0373\n7444 Avenue Apartments The\n1A Edwards Anne B UN6-4834\n7431 Farnsworth Olin J D UN6-0184\n2A Hutchison Helea E UN1-4787\nApartments:\n1a Edwards Anne B UN6-4834\n7433 Butler Geo E UN1-9442\n3A Russ F Rayne UN1-7155\n2a Hutchison Helen E UN1-4787\n7444 Azenue Apartments The\n13 Dickson Alma T Mrs 861-7933\n3a Russ F Rayne UN1-7155\nApartments:\n23 Watson Elvera 3 851-0885\n1b Dickson Alma T Mrs 861-7933\nla Edwards Anne B UN6-4884\n3B Simony Aurella 861-0369\n2b Watson Elvera B SS1-0385\n2a Hutchison Helen E UN1-4787\n1C Price Dorothy F UN1-4224\n3b Simony Aurella 351-0369\n3a Russ F Rayne UNI-7155\n2C Drouet Adele M UN5-1825\nIc Price Dorathy F UN1-4224\n1b Diettel Leland J\n3C VonHadnagy Andrew J\n2c Drouet Adele M UN3-1825\n2b Proctor Ruth C UNL-3947\n10 Whaley Kath P Mrs UN5-1937\n3c Vacant\n3b Vacant\n20 Schochet Sidney S jr\nId Whaley Kath P Mrs UN5-1937\n1c Price Dorothy F UN1-4224\n3D Haas Edda 856-5240\n2d Sachet Sidney S j=\n2c Drouet Adele M UN5-1825\nIE Balch Robt W 861-0234\n3d Haas Edda 866-5240\n3c Vacant\n2E Chambers Wes D UN1-9445\n1e Balch Robt W 861-0234\n1d Whaley Kath P Mrs\n3E Harrison Anna M 861-0848\n2e Chambers Wes D UN1-9445\n2d Bourque Chas C 866-0770\n1F Vacant\n3e Harrison Anna M 861-0348\n3d McGee Mary L 866-5753\n23 Reily Esther Q Mrs UN1-0156\nIf Vacant\nle Harrison 3 Randolf 356-8720\n3F Thompson Robt I\nIf Reily Eather or Mrs UNI-0156\n2e Chambers Wm D UNL-9445\n1G McGina Maureen\n3f Inez Micht H 866-2317\n3e Harrison Anna M 861-0848\n1H Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324\n1g McGinn Maureen\nIf Sachel Tim 865-4290\n2H Clesl Victor UN1-3833\n1h Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324\n2f Reily Esther or Mrs UNI-0156\n3H McDaniel Edith 866-2517\n2h Clesi Victor UN1-3833\n3f Vazzana Anita Mrs 861-1530\n13 Cassegrain Octave C phys\n3b McDaniel Edith 856-2617\n1g McGian Maurcen\n861-3594\n11 Cassegrain Octave C phys\n1h Leukhart Richd H UN6-7324\n23 Offerman Bornard J\n2H Clesi Victor UN1-3833\n861-3591\n3J Jones Hazel A 851-1985\n3h McDaniel Edith 866-2517\n2K Brun Jeanne UN1-7297\n7446 Under Consta\n1j Cassegrain Octave C 861-3594\n3K No Return\n7447 Apartments\n2j Offerman Bernard J UN1-4048\n11. Vacant\n2j Offerman Bernard J\n3j Jones Hazel A 8GL-1985\n2L Kramer Lloyd\n3j Jones Hazel A 861-1985\n1k Pearlman Bertha Mrs UN6-4430\n3L Bates Norma 866-7503\n2k Brun Jeanne UN1-7297\n2k Brun Jeanne UNI-T207\n3% Vacant\nIM Moore Mary\n3k Vacant\n2M O'Donnell Herbert 866-3462\n11 Bresler Rae Mrs 861-1272\n11 Vacant\n3M Johnston Laura\n21 No Return\n21 Vizard Anthony Mrs\nIN Mondshine Jos E UNS-0483\n31 Bates Norma C\n31 Landry Gloria UN1-9777\n2N Pecot All A UN1-4762\nIm Schneider John R Mrs\n1m Schneider John R Mrs\n2m O'Donnell Herbert 866-3452\n3N Tiell Maureen C\n2m O'Donnell Herbert UN6-3462\n(A) Murphy Arth A o real est\n3m McAlister Terese E UN1-3258\n3m McAlister Terese E UN1-3258\n10 Mondshine Jos E UN6-0483\nUNI-9353\nIn Mondshine Jos E UN6-0483\n20 Pecot ALA UN1-4752\n(B) Bodenhelmer Carroll 861-2504\n2n Pecot Alf A UN1-4762\n(C) Pearce James I 861-8503\n3n Boyd Wm P 861-8496\nST CHARLES AV-Coard\n(D) Odderstol Thos C UNI-3302\n7447 Apartments\nApartments-Con'd\n7445 No Return\n(A) Murphy Arth A 3 real est\n7450 Lichtentag Alvin P o\n3n Boyd Wm P 351-8495\n(A) Murphy Arth A 0 real est\nST CHARLES AV-Contd\n7456 Vacant\n7457 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros\nUNI-9333\nApartments-Contd\n(B) Bodenheimer Carroll 861-2504\n(B) Bodenheimer Carroll 861-2304\nUNI-9501\nCherokee Intersects\n(C) Pearce James 851-3505\n(C) Pearce James I 861-8508\n(D) Odderstol Thos C UN1-3302\n(D) Odderstol Thos C UN1-3302\n7450 Lichtentag Alvin P 0\n7457 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros\nUNL-9901\n7437 Piggly Wiggly Stores gros\nUNI-9901\nADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW\n1313 Dauphine Street\nChange of Address\n1414 Chartres Street\n9/21/66 Post Office\n927 Burgundy Street\nTitle 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird\nConvertible\n124 Camp Street\nTitle 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird\nConvertible\n511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La.\n2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title)\n1445 Pauger Street\nLafayette Insurance Company\nCanceled insurance on property\n1014 Royal Street\nMilitary Record 1/14/47\n457 Eagon, Shreveport, La.\nDraft Registration\n3607 Banks Street\n1925 School Records\n906-8 Esplanade Avenue\n1954 Owned\n529 Esplanade Avenue\n(Garrison memo)\nLord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada\n1952-53\n716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street\nStatement from Marilyn Tate,\nRealtors\nADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW\n1313 Dauphine Street\nChange of Address\n1414 Chartres Street\n9/21/66 Post Office\n927 Burgundy Street\nTitle 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird\nConvertible\n124 Camp Street\nTitle 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird\nConvertible\n511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La.\n2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title)\n1445 Pauger Street\nLafayette Insurance Company\nCanceled insurance on property\n1014 Royal Street\nMilitary Record 1/14/47\n457 Eagon, Shreveport, La.\nDraft Registration\n3607 Banks Street\n1925 School Records\n906-8 Esplanade Avenue\n1954 Owned\n529 Esplanade Avenue\n(Garrison memo)\nLord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada\n1952-53\n716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street\nStatement from Marilyn Tate,\nRealtors\nADDRESSES OF CLAY L. SHAW\n1313 Dauphine Street\nChange of Address\n1414 Chartres Street\n9/21/66 Post Office\n927 Burgundy Street\nTitle 9/12/59 - 1959 Thunderbird\n0\nConvertible\n124 Camp Street\nTitle 1/10/64 - 1959 Thunderbird\nConvertible\n511 S. Walnut, Hamond, La.\n2/21/64 - 1962 Rambler (Title)\n1445 Pauger Street\nLafayette Insurance Company\nCanceled insurance on property\n1014 Royal Street\nMilitary Record 1/14/47\n457 Eagon, Shreveport, La.\nDraft Registration\n3607 Banks Street\n1925 School Records\n906-8 Esplanade Avenue\n1954 Owned\n529 Esplanade Avenue\n(Garrison memo)\nLord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada\n1952-53\n716-14 Gov. Nicholls Street\nStatement from Marilyn Tate,\nRealtors\nanyw\nRa: SHAW (gennal full\nSer WALKER File\nSTATES\nDISTRICT ATTORNEY\nPARISH OF ORLEAN\n2700 Tulane Avenue\nNEW ORLEANS\n13.399 203. D\nD.A. NO.\nDATE\n3-7- 68\nITEM NO. C Z228-68\nDIST.\nACCEPTED\nREFUSED\nOTHER\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA VS:\nLOCATION:\nBOND SUGGESTED\n1) WALKER, ROBERT\nN/m(22)\nP 75000\n2330 MONTICELLO\nB/I No. 115-427\n2)\nB/I No.\n3)\nB/I No.\nFACTS:\nTHEFT of 1961 Two Door (HEVXOLL)\nVALUED AT 2 1000 belonging Po\nMARILYNNE TATE\nDATE OF OFFENSE: 3-3-68\nCHARGE: 14:67\nOTHER REMARKS:\nARREST NO. 62082\nCOMMITTING MAGISTRATE NO.\nNo.A 14642\nOrgan ASSISTANT meinti DISTRICT ATTORNEY\nRE: George Higginbotham\nInfo provided by\n(alse re: BANISTER OPERATION)\n4-12-68\nBarbana Raid\n4-16-68\n4-17-68\nThomas\nFormer investigator for Guy Banister, 1960-61. Only social con-\ntact 62-63.\nThis is Louis P. Davis, Minite Man type, associated\nwith\ngo\nAt present Higgenbotham has been arraigned on a charge of Marijuana\npossession. His attorney is Gill, Jr.\nwho\nBeckham at his 1968 Grand Jury reppeared appearance\nThe first night he was here (538 St. Phillip) he showed me stats of\nthree letters from Banister to him conerning Banister's providing\nhim with false credentials and a cover for infiltrating Communist\ngroups. His code name was to be \"Dale\".\nHe Higgenbotham, says he saw Martin McAullife in Banister's office\na few times. His reason for severing ties with Banister he attri-\nbutes to a definite nervousness upon seeing crates obviously of\nwith Roswell Thompson\nmilitary supplies in the back room. There were\napparently meetings were also held there.\n(Kent)\nFor some time he said that Banister and Courtney worked closely,\nhowever Banister did not have a good opinion of Courtney, consid-\nering him too mercenary and a \"loose-mouth\".\nHiggenbotham also says there was quite a bit of radio equipment in\nthe back room.\nLou Davis was at Banister's frequently.\nRockewll Nazi party stayed at Mike Slatter's apartment on Royal\nLevels Rockwall was at Benester office arending to then The\nStreet, before they were removed to Plaquemines Parish.\nwe\nYoung man named Eddie Porter, who is now on the west coast, told\nGeorge he know Oswald was a \"hustler\" on Royal street. George\nsaid Porter did not specify the time, or if he did, George doesn't\nremember. Porter is gay.\nHiggenbotham was kidding Banister about sharing a bldg. with people\npassing out leaflets of the street and Bannister said, \"Cool it\none of them, is one of mine.\"\nwell\nAnown\nCastro framy reamy month of stake\nMiniste Man setimit, arrested at P.\nHiggenbotham 'suggested' following up the possibility of a connecti\nbetween Richard Lauchli and Bannister. He said; \"Rumour has it that\nthe FBI arrested Lauchli in the Covington area for selling arms to\nLatin America\". But Higgenbotham considered it odd that Lauchli\nAppearity\nwas never out of business and business seemed to even improve. He\nhad a publication called \"The Counter Insurgency Council\" and was\nfriends with the\nBab Pauthin lications Pab. V\nDenver, Colorado. It was all literature concerning demolition\nprocedures, guerrila warfare, Army manuals of warfare, text books\nand instructions of how to organize a fihting group.\nMuch of whay George said was difficult to orientate. He would say,\n\"You might check this out\", or \"Here's a name,\" and when I asked woul\nsay, \"I'd rather not say.\" And then he kept throwing in \"This\nmay have no meaning, I\"m not sure I have anything that might help.\"\nuntil I was never sure whether this was meant to be bait or not.\nA lot of things he said he would prefer to discuss in detail only\nwith Jim Garrison.\nConcerning the camp across the Lake. Higgenbotham suggested the\nfollowing names:\nDEREK FRIER (was unsure of spelling)\nWas a\nCoucier for the Nazi Party\nLived on St. Charles\nAvenue in '62\nThey now live in covington area.\nGEORGE HIGGENBOTHAM\n2\nLOREN BUTLER\nSuggested looking for this man, who was a friend\nof Frier's, and was a high official in Nazi Party.\nRAY LEEHEART (Or Earhart)\nA bus driver out of the Magazine St.\ndepot\nvery active in the Nazi party. Used to place Party slogan\nand posters on the walls of the depot.\nHiggenbotham knows Joe Newbrough of course, but insists he did not\nknow Bill Dalzell. When he brought the Lauchli material, etc., he\ndid not go into too much detail, probably assuming (correctly) that\nI wouldn't understand too much, although he trusts me as much as he\ndoes any woman. Whether much of this is significant or not, I\ncan't say. But Higgenbotham is NOT playing games; he is in too much\nof a bind and he is willing to cooperate in any way. This is one\nperson TOMMY BAUMLER will go to any lengths for, (regardless of the\nconsequences) and the first person Tommy has begged me to help in\nany way you can\". Higgenbotham was a pallbearer at Tommy's Daddy's\nfuneral and Tommy says \"When I was a crippled kid without a friend\nin the world, George came and played Chess with me and was my only\nfriend.\"\nHiggenbotham has lived at the same Lowerline Street address for about\nfifteen years. Is a gun collector, has survived many political\nchanges, and apparently his sexual proclivities tend to young males.\nHe believes the Pot found belonged to a young man with whom he is\nno longer friendly. His attorney is Gill, Jr. (mentioned previously).\nHe felt that much of his information would not be considered, be-\ncause in his opinion Lou Davis was and is a key factor in the sub\nmerged activities in this area, and because of\nwould not follow them to a conclusion. He\nfeels there was organization locally in respect to a conspiracy\nthan appears so far on the surface. Particularly in respect to the\nacquisition of supplies, training organization and leadership. He\nsays it's logical because these things were available. It certainly\nwouldn't hurt to talk with him.\nBARBARA GLANCEY REID\n-1-\nWell, to make a long story short, I was in the same outfit as Oswald\nwas in the \"Fair Play for Cuba Committee\" only apparently he wasn't\nin it so deeply and in & different part of the country and, at the\nsame time; now bear with me now because this is a very difficult ex-\nplanation to a certain extent.\nMy wife gives me a bit of a rough time when I discuss this situation.\nI think I'll bust her in the eye to be truthful about it. Anyway the\nFBI contacted me when I came back and I blew the whistle to them for\na year while I was still an officer in that outfit in Chicago \"Fair\nPlay for Cuba Committee\" I appeared in a hearing with the rest of them.