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    "ocrText": "the couple of weeks that Oswald, unknown to me, was in cown are\napparently even hanging out at many of the same places I sas,\nspending lots of time in the apartment of a female friend of on\n(Loy Ann Camp) talking to her new boyfriend, Tom (Buck)\nTom had a brother named Snell who was the big love of Loyts\nlife. I met Tom soon after my return to the Quarter -- even\nquiting at the Sheraton, in fact and soon I discovered that\nneath Buck's country boy outward appearance was a very dynamic\nintellectual.\nBuck was a spellbinder. He would keep me up all night, nicho\nafter night, with incredible philosophical raps and discussions\nof psychology. Thus I wound up sleeping during the days, whick\nkept me off the streets of the Quarter, where I might have THE\ninto Lee Oswald otherwise.\nBuck Mashburn may have been a victim of circumstance. He\nhowever, have all kinds of incredible mental and atheletic\nwhich would have served a professional espoinage man well, Ese\nmemorize things quickly. He could walk down a suburban block\ning out commercial leaflets (which he and I did to make moner\nday) and a without getting winded or seeming to hurry. 1 simpli\neconomizing on his motions and steps -- he could move so fast\nI had to run down the otherside of the street, doing the same\nwith the leaflets, to keep up with him.\nMashburn, in my opinion, could have been anything from an\nby-stander to a witting assassin,\nHe is a friend of Loy's father, a football coach (also\nCamp) at the university in Lake Charles. In 1968 he showed\nthe Atlanta Public Library where I was working at the time,\nthereafter I discovered he was attending Georgia State Univers\nDuring discussions in past years he mentioned once to me\nexistence of a photo of him and Oswald in Fong's on Decatur\ntaken in the autumn of 1963, but said that they did not knox\nother, just happened to be in the same photo of the inside os\nrestaurant.\nAround the time I wrote my article for The Great Specklai\ntitled \"Did the Plumbers Plug JFK Too?\" (27 August 1973) I\nBuck at school and mentioned the Hunt-Sturgis theory. He mase\nopinion clear that I was playing around with something Isiti\nThe next time or so that I saw him I asked him point black\nhe figured had assassinated John F. Kennedy. Buck told me to\nit was \"an act of God.\nThese represent some essential highlights in my relations:\nBuck Mashburn. I also recall hearing the rumor that his\nSnell was collecting all the information on the JFK murder\ncould -- this was during one of my visits to New Orleans\n9\n190G, 1968).\nWhether there are any records which indicate that Tom\nhas at any time worked for a government agency in the role =\nintelligence agent would seem to be a crucial means of discover\nwhether or not he is deserving of more investigation regardité\nassassination."
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