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April 11 , 1968
TO: LOU1S I VON , Ch i ef I nvestiga tor .
F RON : GARY SA~~ERS , I nve s tigator
RE : KELTON'S A)J"T I QUES 635 St. Ann Street 523-?.424
SUI3JECT: LEE Hl\H \lE Y OSI·IALD and CLAY S!Ii'.H * * * * * * * ***** ************** * *********** * * * * * * * *'*
During the sum.m er of 1963 , MRS . KELTON worked as a saleswoman at Kra uss De p a rtme nt Store , 1201 Canal Stree t . In July or August, MRS . KELTON says she sold a light fixture (ceiling hanging type) to LEE HARVEY OSv/ALD . OSI~ALD \vas accompcnied by his wife and the y also h a d a little girl with them . HRS . KELTON said she r e membered the couple bec0u:oe OS\VALD was quite rude a nd abrupt and his wife seemed "like a very swe et 1voman ". MRS . KELTON said OSWALD repeated the things she said to his wife in a foreign language "no t French or Spanish , but kind of Slovic or Germanic ". 1- ~!RS . KEUrON said the reason OSI"li\LD beca rae so irritate d was because the light fixture he had purcha s ed had to be bro ught from a storeroom and required some time . Finally , OS\•;ALD got tired of wa i ting and a s k e d to have the fixture delivered acc ording to 1-U<.S . KELTON, ." to an a d dre ss on rta g0zine Stree t". NRS . KELTON said OSI•IALD 1·1as \vearing d a rk p<1nts and a white sport shirt . She can 't reme mber \·1h a t the \•loman •.-;ore . 1- · --·------I - showe<.l - - ~1RS .- KELTON several- pictures - of·- KERRY THORNJ:,EY , LEE H.ARVEY OSIVALD , and ~!ARINA OS\,TALD . ~l..'l.S . KEVl'ON · identified LEE and MARINA OSHALD as the couple she had waited on at Kraus s ' during the summ:r of 1963 . Unit.l Nove mb er 1966 (and 3 years previous), 1-ms. KELTON livect on the thil:d floor at 905 Gov . Nichols Stree t . The apartme nt house is ma n a ged by hRS . AN'l'OINET'i'E HOR NUFF (Ja-5-24?.8) , and the b o ok%eepi r.g and records are handled by Caru s o-Goll Re'l!._ Es t a t e , 9 40 Rc:lVa l S t-r~ct (5 23 - 5~.. ; (t\"'G:..t.C. \; ~yl..- ~12.. i'..SlO("tv· l !' ~t ~ l.;.:. ~ I¥?Afl.;rto. c.-:>1r MRS - Kr::I/J.10N sa ys she used to. sG!e CLAY Sf-iliW on numer ou s occasict1s on t~ : e street, a t Publia 1 s Foo d Store o:1 .Rampart Street , a nd g:J.iEs· .: :-:. - -:d cut of Cos i mo ' s B r . l·LR. S . KELTON s .:1 id <-t+o fL f...) u F-):. Af-!0 u tt l() ste used t~ d8 her lau~dry at a laader6tt2 cl~se to t~2 ~·.rde= Coffee fiouse , and cbserved many of the peopJ.e going in a~d out ; that many of t he people Y.'hO f~cquen'tt~d the Ryder Coffee House. also frequented Cosima ' s !3ar . Du ring the period of time:. that N?.S . KELTON lived at 905 Gov . Nichols , a young man occupi~d an apartment in the some qu::trters of th2 same address . t-:RS . KEJ.JTOtJ kne-.,; the ma!1 , but does not remember his name or anythi:tg about him except tha t she thinks he may have worked in the '.Vindo·.. .r display department of one of t he Canal Street stores . l·lRS . KELTOC< said that the man she had seen and n ov1 knov1s ·is CLAY SaAl'l, visit ed 'this young ma n on n umerous occasions . NRS . KEL'l'ON said she enc ountered SHAH going in and out of the entrance which l ed to the slave quarters at 905 Gov . Nichols. NRS . KELTON spoke \vith Sl!i\\'1 on many occasions , usually jus t passing the time of clay vJith him. Once the young ma n told l'!RS. KELTON that " my patron (SHA>V?) is sending me to Puerto Rico ". NRS . KE I,TON said she knew the young man Has gay , and she assumed that S Hl\\•1 Has gay also. A ma n by the name of JOHN CARTER still lives at 905 Gov . Nic h o ls and according to NRS . KELTON , k'ne\·l SHAH'S boy friend . The 1967 City Directory lists .JOHN CART ER , painter , 905 Gov . Nichols , no t e l ephone . NOTE : I contacte d the Caruos -Gall Re~l Esta te Agency concerning the names of the p e-o ple uho lived at 905 Gov. Nicho l s . A Nr . Caruso said that we Hould have to subpoena his records in order to see them . I have not t a lke d to CARTER yet . I contact ed MR . BRONSTON at Krauss Depar t me nt Store (523-3311) and he said the records of any sales made are destroyed every three y e ars . PiRS . KELTON said that DEAN ANDREI'iS has rented an apartmen t across the street from her antique shop at 626 St . Ann Street . BACKGROUND ON NRS . KEI.'l'ON : Before he died , NRS . KELTON's husband had been a s e cretary to Texas politician , MAURY NAVCRICK of San l'.ntonio . The KEL'l'Ot·;S had lived in San Ar!tonio and MRS. KELTON said she is very well - - versed_ in_ " J ohnson ian.. poli ticse' h aving. knm·m Johnson_ for _years. NRS . KELTON aL It i s an interesting point to note that 1-lRS. KEL'lON has - !ne t so many · of the p eople 2ssociated ;.;ith Kennedy ' s assassination ; JOHN F . KENNEDY , LY NDON J'OHNSON , LEE HARVE Y OS\·1_1\LD and CLAY SHA\•1. Wh e n r"lRS . KELTON • s· husband d i ed she decided to retire in New Orleans since it was hec favor i te city . !-iRS . KEL'rON is v e ry c ooper a ti vc anCl seems· t o be v ery surt? of her informat ion. GT.!:'I.Y SA:mERS MEMOAANDUl'1 May 2, 1 968 TO: LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator FROM : SGT. FRED WILLIAMS , Investigator RE: Location of JOHN CARTER As instructed I went to 905 Gov. Nicholls Street to locate JOHN CARTER , a white male who reportedly kne\v of CLAY SHAW's associations in the Quarter. JOHN CARTER , white male, 5'9", 150 lbs., smooth complexion, black hair, s lightly graying at the temples , artist by profession, does reside at 905 Go v . Nicholls Street in the rear upstairs slave quarter. He has lived there since 1962. He hasn~t been to 'I'exas since 1956. He stated he did not know SHAI'T personally, had only seen him in the Quarter . · A follow-up on this should be made by GARY SANDERS as he was the source of the original information . ( ( li 2 11 - - I CA!l?BELL also said thct be> koe•·• FERRIE From the II I _):, akefront Mrp,o~t. He said that he has never seen FEil.RIE~1it!-l SHA\'1 . He said that when FERRI E ' s ni cture appeared in the p::per I ~!_t;sL_!::o our investic,;ctjoo . FFTIR TF t-old hi n. 11 I ' m a d·~a~ . 1 1 CANPBELL said that h e and his brother , DAN , \·Jere in the Bethl ehen• Orphans llome and 1vere there around the sane tine that I OSI'lALD \'liJS there. ( around 1946) . .Q1k1PoEL L says that he r emember" soei ng ,JQO:N MC:ADO§__ s omewhere around t he QuartP.r , possibly with TrtOR:c.iLEY . He a l so s aid t hat there was a C . I.A . man l•lho worked closely vlith BANNISTEP< by t he name of J I M. This person also worked as an announc e r for 1 'dNOE . CABPBELL said t hat he also knows GORDON NO\lE L and introduced NOVE L to Ml\RLENE MANCUSO . CAMPB ELL also kept asking i f I t old him tha t we would check out some o f the i nforma tio.n h e g ave us and con t act him again , and he said he Hould be glad to help . CAHPBELL admitted t hat he seemed to have come in c ontact with many o f the people whose n ames have come up in our investi gation . He sa id that he would try to think of anything that wou l d be o f some ben efit to us . He can be reached a t Flight , In coroora ~b 4 at the Lakefront Airpo rt. ~~ /) " r ~/~~~ I REH J . SCIAHBR A '>,: •/r~.\1'.'! 1/fDf<.t'J.-':( _0!.--t._1 ,_ --- - 'lo. (-- .f ~, • ( f { • , ~ t'· I '~ --f f ~I ' t lN'l'L.~\V J L:\\1 \·.'J. '.i.'ll .r_i~} :G__1_3_QiY:!:'_r<:rS2i..·~~ C0!:-;.1}JC'.;_T;D liY I_f~_fi~:..l~_) _ \·-~ ~~-;.:.~hE.t .~ OJ'. 1; /I.PlU.JJ :1 I j <-;()(;. :I }'. PII.l T, BO:\'_,·RJ:(.:;}_r_ 1 l1 o. ! I l\ .. ~L 'l tl i)Tlll.~ BOl\'?HlC .. lT from O:nz,1la , Kol>r:a:.:ku. 'J:oday 's llp.cil J, 19G3. 0- /\.. I was ·in Nc\·: OJ'lec:~ns briefly scve):al months f1:on1 m) d-J 962 ttll Li. 1 ca:r:ly Je1nucn·y of 196J. Dur:i WJ th<> t Lir.;e J l ived in the French Quu.'rLer l\. S ~L, o.. l\nd you alsn lived at 920 Royal Street? l\. Jtil.y oi: 0.- July of ' 62? l\ . Yes . 1 mean July of ' G2. Q. llnd do you rcm2mbc1: \·lho ov:n-3cl_ these tv.1o bui ldin':JS or eith2r one? l\. 'rhe ono on Roy;tl Slrcet \vus rented fco•n t.lw Gandolfo 1\goncy, Cl. :real est:aLc~ a9cncy Lherc . t·Jho I<~ctY hu.vG O\'lncc1 it., I don ' t !:now, but they rcp~oscnL•d t hcl71. 'l'ho St . Pe tcr S tl:ee t building v:as o•:med by an So B. UDET,I, \·.Jhosc;! alldrc s ~; in 1963 \'ltlfi 62115 \'lads\·.:or U1 Dr . , New OrlG\.!DS ~ He \·:rote rne in January of -- this j s postm ~trkcd Ja11unry of 1963 re)_aliva to some furnishing :< that. had been left in the apc•J:t.rncnt <•nd c r, I ' v2 forgo l:.l~en vv'ha t l:he a.grecw.::n t \·las nO\'? but he got a littl e upset Etbout it. Appnrax1tly there \:·1s bOrne mistUlcl_.Jr::; Lttn(!ing and sorr.e thing~ ,.,.._-.re ~;old and soE:e Lh:i.n::;s 'idcre l~ctu~-n~d. In any case that's the fellovi uho o·cmccl L!JG huj l.ding so fa:r: as I knu.·l al. t.hal t.irne. De ' s th(l p21·son to w!-1010 \18 paicl ronL. 0.- Do you rc:ruc.:wbcr the· O\·i'l.:Jr of Lhr~ oth(·~r buiJc1in:;? Or v.1h-.1 t~;u;c.HJ.::d c ithe·,· o:1~~? I'. . 0. - You don ' t kno;.-: t.h: o7.. h.2J: 0:1::? r,_ !I II II !I --2- Q. AL f:_i.th....;r of these plac.:~~. , dic1 you ~;ue ct young ~.. :~rr.?..n , ;h:::)sc p:Lct.u:cc yon !t 1 (~y hc1v.:-~ since ueen in tho p2p:•.r.? A. Ho. Q. l\rC! you fu.milin.r vd t.b the you!1i.J \·/Ulni.lt1 G0r1·:i ~;on Lriec1 Lo snbpo.::~n.tt uncl sh..J loft tho st.ate to avoid f;ubpocna~ ~:.rllo~;e ua:uc CUI'I~ up in tho Lc.s tj 110ny oi P:ElU:Y RUSSO? 1\ . No. I might say .. . Q. S/\EDW\ ).;o~·l·'J\ '.l'T. You vwre up here Lhun but I thou 1\. rt may ha~c well been but I might s~y at this time Lha t I'm not -- I don ' L follo\·1 the nm·?spapo-.·s closely. 0 - Dicl you evcJ: kn0\·1 p;mRY Ji.USSO by L!Je \·.'ay? 1\. No l: to lilY 1~nowlcclge , n o. Q. You h;tvo been fol: most of your life a wri tcr und _you clo otl1o:c thjrHJ~ for income c1t times, js Lhat a corrGct fr,r mnlct t i011? l\. Yes , 1 have Lccn faidy \·lickly published ilS il poct bul. J '''" noL \vhat you \·.'ould call a \'lriLer in t he sense . .. ( in te n:np l:ion in Lupa) Q. I ' m :ius l: trying to pick Uc Clu tes you \•:o1·kcd fo1· him. h. Yeilh , I \•I ish I knev1. I think i l. vias l\ugus t o1: Sopt:ouh::n. I clicln ' t work for him t.err j bly long. Of coursc 1 I wasn ' t i n New Orlcuns very long. Q. ' 62. l\nd about \•lhcn do you think you left his employrncn t? l\ . \'/ell, I would say OctolJcr. o. Of the same ycn:r? A. Q. l\ncl you illso clicl some promotional work for him at Lha t tj I!i:i , c1 i clt1 ' t you? A,, Yc,~ . . Q. Did KEi l\ . No . I Q. Did he afLcr·::c_ .... lis U-~ . :.. y:y,J 1:.no·,; of? II j, , II i! Q. :_.:ou ' v:-_ lir''/L.. r f:::C.!:ci C~Eybd.n.; C·.!::>, l t. this 0?!'' W~!j' :::)~-~ C---'-' l..~. ? -3- 1\. (l. 1J~J you L.no·.-.~ of hif; doln~J Vl1~/ gho:-3L\1Yil.ing foL 111R. COUR1't•n::{? 1\. ~-o , _it:. L UJE! J:j.ro.1c I J;,ncvJJ\.J:~nJ~Y ... he _\"f_a.s.. _\·Jo rki.llg _as __ a _]~l._l_'_'2:',oy aL a hol.cl. Q . 1\. Q. A. )~.w.r::n~_:lQ__ l_1.Q_~_havc bc<211 0pt to have mol. him there_ :r p:!_"Obabl_y ffi(l t:_0.t~a t !;Otn:'_llli' c•_e \"hslt_ 1_ \·f:ttl Jj.ccmc2iLly , ( l.lw Bourbon II::ru,se . .. Q. YC>u could ve1:y \·.'ell have met him the1:e. He h A. MosL people did, .i11 Lh c i!llm 'Jcl iatn cu:ea thel~e. I tbin1: lJUL I'm noL sure abouL th .i!;, bnL I t.lLLnk l3Rhi'WY J ~tct h:i.l\1 first. ancl she :i.ntro:luc.-:d him Lo me but I'm nDt . . . Q. Bit/\1:\DY is B7\RUAI 1\. Bl\HBf\lV\ KERl~Y . Q. Q. 1 . - ~c an pnblisrwd ,.,.cj_ tj ny or anyl:hin<:J rr.o;: o- i:i1an the "/ one manuscript he s ectn ccl Lo be pcqx• Lually working on ',,....._ ---'l'hc Idle l•larrim; . Yes , I saw a manuscript-- pocti:y, but that's all. Q. What kind of poetry lhH; iL? 1\. In my v.i_e·w it \ ·lus very cJidact.jc verse \·!hich did not «ppeal to me. Jt \-las o£ tho t.yp8 l:haL is fui.rly frcquenl:I.y published these clctys . Technica lly i L. \·lctsn 1 t bud . Q. \'las hu faiJ:ly r c<; ulurly employccl v:he n you ]~new h.im? /\. 11 '' £<1 r <' s I l:>Y>\1 he '.. ' ''' :::1r:• 1 n:,:.cl v ,. a btl!· boy at. ;:h:c \ ( uotcl c1urJn'J <:1ll tlh. l iH''2 Lb -tt. I 1:n 2,.·1 him .. v,;hi.ch i s} \nol: tcrrJbly long ;mt l•c \·I uS Lhere alJ the time U wt. 'I }:JJ~\·.7 him. Q. 1\. No. Q. ])_i.cl yo·.. 1 evu:r f;cc h.ii;l \·~·:i_L:t p_o;)}e \'Jlo y::,J.cn11n.:. cL.:..·d v:.i L;] C()\!1-:.~1.\,JLY'!_; opcrC1Ljor!~·, c1Ll--.. .l by h~,vi11g s.:.:"'ea Lhr·m thr~:t-·t: o.1· by lH~v.Lnc:: kllo'·:Jt n1J~rut i 1 ? i\ .. 1-!u, hut you mus L --- if you <1CJn' t olJ:2acly kno\·l 1 o;" teJ l }~Ou ::;oa:2 Lh~i n9 I\ . H..ight. li.:J hacl !l10l:'8 th2tJ1 one! Clc1c1LC~f_;s, G.LC..:H1 Strc.:;t ... Q. I ' 1] g j vc you an c:-:c1~uplc1 of \-·.'hal I me on , you never knO\".' v.thcn yCJu ~:..:(.lt't: f~DnH:~Lh:i.ng \·.:hal you VJ.i_ll find and Hlwt :it wiJ J pos,;iJ>Jy u~'"'ll- !I pcu:t of Uw r.;tory of OS\\'i'\LD in}';(.'\-/ Ol.·leZ"l.ll~; . :is t.l~::; finding of so:~.~ hc'tnd hilJc; that Hen p.ccntccl at U1c ;ron2s Prinr.in., co. 011 GiJ·ard SLrccL ~ on Pine StJ~cct. ~l? J;,cw Oflcans pol icc r1uclc a bltj tld.n9 ubct..t:. ho·: cl os2 Lhi;:.; ~...ru.~-> to Lhc• re~iidcncc o£ a PROJ:~Es~;on Rl·:TSJ·1AN \<'ho belie ve.:..l in peace. ancl Ll.3 re Co1:c Liley thou9ht h2 ''.'dr; a Conmmni.,-; t . ! You l:no~.. , a st.run~~ thin(] , it v~as just u.s clo~;2 Lo COlJ1~~~~;-~-~-~-~.'· 1 f; u I• I\. Q. Hh:1 t hupp:-Jwc1 to t:ha t b1.d lc1ing? I\ . J don 1 t kno\·i , I don ' t bs l .i.cve I Vlaf..; eve): 'thc.Lc. Q. :n: : ~ d~ ':u::::n: :: on ump Ly J ot oohen ym> ""en the> u I I\. 0 0 Q. Do you re1:wmbcr if Lbo:rc was an cr:111ty lot as yon J oo1:c(' t ov.1cu:cls COUR 'T.I'~EY ' s home on ?;iwpel Sl.rceL facin~J it, P inG Sl:l'Oet: js to your bft, and jf you go dmm Pint' St:rcct to your 1:ight., against t.hG back end of COUH'l'NJ·:X ' s p:ro;x,:t:Ly i,-; an c,,,pty lot --1 believe the t:idclrc[;~:,; i s J.CL}.O -- -:,;.;..,::; tl·H::i:(i ~r: (..;-a,t;ty J ()L t.:.hcr2 lh{t t you ciln reiPCta1~or? I\ . Q. t I\. I Q. I I\ . No , but 1 think that. is -- I ' tr. sure t: hC'l:e \·?as a Ximpel St1eel od~rc"s , I don ' l have i t t hough. I Q J 71. . I! i: -:.,- i (}. J\0\"l tl1 ~; rc v:cts a sh:__·U D;_;h i nc1 COlJH'I'Ui-;y' s h::);n:~ on Y..i.H-pc 1 St:rc~t:. \·:hc.t·l. he L1.1so \Jor1:.ec1, \>l;.ts Lhcre noL'! i\. '.L'JJiJ. C. I don' L kno':.7 . JJ.Llt I d.i.d vi!;it hi:; 1lO:TlC. Q. \·Je-ll on t!':: Jc f!:. rt!3 you face U 12 ho:nc if-> a shed in. lJ<.tcL , a r(_tthul' uooc1 ::;i7.c shed, c.~ rat-:hcr goocl looking on~. Nt.1yb~ shed i~; the \})~Dng \'.'O:r~cl, i L ' ~; u clecen l: lookil1CJ buil d.i "'I · .l'.'JJ; Jc y,oP '.n: look· WJ ..in yotu;_ _?tc)c11 ;_ou~;J?g~!.1i._~ _ _\·~-,_uJcl.Y9U_ see j_[ yon __ h~~vc:_c-1n ~1QrQss f~J:L_l\f'!~TI.Y. 'PJ!010.·~L1.Y? - -- A. Q. l.cL fclc' ten you L, c<·n::;e :r clon ' t J jke to sl.i.J.• up 011 Lhc lJl·i nd s iclc Oi. p2ol.·1).2 -·- _you also kno\'J othct' people or iutcref: t. Bl\HDhH.?\ !l~·ty noi..:. htlVC~ told yon. 1 II.. She rn~n L:Lonc~d somt.:! ur l.is t~ typ-:: that I d.i.c.ln L kno~... l by JlU.Hl0. Q. 1\nct o lher po::>plc ancl \·Je ' J l col!JO to t.hePl in the courE:c of Lhc clir.cu,-;sjon. '1'hat's v.'hy tl.:c acldrc,;s I'r" very h.:::.ppy you hav·~ this addrc.~:;~; book. A. _ ..! ___h_<';{9 _ J.-~_u_ aclcJ-="~:c _s _:~~;_J~~:__fo~Li._9~I·J.~_.J.:x, _Qp~ is_ .GJ'O~.S[:~1 onl.. o. A. 71'/ Darrackr. aucl l.l\?~J)_ 706 Duma i.nc • .,..,.- ~- - (l . I kne1·1 abouL the Dnmain:c Street addJ:c~;s. A. ~l.'his is the add:rcc:rJ I beli eve I visited. I \'.72l.S in hj s place once. Q. lJicl you evc1: know 'l'llOR~iLEY to live ncar Dauphine and r;splanads? l\. r ~ s plan udc i sn 1 t. p,;::u.::.rackf> S Ll'CO t the .... Q. Tj J(' fj .rs t on<'! from Esplanad2 . 1\.. l v1as going to suy thu t • s close t o . .. Q. Yes. 137\HBJ\1~'\ tolcl L.:! about a friend \-.~ho~a nam-::! she couldn ' L remornbcr ilncl lYcople uncJ.oubLcc1 l y i.n Nc\'! OrlC"anc-1 <-1).0 ~Jetting that H '~l~l-~ no·~·l, of an ~u~t p:coiossor ctt 1 1 II J Ul <.·n::: ~ V:J yott ..;._._ .. :..... :I.~ .... -~1: hil!l ~Lt.-. JJ.i.Ec· '.'life? Vo yGu I I rcr~IC:n~1 ):.!).:- \'.!h<:;r2 Lhc~y J.iv.~cl? J t.c:J.l you \·.'hat I ' v2 donL ~ , I ' v2 nsk0d I•Jr . Gcu:risu:·t ' s office lo hav::-; a pboLo;j.r.c1ph.:n~ t ake SO?"l!O 1_)j_ctn.'~eE: of Lhc.1 t urcct hoping it Hill rr f.i.:~1.:;~1 \ I Iter rr~coJ.l.ccLiD:n and V;J:ur.s. ny the WC!Y may l a::.J: you I t his. A set of pjct~rP~ of pcopJ.e - -- so:ne of who:n arE invulv~.rl /I 1/ rl.!:'-f:I.Q.~~~Q..!Ui TO: ,JIM GARRISON, Distric t Attorney FROM: Jl\H.BS L. 1\LCOCK , Assistcn t District Attorney RE : EDWARD JULI~, Prison #A- 90428- A ------~------EDWARD JULIUS GIRNUS was interviewed a t the United State Peni t e ntiary in Atlan t a , Georgia, on Dece mbe r 5, 1967. He was in tha institution for a violation o£ the Dyer Act (interstate trans portation of. s tolen vehicles). GIRNUS stated he owed the State o Virginia 28 years for various unspecified c riminal violations . As GIRNUS recalls, he was released from the United States Penitentia r y a t Leavenworth, Kansas, on January 11, 1963 -- his rap sheet indicates he was released on February 14 , 1 963 . He was in that institution for interstate transportation of a forged instrument. Immediately upon his release, GIRJ.'ifUS moved to Pasadena, 'l'exas, which is just outside of Houston . Being on 21 month conditional release, he had to report to a federal parole officer every thirty days . While in Pasadena he used the name of EDWARD STARK. I Sometime in February or early March, 1 963, GIRNUS made a trip to New Or l eans . He \vas down here looking for some o ld 'friends. He stayed at a hotel one b l ock of£ o :E Canal St reet. on or near North Rampart Street. He did not find the persons he was looking for so he returned to Pasadena, Texas. While he stayed in Pasadena , he lived on South Randal Street. He couldn 't recall the street number . In March , 1963, GIRNUS moved to Waco, Texas . While there he lived with a woman, not his wife , at 1806 Independence Avenue . Sometime in March or April, 1963 , GIRNUS moved to Dallas , Texas. He was still with the wo man he met in Waco. and he stayed at the St. George .Ho tel. The St. George is on Elm Street two blocks from the Records building . At this time he was using the name EDWARD STARK almost exclusively . During this period GIRNUS was charged with e mbezzle ment from a gunsmith who owned two gun shops in Dallas . (GIRNUS ' rap sheet shows an embezzlement charge was nolle prossed in Dallas on May 18 , 1 964). Also during this stay in Dallas , GIRNUS , using the name of STARK , frequented the Theatre lounge, Circus lounge and the Diamond Horseshoe lounge . J ACK RUBY all egedly owned one of these lounges . GIRNUS associated with some of the s trippers from these clubs. Most of these girls stayed at the Blue Bonnet Hotel on Commerce Street. Through his association with these eople and these clubs GIRNUS f riend o · J . CK RUBY ' s who was interested iii.""-- buying guns . This man , Hho GIRNUS Hould not J. en tif y Wjlli. - _ _,i--_a_s_s_o na ted ,,;rti1ai3.bid righ t - Hing_9..J.;,QJJp_wb.o.. bid acs;i~;;;_ hl.~ amounts of money. GIRNUS a l s o met ~n f:r eans through/ ~-n---:t"""h-J.~s grou \Vho \VaS-:Lnterested in purchasin uns. As a r es ' t a conversation with ~man-from New Orleans, GIR~TUS moved l;o.. ~ ~ esvJ.lle , Louis1an~RNUS would not identify this man from ew Orleans . .;_, J . I! • ji ~~/ -2- o~~P~ ~~· GIRNUS w~nt to Leesville in a pickup truc;v( ~ purchased in Oak Cl1ff us.rng the name of RITTNER. RITTN)liR 1s supposed to be an engineer f r om New Orleans. GIRNUS harsomehow gotten his identifica l:i.on papers . I GIRNUS at.Tived in Leesville somet,'me in early April, 1 963 . He I mo ved in with a woma n who owned bar and gambling joint by the name of Mat:ie 's Hideaway. Thew man's first name was 1-1ARIE. While in L•.les ville , GIRNUS beca~e associated with an organization known as the Democratic Club. (rbe membership of the club consiste of both mi l i tary and civilian rersonnel. The organization used a private c lub named the Pondero~a for their functions. At this time , GIRNUS Has buvin_c: and selling guns. He bought most of hlS guns f rom some military ren he had met at the club. Dur1ng tn1s time he shot a sergeant, bft pa1d $800 dtid uu cha.tgEfS""were pressed. The sergeant ' s name w~s FOWLER a nd after the shooting he was transferred to Fort Sam Hou~ton in Texas. GIR.l"'US made several ~trips to New Orleans '"i t-h the atns and ammunition. He thought thf- guns were ending up ultimately in Central America. ~ -· on_ one of. these tr'ips to Ne'" Orl~ans in ~~ or June, 19§]). GIRNUS I by a man wh~w~~n apartment house on Exchange Alley or Pla<;;:e . _ _ This a~rt~ent building has a cour tvard . The man who owns it is 1 a homosexual. He is short fat, '".ears glasses, bald on<.l everytime UGI~S saw._him he was wearing bermuda shorts and some times h~ :- -Jtwould be wa~kina ~ I1-Afuen .-- GIRNUS met SHAW on this- oc-caS:i;;,-h: -was~ with------a group~ • N J{TF: 11 ( I people. A man who mvned a bar in the Quarter bv the name of ''[V\I>J/.. I 1 WOOD or WOODS was in the _group. Also , there was a woman wiJ.o was_ ~ ' -/ eJ.ther presently WOOD (S) wife or ex- -.nt:e. she also owned a bar. f A New Orleans Police ~e~rrt who owl'lec! a cafe or bar was also ~ent. The po_l.1ce o ::r1cer wa s lJ.eavy set w1th brown hair. He_ Y J_c:_id not wear glasse~ . 0 ").~ ~ ~~~ '-.~e to GIR.l"'US a little while, and dur1ng the conversation I 1 ' cd GIRNUS (S'rARK) to h1s home j n lyamfu?nd ""jg;o1s 1ana?5 GIRNUS I= felt that everyone in the group knew qf his gun running activit1esc About 8 or 9 days after this initial meeting with SHAW, GIRNUS returned to New Orleans from Leesvl e~ He stayed a t a motel on the 1\i~igh\vay , but he cannot remember its name . He went to _ a bar in the Ouarter -- the one the woman at the Alpine be>r ~~ r-~met a man who h.c ~ to be t e mriaPr He and this man (name and description unknmvnl went by car to an office in a building in the central business district near ~ars Roebuck . !' ( SHAW was in the office and they star ted. J;:alking abou t guns . SHAW S(i-fr w·' )\~~~~~~~~~~~~~ p aLLegedly knew some people who wanted to buy some guns~. SHAW .,JA-"0 :( ' macrrr a telephone call, and sometime thero,frPr t-wn mPn came to the1 vS' ,_ o the men was loEE -HARVEY OSWALD. OSWALD was intro I I duced by SHAW to GIRNUS as LEE. GIRNUS cannc>t remember the name I -~~o~:r~trn~.e~m~a;· n~,~~21~o~c~a~ml~e~·n~,~~~~i_;t:~ih~~~Si~'Wi8LD~·~.~~H~e~w~a~s~w~e~l~l~d~r~e~s~s:e~d~i~n~a~~~~~-- busJ.ness s tit 5'11" tall, 210 pounds, and he had dark black ha.i.SJ-_.':-- OSWALD was wearing khaki pan :e .;h1rt. This meeting took place sometime before noon, however , GIRi~S cannot remember the day of the week. I ·-· . il . il -3- u !/ This conversation centered principall y on Central and South /. America -- the best way to get there and the general living conditions. GIRNUS , who said he had traveled guite a hit jn... Central Amecica , told OSWALD wha t he knew about these conntrias. ~~z-at this oo.int in the intervie\~ GIRNll§ told me he d .i.9__ not_'-;'<:'ln.J:_.b? give me a ny more det;;Uls. He said the institution - (penitonti;ry} bugged him , and he did not want to talk any furthex l est he g.::.t h imself into a storm. (He wa s obviously committing crimes in this area , and was f e arful of prosecution}. He said he did not n· t Lize I \vould be taking down everything he said . He told me h " I assured him we we re only interested iri facts that a i ded us in our investigation, but he still refu sed to go on with a fact detailing interview. So I put my pad away, and e ngaged him in general conversation about the prison . During this conversation I was able to e licit a few more facts . 1 The last time GIRl'lUS saw OSWALD was when he drove him to~ll~ - Texas. Thls trip took place s ome time ~n 6.eJ2tewber _1.2_63) 1\Th ile in Catulla , GIRti'US introduced OSWALD to a friend of his who was t ~- I 5-tifr"' ·. I tlus par tiCulat party which took...Qlace iP "G...a.roP __c.n.Lonia. bri<;l>;? 