\nNow, I was never a communist, right winger or left winger or anything\nyou see. I was merely interested in the revolution which I hated a\nlittle bit. I could fly a little or push an airplane around a little.\nNow, Can I make a more important point, after my time was up there,\nwhich was a year, when a hearing was to be held, I was told by the\nFBI that they wanted more information from me and that was it, they\ndidn't explain or anything, and it was sort of a let down. I was\ngoing to whistle on my former friends. I thought I was convinced by\nthem that I was doing a proper job and they kicked me down so, I\nblew out of there and came to California and that was in 1961, the\nday they were holding the hearing. They didn't want me around appa-\nrently, so here in 1962, I joined up with a bunch of anti-Castro people,\nCubans, Americans and others. And then I found my way into circles\nof the political right, you see, who were very effective in trying to\ndo away with Castro. At least they were talking about it. That's\nall they did was talk about it. Believe me, I bought the right wing\nline of thing and I am not against them right now, as a matter of fact,\nexcept that I found out a lot of things that horrified me; I peddled\ntheir line for them, because I thought in turn that they were going\nto help us get rid of Castro. They were anti-communist, anti-Castro\nand all that stuff and I hated Castro, because what the communist\nwere doing embarrassed me, made a fool out of me and wasted all my\nefforts, so I was going to get even. So this right wing thing was the\nway to do it and I swallowed it. I thought it was a greatidea; the\nAmericanism, patriotism and all that stuff. As time went on and as\nI look back I didn't know it at that time, it was always the anti-\ncunity bit: (he's a dirty communist, and this and that) and I figured\nit was just a bunch of hog wash and I'll go along with the people just\nto get action against Castro. And the individuals were donating\nheavily, you see.\nWell, the Birch Society was talking against Castro. In other words,\n\"Cuba free in 1963\" and everything. The individuals were actually\ndoing something about it by donating money to these different orga-\nnizations preferably to Hall, and Howard got it and the other people\ngot it in New Orleans, Dallas, Florida and so forth, the money finally\ngot to them and the medicine that came from the doctors.\nQ.\nWhen you say Hall, you mean Lorenz D. Hall?\nIt is... a nickname by the way, his name is Lorenzo. And Lawrence\nHoward is Larry Howard. I am sure Weisberg knows this, the rest\nknow this too that Larry Howard is a Mexican American. Lorenzo\nHall is a Cuban American. The number three man was a guy by the name\nAof Guy Gabaldin, a Mexican American, the one time big hero they made\na movie about called \"Hell to Eternity\", a former marine, if you recall\nit.\nQ.\nI do vaguely.\nThey play it every year on Channel 9.\nWell, anyway, the point is, these people, I find later were in it\nlong before Weisberg and all the rest of those people came along\nwriting books and it bore on my conscience. I informed the proper\nauthorities about my involvements so I wouldn't become pinned down\n-2-\nwhen they finally arrested them for associating with assassinators\nof President Kennedy.\nNow, I immediately thought, and I told old lady Oswald so, \"My gosh\nwoman, your son is doing the same job as I was.\" That was my impression.\nYou don't get wrong impressions when you are in.a mess like that. And\nlater on the evidence came out that he was this and that. So I said well\napparently those people were the ones that did it and then I thought\nthey didn't want Kennedy dead, but the right wing was always trying to\nkill him. Gebaldin said he was going to kill him in 1962, when Kennedy\nvisited Mexico City. He had an office in Mexico City, by the way, run-\nning an anti-communist fron called \"Drive against Communist Aggression\".\n&\nThis was Gabaldin?\nGabaldin, Howard, Hall, me and all the rest. He was financed by some\nbig business men here of whom I have the list of names and whom I became\nvery friendly with. Now, I don't know if you are getting this proper\nor not, but you can ask me questions. He had an office there, he had\nsome friends in Mexican Federal Police. The FBI of Mexico, who he\ntried to get to help with this Kennedy deal down there. To shoot\nKennedy in Mexico City when he was on parade there. And I thought, well,\nthe guy was crazy, he is not talking sense and he didn't really mean\nthat he was going to kill Kennedy.\nThese people, Oswald and whoever they blame for it and even if he was\ninvolved or not which I doubt that he was in a way, at least I think he\nwas finking on him just like I was on those people up there. They\nhated Kennedy, you get it, no \"Fair Play for Cuba Committee\" say they\nhated him, but I heard the right wing say they hated him. \"Them dirty\nshould be dead. G---D---him and all that sort of thing\". When\nI was on the other side, I believed what they believed in. I didn't\nbelieve what the left wing believed. I finally got to believe what\nthey believed. I couldn't follow it, it didn't make sense. But I\nunderstood that they called him a communist. Actually I was against\ncommunism, but I wasn't long with them, just to do away with Castro and\nto aid the people that were going against Castro. Okay, now they had\nthis office in Mexico City, this Federal police officer, Captain Juan A.\nAranda practically had him assassinated, Gabaldin assassinated for try-\ning to present the problem of killing Kennedy there. He ran him out of\nMexico City.\nQ.\nHe knew what he was up to, in other words?\nSure, he told the, they had been friends for a long time, this anti-\ncommunist stuff. Then Gabaldin tried to sell remembering Gabaldin,\nHoward and Hall was one group with a bunch of other people\nQ.\nOf course, I remember.\nThey all associated. I knew this and I thought it was great. Anyways,\nhe couldn't swallow the whole trap that Kennedy was a communist. Being\nMexican and he wouldn't believe it. He just couldn't see it, so they\nrounded them all up and threw them out of Mexico City. That was it,\nthey took his furniture that he had in his office and seized him. And\nno one knows about those things. If Oswald went to Mexico City, he went\nthere (now here is another shot) Gabaldin and I went one day to John\nRousselot of the Birch Society and Sam Moreno in their old office down\nthe street from there, the present one) to get $10,000. You might think\nI am some kind of a damn fool, but I am not. I want to see these dirty\ndouble crossing finks get what they got coming, because they continue\nto be a threat to me, what we believe is true, and obviously it is as\ntrue as the daylight now showing. I dont' care to prove it and all that\ngarbage where you've got to prove stuff, that doesn't mean anyting to me.\nQ.\nBut you want the information to get out?\nThat's right. I've written all of this down and I am looking at my\nbriefcase that contains every name and address and everything I ever did.\n&\nDo you remember that portion that Mr. Weisberg spoke and he talks about\nthe visit to Sodio Audeo's apartment?\nRight in my organization, sure. Certainly I remember that. When I saw\nthat in October 1964, I said, My God, they have really did it.\n-3-\nThey have really reached out, when Howard and Hall's name appeared.\n&\nWhat about William Seymour?\nBilly Seymour. It looked like Oswald And I would say that come\nno one?---How come no one has ever gotten the whereabouts of Gabaldin?\nYou know the FBI Now let me tell you first one thing before the\n$10,000 bit is finished here.\nSenator Hoover---Now, you know what I know about the Bureau is this,\nand you can't blame him, No, I mean you can blame hi, but, for this\npoint National Security was always drummed into our minds --And any\ntime I open my mouth, they talk about National Security---please don't\nsay anything to me. Now, I agree with National Security and it is\nimmoral sometime, but, for National Security reasons alone he has done\nwhat he has done.\n&\nHe put the lid on this thing, in other words?\nHe put the lid on, he aimed to keep it on there at all costs. He has to,\nbecause, these people, their representatives, of the people I am dis-\ncussing now, are so powerful in the United States, that they can knock\nthe President off, if they want, if he doesn't tow the line.\nThe right wing said this about the communists. But it isn't so, it is\nthe right wing that is really that way.\nMr. Hunt and a lot of the big shots that I agreed with, they can do\nthese things and they will. If things don't go right. Now, I am sur-\nprised, the right used to cry, we don't have any money, we don't have any\npower, we don't have this, why, they organized the Birch Society and got\nit financed. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not an enemy of theirs. I\nread their book right now, and their material and I agree with a great\ndeal of it, but nevertheless, it doesn't make this fellow any less guilty\nof associating with Gabaldin and that bunch of creeps. The ten grand\nGabaldin said he didn't get when I waited outside the office, he went\ninside and talked to Rousellot. He said he didn't get it, but they\ntalked forfour hours. The ten grand was supposed to go to Mexico City\noperation, whatever that means, I know when I was invited down there,\nGabaldin and I were both flying airplanes, he invited me to co-pilot for\nhim. I never went down, I was afraid to go to Mexico because of the\nmess I had been in with Castro and he got more effective agents.\nQ.\nIn Mexico?\nYes, the ten grand apparently he didn't get. But I think he did get it.\nAnd John Rousselot was supposed to kick back whatever benefits to the\nBirch Society. That was Gabaldin's work. It didn't ring a bell with me\nthen. Later on, a personal friend of mine was working in a little\nSavings and Loan place and it turns out that this very poor fellow, Mr.\nRousselot, whom I know quite well, and as I have said many times, he was\nin cahoots. To many people, I have said this, but I never went into an\nexplanation of the whole thing. He made a loan of $19 or 24,000 on the\nfirst of 1963. So you can't say he didn't have the ten grand to do it\nwith. I've got a copy of the loan. When I saw that, it even added up\nmore so. I am not one given to fear, but I am just telling you that is\nthe way things are. And when I see all these guys like Mr. Weisberg and\nMark Lane. I have talked to him on the phone, he kind of figured out I\nwas some kind of crackpot. But they are aiming at a thing that I have\nknown for years. And if they really are wanting to do something, let\nthem do this. Let them say these things. Let me get up and say these\nthings and I'll say them. We'll bring this thing to a head.\nI'll tell you why exactly Mr. Hoover is covering up from my point of view\nis having been an undercover fink for them for a year is for National\nSecurity reasons. I agree with him, but he is still covering up. And\nthat's it. And many another Ching has happened in the interim. They're\nall written down here.\n&\nI don't know if you recall, I just wanted to ask if there was a\nLeopoldo.\nThat could have been his underground name of Lorenzo.\nQ.\nThat came to Sodio Audeo's apartment too?\nI think it was Lorenzo. Leopoldo was working with an underground name.\nHoward wanted me to run an office here in 1963, before Kennedy was\nassassinated, to inform the press, make press releases and collect money,\nwhich I didn't do because I was doing other things along right wing lines;\nto run an office here, to get press releases under way, just as they were\nabout to happen against Castro.\nHoward is a warrior. Hall was political person that made speeches at\nBirch Society meetings open meetings and closed meetings and was very well\naccepted by them. He made a lot of money. I found out, I said to Gabal-\ndin one day, \"what is he doing with all this dough? Is he really putting\nit into the anti-Castro operations. He said \"every penny of it goes in\nthere, I guarantee you\", and I took his word for it at that time, because\nhe was a sort of the leader of things.\nAnd another thing, Gabaldin, when he came back from Mexico, he ran this\ndrive against communist aggression which was financed from here. I\nhave all the literature on it and remember all the details. He made\nspeeches all around Arizona, Canada, Detroit. He was all around and\ntherefore, helped build up the network we had. Everything is ABC\n&\nWas there such a network in Dallas too?\nWell sure it is in Dallas. It was part of our---I am associated with\njuror members here now, they're inactive by the way. If there is some-\nthing going on at least they are keeping it quiet. They probably sus-\npect me of being at fink, I suppose. But I really think, because we were\nsuch good friends, awhile back, that there is really nothing popping\njust now. They work and naturally take advantage of the situation.