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Building" after its current owner. This address, I should add,
had been stamped by Oswald only on his initial public handouts
but it no longer appeared on the subsequent pamphlets which he
gave out. The entrance at this address opened onto stairs
leading up to the second floor.
There was something familiar about the small building
and it took me a moment or two to refresh my memory. Then I went
around the corner, past where Mancuso's small restaurant used to
be, and walked a few steps down Lafayette Street to the other
entrance of the building.
There I found myself looking at the door of what I knew
had been -- back in 1963 -- the entrance to the private detective
office of Guy Banister upstairs. * This was the other entrance
to
the same floor to which the first entrance, 544 Camp, led.
Banister had died in 1964 -- about nine months after the
assassination. He had been a career agent in the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and ultimately had become the Special Agent in
Charge of the Chicago office. Upon his retirement he had been
appointed Deputy Superintendent of Police in New Orleans.
On a number of occasions, presumably for liaison
purposes inasmuch as I was D.A. -- and because I also had been in
the F.B.I. -- he had invited me to lunch. A ruddy faced man with
blue eyes which stared right into you, he dressed immaculately
*Located at 531 Lafayette Street in 1963, the door had borne the
designation, "Guy Banister Associates, Inc. Investigators.
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