1 (house ..,_, ich had a b1g yard all around iW ~ Though GIRNUS t e rminated this particular interview abruptly and at a crucial time, I f ee l he will talk to me further . o:SW~D ...... J-Ift-Nii April 1 8, 1969 TO: JIM GARRISON , District Attorney FROM: ANDREW SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney RE: SHAW LEADS II (Lakefront Airport) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Today Bill Alford and I contacted BILL O'CONNER who is Chief of Operations at the Lakefront Airport. O'CONNER is a friend of mine and will be very cooperative with the office. I told him that we would send an investigator to work exclusivelf with him to check out the various leads at the Lakefront Airport He said that COL. ALVIN ROUSE who is Wing Commander of the Civil Air Patrol may be able to furnish us a list of the students who were in FERRIE ' s C.A.P. outfit O'CONNER said that we should check with O.K. }ffiLEY of the F . A. A. f or a list of pilots who logged time while they were being taught to fly by DAVID FERRIE. {FERRIE had a log book on every student.) ~: ~ that LUCIEN TAIX may know FERRIE's mechanic named~L~I~ TAIX is in Room 123 at the Lakefront Airport . He said that ALBERT JOHNSON who is now working for RUDY SPERMISCH at the Airport was a ver y close f riend of FERRIE' and may be able to give us some information on him . He said that AL CAMPBELL, who is DAN CAMPBELL's brother is presently working a t the Airport with Flight, Incorporated. He also said that FERRIE used to work with AL CROUCH out of the Miramont Hangar. FERRIE later left CROUCH and took most of the students with him. The following companies sell gas at the Lakefront Airport: l) GULF -- PETE ALSOP and PAUL MONGIORRE 2) TEXACO -- GENE DEGEANETTE or BOBBY DUPREE 3) MOBIL -- WILSON MIRAMONT 4 ) ESSO -- JAN GOODWIN and CLARK HARPER (HARPER was there when FERRIE was tl1ere) 5) SHELL HANK WALLACH of Pan- Air Corporation I suggest we assign an investigator to the Lakefront Airport to thoroughly check out the airport . O' CONNER said that he v1ould be glad to give him all the help that he needs. ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA y . ~ (?... ! ~HAW 17~ofJ.)JLei:<'-f April 11, 1969 or..JI'I'- V' -:fvL-~.<.f /-<'ll'>r>L~ TO : ,Jil'J GARJUSON , District Attorney FROM : A~~REW SCIA~ffiRA , Assistant District Attorney RE: SHAW LEADS II .) * * . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NRS. ,Te;ANNE KELTON LEAD: !J/7I . ( See SANDERS ' Memo of 4/11/68) MRS. KE LTON l ived at 905 Governor Nicholl s Street from 1963 to 1966 . She said that SHAW used t o visit a young man \vho lived i n the apartmen t buil ding quite often. She said that the young man was "gay" and referr ed t o SHAW as his "patron" . NRS . KELTON doesn ' t rcmerober the boy's name , but she sai d that JOHN CARTER who also lived at 905 Governor Nicholls could also give us some information on this gay friend of SHAW ' s . MRS . KE LT0N also remembers seeing SHAW going in and out o f Cosmos ' Bar o n several occasions . 24 ) DR . JACOB IIAROLD KETY LEAD ! SANDERS' Nemo of 2/14/68) ~~ ( See DR . KETY told SANDERS that GRE G DONNELLY who fi~J l ives in Abita Springs , could give us some i n formation on CL..l\Y SHA>v . DONNZLLY said that he knew CLAY SHAW when he was poor and b e fore SHAW was " adopted " by BRENT . DONNELLY, who is gay , l ives with CARL C.RANER , a sculptor , and openl y says that t hey are married to each other . Their phone number in Abita Springs is 892- 2187 . 2 5 ) · J/\CK FRAZIER LEAD : ../Jf!! • "~ See FRAZIER letters of l /1/68 and 1 2/29/67 , SANDERS ' :J! \memo of 3/6/68 , Sciambra memo of 9/16/68 and REID • memo of 9/25/68) . Perhaps some time should be spent cultivating FRAZIER . He could be a good source of information . H~n the Ryder coffee House ,.;here , according to several people , OSI·IALD fr equented . He was a Y~ ' friend of '!110RID,EY , 'tii~DY , IVAN COTT1<1A!\."N , . { HO>-IARD COfiEN , JOHN CAi'fUS, and HELEN GL.'-DSTOio;E --- ( all Ryder House ------regulars). ~- he took a trip to Nexico with OSiv}\LD and ~ {ne hes denie d this). He has sala that he believes BRADY ' s deportation and OSWALD's leaflet distribution are connected in some ,.;ay. He said, "I think that BRADY was deported because the CIA wanted him out of the country." According to DAPHNE STAPELTON , who lived in one of the Ryder {41.. rp~ )a.,..,...\.}._- Hous·e Apartments, OSIV.l\LD came to t he Ryder House one day and asked her "Is JACK here? " .. When_ she sa_id, no, OSI·IALD then_wrote his name on a piece of paper and ·told her to, "Give it to J ACK and tell him I was here . " FRAZIER has denied all of this to Barbara Reid and Harold Weisberg, however, he did ---say--t hat --as- best - as he- can -remerriber , - he has never met LEE HARVEY OSWALD, but he cannot rule out the possibility . 26) HOI-lARD COHEN LEAD: (See FRAZIER letter of 12/29/67, Sciambra memo ' of 9/16/68, Reid memo of 9/25/68) COHEN's name has come up several times in connection with OSWALD. ·He worked at the .. Ryder Coffee House and lived in one of the 1 upstairs apartments . He was a friend of all the -Ryder House regulars. He led a Narxist discussion group at the Ryder Ho use. (_~ /">- ()SWA!.-£1 According to STAPELTON , OSWA LD went to COHEN ' s apartment looking for him one day, but COHEN was not at home. A last check, according to Reid , COHEN was in ~n. 27) JACK BURNSIDE LEAD : (See BURNSIDE memo ) $11- BURNSIDE in my opinion is worth talking to again . He was a friend of all the regulars at the Ryder Coffee House , especially THORNLEY . JACK F'RAZIER pointed him out as someone who may be abl e to give us some information on OSWALD and THORNLEY. ~ supposedlv in Pong ' s Restaurant on Decatur S treet \vi th T'nORNLEY when OSWALD came in to meet 'I'HOR.l\TLEY . He told thls to someone and said that THORNLEY introduced !'nm to OS~fAJ:d) . however , vzhen can f~ontcd with this by Weisberg and Reid , he denied it. Z8) JOH>r C A ~lUS LEAD: (See FRAZIER letter of l/l/68) CA~lUS worked at the Ryder Coffee House as a photogra pher. He was a friend of all the regulars, e~ii:llly BRADY and T_HQRNI.FiY . Supposedly ne or HELEN GLADSTONE, who took care of BRADY ' s affairs when he was deported) have negatives of the pictures that he took at t he Ryder House . (Reid knows how to contact him) 29 ) 30) WILL BRADY LEAD : (See BRADY file) BRADY could be a good source of inf ormation especially in regards to SHAW , OSWALD a nd 'I'HORNLEY . He is now in Nelv York , and Weisberg has his address . He is worth talking to if someone i s in the New York area. 31) PAT and PATTIE GLEASON LEAD : (See Reid memo ) The GLEASO NS lived in an apartment above t he Ryder Coffee House. Accordinq to S'i'i\PF'T,TON , ~TIE was with her ,.;ben OS\VAI n c 'FP.e to the Ryder Coffee House and asked her for JACK FP~ZIE~ Subsequently , the GLEASO~S were supposedly seen sitting at a table with OSl>IALD and " a couple of o ther people" in the Ryder Coffee House . S {Re id may be able to locat e . ) ~ 32) LONNIE GOLDFINCH LEAD: (See Reid me:no ) GOI,DFINCH is un ex-FBI informer who a lso, worked for GUY BANNISTER . He is suooosed ( 1\~ to have k nmm OS\·IALD in Ne\·1 Or lea~ . He is \r ~sently living in Kansas City and Reid is attempting to get his address for us. 33) RICE~RD ~RKO LEAD: (See Reid nemo) KARNO was connected with the Hodern Language through his friendship Hith AR NJ:;S'i'CL and ROGER LOVIN. ae supoosedly met the Napoleon Street Branch I,jbrar_y_ seen with him at the Rvder ~ .H~s,e. (Reid c an l ocate.) 34 ) DAV~ GRnYDON LE AD : (See prior GRAYDON memo ) 'We have a l ready t a l ked to GRAYDON in regard to WILL BRADY who used to be his roommate , ? however, we have not talked to him in regard ____t: 35) GOLDEN LANTERN LEA D: (See KHlBLE memo of 10/ 10/ 67 and SOULE memo C ~ iS Q, \. \-\e of 4/8/69) ..Kl~SJJ.J;n:?osed l y \·las introduced to SHAW by FERRIE in late 1960 or early 1961 ~ Golden Lant ern Bar at 1239 Royal Street (which was a gay bar). The owner of the b ar at that t ime ~1as Joseph A . COLON. Per ha.J2s be can_ help us j n this me>tt'in: ox knm ' sC>me.O.n.e....lihQ_ ...,....-c a n . 36) COL~T OF TWO SISTERS . LEAD : (See COUR T OF TWO SISTERS file ) We h ave received informa o n from numerous sources that LEE HARVE OSWALD was in the court o f T\vo Siste£!J.-· On e of the Haiters j~ FRENCfl ~ ~,r~,~ ;~::~i:~:s :~ pjdure of ;oc.:;;:v s '' ; ~d\ u erl_!g .work at th¢.! ~- Hmvever TOUZE ad ds ~ "lvhen he worl((';d at' the c ourt hi" hair wa" not Sike tj].i s " l I suggest \·le talk to the following employees : JOSE PEPE i'!AYORAL JORGE l·!AYORA L HAROLD S_!\NDOZ Rul3EN i'lORALES HENRY AVERY (\v ho dislikes Thornley) LOUI S CASTILLO (who may be r e l ated t o CARLOS CASTILLO whom THORNLEY \·/O r k e d for ) Reid and I have been talking to ~~RGARET TANNENBAUN and NARY HACIAS attempting to ucquire certain records and photos, and we will continue to do this. 37) MRS. G~~DYS ROGERS LEAD: (See FBI interview of 11/25/63) ~ MR . & MRS. ROGERS lived at 4907 J.Jagazine Street. Her husband te~tified before the Commission, but not her . She said that several days before OSIVALD moved , ·she observed an individual talking to her husband who asked for the location of the OSIVALDS. She describes this person as a white male, approximately 5'7", 175 pounds , dark c ompl exion, and had a foreign appearance, possibly. Spanish. She also recalls seeing a young couple in their early 20's stopping in to see the OSWALDS. She also recalls seeing a female who wore a white coat a nd whom she thinks was a We lfare worker, call at the OSIVALD apartment . 38) BRIAN (See FBI interview of 11/29/63) 39) DOROTHY RIEGEL or RAGAN LEAD : (See Reid memo ) D REIGEL or RAGAN allegedly was a hustler who knew OS>'lALD and gave him money during the summer of 1963 . 40 ) MECHANIC LE AD : CJ }-- ''~' ~1-o/?J~ '· ~~ /" ''f~'.!..r ,. 'f' ~ p 0 ~ : , ) • 3ILl. ~ ].' November 9 , 1967 TO: JIM GARR ISON, District Attorney FROM: TOM BETHELL RE: ADDENDUM TO MY MEMO RE: OSWALD IN NEW ORLEANS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * l. Dobbs Exhibit No. 10 indicates that OSWALD mailed a letter in New Orleans to the Socialist Workers Party on August 31, 1963. This l etter was dated, probably in error, September l, 1963 by OSWALD. 2. OSWALD wrote letters to the Communist Party, USA, dated August 13, 28, 31 and September 1, 1963. These letters bore his New Orleans address and one may presume they were mailed on those dates . (See A. Johnson Exhibits) 3. CE 1911 constitutes an FBI investigation into OSWALD's claim to have sought work at the many establish ments listed on his unemployment compensation forms. (Copy appended) This investigation by the FBI obviates the necessity to check all the establishments OSWALD listed.because they ascertained that OSWALD did not in fact seek work in New Orleans on any of the dates we might be intereste l in . Thus, OSWALD' presence in New Orleans on certain -date.s is not established as a certainty. The letters referred to above render it highly · probable that OSWALD was in New Orleans on the following dates, hitherto blank in the day-by-day chronology of OSWA LD' s movements in New Orleans . Wednesday, August 28 Saturday, August 31 . Sunday, september l .. .I 1( ; j ...... ,, .,. - ·.; -. ~ ... I - ~ l I 0= ~Ove :':: U' 2 9 , i95 3: ~ !'; o f ollo .. tr.; ~ !:.:! !. V1.:!.J .:L ! 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Robin· ette, Pmc Bluff, Ark. - • ' \ ------ ... --~-----·------ TO rue Guy B*"1!ster F RO~!- A:;sistant Su:;.e:-intendent of Po11cn. {} SUBJECT H·~: - nc'.~ Li veri r:;h t ---~·- · . Nr. l£ Hrs. S!l.m Par-: e / e~p loyed by WDSU-TV, said thc.t ~~... :;._9.2-r ,.aD. "said that 11er;·:;:cr recow.1ended· the enployr;:ent b v \'/DSU of I,l vericht . 1'i1ey h ad worked together in r; e\1 York City I for· the il.:"'lc::-ican Ilroadcasting C o!Jpat~y . Go rall >m s badly worried for a time after Live right ''"'-" c o.l'l..ed be ::.- oro the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee • • I Liveright is livinG on n f aro aboat sixty niles o ut of r:ec·t Orlcl'tnz . ~I ~ I I I I II li II II ~ ! Ir i I / ----·--~- ----======.. ==== 1ven ~nt :to Direct dea--n s E eds (ll>n,· OrJeanJ State.> ';';a!J! ~:-sto !'i BJ.re.:;.u) ;mNGTOX-A Senate subcommittee counsel testified in court todcly the committee had learned that Herman I !t, former progt'am director of a Kew Orleans television had been sent to Ne\\! Orleans to take 0\·er direction of ni!it activities there. 1 crt Morris, counsel for the internal security subcommit r!ed by Sen. Eastland (D-:-..liss .), wr~.s a witness at Live :ria.l on a charge of con N. 0. STA i ES •i Congress for refusing l\Io r ri~ said Pl:lilip \Vittenberg, DATE-.ci2.= b ·J · 7 Er the committee's ques- attorney fo.- Li \·chight. had tele a hearing in !\'cw Or- phoned him at New Orleans from S ew York to inquire what ques However, defense attorney/ stand today, witi't the jury -: tions would b~ asked ot his client Harry Rand said the case may ;' testimony v.as given so sent, to ex~ftain whv the su b go on until tomorrow. dcra! Judge Richmond B. at the .r\ew Orleans ht!ari ng. I ?-.iorris said h(' informed Wit COr:lmittce · bclie·.-cd Liverigh~~ Shortly after Morris began :ould decide whether the cou ld t,-'ive it pertinent informa- tenberg of the subject matter of ! /reading the testimony or L.:se- s asked of Lh·eright we::-e the im·estigation ,...-ithout refer fight a strcng objection was · 1t. If they are ruled nut ring to any particular committee t io~~less , as a matter of law, a made by the defense to ''em then Lh·cright \\OU!d 1 ( .t, evidence. The witness said in the question put by a. con;ressional phasis the pl ac.i,ng l e been required to ans\ver ,~·itness i~ telephone conversation Witten Il c ommittee is lJ{'rtjn~nt to an in 1on portions oz the testJmony. If ped..ir.cnt, the comm!t I berg made no mention of rhal quiry it is conducting, refusal to Judae Keech admonished the! d require ans\.. c:-s. ~enging the com~ittee's author answer is lawful. witne;s to read the! testimony in s said the subcommittee 1 Ity . Son of I>ublishH 1 Ia monotone. .:Lied tha t Liveright held 1 . Wittenberg is the same attor Ll\·erighr, 45, lost his job at At anothE'r point, Rand said l nist me:?ting!- at his l ney- \vho represented se\·eral WDSC'-T\' after his subcomrr~ i t - t he would not concede the ty~ m 1\'ew Orleans at 333 1ipersons caUed to appear before tee appearance. He i~ a son graphical accuracy of the cum :1icb \•ere so secret that ofl; · ~subcommittee hearings in Xew the late Horace Li\·eright, Kew rn ittee pr~nt from which ::Vtorris l ~j his children to Jea\·e so Orleans and \vas forcibly eject· York book publisher. i was r eadmg. ~ uld not be embarrassed. 1 ed from the hearin~ after argu- Eastland's committee hc!d ,_ He pointed out that "the word \ st ified the committee had ing with Sen. Eastland. · hearings in \\'ashington and mit 'Communist' is capitalized and ' nion t h~t Liveright had L'nder cross-examination by Kew Orleans relath·e to Co:r._mu - c I 'm sure Morr~s didn't capital .-;ubscriber to Communist· defense attorney Harry Rand. nist activitie:: in the Lou1s1an a f ted organizations. and ~ze it verbally" during ~he hea r- ~ :'o. Iorris said he did not know who city. Live-right. witness at ale mg. tive in the party in New lwas oresent at the time the sub \\'ashington hearing, would not 1 Exhibits offered by the prose· . comffiittee resolution was adopt say ''·-'heti:C'r he \':as a member cuticn included gc..,.ernment res - ~ s ).!orris' contention that 1 ed recorr.mending that U\'eright of the Communist party or had . elutions aimed at pro\'ing that' mmittee knew Liveright be cited for contempt. been ir. the past, whether his :sen. E?.stland ,.,.·as authorized to lO 1\ew Orleans on ord~rs He said he did not know what wi(c was a Communist. orl sit as a quorum of one during 1e Communist high com· the \·ote was on the issue but \whether ne had bce11 £ent Scuth Ithe hearings. This has been .J carrv Oi.it Red adivity said he knew there wera r.o neg- on ?~ mission fer the party. challenged by the defense . to take o,·er c!i j c::tuall)r a tin~ \'Otes. · L i·;~rig:i:t co:1te!'!d~d th~ s~b-- f of .the acti\'ities. 1Judgc to R ule The trial of Linrig;ht is :cally cv ;nmi~tce ~ ~ck~d ,.P.o·.\';r t?. ;~-~ I t1> Lay L0\'1 two trials within one. i 1 Judge Keech rule~ he _will de: l ~ c:aid the Communist One of tl'..e tri:tls is for the- b:ae tcide all legal questions 1m·olna is had \•:arned Liverightl fit ot the jury of seven wome>n 1m the trial. The jury wil! de tmderground ar:d stay ar.d fiye m.:n. The other :-:; for 1 ;::;;::···;,':'~::,:·· :~~~~~ cide o.,ly whcth.:r Liveright re·J ...::.1 o?~n Cc:r::nu!'li:st ac-\1 1 Jud.;t: ~~<:c:c:1 . ~~-~;:~ ~~ \~;;\~~~c~:1 ~eJ~ics~~ 1 in ~..:' '"' Crien.1s . This is bcczu:-P ~)'!~ iud;:f" " '' e Tile defer:se hJ.s cc:1ccded' /- .L·~ .... ct .:~~t..:)rr. e:: 1 -~-~~ ~·:~ t~~~.~h=\-~~~~et~~ I ~~~1cc;~7~~ i~~ ~~"!~~~~;~ ~: ~~~h.: -~:: Lh·eri£;ht failed to an~;·.-er 1-! of · h1t the Lh·er;ght::; h~ct \ . ~:-\-~~~~~·~:~ 1 refused to ar~S\\·c r were r~~t;. ' ;:;.~ !~~sq~~~~~~~~d~uk~~~~:~.ini~ 1: rent. il ;; ~ ~(· .... vr.Y ma:,: I \ ~ o~-~. c~;i; ctl~:~•• ~- ~,~-~~~: ~ r 0t 5 .i\Iorris was cal\<> t'i '!Jad~ ~., u has Oeen revealed which I· ty c£m'mitt.ce working in ,question was allegedly ar.swe:--ed . l n~ co:-J\'icted spies Julius , I ------I; t:-:a Rosenberg. I / ; • )a S l a '9 5enJ 'to Direct J~~~ea"'ns eds (:\'tw OrJun~ State.s Wa5bfn&:tO!l Bureau) 'VASHI.l\.GTQ)I-A Senate subcommittee counsel testified in l~-ra l court todciy the committee had learned that Herman 1cright, former program director of a New Orle.:tr:s television\ .tion, had been sent to .>Iew Orleans to take o\·er direction of mmunist actvitie.~ there. 1 Robert Morris, counsel for the internal security subcommit- headcd by Sen . Eastland (D·1'liss.), was a tvitness at Live- N. 0. ST!\'i'ES :J.t's trial on a charge uf con ~;..t of Cot~&res.:; !Gr refusing Morris said Philip \Vittenberg, DATE iJ -- (::, -,J- 7 answer the committee's qucs attornc\' for Liw:-hight. had telc phoned.him at );' e\v Orleans from l.S it a hear:ng in Xew Or ns. . ·New York to inquire what ques tions \\'Ould be asked of hi s client star.d ·today, with the jury ab l~rtis ' testimony was given so' at the 1\ew Orleans hearing. 1 sent, to ex;>'tain why the sub Ho\vever. d efens~ - ~ttorney l t Federal .Judge Richmond B. cCim mittee bc lie \·ed Linri&htl Harry P..and s?.id the case I :'1-Iorris said he informed Wit - ~ may l ~c h could decide whetb:r the could give it pertinent mforma tenbert;: of the subject matter of betan I •stions asked of Liveright were the in\'eStigation without refer tiou. goSh~:-tl~nt~rt~~o~f~~·is tlnent. I£ they are ruled nut ring to any particular committee! Unless, as a matter of law, a ~eadir.g the testimony of Live- j ttnent, then Liveright would question put by a congressional right a s1: rong objection \vas 1 evidence. The witness said in the\ 1 have b2en required to answer !telephone com·ers.atlon Witten- committee is pertinent to c.n ir.· made by the defense to "em- m. If pertinent, the comm ~t quiry it is cor.ductinh. refusal to \phasis the witness is placing I berg made no mention of chal 1 coulci refluire answers. ans\'.:er is lawful. 1on portions of thr- testimony." ~enging the cc:nmittee's author- ~ 1 Ion·Is said the subcommittee lty. Son of P ublisher . JL.:d,;e Kt~ch aCrr.nnished the '. learned that Lh·cright held witne.::s to read the tc:sti:1.10ny in : \ \\'ittenberg is the same attor Li\'erib;ht, 45, lost his job at r1 munist meetingt; at hi.ii i !ney· \o,.·ho represented severe.! a!tcr his subcon;mit- I 0 ·wnsc-TV 1 1e in ~ew Orleans at 333 l persons called to appefi:r before tee appearance. He is a son of}l !a .J ~~~t~~r point, P.and sa:d\ so re wh ic h were secret that subcommittee hearings in i\ew ' t~1e late y.or~ c.~ Lh·eright. :\ew · he would not cono::de rhc typo asked his crJ1dren to leave so 1 graphical accurJ.cy of the com-\ Orleans and \\·as forcibly eject Yor" booK puo.t~sher. i 1 \\UUld not be E'mbarrassed. ed frorr. the hearing after argu Eastland's committee held1, rnittec pr~nt from whici1 ).!vrrJs[ e te~tiiied ihe committee had ing .,,·ith Sen. Eastland. hearings in \Yashington :md in t W.?s: ree.dtng. 1 :-~·cntion t!1at Li\·eiight had Cnder cross-examination by Kew Orleans relati\'e to Commu- c He pointed out that ··the \\Ord n a :;uhsyribcr to Communi!'.t- defense attorney Harry Rand. nist acti\·ities in the Louisiana f 'Communist" is capitalized ~m e! 1 1inated orgr. nizaticns, and 1\ Iorris said he did not know who city. Li\'€·right, wit.l: ess J.t a c l':n st:re ·).Iorr:s didn't capitai acti\'e in the party in ~ e w was present at the time the sub Washington hearing, would no: ~ze it \. erbaliy' · Curing ~he hea r- ~ k. 1 mg. committee resolution was adopt say whether he was a member 1 was ).! orr~s· contCntion that ed recommending that Li\'Eright ol the Communist party or had . :::.;~(Ji i. s u::ered by the prose· committee knew Liveright cution Jnclt:ded gc..\·ernment res-! be cited for contempt. been in the past, whether his · 1 ·ed to I'\ew Orleans on orders He said he did not know what wife was a Communist, or oru~io:1.::. am:.ed at proving that' 1 the Communist high com the \'Ote was on the is sue but \\'hether he had been sent South Sen. :::asUar.d was authorized to j ld to carr) out Red ac.tivity said he knew there we~e no neg on a mission for the party. jsit Q.s a qucrum of or:e d.Jring l e\'entual\y to take over di ative votes. Liveright contended the sub-~ the hcari!:gs. This ilas '..:een ion or the activities. The trial of Liveright is really comm·ttee lacked power tc,. in challer:gcd by the defense. I 1\Cd :o Lay Low two trials within one. quire into his political beliefs. • !.Jud:;e to Ilu 1c orr's said the Communist 1 1 One of the rrials is for the bene r~rs: o:-:a . and. pr~'· .c::.~e aff:-.::s c-:· J.1C.~e Keech ruled h~ will dc- ·lords hJ.d \\'orne. d. Lin:orightl fit of the jury of seven women a!'.SOClattonal dCH\'ltlCS. 1. ;tay underground and stay. 1c!J 1- ( . March 7, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: LYNN LOISEL, INVESTIGATOR RE: I NTERVIEW WITH MR . HENRY GOGREVE OPERATOR OF KRONE 'S BAR , SONIAT & MAGAZINE ST. On March 7, 1967, at approximately 3:30 P .M., I interviewed Mr. Henry Gogreve in the barroom. I approached him by telling him that our office had heard that he knew Lee HARVEY OSWALD and several of his Cuban friends. He said he used to own a grocery store at 5105 Magazine Street, and occasionally OSWALD would come into the store, look around , pick things up and price them, but that he had never bought anything. He said that he used to get so tired of this that even if OSWALD picked up a 10¢ article he would tell him it cost 50¢. Mr. Gogreve said OSWALD's wife would come in occasionally and buy a loaf of bread or something small, but would never buy anything that would amount to a lot of money. Mr. GOGREVE said that only at one time did OSWALD come into his barroom,and this was a day or two after the incident in front of the International Trade Mart, and OSWALD wanted to turn the television set on to watch himself on TV, this being the pictures taken during the demonstration . Mr . GOGREVE told OSWALD that he couldn't turn it on and OSWALD left. GOGREVE said that· at no time did he ever see OSWALD with any Cubans or foreign type m~les. MR. GOGREVE did say, however , that approximately one day before OSWALD was kill ed a Cuban man and woman came to his barroom and MR. GOGREVE went out on the sidewalk and talked- with them. It seem to him that t hey were married be cause the woman was pregnant and they acted like man and wife . They told GOGREVE that they thought OSWALD was innocent, and they became emotional and loud and talke d in such a manner as to make GOGREVE feel that they were accusing him of the trouble OSWALD was in. GOGREVE said he got mad, went back into his barroom and l eft them standing on the sidevlalk. He said that was the first and last time he ever saw them. MR. GOGREVE described this couple as follows: Both young Cubans (he was sure they were Cubans), and were both short, dark hair, not kinky but straight, spoke in broken English and had dark skin . MR. GOGREVE said he didn 't think that he would be able to identify them if he saw again. I asked MR . GOGREVE if the man was well built and muscular and he said positively not. GOGREVE said that someone mentioned to him, he doesn't remember who , that these Cubans lived on Prytania Street in some area where plenty of othe r Cubans lived . He said that he was interviewed several times by the FBI and the Secret Service . I ..... ·- ~ - ...,.. .. ~ .. - ..... ~~ r:!omoraruluzn for File February 12. 