\nRight now it is not profitable or possible.\n&\nWhere is Gabaldin now?\nOh, he's hiding out in Mexico. See, all those guys took trips quietly.\nYou know when the FBI can't find the, they are well hidden. They couldn't\nfind Howard or Hall for a long time.\nI saw Gabaldin about six months ago, over in E1 Monte, a Mexican\nrestaurant here, he and one of his former backers, who was a big wheel\nin Freedom Forum, and his name was Ray Fleischman. Now for Ray in whose\nopinion, doctors and so forth, we $10,000 worth of medicine for anti-\nCastro operation in the Mexico City deal.\nQ.\nWas there any link between group and Ruby with his activities in Cuba?\nI don't even like to talk about that guy because, I can't stand anyone,\nI feel sorry for him and the way he died and so forth, but I knew he\nand I knew he would just like Lane and Mr. Weisberg knew. He was a\ndirty rat that was in the scheme somewhere. I don't even like to talk\nabout a back shooter in other words. I got no use for him. He's cheated\neveryone and helped make the big lie.\nObviously, if that woman said he was involved, he probably was involved.\nI'd discuss it with her if I were researching the situation.\nQ.\nWhich woman are you referring to?\nI think Mr. Lane or Mr. Weisberg wrote about some woman who put the\nfinger on Ruby as being the payoff man.\nYou see, we were all in Cuba at different times.\nQ.\nYou were there too?\nWell, sure, just for a short time, after the war.\n-5-\nThis is some of the government there, some of the big wheels, Any\nof them that went there were either for or against. They had some\ndeal going with the government, see. They were involved in other\nwords, they didn't just go there to look around, because the peasant\narmies are marching and people are building and things are really\ngoing on down there. So you just don't go there to look around, it\nis not just a good tourist spot. It's a revolutionary activity, so\nRuby was there, and that convinces me he was involved.\n&\nDid you know anyone there by the name of Praskins or Pratkins, or\nanyone by the name of McWilly?\nI knew those names. They're in the same report that I am in.\nOh, no, no, no. I just heard the names. I don't know them.\nQ.\nThey don't ring a bell.\nTheydo ring a bell, but not with my activities; I don't know them\nat all. I just read about them and I don't want to bring them in\nwith the reality of what I know.\nQ. Certainly. Well, it has been very interesting, in any case, and\nI don't know when Harold will be out here again, but I know that\nhe would enjoy meeting you when he does come and I am sure that can\nbe arranged. In any case, remember that I called and that wasn't\nyour home phone was it. Am I talking to you from there?\nThat is my business and home both. It's a little printing business.\nQ.\nWell, I'll be in touch with you in any case. I am very grateful for\nyour call and that is all I can say.\nWell, these guys are batting their brains out. I don't know what their\nangles are. They may be very honest upstanding non-political non-\nreligious people that are really trying to do their job, and I'd like\nto think that was the case. It doesn't matter what their real motives\nare, the point is, they are fishing around and finding out a whole lot\nof things and I don't want to be embroiled in the middle of it when\nthey fish my name out of the hat. If you know what I mean.\nI'd rather blow the whistle now and get it over with, If someone\nused it, then I am in the clear.\n&\nYou speak about people knowing how to fly airplanes, you know it was\nspeculated that a plane did take off or was scheduled to take off at\nRedbury Field at Dallas the afternoon of the assassination.\nOh, I never heard that.\nQ.\nYes, that is in one of the articles by one of the authors of the case.\nSchebody felt that a plane really did take off for Mexico or one of\nthe South American countries.\nI know Gabaldi flew a lot of miles back and forth. Look, here is\na very simple solution. Gabaldi naturally wouldn't be involved directly,\nhe might even be sitting there in an airplane, I don't know, I don't\ncare about that. But where was Billy Seymour that day, to whom I\nthink, you know, run upstairs and put uncle on the spot, I really think\nthat. He was just a dirty little rat like some of these people who are\ntrying to make a name for themselves. These big movies heros.\nQ.\nDid these people have expertees, firearms and weapons?\nWell, yes. I learned stuff myself and they had people who wrote manuals\nby hand and passed them around to the Greeks that wer training on\nNonamekey. That's name of t'.e key. That's \"no name\". There was also\na place near New Orleans. They had expertees there. There was &\nlocal guy training them there, a Canadian, and Howard and several\nothers. What they wanted from us was medicine. If you've got a\nwound, they want to throw a powder on it. What kind of powder it is\nI forget now. And aspirin and stuff like that in case they were\nwounded you see.\n-6-\nSo they knew all the fundamentals of killing, wounding. They knew\nall the fundamentals in a raid. I would say Howard was an expert\nbecause he sure taught an awful lot of men in the army --Castro.\nI don't give a hoot about any of those people anymore. I think\nthey've used me up. I don't want to be around when the ax falls\nand at the same time I wan't to see it fall.\n&\nYou want to get your information out while you have the chance?\nRight. And these birds which I did definitely imagine was the case,\nwere involved, whether Oswald was or not doesn't matter. I still\nthink he was doing the same job I was doing. Before, I even read\na word of it, I knew it.\nQ.\nThat Oswald was down here?\nbrought\nI'm the one/his old lady on the \"Joe Pine Show\". Did you see that?\n&\nNo, I didn't, I heard that she was here though.\nThat was in 1965, I appeared down there and I told briefly what I\nwas involved in and I said you know I got the impression your son\nwas doing the same thing I was\"; they shut me up and I though the\nFederal Bureau wouldn't ever speak to me again, because they told me\nto shut my trap, see,\nQ.\nTell me can I reach you at this number? When is the best time to call?\nOr do you want to leave it as just where you can reach me?\nWell, it would be sensible just to have it that way, wouldn't it?\n&\nAllright, whatever you like, but this is a good time to call me,\nearly in the morning and I will transfer some of this to Harold, if\nyou like, at least I will give him a report on the facts as they are.\n-7-\n&\nWhat do you think of General Walker? I mean you say you know Walker,\nDo you think it is true that he might be involved? First of all, you\nknow that Oswald was to have taken the shot at General Walker?\nA.\nI don't believe it. I think Howard took a shot.\nQ.\nOh, you think Howard took a shot?\nCertainly, he was in Dallas with all those other crums. I don't\nbelieve Oswald did it. I don't care, you see. I don't want to try to\nprove anything. I am just trying to tell you who did what, and why.\n&\nWell Oswald supposedly had someone with him? There were perhaps two\npeople involved in it.\nLike Billy Seymour and Howard who was always hauling his big Mexican\ncarcass around trying to pull some kind of & caper. Oswald was a fink,\njust like I was. A fink for the Feds. Let's face it. We did things\nthat were completely opposed. We committed treason for the Federal\nBureau of Investigation. You know what I mean. The things we blame\nthe committee for doing, we did, we led them, we organized them and we\nwould do things that would put us in such a light, such a position and\nwe would even go take a shot at someone, if we had to, if that was part\nof getting us to infiltrate some organization. There it is, it is\nhorrible, but true. And then it was very likely that Oswald did it in-\ntending to infiltrate never intending to hit, you never know, it is\nsomething that bears investigation, if possible The very cover up of\nthe situation, obliterations here and there of things, indicates some\nmore things involved which I am glad to see people investigate it.\nQ.\nDo you think it is conceivable when Oswald went to Mexico City that he\nwas endeavoring to sea Gabaldin or was Gabaldin there at that time?\nExactly what I am thinking. Look at Billy Seymour--And another thing\nGabaldin told me that hit me pretty hard and I hated his guts for it,\nnot hate him, I wouldn't burn his house down, but I hated him because\nhe said later on before Kennedy died, \"I know a guy that looks just like\nyou.\" Now here's me. A picture of me. I'm going around wearing a\nTexas hat, I've got a rifle and I go out and shoot all the time and\nGabaldin knows this. I'm a chewing tobacco, Texas hat wearing gunman,\nyou get it. He's got this picture of me like I am some kind of a big\nfat fool. He's telling me, I know a guy looks exactly like you and I\nsaid \"poor b and so forth. But he told me this several times and\nthat gave me the impression he was trying to tell me something. Then\nlater on I realized By God it could have been another one of these\nBilly Seymour deals trying to get me with my own reputation as an NRA\nmember and a shooter and get me involved in all this deal. So this isn't\nfrom what somebody else investigated, this is what I realized later on,\nand it worried me plenty.\nAny ay it is a long miserable situation and with both people it was hate\ndrove them ever forward and I suppose with a little money too. But more\nand more actual hate than money.\na.\nI think that is obvious.\nI think I had better hit the trail as I am holding you up there.\n&\nI appreciate it in any case and we will be in touch then.\nA.\nGood show.\na.\nOkay, thank you so much. Bye Bye now.\nMEMORANDUM\nRe FERRIE\nApril 24, 1969\nTO:\nJAMES L. ALCOCK, Exec. Assistant D. A.\nFROM:\nCAPT. FREDERICK A. SOULE, SR., Investigator\nRE:\nINTERVIEW WITH:\nCLARA FLOURNOY \"BOOTSIE\" GAY UNDER ITEM #2,\nAL CLARK INTERVIEW.\nIn answer to a subpoena, Bootsie Gay came into\nthe office on this date at about 2:45 p.m. She stated to\nSoule and Mr. James Alcock that she resides at 528 Dumaine\nStreet, and is employed at Max Hills Painting Suppliers\nlocated at 629 St. Peter Street - telephone: 523-9302.\nShe stated that just prior to the assassination\nshe was having G. WRAY GILL do some legal work of a civil\nnature for her. She made several trips to GILL'S office\nand observed DAVID FERRIE who had an office at GILL'S office,\nand she understood that FERRIE was an investigator for GILL.\nThe day following the John Kennedy assassination,\na Saturday, she (MRS. GAY), went to GILL'S office and\nobserved that two female employees were cleaning out FERRIE'S\ndesk. She saw a chart or a sketch, and what caught her eye\nwas the fact that this chart had ELM written on what appeared\nto be a street. There was also a building and on the street\nwas a square with letters \"VIP\" written in this square.\nMRS. GAY stated that she remarked to the\nreceptionist that this should be turned over to the F.B.I.\nThe receptionist then picked it off the desk and threw it\nin the trash can stating it was nothing.\nMRS. GAY stated that she then took the document\nfrom the trash can stating that she would give it to the F.B. I.\nThe receptionist then grabbed the document from Mrs. Gay's\nhand and again threw it in the trash can.\nMRS. GAY seemed to be about 60 years, reasonably\nintelligent, slightly nervous and very cooperative. She\nappears to be the type of individual that likes to see justice\nprevail.\nCAPT. FRED SOULE, SR.\nMEMORANDUM\nApril 4, 1967\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON\nDISTRICT. ATTORNEY\nFROM:\nWILLIAM GURVICH\nSPECIAL AIDE\nSUBJECT:\nSERGIO ARCACHA-SMITH- 25 FEBRUARY 1967 -\nDALLAS, TEXAS\nOn 25 February 1967, James Alcock and I flew to\nDallas, Texas to interview SERGIO ARCACHA-SMITH and conduct other\nbusiness relating to the current special investigation.\nAfter our arrival in Dallas, Alcock telephone the\nresidence of ARCACHA-SMITH. He was told by MRS. ARCACHA-SMITH\n\"just a minute\" and when she returned to the phone she asked\nAlcock to call back in one hour. At 5:00 P.M. Alcock called\nagain and MRS. ARCACHA said her husband was not there and was\nwith the District Attorney of Dallas and had expressed his desire\nto meet in a group with this District Attorney. On both calls\nAlcock identified himself. He had previously spoken with ARCACHA\nwho expected to hear from us on this date.\nAt 9:30 P.M. this same date, a third call was made\nand a man answered the phone and identified himself to Alcock as\nDetective Rodgers of the Dallas Police Department. He said\nARCACHA was present but preferred to be interviewed in Police\nHeadquarters and we were asked to meet them there in Room 316.