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Thornley was living at John Spencer's house -- about three or
four blocks away from Clay Shaw. Spencer happened to be a friend
of Shaw's and sometimes he visited Shaw and sometimes it was vice
versa. However, both Clay Shaw and Spencer were in agreement hat
Shaw-never came by while Thornley was staying at John Spencer's.
After spending nearly three years in New Orleans, Kerry
Thornley suddenly left - for good. Several days after the
assassination, Spencer came to his house and found Thornley
gone. There was a note from him in Spencer's mailbox saying, "I
must leave. I am -going to the Washington, D.C. area, probably
Alexandria, Virginia. I will send you my address so that you can
forward my mail. "* Spencer said it was quite unexpected because
Thornley had at least ten days left in the month before his rent
would have been due. He went to Thornley's apartment, which was
apartment "C", and paper all over the place had been torn up into
small pieces resembling confetti. Before being torn up the paper
*This is an example of real coincidence. At the end of summer,
Ruth Paine - who subsequently got Lee Oswald his job at the now
famous Texas School Book Depository - had driven to Washington,
D.C. to visit her brother-in-law (employed by the Agency for
International Development, for all practical purposes an Agency
subsidiary); then returned to New Orleans in September. Payne
picked up Marina Oswald, the baby and the Oswald family
belongings -- and drove them on to Dallas, where Lee Oswald was
to join them. Now back in New Orleans, hardly had the gunshots
in Dallas died out when Oswald's old Marine buddy also was seized
with the urge to go to Washington. 54 But, in all fairness, it
should be observed that the Washington area is very picturesque
and the sudden desire to visit it can be impelling.
C
1984
Jim Garrison
NW 12640 DocId:59167984 Page 27
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