1960 Ro: H:ut _Sch aumbergor l 621 Whitney Bldg. ~~. Sehaumberger is a foriT~r Sl~cinl agent of the FBI and resides I at 1929 Pa~~r Ave.~talophone University 6-5691. His office tele I phone number is Jackson 5-3257. on Ausuat 17,1959 :ltirs . Anna s. I Burg l ass ini'ormad that ohe was riding S.n tho cw of o nr~ Ralph \"! . .I Swafford uhose tolcphono number is Jackson 5-3853 during this trip S'I'Taf'ford said that Schaumb~rgar frequently r:tdes in his bab and is always talking quite a bit. 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''t:hii ; ,:y:u::~iic!l lJ";pnt::ne:nt l:!J.d'i) ·,iny ·ll.tt;,nrpt::. t<:> · •.•._-.- .. ·- · ;;;-_: conl:. .t.(:t .:: lli:;'l:rict ·Atto.:r.ne:;r ·_G;;.::;d.:;o:n· abo u~ :c thi:l? . :n• .·...• ;l < ;:-\·1._-\:~:.-.::~-.-·::::.:·..:,_:::- - :. ·.. <·. ."'~ ..'-, , .:~·_;· ..... ~ "i_:.~·:.:~·~:.·'. : ';::.f:: J :::,: · ~ ~~~·.:.:--:<~-;·:-;'---· !< ':-~-":'' -'•', ... ;.:) ...,;,swei: !I ~ J liav .~ : itot' m~d ·11 1t1ny ·cont :.act: ' i"' , 'i.rh:i/ coi)ii~ .... :::tate-, _.-··. ·· -. · :'c :~-"' '1~~_::~ ::;-~';;!:.~ 1;.;:.'! -:.;~~~ - c :: : so ~:~y7;: ,;::<~~~?":.- . -' -~2: ...... :.., Qu~~tion: , ~· i~~~··=c~·;,~:~~~~~~~~~~uw~~~~~~~~~~~=_) .,. ... .-:: 1 . . ·--·~ Que;;tion: Question: Ans:~e:r: October 18 , 196 7 TO: JIM GARR I SON, Distr ict Attorney FROM: TOM BETHE LL RE: OSWALD'S ALLEGED ATTEMPTS TO FIND WORK * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *'' .on August 16, 1963 OSWALD claimed to have sought work at the States-Item and the Time s-Picayune . I asked Hoke May to verify this and he called back with the following information: The personnel department of the States-Item told him that the FBI had already called on them with the same question as a part of the warren Commission Investigation. The person Hoke May spoke to told him that she vaguely recalls someone who might have been OSWALD applying f or a job at about that time. However, this person became exasperated by all the questions he had to answer on the application form, and threw it into the trash can without bothering to complete it. Therefore, the States-Item has no record of OSWALD applying for a job there, and in any event are not certain that OSWALD ever did visit their offices . •• •1 J;...- ~ ' ' Septembe r 18 , 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: MATT HERRON RE: REPORT ON I NVESTI GATIONS I NTO POSS I BLE RECORDS OF PHONE CALLS BETWEEN OSWALD AND RUBY UNDERTAKEN BY MATT HERRON. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Basic story which started the investigatio n: In Novembe r 1964, a RAYMOND A. Acl(ER (known as "Pete Acher, and curre ntly living at 425 Gabriel Drive, St. Louis , Mo. - tele phone Y0-4-6446) c ame to the Da llas Police waving a handful o f telephone company records wh ich he said were proof of nume r ous calls between RUBY and OSWALD. The Dallas Police took the records and told ACHER to go home and keep his mouth shut. At the time ACHER was employed by t he Da llas office of Southwe stern Bell Telephone as an "Area commercial Manager" a not-too-important executive post. ACKER kept his mouth shut and shortly thereafter received a big promotion and was moved out of Dallas . Tody he is listed as "Vice President and General Manager" of Southwestern Bell Telephone and appe ars fourth in the company's listing of top e xecutive officers. The story came to me through the following chain: ACijER told his father-in-law the story . The father-in -law told a brother of ACHER 's who relate d the story to Penn Jones in strictest secrecy claiming ACHER wou l d have him thrown out of l;lis -job if the story ~ver became known. There is one additional fact which givescre dence to the AC~R story. There is a disc-jockey in Dallas who runs a night talk show for station KLIF. His name is CHUCK BOYLES, and he lives at 920 Tarrya ll Street, Dallas. -telephone RI-7-9311. BOYLES has been in Dallas about a year . He knows relatively little about the assassination but says the subject is a perennial atte ntion grabber on his show -- the one subject his listeners naver tire of -- and he returns to it frequently. Some samples of the kinds of people who have called in and talked to him: Office r Roger Craig, the nie c e of William Wha l ey, the widow of Tom HO\vard , Ruby's radiologist at Parkland Hospital, the ambul ance driver in Kennedy's parade, Bill Hunte r ' s nephew, Al Volkland, a photographer who photographed \villiam Whaley 's accide nt, s omeone who cla i med to have seen OSWALD and RUBY together i n t he Carous e l Club . Boyles tapes some of these conversations but usually the tapes get lost or re-used by the station. I don't know how ma ny he has preserved. -1- •• .1 One eveni ng a woma n c a lled BOYLES and i den t ified hersel f as a tel ephone operator but would not giveher name f o r f ear o f los ing her j ob . Her husband was on an extension phone a nd k e p t urg ing her t o be careful, get o f f the line , etc. The woman t o l d Boyl es she was an operator in the Whitehal l e xchange and had r e c orded frequent cal ls betwee n RUBY and OSWALD . The r eason t he r e was a r ecord of l ocal calls , she said, was because whenever the pay p ho ne in OSWALD ' s r ooming house was busy RUBY wo uld tell the operator he had an emergency c a ll to make and s he would ask whoever was on the line to ge t off. In such case s the operator mu s t make out a slip r e c ording t he c a ll. RU~ Y used this device fre que ntly enough ·c s o t he ope rat o r remembered the calls. She called Bo yles again after his show a nd talke d some more but still wouldn't give her .name. I made contact with the president of the Dallas local of the Communica tions workers of America, the union that represents all tele phone company employees. Union headquarters are at 1414 North wa shing ton Stree t in Dallas {telephone - TA-6-6215) and the president, Jim HOLBROOK, was the friendliest most helpful man I ran into in that unfriendly city. HOLBROOK characterized ACHER as a "S.O.B." A wheeler-dealer with a foul mouth. I got the impression that AC~ER was generally disliked by telephone employees. HOLBROOK also reporte d a rumor that ACaER was in serious trouble with the company over unexplained expense vouchers and appropriating a company airplane for a private vacation trip. {I have no confirma tion of this). He characterize d AC!{ER as "an organization man" who would keep his mouth shut if told to do so. With HOLBROOK's help I interviewed a number of telephone operators who had either worked in the Whitehall exchange (OSWALD's, where such eme rgency calls would have been received) or various other exchanges that had trunk lines to Whitehall. My findings were inconclusive. I did not find an operator who knew anything definite about the information I had, but I didn't feel I had been able to carry the investigation far enough, before LIFE pulled me out of Dallas. In the course of the interviews I uncovered a number of other interesting leads. FAYE MASSEY: {her home phone: 817- BU- 9~2252) Mrs. MASSEY was an operator in the Whitehall exchange in November, 1963 . At 12:45 or 12:55 p.m. on November 23 she took an information call from a man who \olanted the number of "LEE HARVEY OSWALD at 1026 North Beckley." She looked for a number and of course didn't find it because OSWALD had no phone . The man became very insistant and abusive when she failed to find the number and insisted that she check every OSWALD in the phone book . She went through all of them and after more unpleasantness the man hung up. Mrs. MASSEY late r concluded that the man must have b e en a reporter but of course nobody knew OSWALD's connection with the assassination. at 12:55 p.m., Mrs. MASSEY is quite sure the call came before 12:55. Operators going off duty put a red card up on t heir board 5 minutes before going off. The girl on the boa rd next to hers went to lunch at 1:00 p.m., and Mrs. ~~SSEY remembe rs seeing the red card as she took the information call . She also knows the informa tion call was a l o cal Dallas call because of the .sound of the line . -2- My conclus ion: The call c ould not have come from a confederate of OSWALD ' s because he wou ld have known OSWALD ' s number . The caller might have been someone from the Texas School book D&pository, or a member of the conspiracy trying to l ay down one more p i ece of evidence to make OSWALD look suspicious . ELAINE ROGERS : (home t e l ephone -TA-3-9151) ELAINE ROGERS was chief shop stewart in the Riverside exchange (RUBY 's). S he was not able to help me on telephone c alls but she was a good friend of MARYLIN MOORE or MARYLIN MIRANDA the RUBY stripper known as "DELILAH" who was murdered by her husband of 10 days in Tulsa, Oklahoma...... MARYLIN moved to Boston about 2 months after the assassination. When her testimony before the Warren Commission was published EVA GRANT visited ELAINE ROGERS' apartment in the Spring of 1 965 . She was accompanied by a former cocktail waitress at RUBY's club . ..She-.tJ:;..ied-.t:.cL_ g.e.tJ1ARYLIN' s addre§...?_ out of ELAINE, said she'd like- t O-talk-to "the little bitch", ..spenLas.-long_ a,;; two hours vilifyj,n_gJ1ARY.LI-N-anLte_llinq how upset J ACK was with her testimony . ELAINE ROGERS might be a good source of further information . She is a bright, good looking, unsuspicious redhead. She knows JOHNNY MIRANDA , MARYLIN's ex-husband and many others in this circle. She talked freely with me and seemed ready to cooperate in uncovering further information. J k((REVEL: Dallas Police Officer. This information from HOLB ROOK , indicates REVEL might be developed .as an informant within the Dallas P.D. At the time of the assassination REVEL was a lieutenant in the intelligence division. He made statements to a number of people that the F.B.I. was suppressing a lot of information . He was then transferred to Personnel Records where apparently still is. · -3- -•. ~ -•... .""' ' .c 0 ;.-t. 1 j.., ?t''J~ (·.) 5~~~-).J..Li~ - .-..-- ., . ~ __._. . ... . -- ... " .. _. .;:. :t .· . \ I I I I I I - - - __· _ 'i{{S- I5 'c I_ _ ------___ --.?/!,,, ,.._,z: ~~ - =r .-, !(? 1 ~~-f'=. /' l't-·' ------· - -i'G ) - 7 ) /I (J . ~I I I I r.--- ------ --·------:;r~- ------~ - : I 'I L ( ' · ~-. .. ~ ""'- c · ·-!: April 21, 1967 .TO: Lynn Loisel,- Investigator FROM : Jim Garrison RE : Additional Information from Nato I just talked at some length with NOTO, and he remembers .some more details about the truck and the man with OSWALD . I am giving this to you in the' form of a memo right now so that you can have someone start immediately attempt ing to ident_ify the· man with OSWALD . ··The truck had a sign pain ted on the side to the effect that the business was "TV Electronics Parts and Service" or words to that effect. It \vas a black and white truck black on the bottom and white on top. NOTO ' S recollection is that the words were black words on a white background. ' He also recollects that the business was located on Broad Street . He remembers further details"about OSWALD (which I will ~ ot attempt to duplicate here because he is giving us a l onger statement) and these added details c~ntirm in my mind that this was LEE HARVEY OSWALD whom he saw on the· ·lake front. There is a problem about the year , however he remembers it as probabiy 1962 but possibly 1963. The man with OS>vALD was definitely a Latin. He was the driver of t he truck and NOTO ' S impression is that he identified himself as a TV and electronics techn_ifian . He was tall, thin and somewhat on ·the dark side. ii"e had b l ack hair and wore a mustache. The estimate of his height _is i n the vicinity of six feet . I t seems to me th~t, in view of the law of registration of TV technicians , it should not take us too long to end up with a list of Latin technicians whom we can pro ceed to check out at once . J IM GARRISON J G: lcs Telephone conversation between Louis Ivon and Max Hill MAX HILL speaking Now, I have just one little scrap of information. OSWALD came to get a job with me before the assasination, and h e was referred to me by two photographers who are called BERNADAS and 1\'EISS. That's two separate people . They have spli up now. They use to have a photography shop some\'lhere around 623 or 625 Chartres Street. Now one of them, I think it is WEISS , is still there, and BERNADAS wm::ks with the Bank of New J Orleans , but I thought that maybe someone might have referred OSWALD to them like t hey referred him to me , and this might be interesting, as a clear connection might be there. Just a sligh litt le thing. Now we want to see this substantiated fer Mr. / Now there i s one other little thing ; this i s j There is a guy that is called SHAMROSKI . me in the - this deal her supposed husband o n e cal 1 e d CAREY SOJ:i.J>Y wow t hi E gny l:l6ic1 .r;aid that jf H hadn't been OS>vALD. it wonlrl h ;;nre been himself that did this job. Now the thing ¥las <.b at tbj s CAREY SONLY ~; supposedly writing the history of OSWALD . Now this was reported to the FBI so I don't k now , that was just incide ntal . So that's all l have to say. End of c onversation / ) I i o·, r ~~ ...... : ~ : .. : ,:. ... {t .. .,.. l ~- ~ ·! ;.) FEDERAL.8:.iR2AUCrt:-.:V S~TiG ... T:ON ···--··- _---•· ...,- .. cc / i 0.-'l-G:; / Captain ROBERT K~~~ET li BHOW>~; -~~ - 5_~~(~;l _ ;.;r::~ -.:i'C:C , · ~ .. -r .. Benning , Gc rgia., a dvised t.. lili..t-G. h :~ s b ~cn act1..vc in ~~;b~n rjattc._~~·-_f__o_r SeVeral y_e_E. r s _ a nd a.. ~ri:: g the Spri ni"Of -· ·---lffG-:f,- ffl connc_cti::>~ _ w i t h _anti- Castro __ :t _ ~ ·t 1.v it y , he was i n c ontact ·,vith the National States f: ~ ~~ l)t s Party i n Los Angeles, Califo_J:"nla·::-. ·--- · .. · · In connection with this, he contacted Dr. STAXLEY L. DRE"::;Ax, 375 WonderviC'·,y Drive, No1·t. c1 ;;ol lywood, Califor nia , who was active i n the National States Ri~hts Party . DRO",VN st.:Ltcri that once while a guest .1:1 llr. DP.Et;}."AK ' s ll.v:nc, DRE~'I ~\AX stated in general conver sation th:_l.t he could not do i t , but what the organ i z ation needed was a g•·oup of young rnen t o get r i d of K ENNEDY , the C:tbinet a~d all mc~bers of Americans f or Democra tic Action and m,n.ybe 1 0 , 000 ot her people . BROWN sta t e d t hat he consicicrec( the rcrrla :·lc "'-S b eing " crac kpo~ ;" however, a s DRE~T?~AN I c ontinued the conversation , he gai ned t he i mpression that DlE::!;N!i):•\ rnay ha.ve been pro position ing him on t his rna tter . BHOWK st:1.ted t hat he is a Reserve Officer a.nd free-lance writer and has bee~ to Cuba several tintes, H0 stnted tl•at prior to 1 960, he was pro-Castro. he stated t hat he r e l ated h is c onversati on v;ith D~Et::t-IAN to .S'n:vx; WILS_m;,_ frce,:-lance w1:_i_t cr, _Miarr.i , Florid:J.. DROWN stated that he was agai n in c oncact with D RE~~(AN during the 's ummer o f 1 9 63 and DRENNAN r e vealed h e had b een i nterviewed b y tho Secret Servi ce conccrninc v 1 his remarks . - 3 ;__ l,------0 l 'L-~-- - 53 1 C o l uL1_;c.?.::uc:s_,,~G::.·e=o:::.r g~~---- Fi lo 1.! AT 105-3192____ ~-----~~- CHA_'\L~~:-_'l!I.J ROS_E 12- 4 --63 · dvcvmon! CC.T'I!a{nO r.ol : ht~r t _,C. M!\:.~tt"\dC ti OI I::O TI 01 e ~. :'I.C I IJ~t! o n• of tho- f' Bf, h h• the pr O ~trr : y ?! tl> a f' f c.;~d io Jo.:ono..! {;) t :~ 10703 White Ook ~ !. ,_.,.1\ll~~~q n Gronodo Hi!h, :;1 1. '"-'"' lJVLfL~JLJ ~ Co lif. 91344 El !11onte and Loran Hall of Kcrl'. by C,!l1 . Schoenkopf ville. Bradley lives in North Holly \\"he is gcttin~ too close to : h>! truth wood. Controlled circulation paid at U. 5. Ol!ice, Sar. Fernando -o! When Dr. Drennan learned of the ~~~i po~toge Po~! ar~d in S:~uther-:: California, is the $64 }:: Northrid~e, Co l., 3~.000 minimum gu.::rontee moiled we ekly to Granado Hills, C[U 0stion Jim Garrison mi1;:t .:tsk? agents' calls he telephoned the Secret Service. It was admitted, according-to Docs thr- 'strange accide:r.!' which the doctor, that he was under inves- jl VoL ,':":~:~: '';gN"th•id\::~:::::::: :;:~:~::~';;h~8 10~ a Copy; ·Ht. wc~;k<_~nd befell a Valley witness tigatio:l :md a meeting was arra:1gcd ------;c;;;:;,,;;-;"w;;;;,,;;;-;,ci.:;!i:::,.,:-;v;:;,,-,- _,-;;:.,-.. '"' ------'::: in th•• !\uw Orleans' Distric~ Attor- at Dr. Drenn:m's home on Wed., June :-:::::::·:-:,:,:-:;:;:::::;:;:;:;:- •.•.• ·-········· :-·--·:··-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:;::::~=:=· ;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:-:;:;::::-;_ 1 ·· ~··::: tn\"'!S!JGJ.tion uf the :'I.S!.l:>!';in:t- 14,1%3, with two Tre:1su:·y a~cnts . ~ - ....- ·-- -~------··· · - ~~· -·-·.>- ~i o n of 11 rt:sident John F. Kennedy The conference consisted of lengthy a cl J !\c. 37 to the list of 36 witnesses questioning and w.:..rnings regarding hho Jnvc either met dcatOorsuffered the President and his family, both I< mystc:rious ?,ccidents ' since Garri- natural and officin.L Three different I· - ; r ;vn's invl:!st!rr:ttion began c:- was i~ times, according to Drennan, ho was i u coincidence? accused of planning ton.ssassin:J.tethe wit:-~css , whose iden•ification President and was told he could be , b(; mg \\ Jthhcld ior h1s protection, pd away on a mental charge. His \ ~s ~ li uck dov.n .:~fter dark as he inquiry as to why he hnd not been c;os;, .. ~ct ~• Valley street_.,__ by l 3peed- _ followed on the....d.:o...~ of the Presiden- inr; wL-;t c c:.u· which had pulled away tial visit here went un.:mswered, sta- fro:-n thP curb with lights o-.tl, accor- ted the doctor J:c::;- to reports. \Vhen asked if the Pr~sident should l T!.o: v!ctlm had ju<>t finlsheCc:lshing be assassinated on any future trip .,·I I J;!~~ p;1ychcck ::t t a nearby store,..J!L_ such as the 'upcoming' trip abroad, w·~ h::; rct;1ll::J.r w~ekly routine. 'would he, Dr. Drennan, be the 1'\o . 1 ? 'I't II OWCVC r 1 a perSOnal fricPd 'olihO iS helping solicit the defense funds quo ted Bradley as .stating nfter a third fund rnl!y , approx, $G,OOO , had been raised. Bradley had a pet sonal interviGW with Madnne 1\hu. \vidow oi assassi n'ltcd PJ'cmier Diem of Soulh Viet ' . i·, ' : ,· ,,, ' 0 I 1963 I .1 ' nam t he latter part of Oct. in a I ' . Los Angeles Hotel, according to an I acquaintance. Dr ad Icy, reportcdlr, ,I I m ade a tape record i n~ of the inter view. The friend stated he has henrd I ,. excerpts from t he recording in which '· ' ' MnthmP Nhu expt·essed her thoughts r egarding the Kennedy adminislra-. ; ~ ',>.~. · .r: . ,:-; 1 ·,· J 1 tion. I>radley nlso expressed his i ~····;. ·.':' thoughts about Kennedy' s position in i: .. !1 !:.- V!ctn.1m to his friend and fu r-titer ,/1 ' affirmed his t houghts to him'following assassination of Kennedy. . ,', . GltANAUA I!ILL'3 - - Congmtulations. to Darbarn Boyd of Gratl!:da Hills lll[:h. Ilarbara, an A-1'2 , has been /, selected lo represent her school at 1 .' t he l' a lr Enterprise 1\lc<'-~llion A w<'.rds . She ·was chosen fror:1 her '. A-1 2 class as t he outstMding busi- o I I,·, ess education student. ' ·• February 28, 1968 TO: LOUIS !VON, Ch ief I nvestigator FROM: GARY SANDERS, Investigator RE : PHILIP GERACI III 2201 Green Acres Rd . Metairie , La . - Telephone : 887=4681 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PHILIP GERACI III testified before the warren Commission on April 7-8, 1964. According to the arrest records in Jefferson Parish, a PHILLIP GERACI was arrested on February 25 , 1962 during a raid on a gay party at 3000 Edenborn Street . The address g i ven by GERACI was 2235 Ch ar tres Street, New Orleans. (See Attachment) The 1962 City Directory lists a PHILLI P GERACI, 2235 Chartre s street as an employee of the Todd Shipyard . The arrest report (See attachment) indicates that GERACI was 49 years old in 1962 (d/o/b J une 30, 1912) and the PHILIP GERACI who was a friend of LEE HARVEY OSWALD was born on February 21, 1948 and was only 15 years old at the time of the raid in J efferson Parish. GARY SANDERS Attachment .• • •' t" -:.- -· :' ;J- •' ...... Criminal DiYision Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Of.fic:e TCM ~------:: ARREST ~EPORT. East ): STRICT: ~------~~--~~,~IR;,S~t~N~A~M~E~~------~-- -M-ID_D_L_E__ N_A_M_& ______S Uf\NAME OATE:~:L/_,6ee2,______Geraci Ph:i.llip (none). 'TIME • 0010 hrs. , A 00RE58 1- STATE . . ·::; ·I CITY 2235 c:iartres St N.O.' i La. Wk ~R£ A ':tRt.SH:D HA RG £ .··• . ' -~: ----!- IJist the ~ce ··.·. 3000 Edenb6rn · B IR T H~AT E SEX HEIGHT AG E ~.::~LA C £ .. ·; ...... :-·· ·j : · J\' .o.ra •.; ; .·. · : j 49 M 6t . SCAR S A ND M ARKC - ., '! . • . . . ~- .-,. :- ... . . : .... .::· --.' · .. ! :·· . .. ~ . . · ! ·' • . For d~tails s ~e Arrest R ep o~t ori Ja'!leS . L •.· D e~·linter - ·- - : : . :- -, .· _'; :_- . ,£5 ~:,·-:L \JcS\;'1''/ :L·C;_I (!;:~ ~1-~t~C -;•,~ ' ·. . -Paroled by Att. Dalton 0130 hr3. 2/25/62 Sgt. Hab eney .. Return 4/5/62 · .·.· · ·· ·.. · · . . _ -:-;_-:. _.:.:.:'·. .. ' ··' .' ' ! . ' · \.,: . - ~ : . ·':.. ·•.-- -- ~ . -. . -.1~ Sgt. F.ab eney -··;_ . •.;,_...... - - ~--- - Z.- February 2 9 , 1968 TO: JIM GARRISON , District Attorney FROM: GARY SANDERS , Investiga tor RE: PERSONS LIVING IN 4900 BLOCK MAG AZINE ST. SUBJ ECT: JA.MES W. NOO NEY * * * * * * * ***************** * * * * * * * * * * * * * JANES W. MOONEY, a geologist for the Mobil Oil Company, was arrested in Jefferson Parish during a raid on a homose xu al party at 300 Ede nborn Street. (se e attachme nt) The following information was obtaine d from the 1962 a nd 1964 New Orleans City Directories. 1 9 6 2 I Section Page Name & Address occupation White 878 James w. Nooney Ge ologist 4921 Magazine St. Mobil Oil Co. Apt. c. White 841 Joan L. Mehl Stewardess 1139 Royal St. Eastern Airlines Apt. c. Green 363 4921 vacant Green 494 Joan L. Mehl 1139 Royal St ., Apt. c. 1 9 6 4 Section Page Name & Address Occupa tion White 906 James w. Mooney Geologist 4921 Magazine St. Mobil Oil Co. Apt. C. White 870 John v. Mehl No occupa tio n 4921 Magazine St. liste. Apt. c. Green 360 4921 Magaz ine St . Apt . C. Joan V . Mehl Green 494 1139 Royal St., Apt . C. vacant ' --. ~~------~------~- Crimi ~o l Div ision Jefferson Parish Shc;iff's Office r~ w. ~ ------~----~ ARREST REPORT !STR ICT:__ Ea,_s~t~·------c-- SUR'NAM£ . FIRST NAME MIDDLE N A ME DATE,_21.2.5}..6J._. ____ JAMES WILLIAM T l .... , QQ(]) O Hrs. A DDRESS CITY ____,.l.'-"9'-"2,_, 1 l-iagazine S'T. ARGE BI RTH DATE I L./n.Lzi C OMPLE.XION Geol. I Fair N. V. A DDRESS ' } J.P.S.O. ·.· ··.· . A DDRESS J.P.S.O. A D D RESS ~~~~~~-=~=~.=------AD~DRE.ss~~ JJ~~~o~------~--~-~- I • · ~~~------~------~--~------J~· ~P~· ~s~·~o~·------~~--~--~----~--C7·y · I 0 _...... - 'I' ..'· ·• , W ARR A N T 0 ARREST.JNG O F" F ICE':R D CRIMINAL. D IVISION ,C OM P L AINAN T GERPR I NT CLASSIFICATION J EFFERSON PAR IS H NO. FEDERA L BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION NO . / -~: . ·j AILS OF A RR EST : I Pos ~e~d Bond 2h5/ 62. 013 0 Hrs ~ (Stuyvesant Ins·. Co.) Ret. 4/5/62;·;· Rel. '2/ 25 / 62. 0~30 hrs ~ Sgt. Habeney. '· , I -~ ... ,.· . •. , :'' I ... .. · _ ·; ·' :: ...... · .- · ·.~ · .· -j .' · , · ·: ·· Sgt. ~abeney, DESio< SERGEANT ·;. :-~------, .J .. J ( "'_;,','l: .-: :... 'J,>t_.,...... -~ ~- · ._~,.:· ·.· ...... -. ,,·-, , .;.. )...., At....J L ( i I \ 1 4 . OSi'IALD ' S I NTERSTATE CLAIMS FOR U~"'EMPLOD!E;: *Mon. July 22 (-file.cl ·~ "·,r,~t c.la.\· ...-) Tues July 23 : Stone Cent e r Wed . "24: Re x Photography Fri.- 26: O'Donnell Bro thers Printing ; Offset Production & Design Mon .- 29: Southern Printing ; Krause - Bon Studio *Tues- 30: Godchaux ' s, Canal St.; Coca Cola Bottling Co. Fri.- Aug. 2 winston Printing Co. Sat.- 3 United Fruit Co.; Nifty Printing Co . Mon. - 5 Union Printing co. *Tues- 6 Cosmos Shipping Wed .. - 7 Katz & Bestoff Fri.- 9 Ables Commercial Photography Mon.- 12: Bernados-We iss Photography; Hartman Studi:os. * Tues- 13: tfiled claim) wed.- 14: Esso Comp a ny Thur- 15: Print Rollers, I nc. Fri.- 16: Times-Picayune; states-Item. Sun.- 18: Bestoff Drugstore (darkroom) Mon. - 19: Krains Shoes ; Pedro Ar t studio; Thomas Barberito *Tues- 20 : Scnultz Bookkeeping . (clerk) Thur- 22 : Jean Guccione (photographer) Fri.- 23: Lee Tilton Studio (darkroom) Mon.- 26: Bill Coran Studio (photographer ) *Tues- 27 : (filed claim) . Wed.- 28: Francks Studio (photographer) Thur- 29: Rosen , 859 So. Front St. (Clerk) Fri.- 30: Reif or Ceif studio (darkroom) *Tues- Sep . 3 South Central Studio (darkroo ~J--- Wed . - 4 Lincoln Photo Studio (Photo) - Thur- 5 Primary Color Lab (dar kroom) Fri.