\nAt 10:00 P.M. we arrived in Room 316. ARCACHA\narrived at 10:20 P.M. accompanied by Detectives Rodgers and\nBurnley. We were then taken to a conference room on the same\nfloor and exchanged identification. Alcock explained our presence\nwas to have ARCACHA identify certain persons and give us back-\nground information. ARCACHA said \"O.K. shoot\".\nAlcock said we could not talk in the presence of\nothers except an attorney if ARCACHA wanted one present. ARCACHA\nsaid this was the only way he would talk to us - in front of\nthese detectives. I then said we might as well go as we could\nnot conduct an interview under these conditions and again\nreminded ARCACHA his attorney could be present.\nARCACHA then addressed me and said someone had\nbeen looking for him displaying identification similar to that\nwhich I had displayed. ARCACHA shook his finger at me and was\nvisibly nervous and excited.\n-1-\nI asked ARCACHA why he needed police protection\nwhich was the reason the detectives gave for being with him. I\nasked if he thought he needed police protection from the District\nAttorney of New Orleans and he made no comment. I then asked\nthe detectives if ARCACHA needed protection from anyone and if\nhe had been threatened or feared he would be harmed. I then\nsaid the District Attorney of New Orleans would assist in funish-\ning such protection if it were needed. There was no comment from\nanyone.\nDetective Burnley then stated they had told ARCACHA\nhe would be arrested if we had a warrant. For this we expressed\nour gratitude. We explained we had no warrant and had not come\nto Dallas to arrest ARCACHA but were here simply to interview\nhim adding that should it be necessary we would get a warrant.\nAt this point Detective Rodgers sarcastically asked, \"And who\ndo you think would serve that warrant?\" I then asked Rodgers,\n\"Are you saying you wouldn't?\" Rodgers then repeated his\nquestion and I repeated mine. Detective Burnley then interrupted\nas if recognizing Rodgers' mistake.\nARCACHA was again informed no one but his attorney\ncould be present. He said he could arrange for this on Monday\n(three days hence) but could not remember his own attorney's name\nDetective Rodgers then said the attorney's name was Alexander.\nAlcock asked ARCACHA if this was his attorney and Burnley and\nRodgers both spoke up and admitted Alexander was the First\nAssistant District Attorney of Dallas County. Alcock then said\nwe could not consent to this. Alcock and I explained this was\na confidential matter and it should be understood we had no\nintention of revealing any part of this to anyone and trusted\nthey, as police officers, should understand this better than\nanyone.\nAlcock and I then walked out of the conference room\nand ARCACHA, Burndey and Rodgers followed us into the hallway.\nThe detectives then said the press room was close by and asked\nthat we return to the conference room. We returned there only\nto ask that our feelings not be construed as rudeness and then\nAlcock and I departed.\nWILLIAM GURVICH\nWG/leb\nMEMORANDUM\nRe: SHAW\nJULES R. KIMBLE\nApril 17, 1969\nTO:\nSGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator\nFROM:\nSGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator\nRE:\nGOLDEN LANTERN BAR\n1239 Royal Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nThe following information was obtained by the under-\nsigned from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN:\nIn March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee\nof the above.\nIn 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee.\nIn 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was\nopened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued\nsince under his operation\nPrior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal,\nChico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was\npermittee from 1948 through 1964.\nBLAKE\nIt is also believed that one CHRIS 3HeK, a personal\nfriend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern.\nThe Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class\nhomosexual element in this City.\nSgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS\nMEMORANDUM\nRe: SHAW\nJULES R. KIMBLE\nApril 17, 1969\nTO:\nSGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator\nFROM:\nSGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator\nRE:\nGOLDEN LANTERN BAR\n1239 Royal Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\n*\nThe following information was obtained by the under-\nsigned from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN:\nIn March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee\nof the above.\nIn 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee.\nIn 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was\nopened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued\nsince under his operation\nPrior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal,\nChico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was\npermittee from 1948 through 1964.\nBLAKE\nIt is also believed that one CHRIS BEECK, a personal\nfriend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern.\nThe Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class\nhomosexual element in this City\nSgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS\nMEMORANDUM\nRe: SHAW\nJULES R, KIMBLE\nApril 17, 1969\nTO:\nSGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator\nFROM:\nSGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator\nRE:\nGOLDEN LANTERN BAR\n1239 Royal Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nThe following information was obtained by the under-\nsigned from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN:\nIn March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee\nof the above.\nIn 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee.\nIn 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was\nopened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued\nsince under his operation\nPrior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal,\nChico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was\npermittee from 1948 through 1964.\nBLAKE\nIt is also believed that one CHRIS BEDCK, a personal\nfriend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern.\nThe Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class\nhomosexual element in this City.\nSgP SGT. FRED Fredt I. WILLIAMS William\nMEMORANDUM\nRa: SHAW\nJULES R. KIMBLE\nApril 17, 1969\nTO:\nSGT. LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator\nFROM:\nSGT. FRED WILLIAMS, Investigator\nRE:\nGOLDEN LANTERN BAR\n1239 Royal Street\nNew Orleans, Louisiana\nThe following information was obtained by the under-\nsigned from the Alcoholic Beverage Unit, SGT. LLOYD ERDMANN:\nIn March of 1964, a WESLEY BOWMAN was permittee\nof the above.\nIn 1965 VINCENT ANTHONY CASEY was the permittee.\nIn 1966 the Golden Lantern was closed. It was\nopened again in 1967 by CASEY and has continued\nsince under his operation\nPrior to this the permittee of 1239 Royal,\nChico's Patio Bar was JOSE A. COLON. He was\npermittee from 1948 through 1964.\nBLAKE\nIt is also believed that one CHRIS зыек, a personal\nfriend of CLAY SHAW, has a silent interest in the Golden Lantern.\nThe Golden Lantern is a stag bar catering to the upper class\nhomosexual element in this City.\nSgP SGT. FRED Fred I. WILLIAMS William\nMEMO TO:\nc. J. DELSA\nRE:\nPossible questions for T. E. BECKHAM\nI\nWhere and when did he meet CRISMAN? Who introduced them?\nGive the names of all persons in whose company he has ever seen\nCRISMAN. After meeting CRISMAN, in what places, when and under\nwhat circumstances did he subsequently encounter CRISMAN?\n(Itemize and give full details). If travel was involved, what\nwere the arrangements and who made them?\nDid CRISMAN ever use a credit card in his presence? (What\nkind? For example, did CRISMAN possess an Air Travel Card? Other\ncredit cards? Does he recall the user's name in the left hand\ncorner?) Has he ever been to hotels, restaurants, or stores with\nCRISMAN? Where and when? Did CRISMAN seem known at any of these\nplaces? Did CRISMAN, to his knowledge, ever use any other names?\nHow did CRISMAN usually dress when he saw him? What was\nhis customary mode of travel between cities? How did he custom-\narily move about within a city? (Taxi-cabs? Car? If car, who\nwas the owner or the alleged owner?) What was CRISMAN's evident\neconomic level of living? (Food, lodging, kind of wrist watch, et\ncetera) What did CRISMAN give as his source of income? (BECKHAM,\nas a minister for a non-existent church, would have to have known\nthat this parallel role of CRISMAN'S would produce no income).\n- 1 -\nII.\nDid BECKHAM ever see CRISMAN in the presence of GUY BANISTER\nor CLAY SHAW? (Much less likely, but possible: DAVID FERRIE?\nKERRY THORNLEY? LAYTON MERTENS? LAVERNE \"LARRY\" CRAFARD? LEE\nOSWALD? CUBANS? REV. RAYMOND BROSHEARS? BOB LAVENDER? WILLIAM\nDALZELL? BRUCE RAY CARLIN? GEORGE de MOHRENSHILDT?) Where and\nwhen? Under what circumstances? Who introduced who to whom?\nWho appeared to be the dominant (in the sense of inference of\ncommand) personality? Did BECKHAM ever meet or see any of these\npersons separately? Was anyone else present on any such occasion?\n(Repeat same questions with regard to unknown personalities\nencountered with CRISMAN. Their detailed descriptions). In any\nand all such instances, what were the subjects of conversation?\nWhat were CRISMAN's stated - or demonstrated - sexual\npreferences? Any indications of homosexuality (as in the cases\nof FERRIE or SHAW)? Any indications of sadism (as in the case\nof SHAW) ? Did BECKHAM ever have any sexual relations with\nCRISMAN? With SHAW? With FERRIE? With any others whose names\nhave been mentioned above? With anyone apparently connected with\nCRISMAN?\nWhat contacts did you have with CRISMAN in New Orleans in\n1962 or 1963? Under what circumstances? Were you given any\nassignments or duties as a result? Did you receive any payments\nas a result? From whom? Did you have occasion to use CRISMAN\noutside of New Orleans at any time in 1963? Where? Under what\ncircumstances? Receive any assignments or duties to perform?\n(Follow up with relevant questions depending upon his answers).\nDid you ever leave New Orleans in 1963? (Example: Mandeville\nin January, 1963). Describe the places and the dates. For what\npurpose did you leave on each occasion? How did you travel?\nWhere did you stay? What did you do? Who made the arrangements\nfor you?\nIn connection with any of the other names previously\nmentioned, did you ever receive any assignments or things to do\nfrom them? Any subsequent remuneration? From whom?\nIII.\nWhat were your sources of income in 1963? For doing what?\nHow often in 1962 or 1963 did you have occasion to visit the\nNewman Building (BANISTER'S place) at 531 Lafayette Street (or\n544 Camp Street)? Did you receive job assignments in that\nconnection? Any payments to you? By whom? Why? What other\npersons did you see at that location? How often? What activity\nwere they engaged in? Who appeared to be in charge? (If BANISTER,\nwho appeared to you to be in charge of BANISTER?) Have you ever\nhad occasion to see any of these individuals outside of that\nbuilding? Under what circumstances?\n- 3 -\nDid you have a mail box key to the Post Office Building\nacross from BANISTER'S office? Why? Did any other persons,\nwho hung around his office, have such keys? Why? Have you ever\nhad occasion to to the Mancuso Restaurant in that building? How\nfrequently? With whom have you gone there? Who else did you\never have occasion to see there? How frequently?\nWhat seemed to the BUY BANISTER's main activity? What\nappeared to you to be the source or sources of his income? What\nappeared to be the sources of income of other persons frequenting\nhis office? Did they ever indicate the sources to you? Did any\nof them indicate who, other than BANISTER, they were working for?\nDid you ever have occasion to see any of these individuals\nreceive money or envelopes apparently containing money?\nDid you ever have occasion to see men in green Army-type\nfatigues in that area? Americans or Cubans? Why did they seem\nto be coming there? Did anyone seem to be in charge of them?\nDo you know where their training camps were? Did you ever have\noccasion to visit any of them? (If so, with whom and under what\ncircumstances?) Did anyone ever tell you what they were training\nfor? Did anyone ever tell you who they were working for?\n- 4\nIV.\nHave you ever been to CLAY SHAW's apartment (on Dauphine\nStreet)? DAVID FERRIE's apartment (on Louisiana Avenue Parkway)?\nThe International Trade Mart? Any of the residences of any persons\npreviously mentioned? For what purpose?\nPrior to November 22, 1963, did you hear the assassination\ndiscussed in any way? (By whom? Where? Give full details).