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    "ocrText": "Ty most recent address for Clint is 1231 Lecatur Strect, New\nOrleans, Louisiana 70116. Phone: 504-523-5632. It scems to me\nthat it should be a fairly hich priority to question Clint.\nAp ronched by official investigators who asled sufficiently pointed\nquestions, I'm relatively certain Clint would have a great deal\nto say that would shed light on the JFK assassination.\nPlease keep in mind that Clint has a bad heart and it is im-\nKJ\nportant therefore to avoid coming on \"touch\" with him, etc.\nAs recently as 1968 Clint maintained his belief in the lone K\n3rd sarp\nassassin theory. I think this was a sincere stance. Clint\n(probably know that Uswald was a Government agenti and thought that\nhe was stated to KIII Castro and had somehow flipped out and killed\nKennedy instead.\nI have a number of miscellaneous memories concerning my inter-\nactions with Clint in the fall of 163, in addition to those which\nI\nmentioned earlier. Some of what may be the more important ones\nfollowe\nIt was Clint who suggested I \"O to work at Arno's restaurant,\nin Late October, perhaps, or early November. This is where I \"was\nworking as 7 waiter at the time of the IRK accassination\nClint was extremely calm about my flamboyant, obnoxious behavior\nimmediately following the assassination. This was unusual among\nmy friends, the rest of whom -- except for a couple of extreme\nrightwingers became anery with me for expressing joy at the\ndeath of the Precidento\nLoolting back, I think Clint': uncharactoristio (for him) calm\nwas a professional calm. From his noint of view, it might have\nappearal that the killing of Keunedy was a STATU -- that Oswald\nhad somchor flipred out of FBI and/or CIA control. Glint would\nttrem have been keeping a cool head in an omergency. Everything\nabout Clint's behavior that I know -- before, during, and after\nthe events in Dallas fits this theory.\nIfter the assassination Clint became my self-aprointed public\nrelations man. Strangely, it was not until then that he became\naware, so he said, that The Idle Warriors was based on Onvald.\nOn the night of November 22nd, then he rounded this ignorance, I\nwas much too churht up in my personal melodramas to wonder at that.\nBut upon reflection over these many years it has begun to seem\nvery strange to me that Clint could have failed to recall my many\ndiscussions about Oswald and his dramatic defection to the Soviet\nUnion being the climax of the book.\nOnce I assured him that Oswald was indeed the Marine I had\nwhose defection had inspired The Idle Warriors plot, he began\nparading me around from one I.V. or radio station to another,\nfeeding me attitudes and probably even lines, incidentally, to feed\nto the American public in turn -- not distortions of fact so much\nas of emphasis. Everyone wanted to hear how distifieded Oswald was.\nNobody was interested in much else about him. The other stuff\ndidn't sell.\nprecise measure of Clint's total effect upon me may be gotten\nby comparing the two drafts of The Idle Warriors I gave the Warren\nCommission -- the one vritten before the assassination with the\none influenced by Clint which I wrote after the assasrination."
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