- 6 · .·Duma s Milne r Leasing (~lerk) Mon ..- 9 McKenzie Shoppe; Marine & Industrial (clerk) *Tues - 10: (filed clai m) Wed. - 11: Jasimer Co. (clerk) Thur- 12 : Rathborne Land & Lumber Co. (any) Fri.- 13: Sackett Studios (photo) sat.- 14: Ansco Pho to Su p p lies (photo) *Tues- 17: ( filed claim) Wed . - 18; Ajax, Inc., Phot og r apher s (photo) Thur-· 19: W. B . Simson , Shipping (any) Fri.- ·20: 532 Maga zine , B. D. Co. (clerk) *Tues- 24: (filed final claim) It cannot b e t ake n as establ ished t hat OSWALD in fact s ouc; h t ·~;or k at any o f the abov e estab lishr:1e nts , i n v iew of the ease w ~th which ~e cc u J~ ~z- : 2 looked the~ up i n t he Ye l low Pag es , a~~ s .. _ :.~:::-, J..y ~ : .: . ~e ( i.::. t:->2 :-"!S. -7€.5 o:: t b.:;.: : o :- £:~.5 he f i ll e d ou t. I t. .L s ~- --~ - -'J·~ ,.._ : ht \-:o.rk aft-sr ·c:~tai~:..r.g his vi s a T herefore the following surrunary of OSWALD ' s activ i ties does not inc 1_ude reference to the above alleged attempts to obtain empl oyment . ~-· : ~- · .•.. :. ...1 . 15. sm1.'1ARY OF OS'i'IALD ' S MOVEMENTS 'i'iHILE Ul:'I""E1·1PLO't""ED IN N. 0. JULY 'rhursday 18 At library F riday 19 Left Reily Coffee co. saturday 20 sunday 21 Monday 22 Filed .first unemployme nt claim·. / ' ~ , ;.: Tuesday 23 Wednesday 24 Thursday 25 Friday 26 I saturday 27 To Mobile Sunday 28 Mobile to New Orleans Monday 29 Tuesday 30 At library; filed unemployment claim. Wednesday 31 At library; AUGUST Thursday l Wrote "August 1" on letter to V. T. Lee Friday 2 saturday 3 Sunday 4 Letter to v. T. Lee postmarked 6 :30 p.m. Aug . 4. Monday 5 At library ; Met Carlos Bringuier in Casa Roca ·Tuesday 6 Filed unemployment cla im Wednesday 7 Thur sday 8 At library Friday 9 Arrested on Canal st . Spent night at police station. s aturday 10 Interviewed at p olice station . -7- •• AUGUST - Cont . Sunday ll Mo nday 1 2 Payed f i ne in Court ; at library. Tuesday 13 F i led unemployment c l aim . wednesday 14 Thursda y 15 Fricfiay 16 Leafl et ing a t Trade Mar t; Qu iroga goe s to -'" Magaz ine St. saturday 17 Stucke y visits Oswald at 8 a.m., and recorded him at 5 p.m. Sunday 18 Monday 19 Oswald phone Stuckey (or on 20th) Tue?day 20 Filed unemployme nt claim Wednesday 21 Appeared on Conv ersat ion 'Carte Blanche' at WDSU. Thursday 22 At library Friday 23 Saturday 24 Sunday 25 Monday 26 Tuesday 27 Filed unemployment claim. · Wednesday 28 Thursday 29 Friday 30 saturday 31 SEPTEMBER Sunday 1 Monda y 2 Tue s day 3 Filed u nemployme nt claim . Wedne s day 4 T hursday 5 Friday 6 - .:~~-_:._------:--.. ~---'" S EPTE ~ffiER - Cont . Sunday 8 Honday 9 At l ibrary Tuesda y 10 File d .unemployment cla im. Wednesday ll Thursda y 12 Frida y 13 / , ~;,; ·· Saturda y 14 Sunda y 15 Monday 16 Tue sday 17 At Mexican Consulate; Filed unemployment claim . . Wedne sda y 18 " Thursday 19 At library Friday 20 Ruth Paine arrived in N.O. (or on Sep. 21) Saturday 21 Ruth Paine with Oswa lds Sunda y 22 Ruth Paine with Oswalds Honday 23 Ruth Paine left with Harina. Tuesday 24 Filed unemployment claim; changed address at Post Office. Wednesday 25 Cashed check. Left N.O. en route for Mexico. Memorandum for file: February 18, 1959 case : 14-1 ~: Guy Banister · Re : Louisiana Free Enterprise Association . During a conversation 1-rith Nr. George Singelmann" on February 11, 1959, in discussing the availabilitycil'_ s_o_nie- ind'iv.-fdu-aj_s who attended the cockta il party in the home of Judge Stitch, et which time automo bile l'eys to a Cadillac .-rere given to Chief Justice John JL. FQJ,J.X:IJet; Mr . Singelrnann mentioned t!1e name of Loui~;?_...,J_. _.Ni..l:(ha.J!..§ ;· 1·1anagering Director for the above entitled organiza tion . . . r.Jr . Singelmann remarked that r.-J r. Niklaus was on the pay roll for about , " I do not believe it \vill be over S2 00 per r.1onth • 'l'he Judge .f1,..5;~mdE;_r,' . l:'.~Eez )''pe.ys the Louisiana Free Enterprise Associa tj.on and it pays·-1hc'klaus ·:"· The above information is strictly confidential and not to be men tioned to any other person or to be incorpora ted in any r eport . bd _ H_E_}l_O_R_A_N_ D_U_M_ March 19, 1968 TO: LOUIS IVON , Chief I nvestigator FROM: GARY SANDERS , I nvest igator RE: ELENA TEJEDA 1401 St. Andrews St . , #215 Telephone - 522-5864 SUBJECT : LE E HARVEY OSWALD' S VISIT TO THE MEXICAN CONSUL IN 1963 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I interviev;e d MISS TEJEDA at 8:00 P . M. in the Vi l la Conchita, 7ij08 Mapel Street (861-7071) . Also present at the meeting were Mr. and Mrs . ANTONIO de l VAL , Mr . and Mrs. BRYAN WAG~~R, and Miss JODY DUEK . Miss DUEK t ook notes from which this report is written. Miss ~EJEDA has work;d for the Mexican Consula~ in New Orleans for the last nineteen (19) years . I n 1963 the Consulate was l ocated in the Whitney Building on St . Charles Avenue , Miss TEJEDA Has working the day t hat LEE HARVEY OSlvAL D came in to apply for a tourist card for travel in Mexico. Hiss TEJEDA says there was something about OSWALD that made her r emembe r him . Miss TEJEDA said that OSl'I'ALD Has alone when he c ame into t he office and she does not remember OSWALD saying a nything about taking a gun into Mexico or asking about the weather in Me xico . Miss TAJEDA sa i d that OSWALD might have been in the Consul ate more t han one t ime . Accordi ng t o Mi ss TEJEDA no o ne e l se was in the off i ce when OSWALD c ame . Hi ss TEJEDA says s he remembered OSWALD ' s· face· as soon as she s aw it on tel evision o n t he 22nd of November 1 963 . .- c When the FB I visit ed the Consul ate , they went through the fi l es and found OSWALD ' s appl i c a t ion . Miss TEJEDA is reasonably certain t ha t the FBI .agents did no t photograph OSWALD ' S application and she is certa i n that the document was not taken fron! the Consulate . Th.e applicat io"n was burned i n 1 965 when the Mexican Consu-late moved to new office s in t he I nternational Trade Mart . The name of the woman who actually waited ori OSi-IALD was .1-liss GUADALUPE ORTEGA . Her address i s : Sec retaria de Relaciones Exteriores Direccio ~ Ge neral del Servicio Consular Mexico D.F . , Mexico . \,I Niss TEJ3D.Z\ was very cooperative and sai.d she vias sorry she could not hel p . NOTE : s ince Miss Tejeda seems sure that Oswald was a l one when h~ came into th; Consul ate , and there were no o ther people waiting . The date of OSlvALD' s visit to t he Consulate may not be the September 18 , 1 963 date i ndicated in the statements of Nrs . FENELLA FARRI:'IIGTON . Mrs. FARRINGTON's "OSWALD" was accompan~ed by a woman a nd Ni ss TEJEDA ' s "OSWALD " was a l one . Hiss TEJEDA said the Consul ate was empty when "OSWALD " c ame in so t hat wou l d e l imi n at~ Mrs . FARRINGTON and her cousin Mrs. MER I LH . Also i nt e r e sting is Comm iss ion Exhibit CE 2481 which is supposedly a p hotocopy o f OSWALD"s app lication for a touris t c ard fille d out on September 17, 196 3 . Ag a in, a c onflict exis ts since Miss TEJEDA was very certain whe n I t a l k e d with her t hat the FBI had not photog r a phed the application a nd ha d not t ak e n it from the Consulate office. ~ry~ - t ':;Y SANDERS GS/leb cc: Andrew J. Sciambra "\ September 20, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: JAMES L. ALCOCK, Assistant District Attorney RE: RICHHOND TANKERSLEY * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * officer Fenner Sedgebeer and I interviewed RICHMOND TANKERSLEY at the Lafa1ette Station of the United States Post Office. The ir t erview took place at about 11:30 A.M. on September 8, 1967. Mr. TANKERSLEY , an employee of the post office, was shown a blown-up copy of the H. D. Holmes Exhibit 3A found on page 176, volume 20 of the Warren Commission Report. This exhibit depicts a filled-in post office form No. 3546. TANKERSLEY explained he filled the form in on October 11, 1963 and mailed it to Dallas, Texas to inform the postal authorities there that LEE H. OSivALD had closed his New Orleans Post Office box (See C.E. 2476, P. 670, vol. 25). The reason for this action was that the New Orleans Post Office was still receiving mail for OSWALD addressed to his Dallas post office box number 2915. Mr. TA~ZERSLK£ did not hesitate at all in identifying his hand w=iting on form 3546. Further , he said he received the change of address order filled out by OSWALD in September , 1963. He also recalled seeing OSWALD once or twice getting mail . from his New Orleans Post Office box during the Summer of 1963. Mr. TANKERSLEY filled out a form 3546 using information supplied by me. This was requested of him for purposes of handwriting ·comparison with the Holmes exhibit. ..- --·--. _:._ _-,t_• __ _ • ·' October 9, 1967 Jl. Oswald Ehrlicher & Co• 916 ll B C Bldg. · New Orleans, La. CDR Joseph G. Ehrlicher lll E. Oakrid;o;e Park :L:etairie, La. Dear Colonel1 Before your c o~p lete retire"-ent I should like to plead on .behalf of the peoples of your country and oine as a whole, and Would respect appreciation of one special service-- I should not .say·'final service" for I believe firality is never or can never be accoo.<;iplished. But ·special, yes. To acco:nplish anything special one has to · have fortitude, stan~_a, endurance, and most of all bravery and "' I d•votion in line of duty to God, hiosolf and the country he rapresents • ... __ TM . most thorough understanding participation in t.'lo needs of Cod, countrJ and all na~ind evolves around the entity of the world i situation as it is today. I i I . Yy l:Uo story as I live -d it is detailed stre.ng;e. Yet they. I ~ ::·, zay Truth is stran?;er than fiction. It rray or =Y not be c oincidental . directly or indirectly with D .A Garrisons investigation probe, but I do guart.ntoe the e.ssurru:oe of assistance of :1ew York State1 D A office . I: ,.t · Bear the difficulties and hear t.\e fundaMntal details, othorwiso, please, I sincerely, honestly plead with you most a dmirably to o.rran;:;·o rr.e !or .a passport and visa for political prote ction to .Ar gentina, or, possibly to ~ n ~la nd - to Australia, s o I may stay ~ith friends in · ~ l!elborn~. R AF pilot Cyril Eury and his f a.mily, formerly of 24 Ponty . · p!"'!.'~d R:: &.d; : :::::-·./, Gl:.::-'7-0!'b.: !:"; ~ ·.~l~s .. G:-e:!.t Erit£ii::1; "l"!ho is in Her_ · laje sties service. I am, as ever, a devoted secretary, ' I Ii. I ! .. : . •' ( •• .1 os I C t·· : .,r: ·- ~ :_·,) U!JS!-O l '!!:-.: .It:·__ ~- :~~:11: ' !:1 C.v:r~ i.cnio~, :.:::-' :.~ i' ~ ..- :. .-:l . ~ :;. d ,\ v ~uuD . t> . 1:. ';."<;;;; .J.i::.;t-:,;: J ~}. c. 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O;s;vllJ.(i. ~~""' . .:. ~ .,:::,t-.:;::ta ~ l th t~ -:. o Int<::ir::a l r: i :.;\";.:n :.. ~o ~.... :: ~ · ; !.. co :\::;.J : r; :_ : ;·-::: -:: ·t ~~ t~~~t 7Ctu. cc "U t~c t t ~..: J ~.. .;:~ tcrr! ,._. l }l v v::: : ;; ~ ...J ~ :'!:~ "'. t ;:_. G r.·, , .Jt i t 1a '!c ~ired to l;:.. .).:: l .u.:.\..t:n thl ~ tJr~ tu;.• i;'!.J.. _ . \ · ...... f l ~~- 1 . :· . :~ it.~<.: 1.. c· J. ~,.. yo:sl· ..t • J~ Eq;ar Hoover (:£nclos tu."o ) ...... .· September 18, 1 967 ':1'0 : LOUIS IVO~ , Chief Investigator FROH: STEVE BORDELON , 1nvestigator RE: I NTERVIEiv WITH JOHN E . SMITH 0~ 9/15/6 7 AT 3: 30 P . H. Contacted HR . JOHN E . SNITH via telephone 944-4423 and learned from him that while having a c onversation vli th J ACK (JAC K HARTIN ) he stated that some years ago he was playing the pinball machine in the Penny Arcade on Canal Street . .i-lt about that time LEE H. OSivALD came in the Penny Arcade and just stood around for a while until HR . SMITH l eft . HR . SHI1'H states that he did not no tice anyone e l se with OSWALD at that time . The next t ime HR . Sr1ITH heard or saw OSviALD is when the President was assas sinated . MR . SHITH states t hat thi s is all he knows o f OS WA LD . STEVE BORDELON -- I I I I I I I I ·i I ... I i : '' : i ! i I I ( J j I (r-'!!r F~) ( I' { i I j1 II L . , i;:'-~ - ' AI.·~. cJ , / "' // .....t. /J . <·- ~~~~~~v~v-'~·-~r ______-___ .~_ . ~#-~------"-~-'~-~~-~-f~-~~/~7 -~~'-----/-cc _____'_' '-=~ ....L.. / · ;..f /Oc c/ c; ._, r.·.//c. o..:: I ;J · T / -r ,;H/1../ /J r-, ( t; /} '""': t: ~~~-----~._~--~- :> ...... __ ·. ,f "I f'()l-'. I . I .I .I ., I '/.It I ' '- · ·~..-:•. <.:../ ~- . 3 21JJ S2n Se~ ~ s t ian Si . iJOl Eoustpn, ?exus , 77 058 F et~uu~ y 26 , 1967 . ., F;..,. Ja..···J:3S Ga~:::lison Dis t ~i ct Atto~n3y Ue:·: O::--l ea::..'13 , ~c D.i. s i an.a Dear l:r. · Gc.:rriso~ :. 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Very tr'J.ly ycur.>s ~~ £--'- JrL-;: tv~-j ·- "'.~ __ -u 111 I! .. r f t ! s:: 0 (}) ! . •H ;.. ;.. d 0 f 01 c;j (J s:: ! @ cJ ...., •rl r rn ~! ?> .,., TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney . FROM: JAMES L. ALCOCK, Exec. Assistant D. A . RE: DUNCAN PATTERSON d/o/b December 30, 1934 p/o/b - Brookline, Mass . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * OUNCAN (Pat) PATTERSON was interviewed in my room at the Atlantan Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 24, 1967. He had just that morning been released from the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta . He \vas serving a three year sentence for interstate transportation of a stolen car. PATTERSON is a homosexual and sometime female im personator; he is intelligent, articulate and he would like to writ e, especially about the conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi. He served time in that institution from October 1963 to July 20, 1965 for theft . PATTERSON has also served another federal sentence for interstate transporta tion of a stolen vehicle. PATT ERSON first came to New Orleans in the .'.atter part of 1951. He was about sixteen then, and he was running away from home. He stayed here but a short time on that occasion. After leaving New Orleans, he joined the Ma rines in January oi 1952. He wa·s discharged from the Marines a year later. Though he did not say so, it was probably because of his homosexuality . PATTERSON returned to New Orleans in the summer of 1955. He worked briefly (one month) for Raymond's Mu l tilith Company in the 300 block of Baronne street. After this he just drifted in the French Quarter hustling money where he could . While in the Quarter, PATTERSON first lived at 1313 Bourbon Street, but when money became a problem, he moved to ·either 1313 or 2828 St. Peter Street . He is not too sure of the house number, but could readily identify it by sight . PATTERSON recalls that a man he identifies as SHAW lived a couple of apartments down from him. He saw SHAW on many occasions in his apartment while he was passing it on the building's balcony . They spoke to each other on several occasions - the conversation principally limited to the amenities. This is the only place PATTERSON saw SHAW even though PATTERSON attended many, many_ gay parties in the Qua~ter. PATTERSON recalls that at this time SHAW had a black Buick limousine which he infrequently drove . SFJ\.W was usually picked up at his apartment by apparently well-to-do people in expensive cars . There were a few occasions when some young wh.ite males would come to SHAW'S apartment also . -1- I PATTERSON, being young himself at the time , liked to go to gay parties where there were some young "marks" to be hustled . It was at a couple of these parties that PATTERSON saw LEE OSWALD . PATTERSON did not like OSWALD ' s ' looks . To him , OSWALD appeared to be a ga.t'l gster-type hustler who 1vould bust a homosexual 's head open to get his money . PATTERSON feared OSWALD ' s type. At this time OSIVALD appeared to be in h is teens . The only people PATTERSON can remember from the gay crowd he ran with at the t ime are CANDY LEE, J ACKIE LEE and a bowlegged homosexual by the name of TONY who was from Brandon , Mississ i ppi. Some of the gay joints frequented by PAT'rERSON that summer were The Cove Bar, The Driftwood , Tony Bacino's and the Mariner Bar . PATT ERSON left New Orle ans some time i n the l ate summer or early fall of 1955, and did not return until some time in the latter part of July, 1965 . In 1965 he stayed here on ly a night and a d ay . He did not see any of his erstwhile friends at that time . PATTERSON is willing to help u s wherever he · can . He has a g reed to let me know where he settles so we can contact him if he is needed . March 14, 1969 TO: LOUIS !VON, Chief Investigator FROM: KENT SIMMS, investigator RE: INFORMATION ON VINCENT IKE LOVOI * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On March 14, 1969, Simms contacted Jack Toye, owner and operator of the Toye Brothers Cab Service and requested information on VINCENT IKE LOVOI being employed at the Toye Brothers Company. Mr. Toye said that his records reflect that LOVOI was in their employ on April 29, 1947 as a cab driver and stayed approximately three months. The reason for his leaving was because he was involved in an accident and they let him go. He was again employed on September 13, 1954 and left on February 12, 1955 because it was unprofitable, either meaning that Lovoi was not making enough--money for the company or some other reason. LOVOI was again employed on August 2, 1956 and left on September 29, 1958. During this period of time it is not known whether or not there was an interval when he was not with the company as the Toye records do not reflect it. This is the only record Toye has on this individual. Kent Simms !3ros. KS leb .- NEMORA N DUM March 27, 1969 - Dictated March 28, 1969 - Transcribed TO : J IM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM : ANDREiv J . SCIAMBRA , Assistant D . A . RE : THE NE\v SHMI LEAD FILE · * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I. BOB GUZI·!AN LEA D: (See Sciambra memo of 5/28/68 ; Me l oche memo of 2/10/67; Sciambra memo of 3/1 3/68; and Navarre and S i mms memo of 2/21/67 ) PAUL TAYLOR said t ha t he saw OSWALD about thr ee or four times at 'l'hompson ' s Cafe in the 100 block of St . Charles Avenue . \Vhen he was interviewed by me, he said that BOB GUZMAN probably told the FB I about OSWALD being a .round Th ompson's. G UZ~!AN previously \vorked for Guy BANISTER . GUZMAN a l so puts a r.·m . GR.Z'IH.Z\H in BANISTER ' S office who a 1 legedly "bugged" OSW\I.D ' S apartment wh~n ~(GRAHAM ) worked as an investigator for the State ~ S~;-ereignty Commiss i on around 1963 . ' ------~~~~~==~~~==~~~~ ~ II. l- of 11/8/67 ondDl memo of ~ CL.Z\I\X , a llegedl y a r e7,pectabl:e h omosexual of t he Sr!A\•1 type , \vho knmvs SH.Z\W , J~HN DODT ~ and BOOTS IE I Gl\Y, tojd Weisb ~rg that DEAN A~rDRE\'lS intr\.,duced him t o LEE HARVEY OSWALb during the stfmmer of 19~8 at Dixiel g,nd Hall o Bourbon Street. Dixie and Ha l l is\ run by CLI~'"T BOLTOL "'ho was KEI}RY 'I'HORNLEY S closest f r i~nd in Ne1 Or l ea s . Al so , BOOTSIE GAY as supposed to\ have be~n in G. v Y GILL ' S off\ce when G Y was going thr\:mgh FEf~IE'S p ap rs and saw a d\frt of t e assassinati on ~cene /mong F Eo/RIE ' S papers . JqriN DOD and BOOTSIE GAY , \tho j!re .ends of SHAI•T , are\ knOI•m/ for their parties ,),\f.·yh cater i:t the " gay" crm·1d. \ (Posdible connection betw .. OSI'lALD / d s'"'" oc "''"d' '\j"·l -1- - ' ;I -- • III. A . P . EA!''F'S LE.''ID : (See Sanders memos of 5/22/68 and 5/29/68 ) IV. FAG BALL IN JEFFERSON PARISH IN 1962 : Many people were arrested from the above ball and_Q&lJN ANDR E\'TS has aclmi tted that bo paroled some of .t_heru.- LEONARD FRANK was arrested and gave his address as~ -t:J Esplanade Avenue . This bui l ding was owned at that time by CLAY StffiW . (Shades of CHARLIE SPIESEL) ,,_ DEA A . DIE1'TRICK was arrested and in January of 1964 he was living at ].1.6-24 Governor Nichols which \vas owned C1 b~Y SiffiW . In 1962 he lived at 4914 S. Claiborne . PHILIP GERAC I ( a lleged to be the same one who me t OSWALD in BRINGUIER ' S store) was arrested and gave his address as 2235 Chartres Street . ~ ,~ o< ~JAI'!ES -MOONEY was arrested and gave his address as 4921 1 ! --Py' Hagaz.ine Street.- Nc"' ;,-.~ 1-- - A- C" ~F- £',.1,h:'iu/ 6'-1 t'ic(,'.\ o .\ Go. i (t,JJ.=': CI-ffiRLES 'l' . HEREFORD was arrested and gave his address as (;.5--'-f~ ,1-"""t 300 Brook Street , Lafayette , Louisiana . (His l oca l address 1 /vr was supposed to be a· bu3 lding owned by CLAY SHAW) . WILLIAI1 JOHNSON was arrested a.'"ld gave his address as 935 Burgundy Street. (SRI\ Iii once owned 937 Burgundy Street.) LONG SHOT SPECIAL There was a WILLLZI,M JOHNSON who \vorked at the J nternational Trade Mart in Dallas , Texas in 1963. Also ~n 1.963 and 1964, ~VILLI!\1"1 KLOEPFER lived at 724 Governor Nichols Street. (Property owned by CLAY SHA'tl and KLOEPFE ~s allegedly related to RUTH KLOEPFER who visited the ~OSWALDS.) JO JO LANDRY was arrested and gave GERV.ZI,IS son= informa- 11t' tion on some of the psople at the ball . In t he notes he } ;__ .rJUen tions JEFF BITTERSON, but i t is not clear whether he puls BITTErl.SON at the ball or not. If BI TTERSON ·.-:as there , the possibility that SH.:<\1'7 Has also there is gi·eater . f'.t '- any rate the above people may be able to give us some inforrra tion about SHAH , FERRI E or OS\•IALD . Also , L . LE BL-1\NC l ived at the Stables (716-24 Governor Nichols) and may be related to C!l'\ RLIE LeBLANC of the Reily Coffee Company . - 2- DOUGh~S JONES was also arrested and may be relat~d to the people who own Jones Printing Company . lie should also have a c omp l ete list of the properties bought and sold by CU:\Y SHA W. v . DR. i'!ARTIN PALNER LEAD : _.¢~ (See Sciarnbra memo of 10/28/68 ) e~ DOCTOR PALHER allegedly l eft the country b ecause he was being blackmailed by JERRY BLAINE who works at the Dm·mtowne r Notor HoteL PALNER was supposed to be involved in some " pot parties" and BLAINE was blackmailing him for this . SADIE< allegedly a "junkie", wh o Horks for PALNER could-give us some good information on SHA\v and PALNER . VI. MR . HEHA RD LEAD : (See l etter to J im Garrison of 3/31/67) This well-wisher said that HEMARD had some film that would show OSWALD and SHAW together . I talked to HEMARD and h e said that h e had some film of his J/ property in the Quarter and he would be glad to set it up and let a member of our office l ook at it. However , '"e never followed through. VII. J Ar•lES LAIVRENCE LEAD: (See Weisoerg letter to Jim Garrison of 3/4/69) JANES LAWRENCE spent about 1 0 weeks at the New Orleans Sub-office of the Cross-country Development ~.~ ~ · Corporation , located in Room 101 of t he International Trade Mart , 1 24 Camp Street , New Orleans, La . (Said,period running from J uly to the middle of October 1963). He \va s there to handle l easing arrangements for a ne~w"--- International Trade Hart being constructed by ~omfield2 C~.;lii(lj.ng Indust~ In view of the f act that this Has the same type of work that SR~W was doing at the same time , I would i magine that there is a strong possibil ity that LAI·IRENCE knows Sfll\H and may be abl e to give u s some information on SHAW which could b e u sed to rebut LLOYD COBB ' S statements about how busy SHA 1d was, and that SHAW only l eft town one day during the Su ~~e r or early Fall of 1963 . -3- VIII. CLJ\Y BERTRAi'<"D LE.l\D : (See Sciambra memo of 2// Fflj?- b c-?:"7/ MRS. LIAN BISSO mentions Ostman d elivered rna · Street ad ess . ( t is possibly c als n me ions that cus t ian in a dmvn'own of ce buildign sai · L came into his bu ld'. ng one n ight and / uok " CLAY BERTRAND" . ~ ~ IX . BEARD-SOHR LEAD : . (Se e Sou le memos of l/l7/69 , and 3/26/69) (Both subjects are in Angola ) Additional f oll ow- up is needed on above leads i n con j u nc t i on with information g i ven us by ED PORTER wh o met OSWA LD at the Penny Arcade i n the leO b l ock of Roya l Str eet with "JOHN" . Also BEARD , who is bi sexual , tol d Soule t hat h e k nows FERRIE and SHAW by --seeing them a t places \·lhere homosexua l s frequent such as the Gas l i ght , Soci ety Pa ge , etc . We h ave als o had s everal tips t hat OS WA~~ f r equen ted Mom' s Socjety Page . X. XI. 4900 BLOCK OF 1-Ll\GAZINE LEAD : (~} ~ Many o f t he peopl e who l i ved in the 4900 block of Magazine when OS'tTALD vras t here have a l ready been intervie,ved . (See Sciambra memo of 1/8/68 ; Sanders memos of 1/22/68 , 1/28/68 ; 1/ 1 2/68 ; Bethell memo of 1/4/68 ; Burnes memo of 1/ 1 9/68 ; FBI r eport of S/A JOHN B . LEE , JR . o f 11/23/63 on MRS . LOUIS N. RICO) It seems that more time shoul d be spent in the above area , especially i n regard to DA VID GENTRY , LOUIS RICO , who apparentl y \vas never que stione d by the FBI , even -though his wifo •das . HRS . RICO told the FB I that she was ·famil iar with the couple (OSivALDS ) but n ever k ne•.v t heir names . •. She d escribes h:o of OS V!ALD ' S visitors , one of which _., .,._ -- -.