\nDid you have occasion to see FRED CRISMAN in November, 1963?\nWhere and under what circumstances? Do you know what cities\nCRISMAN was in in November, 1963? Do you know whether CRISMAN\nwas ever in Dallas, Texas? When? What for? Were you ever in\nDallas, Texas? When? What for? Do you know any persons who\nwere in Dallas in November, 1963? Did you ever hear the names\nof any persons who were in Dallas in November, 1963?\nOn November 22, 1963, do you know where GUY BANISTER was?\n(Note: apparently in New Orleans, but not at his office all day).\nDo you know who was with him? Do you know why he didn't come to\nthe office that day? (Or did you later have occasion to hear\nwhere he was, what he did and with whom?) With regard to the\nindividuals who hung around BANISTER'S office - or anyone whose\nname I have mentioned to you - do you know of any unusual\nactivity on their part that day? Did you hear of any unusual\nactivity on their part?\nDescribe where you spent November 22, 1963, and describe -\nin detail - what you did all day? Did you have any occasion to\ngo to a hotel or motel? (If so, for what purpose? Who else did\nyou see there? What were they doing?)\nV.\nAfter November 22, 1963, when did you next see CRISMAN?\nWhere? For what purpose? (Same question re BANISTER, SHAW,\nFERRIE - or any other persons with whom he acknowledged a\nrelationship). Was the assassination discussed in any way?\n(If so, what was said - and by whom?)\nDescribe, in full detail, subsequent occasions in which you\nsaw CRISMAN in 1963. In 1964. From 1964 to 1968.\n- 6 -\nDid you ever have occasion to visit CRISMAN in the State\nof Washington? When and for what purpose? How often? Who\nelse was present? How long did you visit? Did you ever see him\nin Oregon? (same follow up questions) In Nebraska (same\nquestions)? In any other States?\nHave you ever been to CRISMAN's home? His ranch? (In\neither case, describe). Have you ever been to Tacoma or\nOlympia, Washington? (For what purpose, et cetera). Have you\never been to Carlston or Turner, Oregon? (Same follow up).\nIn connection with CRISMAN, have you ever heard of a COLONEL\nWHITE (WILBERT)? What do you know about him?\nHas CRISMAN ever discussed the assassination in your\npresence? Has he ever mentioned the name of LAVERNE \"LARRY:\nCRAFARD to you?\nVI.\nWhen did you decide to move to Nebraska? Whose idea was\nit? Did you meet with - or talk to - CRISMAN before moving there?\nWho made the arrangements for you to go to Omaha? Who paid for\nyour transportation there? When you went to Nebraska, what\nState had you been in before that? And what State before that?\nWhat was the purpose in your going to Omaha and settling\nthere? Were you given instructions and an assignment? Through\nwhom did you meet your officer contact at Offutt Air Force Base\nthere? What other contacts did you have at Affutt AFB? How\nfrequently did you meet your officer contact? What was the\nusual purpose of your meeting? What did you usually talk about?\nWhat \"business\" were you supposedly engaged with him? Whose\nidea was it? How long did it last? Where was it located? Who\nwas the landlord? What was the rent? Who paid it? Did the\n\"business\" show a profit?\nIs it not a fact that your \"church\" and \"business\" actually\nwere merely covers? What was your real function in Omaha? For\nwhom were you working? (or: for whom did you think you were\nworking?) What was the real source of your income? How were\nyou paid? How frequently? Describe in full detail the nature\nof your relationship with any and all persons at Offut Air Base.\nWas it a SAC base? (If affirmative, how did you know that?)\n- 8 -\nGoing back to FRED CRISMAN, of Washington, you are aware -\nare you not - that he was not a real minister of a real church?\nWhat do you consider to have been the actual nature of his\nactivity? His real job, his real function? What do you think\nwas the real source of his income?\nBy the time you had spent several years in Omaha - and\ncertainly by 1968 you must have acquired your own ideas as\nto what CRISMAN's real activity was. What did you conclude that\nit was? Who did you believe him to be working for? Who did\nyou consider to be his real boss? What did you think he was\nattempting to accomplish while using the cover of \"minister\"?\nVII.\nIn 1968, when you were subpoenaed by District Attorney\nGarrison's Grand Jury in New Orleans, did you call CRISMAN? (If\nso, why? What did he tell you to do?) Why did you then leave\nNebraska and go over into Iowa in an effort to avoid extradition\nto New Orleans?\n- 9 -\nWhen you arrived in New Orleans in 1968, as the result of\nyour extradition to testify, you were driving a 1968 car. What\nwas your financial condition then? Where was the money coming\nfrom? What had you been doing to earn it? Who paid for the car?\nDuring that time, while you were in New Orleans, you told a man\nby the name of DAVID LEWIS that you were working for the C.I.A.\nWhat did you mean by that?\nAfter you testified before the New Orleans Grand Jury, did\nyou contact anyone and discuss with them the questions asked\nand your answers? After that Grand Jury appearance, when did\nyou next talk to CRISMAN? Why? About what? After that Grand\nJury appearance, were you questioned about it by representatives\nof any federal agency? (What agency? What did they ask you?)\nPrior to the assassination on November 22, 1963, were you\nquestioned by any federal agency? (If so, what was the subject\nof this questioning?) After the assassination, were you\nquestioned by any federal agency? (Same follow up).\n- 10 -\n6\nVIII.\nWhat contacts have you had with CRISMAN since 1968? By\nphone? (who phoned whom?) By mail? (same). By intermediary?\n(details). By visit (who visited whom? Place. Reason. Subject\nof discussion. Details?)\nHave you received any assignments or things to do from\nhim since then? (Or from anyone else?) Any remuneration?\n(How much?) How frequently? What for?)\nWhat was the first \"church\" for which you became a\n\"minister\"? (Whose idea? Who told you how to get your creden-\ntials? What was the reason?) What subsequent \"churches\" did you\npurport to become a \"minister\" or\"bishop\" for? (Same follow up\nquestions). What \"church\" was FERRIE a \"priest\" for? What\n\"church\" did CRISMAN represent? What \"church\" does he represent\nnow? What was their apparent reason for these phoney religious\nconvictions?\n- 11 -\nWhy is this non-existent \"church\" business so recurrent with\nyou and persons with whom you have associated? Is it not a fact\nthat the non-existent \"church\" and the title of \"minister\" or\n\"bishop\" serves as a cover for other activities? What activities\nwere these? (With regard to you? With regard to others? Go\ninto indicated follow-up questions).\nHave you ever heard of the Church of the Abundant Life\nlocated in Oak Park (Dallas) in 1963? (Scene of Officers'\nTippit's murder). Have you ever heard of the REVEREND O.B.\nGRAHAM of Dallas? Have you ever heard anyone discuss the use of\nan evangelical church building, in Dallas, in connection with the\nassassination? Are you aware of the use of any of these \"odd\nchurches\"? - existent or non-existent - used anywhere in connection\nwith the assassination? Have you ever heard anyone discuss these\n\"odd churches\" with regard to the assassination? With regard to\nany clandestine or undercover activity? (If answer is affirmative,\ngive names and full details)\nWho introduced you to Sergio Arcacha? When and where did you\nmeet him? Did you ever perform any assignments or duties or jobs\nfor him? (When? Where? Under what circumstances?) Did you ever\nreceive any payment for this? Have you ever seen or met Arcacha\noutside of New Orleans? Where? On what occasion?\n-12-\nDo you know when Arcacha moved from New Orleans? Do you know\nwhat city he moved to? (Houston). Do you know what city Arcacha\nwas living in in November, 1963? (Dallas). Do you know whether\nor not CRISMAN knew ARCACHA? (In 1962 or 1963 ? Later?) Did\nARCACHA know CRISMAN? (Same follow-up) Have you ever heard one\nmention the other? (Under what circumstances?) Do you know whether\nCRISMAN knew JACK RUBY? OFFICER TIPPIT? (If so, follow up for\ndetails).\nHave you ever seen CRISMAN supply money to anyone? Under\nwhat circumstances? For what purpose? Did CRISMAN fly to New\nOrleans, to your knowledge, very often? (If yes, how often?\nApproximate number of times each year: 1962. 1963. 1964 through\n1968. Since 1968).\nHave you ever had CRISMAN'S home phone number? What city\nwas it in? Why were you given it? How often have you used it?\nDo you know his present number? When did you last know his home\nphone number? Do you know whether or not ARCACHA knew CLASMAN'S\nhome phone number? CLAY SHAW ? BANISTER? Have you ever heard\nthat any of these men ever called CRISMAN long distance? Under\nwhat circumstances? Have you ever heard of anyone else calling\nCRISMAN long distance? Under what circ unstances?\n;\nDid you ever have occasion to deliver money to or for\nCRISMAN? To or for ARCACHA? (Under what circumstances?) Did you\never have occasion to deliver money to or for anyone else? In\nany instance, how much was involved? Who assigned you to this\ntask? Have you ever held any sums of money for any of the\nindividuals I have names? For any Cuban organizations? For any\norganizations whatever? (When and under what circumstances?)\nSince 1962, how often would you estimate you have made\ncommercial airline flights? In 1962. 1963? From 1963 to\n1968? Since 1968? What cities (and in what years) have you\ntravled to by air? Who paid the air fare? What was the purpose\nof each flight? (If his answer is affirmative but to the effect\nthat there were too many flights to remember, shift to question\nconcerning the amount and source of his income during those years.\nDevelop any disproportionate ratio of air travel to yearly income).\nDo you know whether or not CRISMAN is or was a pilot? Did he\never describe his military service to you? Has he ever indicated\nto you that - at any time since 1962 - he has been in government\nservice? How did he indicate that? (Details).\n-14-\nHow well would you say that CRISMAN and SHAW knew each other?\nWhen and where did you ever see them together? Under what (total)\ncircumstances? Has either one ever mentioned the other to you?\n(Same questions re: GUY BANISTER. DAVID FERRIE. SERGIO\nARCACHA. KERRY THORNLEY ).\n(In the following question, the first and the fourth names\nare fictional to avoid Beckham memorizing the two interior names:)\nHave you ever heard CRISMAN mention any of the following names:\nWilliam Walter Jordan? Charles B. Cabel1 (General) ? George\nLyman Paine (father of Michael Payne) ? Harold M. Jackson?\nHave you ever seen any of these men? Have you ever heard anyone\nelse mention them?\nRegardless of Beckham's early answer re whether he had\nknown KERRY THORNLEY, show him a variety of THORNLEY photographs\nand ask him whether he has ever seen him. Recall when and where.\n(Press for details as to where and when seen).\nRepeat this photograph exhibition with regard to FRED\nCRISMAN, DAVID FERRIE and CLAY SHAW. (Press for details as to\nwhere and when seen).\n(If subject answers all of the above questions, it should\nopen up additional avenues for questioning. But this list should\nserve for openers).\nCopies:\nClif Fenton\nJon Blackmer\nGaeton Fonzi\n-16-\n3\nIt Friends\nHomey 21.2x Ther 24\nRe: SHAW (3)\nSNY CITY NEW\nCITY OF NEW ORLEANS\nOFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS\nINTERNATIONAL TRADE MART\nNEWORLEANS, LA.\nTEL. 523-3240\nVICTOR H. SCHIND\nMAYOR\nNovember 11, 1963\nMARIO BERMUDEZ\nDIRECTOR\nMr. J. M. Sullivan\nExecutive Director\nWorld Trade Center\nFerry Duilding\nSan Francisco, California\nDear Mr. Sullivan:\nI tried to got in to noh with you by telephone today but, pending completion\nof the call, I an writing you on the same subject I would like to discuss\nwith you by telephene.\nHr. Clay Show, Managing Director of the International Erado Hart hare in\nNew Orleans, 10 going to be in San Francisco from November 21 to 23 end,\n1.0 you consider 0020 loan] business groups there would be interested, be\nwould be willing to address them on the subject of our International Trade\nHart and his experience 12 founding the present one and promoting the zew\nbuilding, which has just started construction, and the effect of the Mart\nON international trado through the Port of Now Orleans.\nI look forward to hearing from you in this regard, or If you wish you could\ntelephone 523-6137, and measwhile, with kind regards, I an,\ncontact Mr. Shar directly: International Trado Hart, New Orleans, Is.,\n504-\nSincerely yours,\nmb/bd\nNavio Homelica, Masetor\n\".1.0. Coxillistory in entil Relations\n30,100 onett Center\n3\nRa: SHAW (3)\nFil\nTERNATIONAL TRADE MART\nNEW ORLEANS, U.S.A.