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    "ocrText": "May 25,1967\nWe received information that LEE HARVEY OSWALD attempted\nto register to vote in East Feliciana Parish in the latter part\nof September or early October, 1963, during Civil Rights demon-\nstration. On May 23, 1967, we interviewed HENRY EARL PALMER,\nregistrar of voters in East Feliciana. PALMER stated that during\nthese Civil Rights demonstrations, a man came to him to register\nto vote in said Parish. This man identified himself thru U.S.\nArmed Forces ID card and stated he was LEE HARVEY OSWALD. The\nreason he was outstanding and remembered was because he and\nanother white male, ESTUS MORGAN (now deceased - automobile\naccident - Tangipahoa Parish) were the only two white persons in\na line of colored people awaiting registration to vote. During\nthis time on the day he (OSWALD) was in line to register, a\nblack Cadillac automobile, (occupied by two white males - one large,\nwell dressed, white haired, tan complexion, the driver - the other\na bushy eyebrowed darker complexion smaller mán, the passenger)\nstayed parked in front of Corcoran's Drug Store on Main-Street,\nClinton. This automobile remained *pärked all day and after\nOSWALD's attempt to register and failure because of proper backing\nconcerning his residence in that parish, a white female, GLORIA\nWILSON_ (now deceased - internal hemmorhage due to enlarged *heart)\nsaw OSWALD get into this black Cadillac and leave. MRS. CORCORAN\n(also déceased - natural causes) also saw OSWALD enter this\nautomobile. Late, the afternoon of this incident GLORIA WILSON\nmade this statement to HENRY EARL PALMER: \"Your Civil Rights\nworkers are riding better than you are. PALMER askeã why,\nshe answered, \"He got into that Cadillac parked in front of the\ndrug store.' As of now we have been unable to find anyone else\nto whom she made this statement.\nMR. PALMER is willing to make formal statement to this\neffect. MR. PALMER was shown pictures of CLAY SHAW and DAVID\nFERRIE on May 25, 1967. He positively identified CLAY SHAW as\nthe driver of this Cadillac before mentioned. He was unable to\nidentify FERRIE as the passenger with SHAW. JOHN MANCHESTER,\nTown Marshal, Clinton, Louisiana, was also shown these pictures\nas he had seen this automobile, had been requested by PALMER to\nrun a 10-28 (license registration) on the Cadillac - had done so\nthrough ESSIE C. WATSON, radio operator for the Sheriff's Office\nin Clinton. This was done and both MANCHESTER and PALMER\ndistinctly remember \"International Trade Mart, New Orleans\" as\nhaving been part of the identification of this license. However,\nMANCHESTER was unable to positively identify either photograph\nshown him. He does state that he seems to remember going to this\ncar and questioning the occupants (this was regular routine because\nof Civil Rights demonstrations at that time, however, two white\npeople in a line of negroes did attract attention as unusual.)\nPhotographs of SHAW and FERRIE do look highly familiar to\nMANCHESTER.\nOn May 22, 1966, ESSIE WATSON stated to PALMER that she\nremembered running 10-28 on black Cadillac in 1963- then on\nMay 23, 1966, to us she stated'she remembered nothing about it.\nPALMER will verify this."
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