(.- .. was a short, stocky , dark co~plexion?d individual who ~as \vear ing a dark bns; nes c; ""it and looked to be~ either Nexican or Cuban . This visit \·las approxi ma t-.e l y 3 \·leeks before OSWALDS vacated the apartment . (Possibly the escort) XII. I.A"KloFRONT AIRPORT LEAD : if/4. (See Sciambra memo of 1 2/28/67 and l/8/68) In view of the Tadin ' s testimony more follow ~ up is in orde r at the La k efront Airport . (Since I used to Hork out t h ere I will handle this lead. ) 'l'he names that have c ome up before as p eople who knew FERRIE well a re: RUDY SPERl'1IS CH CAPT. & MRS. DON SCOTT AL CROUCH. l'lRS. SCOTT said that a man named SOLI"lON who u sed to be in charge of "the CAP at the Lakefront Airport came into her office around the later summer or early "fall of 1963 - with. a·-y-·oung man in an effort to rent a plane for the CAP. She said that bot h she and her h usband agreed that after seeing OSWALD ' S picture in the paper the young man with SOLMON appeared very similar to OS>vALD. She said that SOLr,ION ' S picture - appe ared in the paper a short time later when he was disch arged from the CAP f or flying while intoxicate d and buzzing the airport tower. (This i s what ' s wrong with the Gov e~nm ent - no sense of humor .) ~-~;./1.) XIII . PoOL HALL LE AD : (See Sanders memo ~f 2/23/68) GARLAND BABIN , a busboy at Arnaud ' s Restaurant , said that during the Sun@er of 1 963 on no less than 5 occusions he saw LEE HARVEY OSWALD playing pool at the pool h a ll on Exchange Place . He said OSI·IALD n ever talked much and was accomoanied by seve:cal people who always r eferred to t he man as "LEE.:.'_. BABIN descrlbed one of the E_ersQns as bging a-&J+=.t.,._~y . h eavy set , and eltne r -- black or very dark . (Possibly the escort. ) "131\BHI al ~o r emembers TIID RNLEY c oming into Arnaud ' s to see some o f his fr iends . BABIN suggests tha t we talk to some of the regulars around the pool hall for information about 0SI'IA LD. ~ ~ ~ 1) -5- XIV . .t-1.'\X IIIL!.. LRJ\0 : ( See Ivan Paper) OSI'lALD me to get a jo at l'!AX HILL)'S' place of business nd to d HILL tha he "as refevfed to him by two 'otographer by th OL BE /DAS and HEIS , \"ho used to ha sho~ in the _9U~ rtres Street-(~ ,..~ ) XV. NATERBURY 'S DRUG STORE LE.M.D: (S e e Reid Exhibit) Someone want into \.vaterbury' s Drug Store on 6/3/66 and bought some narcotic medicine and signed the book "CLEM BERTHR..J\N , 1133 D"nphine Street". This may ·not be anythi ng , but the possibilit y is that someone in SHAW'S neighborhood was familiar ,.,j th SHAW ' S a lias in 1 966 . XVI. SARAH RYAN LEAD : MRS. RYAN sai d that FA THER LAw~ENCE TOUPS of St. Agnes Church in Baton Rouge would like to help us i f he can. She said that he is a close personal friend of DEL PHINE ROBER'I'S and that he woul d be glad to talk to DELPHINE for us . She says that DELPHINE i s very scare d since the FBI kicked hei door in some time ago . She says t hat FATHER TOUPS has done a study on the NA'I'TACHINE SOCIETY and knO\"S a lot abou t it and could p robably tell us the local members. _ SHAW is rumored to b e a member of the NATTACHINE SOCIETY and in an ' earl ier memo OSivALD \"as reportedly seen in the Ryder Coffee House \vith members of the HATTACHINJL.SOCIETY . -6- ,r J ·.. r ( II November 14, 1968 TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney FROM: LOUIS IVON, Chief Investigator RE: HEIGHTS OF THE OSWALDS * * * * * * * * ·* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * You wanted to know when OSWALD was how tall wher~. Here goes. This list is far from complete, but I'll give you what I've gotten together. THORNLEY describes OSWALD as 130. Grey or blue eyes. Sloppy habits. no idea he was from Texas ... At I don't recall him having a Texas accent either." Vol. XI, p.221: PAMELA MUMFORD (speaking of recognizing OSWALD _from the picture on television and how her traveling companion recognized him): "But she said the thinning hair on the top, the thinning, curly, wiry hair." This was the 1963 Mexico trip. OSWALD's application for Albert Schweitzer by him): Under "land of birth," he answers "America." Ordinarily an American wo~"U.S . A." His height on this application he gives a~ weight, 160. Vol. XVI, p.483: Application for Texas driver's license: ' t height 5'9", weight 146 lbs. · Vol. IX, p.238: GE'O. DeMOHRENSCHILDT told GEORGE BOUHE, "Don't ' \.' ~ be scare·d of him (OSWALD). He is just as small as you are." MR. JENNER then said, "Yes, but GEORGE BOUHE is a small man ... " XVIII, p.388: MARGUERITE OSWALD described her son LEE as ~ 165 lbs.~ eyes blue~ hair, light brown, wavy. This was a iption given in 1960, and she had last seen him when he had got his hardship discharge and come home for a couple of days. (MARGUERITE · is a tiny woman and any man of 5'10" or 11" would look large to her) I can't- tell from this report of FAIN's where MARGUERITE got the description -- from a document or from her memory. Vol. XXVI, p. 7: · Port Case Record Face Sheet made at time of LHO arrival back in New York[J'Une 13·, - i%2) "Slim, 5'6". p.B: "Upon bpardi~Rip I tr:i:-etf' to locate MR. OS WA LD and his family. He was already cleared by Immigration and · Naturalization Service, .MR. JOHNSON, Immigration Inspector in c ar e, s interested to know how we came to know of this case. I ex lained to hfm regarding H.E.W. contac . He did not elabora e further on the subject but appeared curious." ,( -2- I p.9: second column: "Grey suit, light blue tie·, about 5~ ft. tall." ---._ 6 employment, July 13, 1962: ~ .744: 12, p·. 745: Application for ~~ployrnerit at Goldr ings i n N.O.: Height 5'9" I find ·it interesting that under "In case of Accident send word t o" , he gives the MURRET's address, but giv es the name "OSWALD" and "p~ents' as the relation- ship. -- ' p.747: Application for employment, Oct. 15, 1 963: Height, 5'9" Applicat~ n or Oct. 4, 1963 (this was after he carne back from Mexico and stayed at the Y.M.C.A. on the night of the 3rd and before he appeared out in Irving) : Height: '5' 9~ Application for rn ru e descr~pt~ons. des~ribes him as blue-eyed and having light brown wavy hair. The OSWALD who entered the United states at New York was 5'6" and couldn't possibly be 5'11" -- even allowing for a couple of · inches' mistake. Vol. XIX, p.615: on enlistment physical exam (1956) he is 68" (or 5'8"), weight 131. He probably grew a little bit after · entering the service because he was just a young kid when he wen .. in. Vol. XVII, p. 730: Report of JOHN FAIN says that the following description of OSWALD was obtained through observation and interrogation: Hei ht 5'11" e es rey, hair brown," This report is date June 26, 1962 at Fort Wor-t So we have a 5'6" OSWALD corning back to the U.S., go-ing to ROBERT's house at Fort Worth, and growing 5 inches in time to be observed by JOHN FAIN 13 davs later! If you really want to know what I .think, it is that ROBERT knew this returning defector was not really LEE and this .. is what his problem was the night of the assassination when he found it necessary to take such a long drive ·to think things out. He knew -things were far more cornpli- . cated than the¥ appeared on the surface. How much a part he ? lay~d in the original scheme, I don't know, but he says a coup l d o f interesting things · that . point in that dirlection. _( .c ------._"' Vol. XIX~-397: Texas Employment Commission, Oct. . 1962: 5 ;'g-..,..-we-1ght 150 vol. XVIII, p.482: Let me throw this in here as long as I j·ust now came across it and may forget it. This thing is ·apparently; MARINA's own description of herself. You will notice that it says "Height: 150(?)cm.·(5 feet)". See if you can read the original on the opposite page. It-'s awfully p~le in y book. Here is a peculiar mistake under No . 3. Texa is given as placa, of birth. This mistake ~;...... !Pe*i!cS-~s-ptcrc:1erQof birth occurs one other place and that is in the Marine records (Donabedian Exh. #1), Vol. XIX, p.607, at the very bottom of the page. mistake,-but a foreign letter contains the latter say s, person who has person who was issu ~- I think that it is interesting that such was even taken on the subject. Someone besides me this height business but chose to skip over it. I know ~hat this is erratically ~ritten. If I had gotten it done in any order, Heaven knows when I would have gotten the informa tion to you. I suggest you go thru this taking all the 5'9" 's . _and - their dates and then all the 5'11" 's. You wil"l see that a· fello~ who went into the Marines at 5'8" came out (supposedly) grown to 5'11" in September 1959. He then applied for a passport on which his height is still 5'11". I find no de~criptio~ of his height while in Russia (I may have missed something) except for the PRISCILLA JOHNSON thing. .A 5 '6" LE.E OSWALD comes back to the United States in 1962, becomes 5'11" when interviewed by 'JOHN FAIN and then shrinks from then on until his ·passport of .June 1963 when he sprouts the other two inches again. What this all means is anybody's guess. My guess is that the impersonation started in the Marines. -KERRY THORNLEY said the OSWALD he knew was about 5'5", so let's say that he knew the LEE HARVEY OSWALD who went into the Marines as 5'8" (but looked smaller) . Bill Boxley (sp?) said that the CIA has su~cessfully put over · impersonations so t hat even mo thers are fooled . Please remember, Harold, that MARGUERITE wa nted to believe that her son had come back to her. She was crushed when he defected and needed to believe that he had seen the error of his _ways and had. ... ~ ..... ..J ... -· ·I ( -4- returned. Remember, too, that "LEE" stayed with her for a very short time after he came back. ~y idea is that, since she i s a very sharp woman and had already noticed the difference in the textur·e of· his' hair, he realized that it was dangerous to stay around h-er. She might at any time see thru the imposture . He stayed away from her completely for a Year. A lesser woma n could be fooled, but not our MARGUERITE. She has her eyes open to a lot of t hings that a wide-eyed little "Mom" might not see. She-was··&angerous ·to him- and he -knew it. MARINA knew it, t oo . .. -:. \ • .. Hope ~h~~ g1v~& you a little something to chew on. I'm going to have to stop now and ·get ready for weekend company. My sister and her husband who live in Chicago are to be here for a c o uple of days and I haven't done a thing about gettin1 ready for them. ---- ..... ------=------Take . caie. ..of .. your.se.l'l.es. _ W:j.ll try to get to the Kim Philby letters in a few days. I wish you would get the book, "The Spy I M~Pried", by Eleanor Philby so that when I write this stuff to you, you can look it up in fue book. ~ ..... . ~ . '- February 10, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: RICHARD V. BURNES, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: JAMES LEWALLEN - POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION WITH 1313 DAUPHINE PRELIMINARY REPORT This is a Preliminary Report both on my assignment for JAMES LEWALLEN, address 4406 Paris Avenue, and my assignment for the investigation of 1313 Dauphine. In my investigation of 1313 Dauphine Street, I examined the Red Book for December 1964 for the 1300 Block of Dauphine St. I obtained the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the parties listed in the Red Book on Page 175. To double-check against this I examined the City Directory. I examined the City Directoiyfor 1962 at Page 175 for the street listings. I noted several names which were not in the Red Book. Among them were the address of 1309 Dauphine, the Martinette Apartments. Apartment #12 listed the name JAMES R. LEWALLEN. At this same time CLAY SHAW was listed for 1313 Dauphine. There was no 1311 Dauphine listed. Therefore, 1309 Dauphine would be directly adjacent to 1313 Dauphine. FURTHER VERIFICATION OF ADDRESS OF JAMES R. LEWALLEN: I consulted the same city Directory for 1962 and found listed on Page 747, where the listing is by names, the following: "LEWALLEN, JAS. R., Seamn hl309 Dauphine, Apt. 12" With the thought that this might not be the same JAMES LEWALLEN, I attempted to find in this directory a JAMES R. LEWALLEN listed under the address of 4406 Paris Avenue, but none is listed in the 1962 directory. I have consulted this year's current Telephone Directory at Page 448 and find LEWALLEN, JAS. R., 4406 Paris Avenue, 282-9884. I find no other JAS. LEWALLEN listed in this current -1- Telephone Directory. I examined last year's Telephone Directory at Page 437 and found a similar listing for JAMES R. LEWALLEN. Thus I conclude and believe that the JAMES LEWALLEN presently residing at 4406 Paris Avenue is the one and the same JAMES R. LEWALLEN who in 1962 resided next door to 1313 Dauphine. I attempted to determine the date in which LEWALLEN moved from 1309 Dauphine Street by consulting the City Directory for 1964. I consulted Page 169 of the street address listings and find that for the same apartment, that is Apartment 12 of 1309 Dauphine Street, that this apartment was occupied by VEGA CURBELO. OCCUPATION OF JAMES R. LEWALLEN: I also checked in the 1964 City Directory under the listing for names on Page 771 and found JAMES R. LEWALLEN listed as a counterman for National Car Rental System. This conflicts with the earlier occupation listing in 1962. It appears that JAMES LEWALLEN changed his profession after he moved from Dauphine Street to some unknown address and then subsequently to 4406 Paris Avenue. Further investigation and report will follow. \(w~.~~ RICHARD V. BURNES RVB/leb -2- cs February 10, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: RICHARD V. BURNES, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: PRELIMINARY REPORT - CLAY SHAW- 1313 DAUPHINE ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA. Pursuant to my recent investigation of Clay Shaw, 1313 Dauphine Street, I decided to obtain as much background information as I could prior to an actual effort to determine the occupancy of the address on a particular date in question. One of the first steps was consulting of the tele phone directory to determine that in fact Clay Shaw was listed in the telephone book at 1313 Dauphine. The listed telephone number is 522-1239. Part of my investigation, I felt, was to determine in fact that a party by the name of Clay Shaw would answer that phone number at that address , and I determined that the best way to clarify this was to telephone this number. I did so on February 6, 1967. UNUSUAL STATEMENTS: I called 522-1239 on February 5·,- 1967. A party answered. I then stated "Let me speak to John Shaw." The party replied, "This is Clay Shaw speaking." I replied, "Does a John Shaw live at this residence?" It was at this time that the party on the 1 ine made statements which I thought were appropriate to note. At this time I wrote these statements down in my book so that I would not forget them. They are: "Who are you from? Who sent you?". -1- Prior to this time I had me rely inquired about a "John Shaw". I then stated, "I am trying to locate a John Shaw who is supposed to liv e on Dauphine. Da you know him?". When the party on the line replied that he did not, I said "Please excuse the ring. Goodbye." and hung up. My primary mission in calling this number was merely to ascertain that a Clay Shaw would ans wer at this telephone number at this address. My entire conv ersation was casual and in a manner calculated and designed not to arouse suspicion. While the state ments made may in and of themselves mean nothing, it was suggestive to me that the party on the other end of the line was in the manner and habit of receiving calls from persons whom he did not know, and who had been sent to him. While I may, or may not, be correct in thinking that these words were unusual, I am positive that these are the statements which were made as I wrote them down at the time. This memorandum is merely a preliminary report and the balance of the assignment will be completed and covered in separate memorandums. RVB/leb c:s February 10, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: RICHARD V. BURNES, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: OCCUPANTS IN 1300 BLOCK DAUPHINE STREET PRELIMINARY REPORT Recently I consulted with Investigator Louis Iv@n relative to an assignment to determine the occupants and owners of 1312 Dauphine Street, 1314 Dauphine Street, 1316 Dauphine Street, 1318 Dauphine Street and 1320 Dauphine Street, for the period of time from 1962 to 1963, particularly I was requested to check into 1313 Dauphine Street allegedly occupied by CLAY SHAW. PREVIOUS PRELIMINARY REPORT A previous Preliminary Report has covered a telephone conversation with the occupant of 1313 Dauphine Street. 1962 OCCUPANCY: To determine the occupancy in 1962 , I examined the City Directory for the street index for the year 1962 at page 175 and obtained the following listings: 1310 PUIG, Eveley Mrs. 523- 1725 1312 VALLE, Eola T. Mrs. Ja-2-7550 1313 SHAW, Clay L. 522-1239 1314 DIKET, Emerson F. 1316 PACE, w. Glenn 1318 ENCLADE, Edw. 1320 GRABERT, Leopold -1- 1964 OCCUPANCY: To determine the 1964 occupancy I checked two sources. The sources were the Red Book, telephone directory and the 1964 city Directory. I did not have access to a 1963 publication of either. However, some of the names which have carried over from 1962 through 1964 indicate a probability that the same party was in occupancy. From the Red Book, telephone directory dated 1964 at page 175 I found the following listings: 1310 PUIG, F. J. Ja-3-1725 1312 VALLE, E. Mrs. Ja-2-7550 1313 SHAW, c. 522-1239 1314 DELANEY, F. J. 523-7791 1316 VAUGHN, P. 523-7453 1317 DENNING, w. J. 525-3765 1317 NEIDLINGER, J. F. 524-8233 Next listed - 1323 - which is apartment building. 1431 SILVA, F. 943-0900 Also, I checked the City Directory for 1964 with the street index at page 169 and found the following listings: 1310 PUIG, Eveley Mrs. 523-1725 1312 VALLEE, Eola T. Mrs. Ja-2-7550 1313 SHAW, CLAY L. 522-1239 1314 No Return 1316 PACE, W. Glenn Rear VAUGHN, Patk. 1317 CLARKE, Alan B. 1318 ENCIA'DE, Edw. 1320 GRABERT, Leopold NOTE: Apartments at: 1309 Dauphine - Marinette Apartments 1323 Dauphine - Dauphine Apartments Apartment houses in the vicinity I have noted from the directory that two addresses which were not included for me to check consist of apartment houses. One is located at 1309 Dauphine and this is Martinette Apartments. The other is located at 1323 Dauphine Street and is Dauphine Apts. As you will recall from an earlier memorandum, investigation has -2- disclosed that a JAMES LEWALLEN was the occupant of 1309 Dauphine, Apartment 12, in 1962. This building according to the index would be immediately adjacent to 1313 Dauphine Street, the residence of CLAY SHAW. Further Investigation Further investigation to determine the actual owner ship of these premises is being conducted and will consist of a search of conveyance records and if they are available to me, the Tax Assessor's records for the years involved. This preliminary report, however,gi ves a fairly comprehensive listing of the occu pants at the particular time involved. Xerox copies of the pages from the mentioned publications will be obtained and submitted to you. A follow-up report will be submitted on the follow-up in vestigation. RICHARD V" BURNES RVB/leb -3- cs February 9, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: SMITH INVESTIGATIOO - MY INTERVIEW vHTH CLAY SHAW, 12/23/66 On the above-named date I interviewed MR. CLAY SHAW who was brought to the District Attorney's Office by Investigator LESTER OTILLIO. MR. SHAW infoll!led me that he was now retired from his prior employment as director of the International Trade Mart and that he was primarily a play wright, doing some work for the La Petite Gallery Circle Theatre. He said that in 1963, his assistant was a MR. J. B. DAUENHAUER and that in 1963 LEE HARYEY QSWAID tal~ to MR. DAUENHAUER and asked him for pernd ssj on to distribute ~eaflets in front of the Trade Mart. He said MR . DAUENHAUER told him that he should not do this, but that OSWALD went downstairs and started to distribute the leaflets anyway. He said that there \"ere several people downstairs with OSWALD and that there was a crowd outside and that WDSU Television was on the scene taking pictures. MR . SHAW said that he had never talked to LEE HARVEY OSWALD and did not know him. He also said that at the time of the assassination he was on his way to San Francisco , MR . SHAW said that in 1963, a MR. HARQUEZ was the Cuban consul :in the building and that he was very anti-CASTRO as CASTRO's rise to power in Duba caused him to lose all of his fortune in Cuba. MR. MARQUEZ died approxi- .mately a year and a half ago. He informed me that even though ) ,R. MARQUEZ could not pay the rent, he was allowed to remain Ln the Trade Mart for a number of months and was very active Ln the Cuban liberation movement. He said that he did not Qet to meet any of MR. MARQUEZ' acquaintances. In MARQUEZ' office were his wife, a couple of girls doing clerical work, and one other Cuban fellow. MR. SHAW said that MR. MARQUEZ' wife, who is named POUPEE , is now employed at oschner Founda tion Hospital. MR. BRUZON, who was consultant to MARQUEZ, is now living in Miami. MR. SHAW informed me that he did not know anyone in the Cuban liberation front but that he did know some lady who placed cuban refugees but could not remem ber her name at the present time. MR. SHAW said that he spends most of his time writing plays and in theater work in general and that he is involved in translating a play from Spanish into English. He said that he does not know a DEAN ANDREWS and asked me what does MR. ANDREWS do for a living. He also said that he does not know a DR. GUITART. MR. SHAW informed me that the attorney for the Trade Mart was a MR. KEN BARRINGER. MR. SHAW also informed me that if I called MR. J. B. DAUENHAUER ( 523-6167) I may b!! able to get the names of the persons who worked in the cuban consulate office with MR. MARQUEZ. MR. SHAW apologized for not having more time to talk with me but that he was leaving for Hammond that after noon and had to get ready, and wished me a Merry Christmas and left. ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA AJS/af M E M 0 R A N D U M February 25, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON FR0!