\nNovember 13, 1963.\nWORLD TRADE CENTER\nMr. Monroe Sullivan,\nExecutive Director\n*\nNov 1 41903\nWorld Trade Center\nSan Francisco, California\nDear Mr. Sullivan:\nThis will confirm ONE telephone conversation that I will\nspeak before B luncheon meeting on Friday, November 22nd\nat the World Trado Center. My topic will be \"New Orleans--\nA Case History in International Relations.\"\nI an enclosing herewith photograph and biographical sketch\nfor your uso, 1f needed. I am also onclosing fact sheet\nand photographs of the new International Trade Mart project\nfor which we have broken ground. This may be useful for\nyour bulletin.\nI appreciate your offer to arrange a room for De for arrival\non Thursday morning, November 21st. I will call you early\nThursday morning.\nClaySlean Clay Show\nCordially,\nCS:GN\nEncls.\nManaging Director.\nAirNail-Special\nDelivery.\n3\nRe: SHAW (3)\nWORLD TRADE CLUB\nNOVEMBER 1963\nPublished by World Trode Club\nWorld Trade Center\nSon Francisco 11, California\nCONSULAR CORPS HONORS GOVERNOR\nCOMING EVENTS\nSan Francisco's Consular Corps chose the World\nNov. 22 - Luncheon - S.F. Area World Associa-\nTrade Club as the setting for a reception and dinner\ntion, World Trade Center Authority, and World\nhonoring Governor and Mrs. Edmund G. Brown earlier\nTrade Club. Speaker: Clay Shaw, managing\nthis month. The Acting Dean of the Corps, Adolfo G.\ndirector, New Orleans International Trade\nDominguez, Consul General of Mexico, is shown below\nMart. will discuss \"New Orleans Case His-\n(left) greeting California's Governor Brown in the Game\ntory in International Relations.\"\nRoom of the Club. On the right is the Secretary of the\nNov. 25 - Luncheon - S.F. Area World Trade Associa-\nCorps, Consul General Alessandro Savorgnan of Italy.\ntion and the German-American Trade Advi-\nsory Board. Speaker: Dr. Schmitz-Lenders,\nGerman Ministry of Economics, currently in\ncharge of German International Exhibitions\nand Trade Promotion.\nDec. 17 - Christmas Around the World Dinner.\nDec. 18 - Christmas Around the World Luncheon.\nCLUB NEWS\nThe traditional Christmas Around the World luncheon\nwill be held on Wednesday, December 18, for members,\nAlbert L. Reeves, chairman, membership committee,\nand senior vice president, Utah Construction & Mining\nCompany, will represent the Club Board of Directors\nat this event,\nThis year, for the first time, a Christmas Around\nthe World Dinner will be held on Tuesday evening,\nDecember 17, to enable members, their ladies and\nguests to attend. Club President George Killion, presi-\nden!. American President Lines, will represent the\nBoard of Directors at the dinner. which replaces the\nSince the opening of the Club in April, 1960, the local\nusual Tuesday International Buffet. An outstanding mu-\nConsular Corps members have sponsored many of the\nsical program (identical at the two events) is promised\nmost interesting events in the Club. Receptions for vis-\nby Club Manager D.T.T. Mackinnon. Announcements\niting foreign government officials, trade missions and\nconcerning these special Christmas celebrations will\nbusiness leaders, and the celebration of \"National Day\"\nbe in the mail shortly.\nof the various countries have all been occasions lending\nan intern tional flair.\nHOLIDAY SEASON SCHEDULE\nIn his welcoming speech, Mr. Dominguez said:\nThe Club will be open:\nTuesday, December 24, Christmas Eve - Until 4 p.m.\n\"The Consular Corps of San Francisco, in whose\nTuesday. December 31, New Year's Eve - Until 4 p.m.\nname I speak, is now tied with Hamburg, Germany, as\nThe Club will be closed:\nthe second largest in the world with 54 representations,\nWednesday, December 25, Christmas Day - all day\npreceded only by New York. And this fact is important\nWednesday, January 1, New Year's Day - all day\nwhen we remember that there are some 3,200,000 aliens\nin the United States, of which over 661,000. or 21%\nof them, live in your beautiful State of California. Many\nAmong recent visitors to the Club were Michael,\nof them will no doubt become your fellow citizens this\nPrince von Hohenzollern, and Hubertus, Prince von\nyear; but until they do so, we the Consuls present, will\nLowenstein, of Germany: Ambassador Braj Kuman Nehru\nbe entrusted by our governments to look after their\nof India; Ambassador Gilbert Spence of British Gulana;\ninterests, their welfare and their relations with their\nSir Berkley and Lady Ormerod, of England; and Pancho\nnew place of abode.\nGonzalez.\n3\nRE:SHAW (3)\nMEISCO\nThe Pan Francisco Area\nOF I\nWorld Trade Association\nCHARLER\nin cooperation with the\nWorld Trade Center and\nWorld Trade Club\nWorld Business Luncheon Meeting\n\"New OPLEANS - OPT A CASE HISTORY IM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS\"\nThe Role of America's First World Trade Center\nby\nCLAY SHAW\nManaging Director, International Trade Mart, New Orleans\nMr. Shaw helped to found and develop the International\nTrade Most and Club, and is responsible for promoting\nthe NEW -30 million International Center which is now\nunder construction in New Orleans. Much of San Fran-\ncisco's early planning for a World Trade Center and Club\nevolved from the New Orleans \"case history.\" All of us\nshall find particular interest in hearing Mr. Shaw's\nreport on the role of the New Orleans operation in\nworld trade promotion.\nANd Hour: FRIDAY, November 22, 1963 - 12 noon\nWorld Trade Club, Game Room\n$4.00\nBar Facilities\nPURCHASE TICKET AT THE DOOR\nFIRST CLASS\nPERMIT NO: 12428\nSan Francisco, Calif.\nBUSINESS REPLY CARD\nNo postage Hamp necessary if mailed in the United State:\nPOSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY-\nSan Francisco Area World Trade Association\n333 Pine Street\nSan Francisco 4\n3\nR: R:5HAW SHAW (3)\nTrade Director Lunch Speaker\nS, Examiner-Page 3\nFriday. Nov. 22. 1963 * 5C2H*\nClay Shaw. managing di- will address a luncheon\ntion of the Chamber of Com-\nrector of the International\nmeeting of the San Francisco\nmerce at noon today in the\nTrade Mart*at New Orleans, Area World Trade Associa- World Trade Club.\nin: Bethell\nFor Oswald +,\nMEMORANDUM\nandrews files\nDecember 4, 1967\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nTOM BETHELL\nRE:\nAL CLARK\n*\nOn Sunday, December 3, 1967, I spoke to\nAL CLARK at Dixieland Hall, and asked him about his state-\nment to HAROLD WEISBERG that he had seen DEAN ANDREWS\ntalking to LEE HARVEY OSWALD.\nCLARK stated that when he saw OSWALD on\ntelevision after the assassination his immediate reaction\nwas that he had seen him before. After thinking about it\nhe came to the conclusion that he had seen OSWALD with\nANDREWS. ANDREWS, CLARK recollects, was in the habit of\nbringing his friends into the back door of Dixieland Hall,\nand he believes he saw ANDREWS and OSWALD sitting together\nin the patio right behind Dixieland Hall.\nCLARK said he did not mention this before\nbecause he thought it was common knowledge. that ANDREWS\nknew OSWALD, and he didn't think it was important. ANDREWS\nhad always told him that he knew OSWALD, and therefore he\nattached no significance to it.\nCLARK did not see OSWALD on television in\nNew Orleans when he passed out leaflets in front of the\nTrade Mart.\nFor: Oweld your\nMEMORANDUM\nNovember 29, 1967\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nANDREW SCIAMBRA, Assistant D. A.\nRE:\nLEE OSWALD\nUpon further conversation with JS, it was\nlearned that while JS was employed at Dixie's Bar of Music\nwhen it was the biggest and most prominent \"gay\" bar in the\nCity, he had occasion to meet LEE HARVEY OSWALD who used to\nhang around Dixie's and seemed to want to associate with\nthe gay guys. JS remembers him due to the fact that many\ntimes he had to run him out of Dixie's because he was under\nage and prohibited by law from going into bars. JS says\nthat he cannot say what OSWALD's relationship or intentions\nwere in regards to the gay people who were there. He could\nnot say that he had ever seen him associate with any particular\npeople.\nIt should be noted that CLAY SHAW was a frequent\nvisitor to Dixie's Bar of Music, and therefore the possibility\nexists that they could have met at this time. In the same\nvein, SHAW was a frequent visitor to Pat O'Brien's which at\none time had a side bar which catered almost exclusively to\ngay people. That particular bar has since been remodeled\nand the gay people have gone on to greener pastures.\nANDREW J. SCIAMBRA\nAJS/leb\nvices Committee. made slight secret of\nticated new technology and a raft of Free-\nren Commission report. They are ready\nhis disenchantment with the com-\ndom of Information lawsuits. they have\nto believe almost any explanation. how-\nmission's report and encouraged private\nuncovered additional evidence pointing\never crazy. as long as it doesn't come\ninvestigators to challenge its findings. \"I\nto the existence of a conspiracy- con-\nfrom the government.\"\nnever believed that he [Oswald] did it\nspiracy in which Harvey Oswald was\nThe proposition that Oswald\nwithout any consultation or encourage-\nnot involved. if indeed there ever was a\nwasn't acting alone has always seemed a\nment whatsoever.\" Russell said in 1970.\nLee Harvey Oswald. Within the last few\nlittle crazy. Because. if he wasn't. then\n\"Too many things caused me to doubt\nmonths. Congressman Henry Gonzalez. a\nthere must have been a conspiracy, a\nthat he planned it all by himself.\" And\nDemocrat from San Antonio. has intro-\nword that does not go down easily among\nthen there were the witnesses to the as-\nduced a resolution calling for a congres-\nmany Americans. And. if there was a con-\nsassination itself. Fifty-two of them insist-\nsional investigation of the assassination.\nspiracy. then there must have been an ef-\ned that at least some of the shots that\nA petition backing it has collected more\nfort to cover it up. an effort so monu-\nkilled President Kennedy came from in\nthan 250.000 signatures on the West\nmental that it would have had to include\nfront of him. from the direction of the in-\nCoast alone. A bootlegged copy of the\nthe Dallas police. the CIA. the Secret Ser-\nfamous grassy knoll. The commission dis-\nlong-suppressed Zapruder film. showing\nvice, the FBI and. yes. possibly the Presi-\ncounted all of them.\nPresident Kennedy being driven violently\ndent of the United States. Ten years ago.\nSmall wonder. then. that the com-\nbackward by a shot that rips off the top of\nthat was a little hard to swallow. Even\nmission's report proved a breeding\nhis head. has been shown on national tele-\nnow, it is a story one would rather not be-\nground for skeptics. In the years imme-\nvision twice. Perhaps most significant of\nlieve. But there are the questions that\ndiately following the assassination. 26\nall. the Justice Department. according to\nwon't go away. And there is Watergate: a\nbooks and dozens of articles. some of\nreliable sources. has very quietly begun a\nconspiracy involving the CIA. the FBI.\nthem serious. some simply scurrilous.\nhigh-level, internal review of Oswald's\nthe Department of Justice and, yes. the\nchallenged the finding that Oswald acted\nbackground. In the past. rumors have cir-\nPresident of the United States. Suddenly,\nalone or. in the opinion of many of the\nculated that Oswald was an agent of one\nit becomes possible.\ndoubters-including Mark Lane and Syl-\nor more intelligence agencies. perhaps in-\nvia Meagher. author of the seminal\ncluding the FBI. Now, the rumors are tak-\nThe commission and the critics\nAccessories After the Fact-at all. By\ning on some substance.\nImpossible, said the commission.\n1967. the holes in the Warren Com-\nMuch of the evidence that is being\nfrom the moment it began its work. Con-\nmission report had become so numerous\ngone over today is precisely the same\nspiracy was the one thing the commission\nand obvious. and the public furor about\nground that the critics went over a de-\ndid not want to hear. much less discover.\nthem so great. that several congressmen\ncade ago. What has changed is belief.\nEarl Warren, who had accepted the chair-\nwere demanding a new investigation.\nThe strongest selling point of the Warren\nmanship of the commission only after\nThen. another one of those coincidences.\nCommission is not what it said but the\nconsiderable arm-twisting from President\nIn New Orleans a district attorney named\npeople who said it: some of the most re-\nJohnson. made it clear at the first. secret\nJim Garrison. a figure of large ambition\nspected men in the land. among them the\nstaff meeting of the commission that his\nand unsavory reputation. indicted Clay\nchief justice of the United States. two di-\nmission and theirs was more political\nShaw. director of the New Orleans Trade\nrectors of the CIA and a man who a de-\nthan investigatory. He had taken the job.