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January 31, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: ANDREW SCIAMBRA ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: SMITH INVESTIGATION (MY TRIP TO MONROE) In more particular, my visit to Monroe, La., in an effort to contact Mrs. Mary Bannister on January 30, 1967, I made a trip to Monroe, La., in an effort to contact Mrs. Mary Bannister. Upon arriving in Monroe, La., and checking out possibilities of her phone number and address, it was learned that she lives at 102 Willow Street and her phone number is 387-0562. Upon checking with Mr. Friday (Apt. 1017 - phone #323-9711) who is the manager of the Garnier Apartments where Mrs. Bannister lives, it was learned that Mrs. Bannister has been away from the apartments for the last six weeks. She at first went to Fort Worth, Texas, to be with a friend, Mrs. Earl Huff, of 5809 Trail Lake Drive, Fort Worth 76, Texas, and from there she has gone on to 24 Green oaks Drive, Atherton, California, which is just outside of San Francisco, to be with another friend where she will remain until February 18. From there she is supposed to return to Monroe. I contacted Mr. and Mrs. Norton of Apt. 100 on Willow Street who are Mrs. Bannister's next door neighbors. They informed me that Mrs. Bannister had been living there for approxi- mately two years and that she lives alone and she is a part- time nurse and that her name is on the register and that she does not work very much. She takes a lot of trips out of town and has been in Washington, D.C. once and frequently converses about her husband. I next contacted Guy Bannister's mother who lives at 514 Oak Street in Monroe (phone # 323-1336) and talked to her for some time in regard to information about her son; his files and his associates. The mother informed me that she and Mrs. Mary Bannister rarely talk to each other and that she does not know whether or not Mrs. Bannister has any files or books that her husband left her. She did say that she knows that she gave some away, sold some, and burned some. She told me that if anyone in the world besides Mrs. Bannister would know of any files that belonged to Guy, it would either be Mr. Ross Bannister, his brother who is an attorney for the Highway Department in Baton Rouge, or Mary's daughter, Mrs. D. N. Duvil who lives at 1139 Homestead Street in Metairie. She also told me that Mrs. Bannister has another sister in oak Grove, La., and she