-1: LOUIS IVON RE: CLAY BERTRAND ------·------To ascertain the location of one CLAY BERTRAND, I put out numerous inquiries and made contact with several sources in the French Quarter area. From the information we have obtained concerning this subject, I'm almost positive from my contacts that they would have known or heard of a CLAY BERTRAND. The information I received was negative results. On February 22, 1967, I was approached by "BUBBlE" PETTINGILL in the Fountainbleu Motor Hotel, located on Tulane Avenue, whom I had earlier contacted about CLAY BERTRAND. ~H~e~- stated that DEAN ANDREWS admitted to him that CLAY BERTRAND never existed. LOUIS IVON I :J .. ----M E M 0 ~ !i Q• Q .!I. ~ March 19, 1968 TO:. JIM GARRISON, Distri.ct Attorney FROM: BILL BOXLEY, Invest~gator SUBJECT:, Supplement t0 BILL TURNER's memorandum on EDGAR EUGENE BRADLEY dated February 16, 1968 . l At the time of these interviews, December 18, 1967, THOMAS THORNHILL was employed at the May Company on Laurel Canyon in the Van Nuys, California~ area, not at Montgomery Ward. At that time he informed us that he was transferring to the Art Department of the May Company's downtown store in Los Angeles. MRS. ARTHUR (CAROL) AYDLOTTE stated that she had met EDGAR EUGENE BRADLEY originally through the manager of the Patrick Henry bookstore in the Los Angeles area who she said was named HARVEY STOWERS whom she identified as ~ former U.S. governme~ agent. MRS. AYDLOTTE stated that BRADLEY, upon her telling him that her husband ARTHUR pos;essed a .375 Magnum rifle, attempted to recruit her to persuade her husband to use the weapon for an assassination attempt upon President John F. Kennedy. She told us that her own investigation had determined that BRADLEY had a bank account with approximately $1,000 balance from which there ~ . had been no ~ithdrawals within the past eight years. However, she states that he lives at an estimated annual expenditure rate of approximately $jo,ooo to $3S,ooo: !n reviewing our portfolio of photographs MRS. AYDLOTTE stated she is certain s~e has seen GORDON NOVEL. visiting in the home of CLINTON WHEAT along with LORAN HALL. She recalls also that HALL has spoken at the home of ROGER BURR. She specifies the time of BRADLEY's association with COL. WILLIAM GALE as approximately four to five years ago. Her comments about JOHN LORENZ included the specific designation as fascist and very close to BRADLEY . In addition to the photographs of LORAN HALL and GORDON NOVEL whom she placed with BRADLEY, MRS . AYDLOTTE selected the photograph of THJMAS MARION COX of Dallas and stated that his face was "very familiar, I believe I have seen hi:rg. with BRADLEY." She named MARION REYNOLDS as a representative of DR. MciNTYRE's along with REV. BOB WELLS. MRS . AYDLOTTE said that her mother, MRS. NATALIE KNITTEL, of 414 D South Rose Street, Burbank, California, had heard BRADLEY propose the use of the storm drain system as a location for the prospective assassination of President Kennedy and had suggested a manhole escape route from tre system. She said that BRAf~EY seemed preoccupied with the subject of assassination and on occasion had shown her husband, ARTWUR AYDLOTTE, various assassination devices including poisons, ground glass and booby traps in a garage at his residence which garage wa~ torn down in 1963. Another.BRADLEY contact· \vhom she named \-:as a I i Page - 2- / DR. BOLEN of Glendale, whom she described as a "weirdo" and she st'ates drives a ,new Mercedes Benz every year. After interviewing MRS . AYDLOTTE we spoke to THORNHILL at the ·May company after 5:00 P.M. on Decemb er 18, 1967. THORNHILL generally substantiate.d MRS . AYDLOTTE 's commentaries about BRADLEY. He stated that he had heard HALL at the Knights of columbus one evening speaking with an older, well known Cuban whose name he (THORNHILL·) could not recall. Again, he had heard HALL speak at a political meeting at a private home but THORNHILL stated he knew of no connection between BRADLEY and HA LL. THORN HILL recalls BRADLEY having asked foe an introduction to GE NERAL WALKER after the latter's speech at the Sport's Arena shortly after WALKER was released from a mental institution prior to the assassination. THORNHILL said that BRADLEY to his ~nowledge was close to DAVID BRANSBY, CLIFFORD BARKER, although he commented that the BARKER BRADLEY relationship appeared to be one subrosa in nature, and GEORGE WILLARD. THORNHILL said that BRADLEY seemed to excert great influence with Gertain members of the Van Nuys Police Department . He named a man named BRONDELL and another whom he called McALISTER as BRADLEY's Orange Coun·ty connections with the CIA. THORNHILL said . that REV. CARL Mc iNTYRE stays at BRADLEY's home during MciNTYRE's visits to the West Coast. THORNHILL also describes BRADLEY as being sadis tic in temperament. THORNHILL says that ~e had heard BRADLEY boast of a heart attack drug with which he (BRADLEY) states he is familia r. THORNHILL ~ said that shortly after hearing BRADLEY boast of the use of the drug that he had a close friend who suffered one. THORNHILL states that BRADLEY also was suspiciously connected with two other deaths in the Los Angeles area. That of NEWTON ARMSTRONG, the editor of a conservative Bay area newspaper who died apparently a victim of hanging and the apparent accidental shooting of one DALLAS ~UEMORE at the scene of which incident BRADLEY was the first spectator. On Decenber 19, 1967; between 1:00 and 3:30 P.M. in Lancaster, California, BILL TURNER and I met with DENNIS MOWER whose residence in Lancaster is 342 E. Nugent. The meeting was accomplished through a system of cut-outs and screening wh ich involved our waiting until MOWER approached us in a designated restaurant in Lancaster from which ·point we proceeded to a motel of~ENNIS MOWER 's choice in Lancaster for the conference. The group consisted of men introduced to us as JIM BOYD, PAUL HUNT, and DENNIS MO WER. The motel was the Caravan Inn. MOWER , a former co-defendant with ROBERT DEPUY of t he Minute.men was described to us the day before by THORNHILL as t he righthand man of DR .· WESLEY 1 SWIFT, a colleag ue of COL. WILLIAM GALE of the Ca lifornia rangers. ! The meeting was set up through a telephone ·call fr om T HOR~niLL to MOWER . .· -. Page -3- MOhlER was understandably tight-lipped and extremely suspicious for the first fifteen or twenty minutes of our c o nversation in th motel room. However, he seemed to warm up as the conversation proceeded and became quite cooperative after the first forty or forty-five minutes of our talking. MOWER stated he was extr emely susp'icious of B RAD LEY's role in the hanging death of NEWTON ARMSTRONG, JR., of San Diego, publisher of a co'nservative newsp'apei named "Evolve", and of the death of cHARLES GRIFFARD who MOWER said had been going to resign from the· anti-communist committee of the Minutemen on the night that GENERAL WALKER was to speak at a Shrine Meeting. MOWER said that BRADLEY met with GRIFFARD to try to talk him out of the ~signation. He was unsuccessful and later in the night BRADLEY telephoned MRS. GRIFFARD with the information she should go into her husband's study. She did-- and found her husband's body. MOWER related this incident to illustrate sadistic tendencies on the part of BRADLEY. MOWER stated that DALLAS ROQUEMORE of Bellflower had been with ROY GILLESPIE and that they were tied to the Orange county group which had split away from the regular Minutemen organization. He identified TOM BURLY of Orange county, San Francisco and Los Angeles area operations as having penetrated to use his words REV. BOB WELLS' church, along with EUGENE BRADLEY. MOWER listed other BRADLEY associates as: CLIFF BARKER, JACK KADAR, BILL COLLEY,·BURLY, BOB KADLE and VINCE AUDETTE. Others he named included COLONEL DAVID BRACKUS whom he identified as commandant of the California National Guard Reserve, He said that HALL's contact to BRADLEY was a man named LES JOHNS a Birch Chapter leader. MOWER named a man, first name unknown, BANTON, III, who he said is in the investment business as being LORAN HALL' 's contact to South American a~ms company for delivery of weapons to Guatemala. He listed COOKIE and HORTENSE FAIRCHILD as close to BRADLEY, along with PAUL PATTERSON, a columnist, who apparently has some relationship to COLLEY and KADAR. MOWER told us of an application form he had seen filed by PROFESSOR MELVIN CRANE when he applied for a teaching position at San Diego State, on which CRANE had noted that he formerly was a CIA operative in 1958. However, the CIA connection had been deleted from CRANE's records in 1962, MOWER said. He identified CRANE as a close friend of BRADLEY's. MOWER confirmed that BRADLEY had attempted to recruit him to assassinate Pres ident Kennedy , and he stated that he had reported the attempt to FBI agents HOLBROOK and QUINN. After the interview with MOWER we returned t o t he Los Angeles area and I again sav1 TOM THORNH ILL at t he May Company t hat evening. At this meeting THONRHI LL added the name of MATT CEVETAK to the close associates of BRADLEY. He further said that BRADLEY once had formed a firm called Hovers, Inc., which he operated from his horne and that prior to that time he had been br several years an executive with the Sears store in Van Nuys . Page - 4- On De c ember 20: 1967, I met -with REV. and MR S. WESLEY BRICE a t their home, 6451 Gay nor in Van Nu y s, Ca lifo rnia . BRICE s aid _ that prior to the assassinati on, BRADLEY told him he ha d to "take a swing through t he s o uth. " He said that BRADLEY had b een to a meeting with DR. CARL Mci ~TYRE in prior to going on the southern swing. him he was in Dallas on the da of the REV. BRICE said th-at BRADLEY had scheduled stops in Houston, ~ V Dallas and Shrev eport. He stated he believed BRADLEY was to mee . _jt__.:w~i~t~h~NE~Ds-~TO~U~CrH~S;T~O~N~E~- ~~h:;Tr ~eiv~e~p~o~r;t;;ft~h~e~n~p~r~o~c~e~e~d~t~o~~D~a:.::l~l:;a~s:_w:_::h~e~r~e:._:h+- ~- schedu ed a meeting with a wealthy, unname m n._ REV. BRICE said that on the e v ening of the assassination BRADLEY telephoned his home and spoke with MRS. BRADLEY. In the house at that time with her were BRICE and JAMES BARRON whom BRICE described as a liquor store owner, living at 634 Harv ard Road, Burbank, California, BRICE said that BRADLEY left Dallas the next day, that is on November 23, and that while in Dallas .j he stayed at a hotel about a block from Dealey Plaza (l t lS t o b e noted that the Hotel Dallas lS sltuat ed almost e x actly 0 h alfway b e t ween the Dealey Plaza and t h e Da llas Morni ng News ). REV. BRICE said that concurrent with BRADLEY's trip through Dallas on the day of the assassination, one TRUE WILHE LM, a manufacturer of tractions and other medical devices was attend i lg · a medical convention being held at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on November 22. coincidentally, REV. BRICE points out, TRUE WILHELM is a very good friend of EUGENE BRADLEY. BRICE gav e me WILHELM's address currently as being 107 Country Club Driv e, Burbank, his telephone number 848-7866. -, REV. BRICE said that BRADLEY had been in South America during World War II and was in intelli gence work there in Hawaii and in Guam during and immediately after the war. After Guam BRADLEY supposedly went to Brazil. During this time he held a rank equivalent to Lieutenant, BRICE said, and his duties according to BRADLEY consisted of investigating plane wrecks. Both REV. and MRS. BRICE were nerv-ous and uncertain as to how far they could take me into their confidence during t he meeting. They seemed to place special emphasi s upon an inciden which t he y nev er actually went so far as to clarify in relatio n to the assassi~ion. The incident involved the shooting death of the_hus£_and of a bel ly d ancer~e y said-was named CRYSTAL JADE. The husban d apparently ha~ been s hot near a sto pe q~ 0 ~ e ar Ki nqsmen, Ar lzona , l a te i n 1 963 or e arly i n t he S p ~ n g oL_ I ~ - While t he rel atlons hip of tnlS lncident to t he as sa s sina ~ is uncle ar at t h i s time t hey wer e insistent up ~he name and i incident belnq no t ed in connec ion with the interv iew. --- / .. -:.- -~-. February 27, 1967 TO: J IM GARRISON FROM: ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA RE: INTERVIEW IHTH PERRY RAYMOND RUSSO 311 EAST STATE STREET BATON ROUGE , LOUISIANA on February 25, 1967, I interviewed PERRY RUSSO at the above mentioned address . RUSSO was very cooperative and s aid that he was g l ad to see me as he had been hounded to death b y the local news media . He said that he would give us a ll the he l p that he possibly could, and t hat he woul d furnish us with names of indivi dua l s who cou ld be most he lpf ul t o us i n our investigation. He said that one of these persons is AL LANDRY who lives in Gentilly. He said that FERR IE was "in l ove " with LANDRY. He says i'n 196 2 (the approximate mon th he cannot r emember , but h e says that it can b e ascertai ned through LANDRY'S mother) he \·Jent to LANDRY ' S house to try to l ocate him . Ee was told a t tim•' t:im2 b ~ ' Lt".ND RY' S mo · ~her that FERRIE had taken LA~IDRY out of t he country, a nd that she did not know where they were . RUSSO told me l ater on in the interview t h a t FERRIE had t aken LANDRY out of the country tv;ice and this was t he first trip. He said that l a t er on he found out that FERRIE had taken LANDRY to canada and to Mexico . RUSSO said that he and LANDRY and a small group of other boys used to a l ways pal around together and tha t it wa s c onunon knowledge to everyone that FERRIE was a homosexual and RUSSO and his buddies were trying to alie nate LANDRY from FERRIE. RUSSO said that LANDRY had some strange fascinati o n for FERR IE and was greatly i mpressed by FERR I E 'S intelligence . He says that he is sure that FERRIE had LAI:\'DRY under some sort of spell from time to time . He said that what proved this to h i m was that in 1962 LANDRY took him to FERRIE'S apartment out in Kenner and FERR IE was having a meeting with about eight or ten young boys who were in the Civil Air Patrol. FERRI E ' S mother was at t he meeting and FERRIE introduced his mother to RUSSO. RUSSO said that he went to the meeting because LAI:\'DRY had tol d him tha t FERRI:-<; o,;,·. s a •Jreat hypnotist and at this meeting FERRIE would demonstrate some o£ his hypnotic powers . RUSSO said that LAND RY c ould fu~nis h us with the n ames of all the p eopl e who we re a t the meeting, and he coul d also furnish us with a lot of information about FERR IE for he and FERRIE put on a hypno tic demonstration and used LANDRY as his subject . He said that FERRIE stuck pins in LANDRY ' S body and LA NDRY wou l d uot f ee l any pain. He said FERR IE gave a very long l ecture on hypnotism and posthypnotic suggestions and demonstrated his power by u sing LANDRY as his subject . Afte r the demonstration, ~------~-w" --~~------~~~ FERRIE showed him and LANDRY five diplomas that he had and said that he had received his Ph.D in two of these subjects. He also had various pieces of machinery in his attic and surgical equipment and bones which he doesn't knov1 if they were human or animal. RUSSO said after the meeting he and LANDRY went horne and he did not see FERRIE for a while. He said a little later on he went-to LA~~RY'S house to talk with him and LANDRY's mother told him that FERRIE had again taken her son out of the country. She told RUSSO that in her opinion FERRIE was a very strange and weird individual and that she had often told her son to stay away from him but that her son would not listen to her . She said that it was as if FERRIE had some strange power over her son. She asked RUSSO to help her to try to aliena e her son from FERRIE. RUSSO said that he would try and do this . RUSSO said that the next time he saw FERRIE was a few weeks l ater when he was standing on the corner of Decatur and canal with a friend of his by the name. of NILES PETERSON who presently drives a Yel l G ~ab, Nurriller 792. FERRIE, LANDRY, and a Spanish guy o Cuban uy with a beard v1ho could speak no English, and six or e kids in khaki uniforms passed them on the street. He said the Cuban fellow was in green fatigues. He said FERRIE and LANDRY told him he llo and F'ERRIE kept walking with the group, however, LANDRY stopped for a moment and told him that they were going somewhere but that he would get in touch with him in a fe\~ days. RUSSO asked LAI\~RY where had he been, and LANDRY told him that FERRIE and he had been to Mexico. In a fe,y days RUSSO contacted LANDRY and told him that his mother did not like FERRIE and that everyone knew that FERRIE was a homosexua l and that he did not think tha·t he should be associated with FERRIE. LANDRY said that he would think about breaking off his rel ationship with FERRIE but that it would be difficult. He said t hat FERRIE \vas teaching his group the art of fighting jungle warfare and that FERRIE'S plan was to help liberate the South American countries. He said that FERRIE often referred to wiping out the rest of the BA'I'ISTA gang in Cuba. RUSSO said that he and several of his cousins all began to "bug" LANDRY about FERRIE, the C.A.P. jungle warfare, and the liberation of. the South American countrV' es . . He said that this eventually got to LAI\~RY and LANDRY began , seeing FERRIE not as much as he normally \Vould have. ~ , RUSSO said that one night he and LAND and TIM KERSHENSTINE who lives on 2061 Pelopidas~tro e Number 943-8490 , and possibly NILES PETERSON were in the nteLect ) which is located on Bourbon Street and they ran into DAVE ~ FERRIE said that he would l ike to t~alk v1itb LANDRY privately and RUSSO told FERRIE that whatever he had to say to LANDRY he should do it in front of everybody . RUSSO then told LANDRY to tell FERRIE to take a walk and that he didn't want to· be involved with him anymore. LANDRY then told FERRIE that he wanted to break off his relationship. FERRIE then told LANDRY that he would talk to him about it l ater and he then turned to RUSSO and told him that either he or one of his men would kill him for what he had done to him and LANDRY . RUSSO told FERRIE to just get away and stay away from LANDRY because he was no good for LANDRY. He said that LANDRY had tol him that FERRIE used to hypnotize him and g i ve him posthypnotic suggestions. He also said that FERRIE eventually confessed to him that he used hypnosis for sexual purposes. -3- RUSSO said that after this incident on Bourbon S treet he said that he did not see FERRIE for about six months , and that one d ay he was driving his c ar on the Veterans Highway, and he noticed that he was starting to get a flat tire . He pulied his c ar into a service station and told t he t wo young kids who were working there that he wanted t o change his tire. About t his time DAVE FERRIE came up to him and t apped him on the shoulder and told him hello and asked him where he had been as he had not seen him for some time . RUSSO then said t hat they exchanged casual r emarks and p l easant conversation. RUSSO said that FERRIE was either the owner or t he manager of this service s~tj._on . He said that FERRIE t hen left and went and sat in a hi~e o r ver · - ht colored c ompact car and b e an talkin with the in 1vidual in the front seat . R sa1 - that he the n pulled his - c a r right along side of this c ompact c ar, and he looked at FERR IE and the individual that he was talking to in the front seat several times while he was waiting there for his car. After the ccir wa s fixed and he was about to leave the station, FERRIE asked him where was he staying because he wanted to come over and talk with him about a few business deals . RUSSO told him the add ress, and he said that a short \vhile there - . after FERR IE carne to his apartme nt. He said FERR IE brought ove r to the apartme nt some pornographic film that he had and that·he wanted RUSSO to sell for him. FERRIE told him that h ~ had jus t returned from Cuba and that he c ould get all of this kind of film that he wanted . He said that he could get more film out of Cuba very easily and if RUSSO could sell the film for him, they could all mak e money . He said that he would have to get $150 a roll for the film because it was pretty risky going in and out of Cuba. RUSSO said the film cons isted of o ne man and one woman and that the story was essentiall y that of a woman cheating the man in a game of c ards , and the man eventually beating her up and raping her for doir1g so. He said the wan in the picture was either Spanish or Cuban, looked to be strong and rather husky and had black hair . He said tha t he had a patch over one eye. The girl was an American . RUSSO said that he took this film and sold it to someone who he believes eventually sold i t to a seaman ( RUSSO said that he would try and obta in this film for us). He said FERRIE then b e gan coming t o his apartment on an average of twice a week and that one time he came over to his apartment and told him that he had been working with cheraicals and studying the · r effects on the human body . He said tret FERRIE had told him that he had extensive knowledge about drugs and mixtures of drugs and how they would effect the human body . FERRIE showed him a drug that he said he concocted himself and that it was very similar to aphrodisiac but even better. He said that it would make a person extremely p assionate and would enable him to forget a ll of his inhibitions and obtain a very free and l oose attitude about love and sex. He said it would also erase any feelings of guilt that a person might have toward any type of sexual behavior that he might care to indulge in. He s aid that FERRIE told him that he had used this drug with different friends of his and this is how they reacted to it. He also admitted to RUSSO for the first time that he was a homosexual and he wanted to know if RUSSO . would be willing to take the drug . RUSSO said that he did not care to tak t he drug. FERRIE also told h im that he could get all of the heroin that he wanted but that he would not fool with it as it was too hot to handle and that he could concoct drugs that would serve his purpose . RUSSO said tha t one day he ~nd KE NNY CARTER , a colored boy who use to attend Loyol a university and who he believes atten s L.S.U.N.O., were in his apar tme nt on Elysian Fields ·when FERR IE came in with two -Gub..a.ru;.