\nMart. for conspiracy to murder John Ken-\ncade later would assume the presidency.\nWarren told the commission. because the\nnedy. Garrison claimed that Shaw was the\nGerald R. Ford. If a senior public figure\nPresident had convinced him that if\nringleader of a CIA cabal. He proved only\nstated something in 1964. there was a ten-\nrumors about a conspiracy were not\nthat Clay was a devotee of kinky homo-\ndency to take him at his word. In the af-\nsquelched. it could conceivably lead the\nsexuality. After a ludicrous trial. in which\ntermath of Watergate and Vietnam. few\ncountry into war. As Melvin Eisenberg. a\nGarrison made almost no attempt to pro-\npeople are prepared to believe anything\ncommission lawyer. later recalled the\nduce evidence. Shaw was acquitted. Sub-\nthat comes out of Washington. In a sense.\nchief justice's charge in a memo, \"He\nsequently. Shaw died and Garrison was\nthat is part of the problem. As Mark\nplaced emphasis on quenching rumors,\ndriven from office. The Warren Com-\nLane, who has returned to investigating\nand precluding further speculation such\nmission's critics were scattered in dis-\nthe assassination after sojourns into Viet-\nas that which has surrounded the death of\narray.\nnam protests and Indian rights struggles,\nLincoln.\"\nNow the critics have returned.\nputs it: \"It's not a question any longer of\nThus. under extreme political pres-\nstronger than before. Armed with sophis-\npersuading people to disbelieve the War-\nsures. the commission set about its task.\n18 NEW TIMES\nThe best of the Warren Commission\njust over the knot of the president's tie\nInterestingly enough, when Groden\ncritics are as serious as Hoch and their\n-then entered the right side of Gov-\nshowed this film at Bernard Fenster-\nnames may well 80 down some day on\nernor Connally's back (breaking his\nwald's home in November 1973, nei-\nan honor roll of those who cared\nright fifth rib), emerged from his chest,\nenough to get involved: Vincent Sal-\nther he nor anyone else made any men-\nshattered a bone in his wrist and en-\ntion of a rifleman on the knoll. Groden\nandria, Harold Weisberg. Sylvia Meag-\ntered his left thigh. After all this the\nher, Josiah Thompson, Edward Jay Ep-\nsays it wasn't until January 1974 that\nbullet had only lost two grains from\nstein, David Lifton, Lillian Castellano,\nits original weight and, said Wecht,\nFred Newcomb, Perry Adams, Ray\nhe started scanning the last 18 frames\nthe upper two centimeters of the bullet\nMarcus, Marjorie Field, Shirley Mar-\nof his Zapruder film and then began to\n\"show no grossly visible deformities,\ntin, Mary Ferrell, Richard Popkin, Bill\nsee that what he thought was the wheel\nareas of mutilation, loss of substance\nTurner, Richard Sprague and the early\nwell of the presidential Lincoln wasn't\nor any kind of significant scathing.\"\nthe wheel well at all, but the rifleman-\nMark Lane.\nThere is one small piece that was re-\nAmong the most important critics\n\"because the car was moving forward\nmoved from the bullet's jacket by an\nstill hard at work and making new con-\nand the 'wheel well' was moving back-\nFBI agent \"for spectrographic analysis\"\ntributions are:\nward.\"\n(which analysis might show that JFK\nBernard Fensterwald, a successful\nDavid Lifton is an engineering-\nand Connally were not hit by the same\nWashington D.C. lawyer, who out of\nphysics graduate of Cornell and a drop-\nbullet).\nhis own well-haberdashered pocket,\nout from graduate school at UCLA who\nfinances the activities of something he\nFurthermore, says Wecht, there was\nought to have three doctorates by now\ncalls the Committee to Investigate As-\nsomething strange about the trajectory\nin the disciplines he has picked up dur-\nof that bullet from the sixth floor of the\nsassinations, a loose confederation of\ning ten years of work on the assassina-\nTexas School Book Depository. It was\ncitizens whose worry about the assas-\ntion: history, political science and his-\nsination of two Kennedys and a King\nsupposed to have been traveling down-\nwas once signalized by the flag they\nward and passing through JFK from\ntoriography (a study of the way history\nprinted on their metered mailings: WHO\nright to left. It should, therefore, have\nis written). In 1967 Lifton did a 30,000-\nIs KILLING OUR LEADERS? Fensterwald\nmissed Governor Connally completely.\nUnder the Warren Commission's hy-\nword analysis (with David Welsh) in\nhelped set up a special assassination\nRamparts which argued that there were\narchive at Georgetown University and\npothesia the bullet may have made an\nwas the chief honeho for a conference\nacute angular turn in midair. Wecht\nthree assassins firing in Dealey Plaza on\nNovember 22nd, 1963.\nbelieves a second assassin may have\nat Georgetown on the tenth anniversary\nIn 1968, shortly after most of the\nof JFK's assassination. With attorney\nbeen firing at JFK from the rear, pos-\ntranscripts of the Warren Commission\nJames Lesar, he is handling legal ap-\nsibly even from the front, but he says\nhe cannot know for sure until he ex-\nexecutive sessions were declassified, Lif-\npeals for James Earl Ray, having been\namines the materials that are missing.\nton published them privately as Docu-\nbrought into the Ray case by Harold\nment Addendum to the Warren Report.\nWeisberg. Though Fensterwald has\nRobert Groden, a young expert\nLifton has served as a consultant to Dr.\navoided entangling his assassination\nin optics from New York City, has\nconspiracy theories with the Ray case,\nmagnified the central part of each\nCyril Wecht and it was he who pro-\nvided the producers of Executive Ac-\nframe of the Zapruder film and pro-\nWeisberg says that was the strategy be-\ntion with the documentary record which\nduced what he calls a reframed copy.\nhind the move to get a new trial for\nThe result is like a new film of the\nRay. \"If we walk Ray, then the govern-\nassassination, made through a zoom\nsupported that movie's attempt to prove\nment will have to find Dr. King's real\nlens, with much of the jiggle removed.\nhow several assassination teams might\nkillers.\" This seems to be the commit-\nNow, even more starkly than before,\nhave worked in Dallas. Lifton is a 35-\ntee's basic thrust: to push the govern-\nment to find the real killers-of JFK,\nto the lay observer at least, it appears\nyear-old bachelor whose Brentwood\nthat the shot which took off the top\napartment has 22 filing drawers on the\nMLK, RFK.\nof the president's head and splattered\nassassination.\nDr. Cyril H. Wecht, coroner of\ntwo trailing police motorcycles came\nLifton has a work in progress which\nAllegheny County (Pittsburgh) and di-\nfrom the front. The president's head\nchallenges the authenticity of the evi-\nrector of the Institute of Forensic Sci-\nclearly snaps back and to the left. Mrs.\ndence on which the Warren Commis-\nences at Duquesne University, is the\nKennedy's description of the president\nsion based its major findings.\nfirst pathologist outside the federal\nat that moment was deleted from her\nGeorge O'Toole, a former com-\ngovernment to examine the assassina-\ntestimony as published by the Warren\nputer. analyst for the CIA, has turned\ntion evidence at the National Archives.\nCommission, but her actual words, re-\nto a new technological tool as an impor-\nTrouble is, he reported in August 1972,\nleased by the Archives in 1972, may be\ntant adjunct in his assassination re-\nthe president's brain is missing from\nsignificant here: \"I was trying to hold\nsearch. The tool is\n[Cont. on 37]\nthe medico-legal exhibits at the Ar-\nhis hair OR. But from the front there\nCont. from 33] something called a\nchives. So are certain important skin\nwas nothing. I suppose there must have\nPsychological Stress Evaluator (PSE),\nsections taken from the point where\nbeen. But from the back you could see,\na machine which a skilled operator can\nbullets were supposed to have entered\nyou know, you were trying to hold his\napply to anyone's recorded words and\nthe scalp and upper back of JFK. So\nhair on and his skull on.\"\ntell, by evaluating the stress patterns in\nare photos of the sections. Neverthe-\nGroden, who reconstituted the Zap-\nthe speech (seen on the machine's scan-\nless, even without the missing materials,\nruder film from a pirated copy belong-\nners as a series of mountains and val-\nDr. Wecht concludes that the physical\ning to Time Inc., has had his film shown\nleys), whether that person is telling the\nevidence which he has examined\nrecently on scattered TV stations all\ntruth or lying.\ndoesn't support the Warren Commis-\nover the U.S. and Canada. According\nThe PSE presents advantages over\nsion's findings. \"More than one per-\nto Groden, his blowup shows not only\nthe old polygraph exam (which is why\nson,\" he says, \"was involved in the\nold-time polygraph examiners don't\nshooting of President Kennedy.\"\nthat President Kennedy was killed by\nlike it). A skilled PSE examiner can\nWecht says he bases his conclusion\na shot from the front (and therefore\nplay the PSE game with remote subjects\non an analysis of the famous single\nfrom a shot on or near the grassy\nwho don't even know they're partici-\nbullet (Commission Exhibit 399)\nknoll); it also shows the rifleman stand-\npants. All O'Toole needed in order to\nwhich the Warren Commission said\ning there on the grassy knoll holding\nfind out whether some of the actors in\nwas supposed to have entered the right\nthe rifle up in the air as the presidential\nthe JFK assassination scenario were\nside of the president's back, coursed\ncar disappears through the railroad\nthrough the uppermost portions of the\ntelling the truth was access to old taped\nunderpass.\nthorax and mediastinum and emerged\ninterviews they'd given out years ago.\nDEPARTMEN T OF POLICE\nNEW ORLEANS, LA.\nARREST REGISTER MAGISTRATE OR MUNICIPAL COURT COPY\nARRESTEE DATA\nANRESTED NAME\nRACE\nSEX\nBIRTH DATE\nHEIGHT\nWEIGHT\nHAIR\nEYES\nSKIN\nARREST NUMBER\nDALZELL\nBILLY\nW\nW\nM\n120426\n509\n200\nCRY\nHAZ\nRUD\n00478183\nADDRESS\nCITY\nSTATE\nBIRTH STATE\nNATIONALITY\nBUREAU OF ID NO.\n507 S\nTOULOUSE\nST\nCITY\nLA\nOK\nUS\n100-187\nOCCUPATION\nEMPLOYER\nMOTION NUMBER\nSEAMAN\n00253513\nASASNAME\nMARITAL STATUS\nSOCIAL SEC. 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MCCARTHY TREATED AND RE\nLEASED AT CHARITY HOSPITAL GOOD CONDITION. BOOKED BACKUP BY W. JOHNSTON, SEARCHE\n0 BY C. MAHER 020576 AT 531AM.\n52677\nSIGNATURE\nSIGNATURE\nBACKUP\n0504 AM\nG. CEASAR\nDOORMAN (TYPE NAME)\nTIME IN\nDESK SERGEANT (TYPE NAME)\n12/3\nRuby Murder Trial Postponed\nWade, Howard\nOFFICER RECALLS\nOswald in N.Y.:\nReport Cases\nAre Not Ready\nA Bitter Truant\nDistrict Court Judge Joe B. Brown Tuesday post-\n-\nponed\nthe\ntrial\nJack\nL.\nof\nthe\na\nthey\nnext\nto\nThey\nand\nNew\nTom\nin\nthe\nhas\nfirst\nin\nthe\nhad\nhis\nwould\na\nof\n»\nProbe Hints Say\nthe\n$\nOswald Unaided\nand\nRis\nto\nhad\nfor\n-\nbe\n-\nhis\n&\n-\nThe\nThe\nUsed\nthis\nof\nweek\nis\n#\nto\nbe\nin\n-\nof\na\n%\nready\nthe\nthe\n1.\nwithe\nand\nthe\nSolon Hits At Actions By Agents\n&\nof\nis\nthe\n20%\n20\nto\nbe\nin\nthe\nthe\n-\nof\nthe\n#\nde\nI\nD.\nbe\nthe\n@\nlas.\nMr\n-\n-\nthere\nInc.\nin\nIf\nI\nis\nno\nis\nto\n#\na\nthey\nla\nThe\n12/5\n12/4\nThersday Dec. 1043\nWalker Says\nDECEMBER 4. 1963\nCity Leaders Urge\nTHE DALLAS TIMES HERALD\nHe May Run\n54\nDALLAS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 4. 1963\nFor Governor\nUnity, Dedication\nEditorials\nINSURVEPORT\nhe\nWARREN\nBORWORTH\n-\nTruths and Half-Truths\nto\nof\nles\n4-A.\nthe\nAS\npeople\nhad\nconcluded\nvidual can stomach much of that par-\n.\nof\nthe\npresidential\nassessination,\ntitular outlet's spearings, an\nthe\nwork\nof\none\nman,\nand\nnumber\nof\nInterners\nwill\nthe\nFederal\ntrayed\ntato\nthese\nbe\nof\nof\nqualified\ntruths\nthe\nhas\ngained\nthe\nThis\ninstruction,\nlike\n60\n#\nthe\nof\nof\n5\nnot\nwas\nmade\nby\nstop\nthe\nof\nOne\nkernel\nof\nto\nof\nand\nold\nfabrication\nsumption\n=\nconted\nand\nwith\nThe\nwill\nthe\nof\nuntruth\nand\nfrenzied\nread\nKennedy\nyou\nhave\npresented\nthat\nthe\nassessination\nof\nAbraham\nlarge\nball\nthat\nis\ncalled\nLincoln\n#\ngrist\nspecu-\nThe Investigation of the assessine-\nof\nbook\ncame\nout\ncel\ntion\nof\nPresident\nKennedy\nwill\nThe\n:\nthe\nonly\nthis\nfall.\ndoubtedly\nbe\nthe\nmost\nthrough\nof\nWhat\nto\nthe\nattitude\nresearch\nin\nmodern\nhistory.\nThe\nmen,\nat\nand\nand\nboth\nTexas\nand\nnational\nlevels,\nsift-\nis\nto\nfeater\nthe\nmyth\nthat\nthe\nin-\nthrough the mountains of facts are\nthe\nshooting\ndoes\nthe\nbest\nminds\nthe\nnation\ncan\noffer.\n#\n&\nNo\norders\nof\nState\nDepartment\"\nto\ncannot\nbelieve\nthe\nfindings\nof\nR\nthe\ntruth\nand\nname\nthat\nno\nthis\nInvestigation,\nthen\nthere\nis\nlittle\nfor\n\"\nbreak\noccurred\nthe\nclose\nbelieve.