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It was also typical of Gary's grim sense of humor about his own pro-war philosophy to steal something that was to be used to advance his political idcals on Memorial Day. & For example, one of the other memories I have of Gary concerns his attitude towards the anti-war song which Joan Baez (I think) popularized at that time called "Where Have All The Flowers Gone.' They had been picked by young maidens to decorate the graves of young soldiers who had been killed in the wars -- and the song contains the oft repeated refrain, "When will they ever learn?" Gary's comment: "I like that song! Ha: Ha!" One day Slim and Gary and I went to the drugstore at the corner of Canal Street and Camp Street. We went in and sat at the counter in order to eat or have coffee. Gary excused himself, saying with a smile that he had and I errand to run and that he would rejoin us shortly. At that time I was not aware that the offices of Guy Bannister later named by Jim Garrison as a suspect in the JFK assassination and now known Midcly to have been a friend of/Howard Hunt\ and a co-ordinat- or of anti-Cistro and other intelligence activities in that area -- were immediately adjacent to the drugstore. While Gary was gone, "there Have All The Flowers Gone" was either played on the julce box or Slim simply pointed to it on the selector there in front of us and said, "Brother-in-law likes that song. Only he has a different way of thinking about it than most people do." I replied, "Yeah, I know." I do not remember how I knew, but Gary had mentioned it earlier in some connection or other -- possibly as it was playing on his Car radio. It was probably in June or July of 1961 that I met Jessica Luck, a nineteen-year-old philosophy major at Tulane University. Jessica and I were to have a romantic, passionate, and stormy relationship for the next year or two. At some point, Jessica and Slim and Gary and I drove out to Jefferson Parish to look at some land which Gary had purchased along the Jefferson Highway. Meanwhile, Gary was living with Ola in a ground-floor apartment in the French Quarter. According to what Greg and I had been told, he was working for Anheiser-Busch. He was also painting in his spare time, and he frequently mentioned that Hitler had been a painter and had been unfairly criticized because his paintings were too realistic. I simply have no "tag" in my memories of Gary to indicate to me when it was that he was working for Papa Joe Comforto -- a Bourbon Street night club owner with many sons who helped out in the business. It could have been before he went to work at Busch; it could have been moonlighting while he was at Busch; or, as seems most logical, it could have been after he quit at Busch. But for a time, he did work for Papa Joe, doing what, I do not recall, if I ever knew.

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