-.JH.!:<~eJ:.e dre~s.ed-in~s . One of the C uba~beard and the other one didn ' t. Both of them .. - 4- were very strongly built, had d ark complexion, and ro~gh l ookin Their faces were extr eme-rv-tough looking. RUSSO s aid that they looked as i f they could bend a bar of steel. He said that they were around 28 t o 35 years old and that FERR I E introduced them , but he cannot r eme mber t heir name s. He said that t hey didn ' t say anything because they could not spe ak English. He said that FERRIE at t his time started making remarks about Cuba and criti cizing the United States . He said the p e ople in Cuba are starvin to death and t hey have no medicine and tha t he blamed the United staes for this. He s aid t hat the Un ited States i s a barbaric RUSSO s a id tha t · he did not see FERRIE again until he went to his Louisiana Avenue Parkway apartment with KENNY CARTER looking for h im . He s aid tha t FERR I E was the r e and he was with a Cuban guy in g reen fatigues who was younger and not nearly as powe rful l ooking as the other t wo Cubans . He s aid tha t FERRIE introduced him to someone he called his roommate . He said FERRIE mentioned his name , but he can't remember it right now. He said the roommate had sort of dirty blonde hair and a husky beard whic appeared to be a little d ark er than his hair. He said the guy was a typical beatnik, extremely d irty, with his hair all messed up, his beard unkept, a dirty T-shirt on, and either blue jeans or khaki pants on. He said he wore white tennis shoes which were cruddy and had on no socks. He s a id the roommate appeared to be in his middle twenties. RUSSO said that he went to FERRIE's apartment about five or six times and h e can Jemember s eeing the roomma t e abou·t two or t hree times. He said that the roommate nev r t alked to anybody. As soon as anyone would c ome into FERRIE's apartment , the roommate would get up and l eave ~ <;lnd go into another room by himself . RU SSO said that one day he tried to make con '(ersation with the roomma te by asking him where _. he was from, and the roommate told him from everywhere, and so he didn't try to talk to him any more b ecause he appeared to be a real "punk " . He mentioned this to FERRIE, and FERRIE told him not to worry about it because he was a funny guy, and he didn't like to talk to any body, all he did was sit down on the porch in the dark and think and r ead books all the time. FERRIE told RUSSO that he h ad tryed the aphrodisiac drug on his roomma te and it wo rked p erfectly. He said that he and his roo~mate laid in bed naked, and he gave the drug to his roommate and his roommate became very passionate and aggre ssive and had intercourse with FERRIE. He said that after this was over, the roommate h ad no recoTI.ection of what he had done. He said that his roommate was a p erfect subject for t h is . He also said that his roomm ate did not get along with his Cuban friends and that this is the reason why RUSSO never s aw the roommate with any of the Cubans or wit h anybody else for that matter . RUSSO said that as soon as he would walk into t he apartment, the roomma t would walk out without saying a word. FERR IE repeated that these Cubans who were coming to his apartment were jungle fight e rs and would help liberate south America . RUSSO said that he believes ~~~ER SH ENS TINE , KENNY CARTER , and maybe NILES PETERS ON , and would know more about the roommate and be able t o recognize RUSSO said that it would be hard for him to pinpoint the tim now but that he knew that this was in 1 963 , and he believes it was somewhere between May and October . -5- RUSSO said that during the surruner of 1 963 FERRIE became obsessed with the idea that an assasination could be carried out in the United States very easily if the proper amount of planning v1as made . Every time RUSSO talked to FERR IE he told him more and more abo~t how he was the kind of person who could successfully plan an assasination . RUSSO said that he never referred d irectly to J. F . K. and always u sed the President of Me x ico or PRESIDENT EISENHO\iER as an example . FERRIE asked him, "How many times do you remerr.ber seeing EISENHOWER riding in an ope n top automobile exposed to everyone without any protection whatsoever?" He said the limousine usually drives around ten miles an hour and frequently stops at different points. Therefor , it would be extremely easy to shoot somebody. FERRIE said that the whole key to a succes sful assasination would be the availa bility of exit and the use of the mast confusion that would resul from such a plot. FERRIE said that one person of a small group of p eople could sit down and plan the whole thing out and get out of the country after it was over before anybody knew what was going on. He said that he was the key to the availability of exit as he could jump into any plane under the sun and fly it out of the country to a place that would not extradite, such as Cuba or Brazil . He said even if for some reason the availability of exit were blocked, the people could still escape by making use of the mast confusion tha t would erupt . He said that he was sure that he could plan the whole thing very easily . RUSSO said that they got into many discussions about FERRIE's ideas on how easy an assasination would be and RUSSO said that many times he told FERRIE that it would not be as easy as he thought . RUSSO said th t he remembered once going to the Nashville Street Wharf to hear J .F .K. make a speach and he remembers tl1at he saw a Secret Servic man guarding the President every five or ten feet. RUSSO said that he knevl that these -v,cl.e either Secret Service Ir.en or FBI men because these were the only people not facing J.F.K . when he was talking. These people were looking into the crowd watching for 1 any suspicious activity. FERRIE said that all of these complica tions could be worked out with the proper amount of planning. FERRIE said that a person could use the mob confusion to help him get away but that the person should not make the mistake of getti g messed up in the crowd . FERRIE also said tha·t another way that a assasination could be successfully carried out would be through someone very intimate to the White House who had sophisticated knowledge of medicine and chemicals and how they would cause the human body to react. He said with all the knowledge he had of medicine and its reaction in relations hip to the human body, he was sure that he could commit a perfect murder and no doctor in the country and no autopsy report in the country could detect it. FERRIE said that he had extensive _knowledge of medicine and chemicals and their effects on the human body. FERRIE said that he knew what the coroner and doctors looked for when they make their autopsy report and as a result of what they would find they would have to say that the death was a result of natural causes. FEFRIE said that one thing that had to be remembered is not to physically disturb the apartment or the house because if the furniture were messed up, it may cause some suspicion as to the cause of death and further inquiry might result . He says murders are committed every day, that stupid doctors and corone rs term natural deaths . FERRIE said that he knew of a type of drug which II L------<~ ------~ -6- once it got into the bloodstream would cause physical r eaction that would result i n extensive brain damage or blood clot and eventual death. He said the physical reaction to this drug would be such that no doctor in t his country would call it anything but a n atural death. Be said the chemical involved would dissi pate without leaving any trace at all and the autopsy would say s ome t hing l ike "blood clot". RUSSO said that in September and October of 1 963 , FERR I E got worse i n his speaches about an assassination. He s aid that for the first time since he began talking about assassinations he began making direct references to J.F. K. FERRI told RUSSO on several occasions that "We will get him". (meaning J.F.K.} and that "It won 't be long". RUSSO said that he hasn't spoke n with FERRIE since the assassination. I then pulled out some pictures and I began to show RUSSO the pictures asking him whethe r or not he could ide ntify anyone in the pictures. He picked out three people . I did not disclose the names of any of the people whos e pictures I showed him. I merely said "Do you know or recognize any of these people." The fir s t p e rson he picked out was ARCACHA SMITII and he says that ARCACHA looks very much l ike t he Cuban in the pornogr ap hic film that FERRIE brouqht to his apartme nt a nd v.hich he sold to a seaman. He then called his brother , Steve, over to l ook at ARCACHA's picture and asked him if that face was familiar to him and his brother , Steve, said "Yes , it looks like t he guy in the film". RUSSO said he recognized the face because , "to be perfect y honest, I l ooked at the film quite a bit". At this point he asked me if anything he was t e lli g me would be u sed against him . I assured him that · The next picture that he identi- fied was that o CLAY He said tha t he saw this man twice . The fi~st time w he pulle d into FERR IE ' S s ervice station to g et his car fixed. SHAl-f vJ as the person who was sitting in the c ompact car t a lking with FERR IE. He remembers seeing him again at the Nashville Street Wharf when he went to see J . F.K. speak. He said he particularly remembers this guy because he was apparently a queer. It seems that instead of looking at J . F.K. speak, SHAW kept turning around and looking at all the young boys in the crowd. He said that SHAW eventually struck up a conversa tion with a young kid not too far from him . It was p e rfectly obvious to him t hat SHAW stared at his penis several times . He said that SHAW eventually l eft with a friend. He s aid that SHAW had on d ark pants that day which fit very tightly and was t he kind of pants that a lot of queers in the French Quarter wear. SHAW had on a corduroy t ype j acket which was black with white stripes . The third picture that RUSSO identified was that of LEE HARVEY OSWALD . When he l ooked at the picture , he began shaking his head and said that he doesn't know if he shou1d say wha t he ' s . thinking. I told him to go··· on and t e ll me what was on his mind and tha t we would accept this in relationship t o all the informa tion we had, and it may not be as wild as he thinks it i s . He then said that the picture of LE E HARVEY OSWA LD was the person that FERRIE had introduced to him as his room-mate . He said the only thing that doesn ' t make him stand up and s ay that he i s sure beyond the shadow of any doubt i s the fact that the room··mate was always so cruddy and had a bushy beard . He then drew a beard on the picture of OSWALD and said this was FERR I E 'S room-mate . He suggested t hat I p u t a beard on OSWALD and not s ay who it was and shew the picture to KENNY CARTER , LANDRY , KERSHENSTINE, PETE RSON , and maybe a few of the people in FERRIE 'S CAP unit who may have been up to his apartment . RUSSO was sure t hat they would say tha j that was FER ' em-mqte . ~so said that we might s how the picture to OBER'I' LEMO who lives in the vicinity of Nichols -7- High School as he was in contact. with FERRIE around that. time . RUSSO said the more we talk the more comes back to me and he said that the n ame LEON really rings a bell . He a l so said that if he were hypnotized he may have tota l recall on names and places and dates . He said that he had been hypnotized like this before and it had helped him to recall and that he would be glad to do it for us . RUSSO told me that he now v1orks at the Egui table Insurance company in Baton Rouge , p hone number 926- 5300. He s.aid · that t he best time to reach him would be around 9:30 in the morning or 4 :30 in the afternoon Monday through Friday . He s ays t hat on the weekends he usually l eaves town mostly c omi·ng to New o r l eans . I told him that we would be in touch with him. MARCH 21. 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH, INVESTIGATIVE AIDE RE: OWE N MITCHELL WRIGHT, II On 15 March 1967, at 5:30p.m., I interviewed OWEN M. WRIGHT, II, relative to his appearance at the residence of CLAY SHAW, 1313 Dauphine Street on the evening l March 1967 during the execution of a search warrant at which time he allegedly commit t e d simple battery on a photographer . At the time of his arrest, WRIGHT gave his place of residence as 5021 Iberville Street but when we located him on 15 March 1967 he was residing 4919 canal Street, Apartment '10'. He stated he had been living there for approximately eight days having moved there shortly after the incident on l March 1967. WRIGHT stated he is presently unempl~yed but formerly was a captain-pilot to Southern Airways from June, 1960, to June, 1963. This subject drives a 1967 c adillac ElDorado, bearing Louisiana License No. 339B416, which is registered to him. WRIGHT states he was grounded for medical reasons ia l963 and is no longer a commercial pilot. He is forty-five years of age, 5' 6", 142 pounds, has grey hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion. Subject stated he is a good friend of CLAY SHAW and had gone to his house on the evening of l March 1967 and upon seeing people present outside the residence, he inquired "Where is my friend Mr. shaw?" When advised by members of the press that SHAW was in custody, WRIGHT told them he was there in the interest of making bond for SHAW. He stated he had heard on the radio the news of SHAW'S arrest. WRIGHT said he did not know if SHAW was actually in custody at that time and did not know if SHAW would be home when he went there. When asked if he knew DAVE FERRIE, a former airline captain, WRIGHT said he had never known him nor had ever seen him in his life. He further stated, when asked, that he had never made any flights, commercial or private, with SHAW or FERRIE. WRIGHT admits having been arrested by the police on several occasions. One of these arrests, which WRIGHT does not recall too well, was on 28 June 1962 at a public restroom at Madison and Decatur Streets in New Orleans . This Arrest Report No. 2029, Item No. F-13795-62, showed that he had been arrested with one MICHAEL MORENO. WRIGHT admits that all information contained in this report are accurate except he has never heard of MICHAEL MORENO and denies that he could have possibly told the arresting officers he was employed by an insurance company. Police records indicate that WRIGHT and MORENO both J were arrested at the same time, under. the same i tern number, at the same location, and their names placed in the arrest book at the ~arne time. WRIGHT remained in jail overnight, appeared in First Municipal court the following day and the charge s dismissed I . ~: .. -2- He was charged with vagrancy by loitering. MORENO posted a $25.00 bond, appeared in First Hunicipal Court the next day, found guilty and sentenced to pay $50 or serve 50 days. HORENO had been arrested for attempting to commit a crime against nature on one of the arresting officers. At that time, WRIGHT was living at 534 Dauphine Street and was employed as a pilot. His place of birth is Ruston, Louisiana. HORENO was living at 545 Governor Nicholls and was unemployed. His place of birth is Havana, Cuba. WRIGHT said he had been cleared by the FBI to carry United States Hail. According to the FBI, WRIGHT had been arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 7 October 1957 for driving while intoxicated; Tucson, Arizona, on 16 August 1958 for being drunk; New Orleans on 11 June 1962 (United States Marshal) for making false state ments; New Orleans 28 June 1962 vagrancy by loitering. WRIGHT formerly lived at 534 Dauphine Street. He owned this property for approximately three years but cannot recall the date he purchased it or the date he sold it. This was a single dwelling. After that he moved to 929 Barracks Street which he sold in September, 1966. Since that time, according to WRIGHT, he has lived at various places mostly as a weekend guest. He will not say who lives at 5021 Iberville street and admits he was actually not living there at the time of the arrest on 1 Harch 1967, but was simply a "guest at that moment". A brief investigation of 5021 Iberville Street shows a DR. JAMES HACK BUDD residing there along with CARLENE BAKER, CAPT. R. L. CATHCART, JAMES NEGRI, and TANYA VOINCHE. On 6 October 1966 DR. JAMES BUDD was arrested from the Society Page Lounge, 119 Exchange Alley, a known gathering place of homosexuals, and charged with vagrancy. I have made no investigation of CAPTAIN CATHCART at this time. There is a listing for ANTONIO MORENO, Seaman, at 545 Governor Nicholls. A HICHAEL MORENO is listed as occupying apartment 1017 in the Claiborne Towers. OWEN WRIGHT is somewhat effeminate in his mannerisms and speech. He apparently had been drinking prior to our inter view but did not appear to be intoxicated. He speaks intelligent ly and is quite proper. ~\_~~ WILLIAM GURVICH c5 MEMORANDUM April 5, 1967 TO: Jim Garrison - District Attorney FROM: William Gurvich Special Aide Subject: Freemason Island Fishing Camp On March 29, 1967, at 2:50p.m., I arrived at Freemason Island by seaplane for the purpose of interviewing the operator of a fishing camp. This island is fifty miles southeast of New Orleans in the far eastern part of Louisiana. At Freemason I interviewed Mr. & Mrs. Eustis Veazey, owners and operators of the quarterboat Neptune, a commercial fishing camp. The New Orleans area address of the Veazey's is 2405 Octavia Street, Chalmette, Louisiana. This is the residence of their daughter Mrs. Oris creighton and the phone number is 271-0974. There is a two-way marine radio on the Neptune. I pursued my investigation based on a confidential informant that David Ferrie had been on this island in July, 1965 and that one of the fishermen he flew there was Clay Shaw. My investigation revealed that Ferrie had been to this island at least three times prior to Hurricane Betsy on September 9, 1965. Both Veazeys identified photograph of David Ferrie and selected photographs of Guy Bannister and Clay Shaw and said they were familiar but could make no positive identification. Mrs. Veazey has never seen a picture of Clay Shaw as they re ceive no newspapers on the island and their TV receiver has bee broken since before Shaw's arrest. The first time Ferrie flew here he was alone and came to "explore" the facilities. On the second occasion he flew a party of fishermen to Freemason at the request of Veazey. Ferrie at that time operated out of COMM-AIR at New Orleans Lakefront Airport. Ferrie's third and last visit waa a day or two prior to July 11, 1965, at that time he had flown four fishermen to the island in a land p l ane, making two trips , On July ll, Ferrie telephoned Steve Littleton of Trans-Gulf Seaplane Service Corporation, asking the latter to send a seaplane to Freemason to pick up three fishermen as the lowering ceiling prevented him from doing so in a land plane . At 1400 hours on July ll, pilot Natt Milligan arrived at the island and brought back only two fishermen. Milligan described these fishermen to me as - 1. White male, 5'11", 55- 58 years, grey hair, ruddy complexion as if sunburned. - 2 - Memorandum to Jim Garrison - Cont'd. 2. White male, S-6, early SO's, bald, tan complexion. Milligan brought these men to his base at Bayou Savage near Chef Menteur. The original Tr ans-Gulf log of July 11, 1965 was given to me and confirms the above. Several assorted ph otographs were shown to Milligan for possible recognition or identification. He selected one of Andrew Blackman and said he had seen this subject several times in the last three years around the Administration Building of New Orleans Lakefront Airport. Milligan then selected a photograph of Clay Shaw and said this was similar to one of the men he had picked up at Freemason Island for Ferrie. He said that when he arrived at the island these two men were in a small boat in the lagoon fishing and h e taxied out to them to say they should hurry as a frontal system was approaching New Orleans. The taller of the two men sat in the rear of the plane. Milligan said he did not get a very good view of either of the men in a fully erect position. When they arrived at the seaplane base, Milligan left immediately and later l e a r ne:l his two passengers had afterwards been taken by car to the Lakefront Airport. Milligan is forty years of age and may be contacted at Trans Gulf Seaplane Service Corporation, Route 6, Box 287-AC, New Orleans. All records, logs and guest registers on Freemason Island were destroyed by Hurricane Betsy on September 9, 1965. The fishing camp re-opened in April, 1966. , f March 22, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH INVE STIGATIVE AIDE SUBJECT: RUDOLPH RICHARD DAVIS, JR; - INTERVIEW WITH - 28 FEBRUARY 1967 HOUSTON, TEXAS On 28 February 1967 at 4:40P.M., Assistant District Attorney James Alcock and myself interviewed RUDOLPH RICHARD DAVIS, J R. , white male, age thirty-two, in his office, Room 214 Kirby Building, 3801 Kirby Drive, Houston, Texas. Also present was his attorney, Joseph Damiani. The following was all related in the presence of this attorney. DAVIS admitted he had known SERGIO ARCACHA for several years and it was ARCACHA who introduced him to DAVID FERRIE in New Orleans at ARCACHA's home in the Parkchester Apartments. DAVIS then resided 1570 Restbrook Drive in Parkcheste living t here for two and a half years from September 1961, to F'ebruary 1964. According to DAVIS, ARCACHA lived two blocks away and was married . ~VIS stated he saw FERRIE three or four_ times , once in ARCAC~ffi's offlce at 544 Cam Str t This was urlng e e" that which DAVIS was a member and ARCACHA At one such meetini; ~ccording to DAVIS, FERRIE said he would tlto Cuba and bo _a __ ~nstallations there. ARCACHA told DAVIS that FERRIE was a pilot and DAVIS state e observed immediately that FERRIE was homosexual just by looking at him. DAVIS said he saw FERRIE about twice at ARCACHA's house and maybe ten s at all. According t o DAVI ~:tt was wasting his time. Although the number DAVIS saw or met FERRIE are conflicting, the number of meetings stated herein are the statements of DAVIS. On one occasion, DAVIS talked to FERRIE about an old Packard automobile which needed repair. This was fixed by JOSEPH MILLA, operator of Milla Shell Station for $56.00. MILLA is a Guatemalan. _DA~V~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-£~~~~~~~ (At this point, in New Orleans ). of t he car repairs. DAVIS a pay MIL had made his sudden and unexpect d , DAVIS said this was in March 1962, then chan ed it to c 963. DAVIS continued t at lS car was subsequently ounded in Miami by the Dade County Sheriff, but the fee was .more than the value of the car and no further attempts were made to recover the vehicle. I n the interim, according to DAVIS, he -1- sent 1963 Louisiana License Plates to LAUREANO BATISTA in Miami. BATISTA headed the Christian Democratic Movement. the property raining wanted no part of this training One me RNANDO FERNANDEZ, an oriental "One hundre DAVIS stated that FERRI had nothing to do with this camp and that it was run by him and supported by BATISTA. Because of property owners' attitude the camp was disbanded. Some of the trainees went to lo!iami, Florida, via Greyhound Bus. .' RODRIGUEZ for ~ DAVIS could not identify a photograph of CLAY SHAW nor remember the name DEAN ANDREWS. He did identify a photograph of SERGIO ARCACHA. DAVIS related that MILLA was "a sad story". His wife had left him and his father-in -law pressured MILLA through some influence with the New Orleans Police Department, and MILLA could not see his children. Frustrated, he went to California and then t o Guatemala. MILLA has a brother successful accountant and is apparently in Guatemala. _:~:9-..lJ.l~n.a-CJ.-.s.s•e-~A.b&-r DAVIS said OSWALD later a Fair for Cuba meeting b y(kee Cir~ in New Orleans to protest the treatment of Cuba . The police came and disbanded the group. At that time, according to DAVIS, MARTENS was with OSWALD. 0. '(6rz~e~ en ~M ~z. cofU~z Plr ~Jhd:~ ~) -- ~ · ~ DAVIS said he had worked with the New York Police Department and said Chief Inspector McLaughlin would vouch for I him. Also a MR. DAVID KEYSER of the Cuba-America Sugar Company would also vouch for his credibilit • According to DAVIS the CIA c ac e KE our weeks prior to the Bay of Pigs. For six months, DAVIS had just been hanging around and watching Cubans in New York City. The Fair Play for Cuba committee was rece· money from CASTRO rough Ontario ada . DAVIS said when he e to New Or eans, he contacted Superintendent Gia~russo and explained his mission. He said the New York Police were much friendlier and the reception here was a cold one. DAVIS stated that at one time the President of Argentina was stopping in New Orleans .at the Royal Orleans Hotel and DAVIS discouraged Cuban exiles from picketing. DAVIS said he was introduced to OSWALD by CARLOS .:DAVIS said he wanted to infiltrate OSWALD's group and ---11.