\nother\n«\nPRESIDENT'S\nthat\ndepartment\nand\nthe\nKrem-\nOn . broader basis, numor has tried\nthe\nand\nCastro's\nCuba.\"\nthe\ntwo\nprincipals,\nLee\nCowald\nPROBES\nDr.\nquotations\nwere\nand\nJack\nRuby,\nInto\nsome\nkind\nof\nsinis-\nOswald: Crybaby\nPROBE PANEL\nby\n.\nSouthern\nradio\nstation\nnetwork.\nFrom\nacross\nthe\nnation\nPage\nand\nDO\nreally\nsame\nIndi-\nhave\ncorre\ncurtive\nrelesives\nhintleg\nthat\nWith Delusions\nsanity\nthe\nwriter\nknows\n\"\ngambling\ntions,\nof\npolitical\nand\nredul\nconjune-\nJAMES\nMARLOW,\nAssociated\nPress\nNews\nagain\nAnalyst\nTO ASSEMBLE\nif\ntures\nthem.\nHere\nthe\nTHE\nat\n&\nto\nconnect\nthe\nPICTURE\nof\nLee\nwhich\nI\nexcept\nfor\nthe\ninflamed\n3\nthat\nof\na\nThe\nLonger Death\nboth\nshared\nwhich\nto\npoor\nto\nboth\nto\nwhat\n1\n.\nwith\nabout\nand\nthe\nthe\nin\nFirst\nAmendment\nwhen\nare\nmay\nlook\nthe\ndifferent.\nProbe Asked\nBut\nInto\ncolumns\nonto\nthe\nex-Marine\ntheir\nassessinated\nafter\nof\nby\nthey\nbeing\nthe\nneeding,\nquestioning\nhalf-truths\ncharged\nF.\nKennedy\nWASHINGTON\nand\nof\nwhich\nvi-\nto\nbe\nimaginings\nsomebody\nmay\nwas\nof\n#\nto\nis\ncompounded.\nThe\nbruth,\nconspiracy.\nBut\nto\n.\nof\nat\nany\nrecement,\nhard\nenough\nto\nHe\n.\nw\nwith\n-\nthe\nwith.\nto\na\nle\nrevolution\nis\n-\nOrwald\nwas\ntoo\nwill\nrelige\nto\norganization\nbe\nHe\nabout\nthe\nbe\nread.\nbut\nbe\nSecret Service\nspell\nwell\nHe\nwas\nwith\n4\nsociety\nbut\nhow\nto\ndo\nvisa\n.\nthe\nno\nto\nbe\ncould\nhim-\nwas\nmade\nself\nin\nsociety.\n-\nNeedn't Talk?\nAnd\nwhile\nhe\nof\na\nmore\nperfect\n-\ncity\ncirty,\nin\nthis\nhe\non\nhis\nrest.\nHe\nMOVES\nla\nand\nMr\nHe\nthe\nSoviet\nI\nwanted\n.\nof\nThe\nbook condemning it.\nof\n-\nfor\nComplaints, But No Support\n.\n-\nafter\nthe\nbe\npay\nis\nthe\n.\nof\nfor\na\npeace\nabout\nto\nM\nin\n-\nthe\nif\nand\nbe\nto\n-\n.\nabout\nshort\nis\nr\nend\nfor\n#\n1\n&\nis\nand\n.\n.\nHe\n#\n#\nSecret Service Men Seen\nbe\nnall\n-\nJan\nHe\nproba\nwould\n3\nIn Club Reported Off Duty\n#\n-\nof\n*\n-\nI\nto\n-\n.\nto\n-\nthe\n.\nand\n#\nthe\nthat\nwill\nall\nthe\n-\nin\nthe\nThis\nat\n-\nabout\nbis\ntoday.\nis\n-\n-\nand\n.\n.\n.\nminury\nDisilusioned With Russia\n.\n:\n-\nbe\nand\nI\nas\n=\nfor\nI\nin\nbe\n0\nthe\nagents\n-\nis\n5\nbeing\n.\n-\nto\nP\nto\nto\nthe\nthe\nat\n-\nthe\nin\nchief\nis\n-\n.\nof\n\"\nany\nthe\nof\n-\n.\n-\nis\n-\n1\nsever\nis\nThe\nthe\n.\n#\n\"\n-\n-\nthe\nand\nof\nLast\n.\nbe\nin\n-\n.\nto\nbe\nInco\n2\nthe\n.\nbeth\nand\nThis\nI\nfor\nis\nthe\nkilled\nthat\nbe\nbe\nshow\nthe\n1\nLess\nStalla,\n-\n-\n:\nA\n-\n-\n-\nbet\n.\nis\n12/L\nTHE DALLAS TIMES HERALD\nFINANCIAL\nCONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED FOR #7 YEARS THE TIMES 1876 THE HERALD 1006 CONSOLIDATED\nEDITION\n87th\nYear-No.\n305\nDALLAS, TEXAS, PRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER & 1963\nPrice Five Centa\nINVESTIGATORS MUM\nOswald Reported Walker Sniper\nWife Told FBI\nIssues\nFBI Report on JFK\nMate Boasted,\nof\n'Sources' Say\ntrial\nder\nKilling Stays Secret\nLee\nto\nNo\nwife\nthat\nbe\nthe\nGee\nware\nren\n-\nain\n#\n-\nthe\n-\nMUM\n-\nby\nIn\n-\nthat\nThe\nI\nreport\nhe\nthe\npublic\nMother Still Says\nthe\nRep.\nthe\nOswald Not Guilty\nZip\nfound\nOn\nof\npoke\nand\n?\n12/7\narriles\nother\nK\nPed\nthe\n1\nBoy's Story Clouds Probe\ngeneral\nGrand\nOf JFK-Walker Attack Tie\n-\nor\n-\nthe\nin\nil\nthis\n.\ninto\nand\nJahn\nThe\nI\nby\nwindow\nsaid\n-\n-\n-\nby\nin\nor.\nThe\nIf\nwith\nwork\n-\nJound\nsupport\n-\n*tempts\n&\n-\nthe\nM\nalder,\nthe\n-\n-\nand\nrevesled\nI\nstayed\nthe\nbe\n-\nper-\nMrs\ntrues\n-\nor\nand\n-\nin\nthe\nAlbert\n.\nThe\nbettered\nless\nto\n?\nfor\n-\ni\n-\nof\n-\ndug\nbelieve\n2\nby\nMr.\nEnd\nentrece\nthe\nI\n-\n-\n-\n-\nMm\n-\nin\nmy\nin\nI\n12/7\nCHICAGO\nSUN-TIMES\nDECEMBER 7, 1963\nCarr Calls Off\nTexas Inquiry\nWASHINGTON\nReveal Oswald\n(AP)-The\nof\nJohn\nfor\nThe\nWrote About His\nShot At Walker\n@\nBy Sandy Smith\nCHICAGO\nTN\nIn\nSUN-TIMES\nby\nGen\n=\nFBI Seeking To Link\nThe\nr\nin\nOswald To Sniper's\nthe\n-\nthe\nShot At Gen. Walker\nEXCLUSIVE\n5 Top Hoffa Aides\ntax\nSaid To Have Quit\nvas\nin\n#\nthat\nist\nof\nthe\nhage\nto\nOswald Wrote Of Walker\nEarl\nAbuse Stuns\n-\n0\nat\nGoldwater,\n#\n¥\nthe\nReport Says\nel\nin\na\nby\nsaid\nI\nis\nin\nto\nthe\nthe\nthe\nis\nsearch\n-\nthe\nis\ncome\nhis\nOn\nM\n2\n-\ncan\n-\nfor\nP\nthe\nE\nfor\nthe\n2\nof\n&\nI\nof\n1961\nM\n35c\ncan\nbe\nthe\nbe\nthe\n-\n-\nThe\nCHICAGO\nthe\nof\nis\nfor\nSUN-TIMES\n-\nbut\n.\nVoll\nor\ntime\nTXX\nthat\nHARVEY\nDOWALD\n-\nNOVE\n(4%\nFORMER\nTHE\nSAID\nTHAT\n1\nI\nNPW\n12/8\nDECEMBER 8. 1953\nOFFICER SAYS\nWeissman Says Conservatives Paid for Ad Rapping JFK\nHE SAW RUBY\nNY. Time appeared is the Dallas/Mede will Kinday with an spoligable at the president's terrible be will \"Njoben . had been extablished -\nCommunity - the -\nA\nplayed\nasked\nnewepaper\nA\n1.\n1\nno\n-\n.\nthe\nI\nOwned\n1\n-\nA\nDallas\n-\n-\nintervations\npolice\nI\nfan\nand\n*\nof\nM\nis\nTHE DALLAS TIMES HERALD\nLee\nDALLAS, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 8, 1963\nthe\nCommerce\nof\n\"\nStreet\nThe\n&\nwild\nHe\nJack\n-\nthe\n-\nday\nand\nvalieted\nbe\nEditorials\nthe\nthe\n-\nto\n⑉\narea.\npatient\nthe\nU.N. and Human Rights\npassed\nat\nbe\n-\nthe\n-\nHELPFUL\nnow\nand\nthen,\nto\nbe\nthat they are inherent with our human\nTea\n&\n-\nsure we have things to their proper\nbirth\n1\npolice\nNo\npeople\n3\nperspective.\nOne\neach\nItem\nis\nhow\nOur own government has proclaimed\nDec. 15 as Bill of Rights Day. within\nby\npeople\nfeel\nabout\nU.S.\nmembership\nin\nthe framework of Human Rights Week\nprive\nif\nthe United Nations\n-\nWe page armusly to renew our\naccosed\nOn\nthe\neve\nof\nthe\nUnited\nNations'\nthe\nthe\nacquiredance with this remarkable,\nis\nHuman\nRights\nWeek\n(Dee\n10-17)\n:\ndocument\nwhich\ncan\n*\nread\nin\n10\nthe parter\nfind\n.\nnational\npell\nreported\nthat\nthe\nmissin but explored for generations\nMATCH\ncerrying\nUnited\nNations\nis\nwidely\nrespocted\nby\nEvery sentence of our Bill of Rights has\n-\nof this country or these ques\nthe boals for a series of docu-\n\"\nchrisgh\nThe\na\ntioned,\n#\nper\ncent\nsaid\nthey\nbelieved\nHoward.\nments and backs seeking to exhaust its\nsaid\ncan't\ngood\nto\nhave\nthe\nUnited\nStates\nin\nparticular meaning and application.\ntype\nthe\nbe\n8a\nthe\nDated\nNationa\nOnly\nper\ncest\nThe United National was formed in\nof\nUNI\notherwise and only 13 per ceel\nan attengt to bring to the whole world\nBLAMED\nI\nRETURY TO LIBERALS\nexpressed\nconvictions\none\nway\nthe\nsome\nof\nthe\nbenefits\nof\nthe\nIdeas\nof\nether\nthe\nThe\nother.\nwhich\nthe\nUnited\nStates\nhas\nbeen\nprin-\nAn\nfor\nF.\n%\nThe poll above reported that U.S.\npractitioner. To say that the\n-\n-\nof\nthe\nthe\nbe\npublic support for the United Nations\nits\nUnited National has surreded fully is\nplant\nThe\n-\nhas\ncompleted\nare\nthe\n18\nbeen\nyears\ni\nbut the United Nations has\n-\nthat\norganization\nMI\nbeen\nS\nexistence\nfalied or in filling or must chrase fall is\n-\nand\nThe margin of disapproval is smaller\na\nnot only shertwighted but untrue\nthe\nDepart\nsaw than it was in 1951. for instance.\nThe idea of human rights faces a\nI\nThe\nMrs.\nof\nhurnan\nrights.\nwhich\nconstant battle around the world. Some-\nstrong\ntenet\nthe\nUnited\nNations'\ntimes\nthe\nbuttle\nla\nin\nAfrica,\nsometimes\nin\nthe\n-\nin\nof\nor\nprimarily\nAS\nin sometimes in Dallas. Be\n1\nlesgue\nout\nAmerican\npolitical\nWe\ngave\nto\ncause we are human MO fall heir to\nto\n&\nworld\nan\nalternative\nin\nright\"\nthese weakness of the spirit 10 which\nThe\nand\nthe\nrigid\nrights\nin\nhumanity is so sunceptible. Given power,\na.\nwish\nend\nis\nde\nconcession\nform\nsuch\nM\nbecame\nprt\nof\nwe\nabout\npreose\nto\nUSE\nIt\non\nthe\nless\noffer\nsomething\n-\nast\nthe\nthe legal processes of England In other\nA\nprovectful (Y) to use 11 for our cun ends.\nyards\nbe\nwords. from America curos the\nI\n-\nfor when it may\nand\nInc.\n1\n\"\ndeclaration that some things are shore\nTwice hunte rights is more\nA.\nthe granting of kings or governments,\nthat political need, human rights is\nBITS engling\nsomething we need to lake personal\nSTILL\nOther Voices\nof Sometimes we need to\ntake surb cognitience every &\ntainly week, or one day, .\nof\nof\nIgnorance About Communism\novertes our capacity to kain\nabout such\nTUMEROUS\nAMERICAN\n.\nand\nthe\nIf\nwe\nto\nof\nwill\n-\nthe\n.\nid\nat\nis\nOne\nit\nan\nthis\n.\n.\nline\nspring.\n#\n#\nher\nthre\n-\nthis\nof\nfirity\nof\n-\nand\nla\n6\nthat\nthe\nWe\nthe\n-\nreports\nI\n#\n.\n-\nis\nfor\n-\nnumber\nfound to\nI\n-\nThe what hereby minet the -\nDe\neralt\n1\n-\nto\nthe\nstudy\na\nbis\n-\n- - Tertle Crerk Bederard\n-\nis\n-\nmakes\n#\n*\n.\n-\n.\n94.\n1\nthe\nstate\nof\nI\n1\nof\n#\n.\n⑉\n,\nin\n\"\nto\n1\n-\nis\nand\nla\nI\n:\nMAIL\nthe\nof\n-\n#\n-\n&\nthe\nK.\nwill\n-\nAut\n-\n*\nis\nI\n3\n-\n12/9\n12/10\nA-21\nTuesday.\nDec.\nDALLAS TIMES lat.\n*A-11\nMan Placing Ad Explains Views\nAttorneys Confer\nOn Ruby Defense\nOut-of-State Lawyers\nMay Participate in Case\nTwo preminent California trial attorneys visited\nkitter\nRuby\nin\nthe\nDallas\nCounty\nadmitted\nthey\nwere\nenter-\nIng\nthe\nof\nthe\none\nof\nto\ntop\nin\nthe\npersonal\nS.\nBrody,\nsaid\nmake\nabout\nthe\nLIVE SHELL REPORTED\nFOUND ON OSWALD\nof\nOr\nin\nin\nif\n2\n.\nof\nat\nTIMES\nBes,\n***A-23\nthe\nFOR ASSASSINATION\nJoe\nw\nRUSSIAN VISIT\nit\nAir-Tight Case Enmeshed\nOswald's Letters\nthat\nd\nOswald, Sources Report\nTo Mother Printed\nis\nof\neped\nby\nThe\nbe\nis\n6\nA.\nin\nThe\nTHE DALLAS TIMES HERALI\nDALLAS,\nTEXAS,\nTUESDAY\nEVENING,\nDECEMBER\n10,\n1963\nEditorials\non\n-\n-\nis\n(1)\nThe\nat\n#\nWise To Bow Out\nis\nI\nTHE\nDECISION\nof\nState\nAttorney\nbut in case of such vast Importance #\nThe\nwho\nhe\n-\nneed\nfor\nR.\nCarr\nto\ncancel\ndoes\nnot\nappear\nto\nmultify\nthe\nJ.\nD.\nType\n-\n.\nthe\nTexas\nof\nthe\nthe\nhighest\nnational\nlegal\nparticipation.\nthe\nI\nat\nis\naccound\nThe\nnation\nmust\nknow\nall,\nand\nmust\nThe\nMr.\nCarr\nand\nhis\nstaff\ncan\nknow\nthat\nall\nthe\nfacts\noffered\nby\nthe\nthe\nthe\nbelievable.\nThere\nbe\nand\n*\ndoubtedly\ncontribute\ntheir\nshare\ntemptation\nin\norder\nin\nfancy.\nBut\n#\n-\nto\nof\nThe\nexpert\nlike\nthis.\nof\nthe\n1\n-\n-\nthat\nthe\nbe\nof\nthe\nilk\nthat\nwould\nà\nTexas,\npain\n1\nin\nby\nA\nhis\nthe\nI\nbe\nthe\ninvolves\nthe\nare\na\nnumber\nof\nTexas\nhappened\nI\nand\nmust\nbe\ntorted\nof\nwhat\nof\npresident.\nin\n#\nhint\nquestion\nof\nwhy\nto\nthe\ndeath\nof\nPresident\n2\n50\nofficers\nin\nthe\nfindings.\nEvery\nday\noffice\nmore\n#\nand\n-\naction\nwill\n8\npropositions\nin\nin\nin\nand\nconflict\nand\nwill\nspeed\nup\nthe\nletters\nfrom\npeople\nall\nover\nthe\nbe\n*\nwas\nHe\ncommended\nIt\nwill\nbe\nalmost\nImpossible\nto\nkeep\nbeen\n-\ndeciding.\nfrom\nover\nhas\nbeen\ncriticlam\nre-\nof\nthe\nChief\nIng\nor\nbelieving\nthat\nhave\nsome\nwide\ngarding\nthe\nappointment\nSupreme\nthis\ntruth\nthat\nof\ncliss,\nacros\nJustice\n«\nthe\nCourt\nto\nsuppressed\nabout\nthe\nPresident's\ndeath.\nI\nbelieve\nthe\ncommittee.\nThis\ncriticlem\nis\non\nCapt.\nand\n-\nthe\nidea\nthat,\nat\nsome\ntime\nor\nanother.\nBut\nthe\nwide\nmajority\nof\nIntelligent,\nto\nsome\nprincipal\nin\nthe\naffair\nmight\nhave\ncitizens\nwill\nappear\nbefore\nthe\nSupreme\nCourt\non\nto\naccept\nwhat\nthe\npresidential\nfact\nfinders\nThey\nI\nout\nas appeal.\nrecord.\nthis\nis\nwhy\n(Cled\nat\nThis is . possibility, rather remote.\nto give the committee the best\nPastice\nof\nthe\ntion,\nthe\nbest\nminds\nand\nplenty\nof\ntime\n1\nto evaluate its findings.\n\"\nbe\nwas\npresident\nto\nall.\nThe\nbey\nbe\nJust\n%\n1\n1\nfor\nof\nthe\nfacts\nIn\nthe\ndeath\nof\nJohn\nF.\nKen-\nthe\nand\npairs\nnedy\nbelong\nto\nus\nall,\nand\nin\nfull\nand\nOrwald\nto\nthe\n-\nAnd\nthis\nnot\nin\nunclouded truth\nAMERICAN EACLE\nPUBLISHING Co.\nP. BOX 150\nDALLAS 21. TEXAS\nJanuary 1, 1964\nSince the assessination of President Kennedy on the 22nd of November\nlast, No have been flooded with letters from *11 parts of the\ncountry (and of the world, too) asking for information. It is\nevident from these letters that a great deal of the news avail-\nable here in Dallas has not been made available elsowhere.\nEven in these days of a controlled national nown media system, it is\ndifficult to muzzle the local reporter in his own local news-\npaper. Although #0 cannot, of course, guarantee the complete\naccuracy of the clippings assembled in this book, it undoubt-\nedly will give the reader a better coverage of the incidents\ninvolved, anower a fee questions, and pose same additional\nones. A Cow, perhaps, that the Warren Commission will not\nnoo fit to answer.\nWe trust that this convenient book will prove of value to you.\nR. A. Surrey\nPresident\nAmerican Bagle Publishing Co."
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