-lwS.a!.!.n~t-=:t~o=OSWALD' s house on Magazine Street with QutiROGA about 8:00 P.M. one night shortly after the BRtNGUIER debate=cin television. OSWALD's wife was home and DAVIS could see Fair Play for Cuba leaflets inside the house. DAVIS did not actually enter the house as OSWALD came out on the sidewalk and conversed with The meeting was very brief and DAVIS was not expected According to DAVIS, prior to this, OSWALD had wanted o J01.n the DAVIS g'l:'oup and spoke of his Marine training, his shooting ability, and displayed a United States Marine Corps Manual. It was after this that OSWALD distributed the Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets on the street. DAVIS stated that while the training camp was active the lake , some New Orleans men offered a forty-two foot at for the training groups use. As he recalls, the wife of one men intervened and put an end to the .. boat offer. A German scientist approached the anti-Castro group saying he had poison pellets the size of ping pong balls which would ignite when wet and these could be dropped in the sugar fields of Cuba and the moisture in the night air would be sufficient to cause ignition. This scientist wanted one million dollars in advance. According to DAVIS there was no further contact with him. > When asked about any Latins at Washington and Magazinl Streets in New Orleans , DAVIS said he knew one LUIZ GUEVARA operated a business there and also owned a dry-cleaning shop in Harvey, Louisiana. DAVIS said he did not know CLAY SHAW. The nem CLAY BERTRAND sounded only familiar to him as did the name EMILIO SANTANA . He said he had heard the name FABREGAS who was from central America. Referring to ALPHA 66, DAVIS stated this group was directed by the former president of Cuban accountants , he knew what people h ad money in foreign banks and would pressure these persons for contributions. -3- Other persons DAVIS knew, and his remarks aboutthem, follow. DE LA VEGA was a nice man and is a public relations man for a Venezuelan airline. GIL is a CPA and gave proof of how ALPHA 66 raised money. BRINGUIER is a good fellow, whose father was a judge in Cuba. He was not connected with FE RRIE like ARCACHA was . LUIZ RABEL apparently had a t=j daughter an on-~n-law wereinvolve ~n ~n 1961 which apparently stemmed from ·a 0 ~~~~~~------He also know ROMERO MONTA LBO who is a dear friend who was at the Bay of Pigs:- · According to DAVIS, MIGEL URIA sells stocks and bonds in New Or l eans . He claims to be a good friend of ALBERTO FOWLER. He also knows of CARLOS FINLEY but knows nothing about him. SILVIA ootio and her ~--==~~~~~~~~~~~-=~~~~~~~~~u_~~~b~~------D DAVIS says he knO\vS G. WRAY GILL c~~~ He also added GUS DE LA BARRE is t he godfatbe* ~f DAVIS's s n. Refe rring to t he theft of explosives in Houma, Louisiana, DAVIS explained that FERRI E and ARCACHA were involved in this anq w n RABEL was told about it he wanted to know "If 't PIEDRA was also told of this very dangerous. e was for hire. DAVIS is an e ncyclopedia salesman . At the t ime of our interview, he was we ll dressed and sat at his desk in a smal l , well-furnished office with his f ee t on th€ desk and smoked a cigar. My impression of him was that he was intelligent, had a fair memory, and 1t1as somewhat a bragger. \_)~~~~~-WILLIAM GURVICH - 4 - cs .._ ..... March 27, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: JOHN P. VOLZ, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: STATE ~ersus CLAY SHAW Shortly before the preliminary hear1ng, I extensively examined CLAY SHAW's files at the International Trade Mart Build ing . Although the primary purpose of the examination was to cover a possible alibi if SHAW took the stand, I did note some other things which might become important. Meetings attended by SHAW as reflected in the minutes: July 3, 1963 - Central Area Committee July 31, 1963 - Central Area Committee August 2, 1963 - Board of Directors Meeting August 20, 1963 - Executive Committee Receptions apparently attended by SHAW evidenced by his written instructions to his secretary to accept and calendar the in vita tions: September 13, 1963 - Cocktail Party, 1448 Fourth st: September 15, 1963 - Counsel General of France September 17, 1963- Reception- Japan Trade Ce~ter 'I Letters apparently signed by CLAY SHAW on the following I dates: September 18th, 20th and 26th, 1963. Telegram confirming reservations at the St. Francis Hotel on November , 21, 1963. Expenses for trip . paid for by International Trade Mart. Trip to Oregon for speech in later November not paid for by International Trade Mart. ~ - 1- ...... -. . . ~ ~ember 1 ~~ 963 - Trip to ~e w york Expense voucher 870. (While in New York h e stayed at the Hotel Plaza and made one long- distance call on Decembe r 18th, at a cost of $5.83 . ) 964 - Trip to New York. (He again No long-dJ.stance .calls . ) In May 1964 he was given an advance for a trip to Cedar Rapids, Michigan. I NOTE : SHAW never traveled by airplane unless it was absolutely necessary no matter how far the distance . (Goldie Moore , Secretary). JPV/leb - 2 - March 6, 1967 TO: LOU !VON, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR FROM: JAMES L. ALCOCK, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE: TRUTH VERIFICATION OF DANTE MAROCHINI'S STATEMENT As per Mr. Garrison's suggestion that DANTE MAROCHINI be asked to t ake some method of truth verification, I point out 2 areas of possible conflict: 1) JAMES LEWALLEN stated that he introduced PANTE ~~ROCHINI to CLAY SriAW. DANTE MAROCHINI denied this. 2} Surveillance reflected in cr--i-mi""ffdl ''&Cord shows DANTE MAROCHINI 's automobile was ?.t DAVID FERRIE's residence in November of 1962; that DAVID FERRIE arrived at the residence subsequent to the arrival of the automobile and that 2 men l eft FERRIE's apartment in DANTE MAROCHINI's automobile, which means that the 2 men in MAROCHINI's automobile arrived at DAVID FERRIE's apartment and/or were there in DAVID FERRIE's absence, thus contradicting this in DANTE MAROCHINI's statement that only he drove his automobile; that he never arrived at or visited in DAVID FERRIE's apartment at a time when FERRIE was not there; and tha t DAVID FERRIE never left while he {MAROCHINI) was at FERRIE's apartment. cs OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTO~~y STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF ORLEANS April 5, 1957 ISTATEM EN T OF: CLYDE JOHl'lSON BOX 327 Kentwood, Louisiana RE: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION On March 30, 1967 I called the District Attorney's Office in New Orleans and told them I had information concerning the case and I had previously talked to Sargent Pitcher in East I Baton Rouge Parish. I asked the District Attorney's Office in New Orleans to convey me from Kentwood, Louisiana to New Orleans . I arrived in the District Attorney ' s Office at approximately 6 : 15 P.M. on March 30, 1967 , at which time I gave certain information t o Michale Karmazin , Assistant District Attorney . This inform~ t i on is r elati ve to the assassination of John F . Kennedy. I n 1963 I was a candidate for governor of Louisiana and was campaigning apout the State of Louisiana. Sometime around July or August 1963 I rece ive d a telephone page in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel where I was staying . I was coming through the lobby and my cars were parked in front of the hote l and in front of t he garage . (These were cars used i n the campaign with stickers on them ). I also had a brief case with a bumper sticker pasted on it saying "CLYDE JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR" . I had a suite in the hotel and had several supporters in the room with me . I went to the house phone and the party on t he line told me to meet him at the entrance of th~· hote l. He had i ntroduced himself over _the telephone as MR . ALTON BERJ.' On March 30, 1966 , at approximate~y 6 : 30 P.M. I was shovm a group of photographs totaling 35 in number, at which time I picked out the 3 photographs of the pe ople whom I have identi fied as ALTON BERNARD , LEON and JACK. The person whom I have identifi ed as JACK was 165-170 lbs , approximate ly 5'8" tall, dark hair which was thinning and with a receding hairline. The person I identified as LEON was approximately 5'9" tall , 140-150 lbs, small stubble of beard ; his hairline was receding _. a!ld _:i.n n~<:~ of cutting; he had a hatchet-like face 'and wore "casu-al clothing. The person I identified as ALTON BERNARD was well dressed with shirt, tie and suit and over 6 feet tall;'· heavy, possbly over 200 pounds . . high cheeck bones ; very arti culart, i . e. , we ll spoken ; · grey hair. The person who was introduced to me as JACK 1 subse quently ide ntified and one I selected out of 35 photographs, i s the same p erson whom I know to b e JACK RUBY . The p e rson who was introduced as LEON and whose photograph I sel ected out of the 35 photographs I no\v know him to be LEE HARVEY OSWALD. The person who introduced himself to me as ALTON BERNARD and whom I had met on 2 occas ions and from whom I h ad received a total amount of $7,000.00, and whom I sel ected from the 35 photographs , I now i dentify a s CLAY SHAW. The r eason I h ave not come forward prior t o this time is that I had kno\VD tha t OSWALD was arreste d and subseque ntly shot by J ACK RUBY , and that J ACK RUBY was tried and convicted , and subsequently died . It was only after I had seen CLAY SHAW's pictures in the newsp aper and on TV that I associated RUBY , OSWALD and SHAW .as b eing the p e rsons in my room in Baton Rouge. I have bee n scared and I also felt tha t the l aw has been t aking its natural course when they apprehended OSWALD and RUBY and it was only at the time that I associated CLAY SHAW as b e i n g the other p e rson that the full impace of the events that occurred in my room struck me. I have received no promises whatsoever and I am not looking for any, and although I am not a pro-Kennedy man , i n my way I r eferred back to the. Bible which states "Know the truth and it shall make you free ", and I am making this statement in the cause of justice TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: WILLIAM GURVICH SPECIAL AIDE SUBJECT: RAYMOND C~1INGS--INTERVIEW WITH Pending the tape transcription of the interview with RAYMOND c. CUMMINGS in Dallas by James Alcock and William Gurvich, the following report is respectfully submitted based on notes made at the time of the interview. RAYMOND CUMMINGS was contacted at a VFW Club on Saturday, 25 February 1967 at 9:05 P.M. where he was playing music and >vas interviewed outside this club. CUMMINGS works for the Power & Light Company in Dallas and is a former wrestler According to CUMMINGS he was driving a Yellow Cab in Dallas between January and May of 1 963 during which time he reca lls picking up LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the Continental Bus Station and driving him to Irving, Texas. OSWALD did not have enough money to pay the fare and told CU1'1.IviiNGS this enrou te to I rving. OSWALD apparently saw the tattoo on CUMMINGS ' arm and said that he, too, was an ex-Harine adding tha t he only had $1.50. CUMMINGS agreed to carry him to Irving and shut the meter off when it reached $1.50. He actually shut it off at $1.45. CUHMINGS recalls that OSWALD was dressed rather shabbily and was carrying a canvass type handbag similar to those that servicemen carry. OSWALD was wearing a white shirt with sleeves rolled up and was hatless. CUMMINGS conveyed him t o a house , the exac t address of which h e does not remember. OSWALD told CUMMINGS he was "down on his luck". CUMMINGS offered to go with Alcock arrl me to Irving in an attempt to locate this house. We met CUHHINGS on Sw1day, 26 February 1967 at 12:01 P.H. and drove him to Irving, Texas, 5 miles west of Dallas. Following CUMMINGS' direction we crisscrossed numerous streets in the section of Irving that looked familiar to C~MINGS . 'thout m~ositive identification CUMMINGS selected 107 Oa~dale Streeti nd said this was more familiar than any other seen with us. The name on the mail box in front of this house was L. L. BARGER . This was a small single r esidence of wooden construction.in a low income, semi rura l neighborhood. CUMMINGS also informed us that about one week after taking OSWALD to Irving , he picked up three men at the intersection of Harsalis and the Expressway in Dallas and conveyed them in his cab to JACK RUBY's Carousel Club. Accordin to CUMMINGS one of these men was LEE HARVEY OSWALD, another -1- DAVID WILLIAM FERRIE and he cannot identify the third man. He recalls that FERRIE was unusual looking. CUMMINGS identified photographs of OSWALD and FERRIE from a variety of photographs shown to him and admits having seen pictures of both OSWALD ard FERRIE in the newspapers. The third man was about 6' in height and looked as if he might have been Italian . CUMlUNGS stated that trip sheets at the Yellow Cab Company ·would assist in corroborating his stories. He has never given this information to anyone nor has he ever been approached by anyone for information . En route to the c arousel Club, OSWALD r ememberd CUMMINGS and told him he appreciated the favor he did in taking him to Irving . The three men , as CUMMINGS recalls , were talking about Louisiana. Arriving at the Ca rousel Club, FERRIE paid the fare and the three passengers went upstairs into the Club . CUV.MINGS described FERRIE as "a spook in the night" and felt sorry for him. CUMMINGS then went upstairs in to the Club himself and received $1.50 tip from the man at the door as a gratuity for bringing customers . CUMMINGS added that this gratuity-system was not n ew. In this i nterview CUMMINGS stated that he dis l iked the Dallas Police Department. He admitted having been arrested once and that was in Belton, Texas . Explaining this arrest, CUMMINGS stated his Mother was hospitalized and needed surgery and he had gone to the bank and withdrawn. a large sum of money and was arrested for having a pis tel in the front seat of his car which he claims he had for his own protection. CUNMINGS also remar]5:ed that he would not object to helping the FBI. CUHMINGS added he has a brother WESLEY CUMMINGS , 38 years of age , residing in Los Angeles, who might have me t FERRIE in Dallas. This brother according to C~.MINGS is an alcoholic. Without b e ing asked, CUMMINGS said he would b e willing to come to New Orleans i:!: his tare was paid and take a Polygraph test. RAYMOND CUMMINGS is a white male, 34 years of age and resides at 924 Robinhood , Mesquite , Texas with his wife and children. His phone number i s AT-5-6912. WILLIAM GURVICH SPECIAL AIDE W"G/leb February 17, 1967 TO: Jll1 GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: RICHARD V. BL~ES, ASSISTANT DIS1RICT ATTORNEY RE: CITY DIRECTORY CHECK OF RESIDENTS IN 1300 BLOCK ------~~~~~ An earlier Preliminary Report listed the occupants of the 1300 Block of Dauphine Street for 1962 and 1964. A follow-up City Directory check of the occupation listings of those occupants was made and I report as follows : CITY DIRECTORY - 1962 "PUIG, Mrs. Eveley - hl3l0 Dauphine" "VALLEE, Eola T. (wid Henry) - 1312 Dauphine" "SHAW, Clay L. - mgr div International Trade Mart hl313 Dauphine" "DIKET, Emerson F surveyor hl3l5 Dauphine" "PACE, W. Glenn (Mary) asst mgr Palace Theater hl316 Dauphine" "ENCLADE, Edw (Alice) - lab City Dept. Sanitation hl318 Dauph i e" "GRABERT, Leopold (Barbara) lab Kaiser Alum hl330 Dauphine" CITY DIRECTORY - 1964 "CURBELO, Vega ~Hl309 Dauphine apt 12" "PUIG, Eveley Mrs. hl310 Dauphine" "VALLEE, Eola T (sid Henry) hl312 Dauphine" "SHA~v. Clay L nigr dir International Trade Mart hl313 Dauphine" "PACE, W Glenn (Hary) asst mgr Palace Theatre hl316 Dauphine" "VAUGHN, Patk h rear 1316 Dauphine" "CLARKE Alan B - eng Chrysle r Corp hl317 Dauphine" "ENCLADE, Edw {Alice D) lab City Dept of Sanitation hl318 Dauphine " "GRABERT, Leopold (Barbara R) lab Kaiser Alum hl320 Dauphine" -1- - I Attached to this memorandum you will find Xerox I copies of the City Directory of each of the above mentioned j listings. This might prove beneficial in the even t of a search for persons with similar las t names during the period in question as they would also be listed next to the entry copied. RICHARD V. BURNES RVB/leb j, / MEHORANDUM February 16, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISO~, DISTRICT ATTO~~ FROM: LYNN LOISELL, INVESTIGATOR RE: INTERVIEW OF EHILIO SANTANA - FEBRUARY 16, 1967 INTERPRETER S. During the blockade I was out in a small boat and OS>-TALDO CUELLO received a message not to go on into Cuba. Lots of times it happens that they sent 1.1s back. L. You were out for 18 or 20 days? S. During the blockade we were supposed to stay around the area, not to go into Cuba, and the only one that knows where we were bound to is the master. L. Is that the man? He would get the assignments through the master? S. The master does not know anything of where or what I am going to do in Cuba. The only person ~ho could know what I am supposed to do in Cuba is my leader. Even if there is 15 or 20 men in the boat nobody else is supposed to know each other's business. L.You He mentioned before that you knew 2 names of 2 Americans who were involved in S. Bob or BROOK - one of those two names. Big man with reddi h like complexion. A pilot. L. Give us a description of this mane. S About your height (Loise l}, not too much hair, reddish complexion, lots of freckles. I have talked to that man several t imes but my problem is the name. We spent several days, maybe 10 days, together in one boat. L. Where was he from? S. I met him in Miami and I have seen him in one office in Miami but I do not know where he is from. The person that takes care of the office is an American girl name of Kathy. I do not knmv where the office is. The office is located on the 8th Avenue right at the corner of a bridge by the river. It is next to a hardware establishment and I think it is named Riverside. I ;- L. Whil e you wereL~ New Or l eans you were c on ~ ac ted by a c ouple o f i ndividuals down her e to go to the St. Thomas Project t o j o i n an organi zation . S. Whil e I was here I was contac t ed by these 2 per sons ,bu t I know one of t hem, t o go t o t he St. Thomas Office Project and f ill ou t some applicat i ons b e c ause the y want me to work for them . An d this fellm1s name i s e ithe r CARLOS or RICARDO a nd his l as t name i s FABREGA . L. YOu me ntion ab out this fellow CARLOS , i s tha t t he f ell ow? ---{photo) S. Th is does not s e e m t o be the man . The one you s howed me the othe r d a y look s like him with a mou s t a che . L. --o s~ Yes. L. Is that wh e re you me t MIGUEL TORRES? s. Ye s. L. Are you positive on that meeting place ? s. I think it is the place, and MIGUEL TORRES was fixing a car and I think a black Buick, 1954. L. Does ROBERTO FERRER know MIGUEL TORRES? s. I met MIGUEL at the gas station at Magaz ine a nd --wiShin ton. ROBER RAR I met hlm around De cat ur -Street. And later I went to have a haircut with lm. L. After you were approache d by the s e fellows in the service station about making an application in the project, did you e ver conta ct anyone in the project? S. MIGUEL TORRES has ne ver talked to me about any applica tion. The one who talke d to me about the application is FABRIGA. L. Which one is the s e rvice station? {shown 3 photos) S. I think it was the Conoco but I an not sure as it has b een 3 yea rs ago. L. Did he answe r about contacting anybody in the proje ct? s. I neve r did go and s ee anybody or fill out an applica tion in the St. Thomas Project. f'Ff..t::.A~B~R~I~G::_A;:_g~a~v~e'-:m~e..._..._..,.._":"....__...u..uw..u:.-j- which I might have at home jn Miami but I aFII not snr;> . L. Were you active with the CIA while in New Orleans. s. No. I have worked with the CIA 2 years out of 5 ye ars I here. When I came from Cuba I worked for the CIA 2 yea rs. When I was in New Orleans I was not working for the CIA. -2- L. Do you know anybody down in New Orleans that belon~s to any anti-Cas t ro organization? S. I do not know many in the organization but I think FABRIGA he belongs to the ALPHA organization because he told me. ·L. Do you know anybody who belongs to any pro-Castro organ i zation in New Orleans? S. No. If I would have known of anybody. that belongs to a pro-Castro organization I would have mentioned it a long time ago . L. While you were in New Orleans had you heard any talk about the training camp acros s the lake? s. I have not.Ei~ in New Orleans or Miami. I heard about it yesterday in the automobile with you. L. Does the name CARLOS BRINGUER mean anything to you? S. I ~e notice d that his name was CARLOS BRINGUER because you told me on the picture. I have seen him several times whenever I went to buy books at his store. I did not know what his name was. L. Do you know BRINGUER'S uncle who is secretary to the Cuban president? S. No, I do not know it but the fellov; that was here briefly told him about BRINGUER and his uncle. L. When he was in New Orleans before, what bars did he go to? S. I was twice in ORESTA' S Havana Bar and twice in another bar by the name of Copacabana Bar. L. What about Vie's on Decatur Street? S. When I was here probably that bar wasn 't there. I know the bar where they play Italian music. I never been in there. But the one you mentioned I do not know. L. Do you know MANUEL GONZALEZ? S. ( I me t a fellow by the name of MANOLO which is MANUEL in Spanish, but I do not know his last name. This MANUEL was working with me fishing oysters in Biloxi, 2 miles after Bay St. Louis - This is in Mississippi. 90 or 100 miles from here. L. Give us a physical description of MANUEL. s. He is skinny like me, a little bit taller than me and dark complexion . We worked together for 6 months on the same ship~on the same boat). I know him pretty well when I see him. He is about 34 or 35 years old. -3- L. Give me the name of the man who you were working for in Mississippi. S. Harold Herbert, but he lives in Biloxi; his restaura~t is in Biloxi. He has 2 boats . One of the ships is named Laure lee and the o ther boat's name is ~vagon train . .L. Do you know anybody by t he name of TO RO? s. No. L. Is that a common name among Cuban's? S. Toro is the name of an an imal - that is no .name. I could be like a nickname. Like nervous and ex~ited. L. EL GUACO? S. No. That is not a name . Maybe if you could show me a picture. If you have names like that you are going to have a lot of trouble trying to find them b e cause they are not name s t hey are nicknames. L. Do you know WUYO BARRATO? S. Yes, I know him. He is a physician and I think he is here in the United Sta tes . Eithe r he re or somewhere e lse. He has a brother in Miami who has a gas station . He is a dentist L. Do you know LOUI S GARCIA? s. I think I know LOUIS GARCIA, but I cannot r e call him right now. The name is familiar but I do not. know where . L. DO YOU know the name RIGILIO SEQUERIA? S. I know two RIGILIOS. One i s BARRA TO' Mhich is a brother of WUYO BARRATO and the other is RIGILIO FERN~NDEZ who used to work at CIA too. When I - ·was working he was working too. The last name you give me is SEQUERIA. L. Do you know the name LUCIO PEREZ? S. I do not know him. ~ L. Do you know the name MARIO PEGUERO? S. I know a MARIO FEGBE RO from my home town but I haven't see him in Miami. I know him from Caibarien Bay, Cuba. This fellow has a lot of money and was in jail in Cuba and came out of jail and I have n't seen him since. L. Do you know the name MIGUEL GALAN BLANCO? S. I heard the name of BLANCO on one of the CIA ·ships but I do not know whether he is GALAN BLANCO OR MIBUEL BL~~CO. The master was GAS PARD BRU . -4- : L. Do you know the name CAMILlO LOPE Z? S. CAMILIO LOPEZ. No I haven't heard of him. L. Give us some names of some people who come from your horne town. ·S. MARIO NODAL (he was in the CIA) BLAS CASTRO, PEPE (I don't know his last name) ROGELIO FERNANDEZ. L. Give us the names especially those who were in t he CIA. S. I know that there are about 50 of them but I cannot r ernembe right now the ir n ames . L. FERNANDO FERNANDEZ? S. I think I know tha t fellow. I could place him. I have seen him in Miami. s. I know tha name of OSWALOO CUELLO. He is a radioman on one of the ships for the CIA, and in Cuba he was the telegraph man and is now in Mi a~ i. In Cuba he is working for t he post office department and in Miami he used to be in charge of the telegraph in these operations. A fisherman in Caibarein, but he works for or used to work for CIA is EUSEBIO RUIZ. Another fellow who i s a f1 sherrnan too in Ca ibarein,right now h e works for the CIA in Miami and his harne is CHICO RUIZ. MARIO RUIZ MARTINEZ, he is still working for the cia. I know plenty p eople but I can't remember all of them but they come from CAIRBAREIN , CARDENAS , VARADO AND NUEVITAS. Another fellow by tre name BENETO CARRILLO who was a fishe rman in Cairbarein he u sed to wo rk for the CIA but . ~;tt ' I don' t think he is working for them any longer. -5- CS1 March 23, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRO.I-1: WILLIA.I-1 GURVICH INVESTIGATIVE AIDE SUBJECT: CHARLES EARL DANIELS - N.O.P.D. 120-466 Although police reports on CHARLES EARL DANIELS are in this office and contain more detailed infonnation about this subject's criminal history, I am submitting this memorandum in view of the importance and significance of this individual. DANIELS has been arrested several times for sex offenses - indecent exposure, obscenity, indecent behavior with juveniles - one of thse arrests being in New Orleans on 2 Dece 1965. At that time DANIELS was driving a 1959 Ford Thunderbird Convertible, Black, bearing Louisiana License (1965) 66B832. This car was registered to CLAY SHAW, 124 Camp Street. The motor number of this car was H9YH142226. The police were notified at 124 Camp Street that SHAW was in Hexico. Later they were notified by SHAW's attorney that he had contacted SHAW in Mexico and was told that the car had been sold to DANIELS two weeks or so previous. It was also stated that DANIELS was a house painter for SHAW. Apparently this story was inaccurate as State records indicate that SHAW later changed the owner's (SHAW) address as 927 Burgundy Street. SHAW apparentl owned this property. The mortgage, in SHAW's name, was released on this vehicle on 25 Hay 1966. This vehicle was purchased by SHAW on 12 September 1959 from DUTCH O'NEIL HOTORS in New Orleans. At the time of purchase the color was cream. At the time of DANIEL's arrest it was black. DANIELS at that time lived at 809 Treme Street and stated his occupation was bartender. He also stated he had been discharged from the u. s. Army because of his uncontrollable sex -· habits. DANIELS was also arrested in Fayetteville, North Carolina on 23 February 1965 on two (2) counts of indecent exposure. A 60-day road gang sentence and $20 plus court costs were suspended providing he receive psychiatric treatment. DANIELS is a Negro male. WILLIAM GURVICH ----- ~ ______,___ csiI j j 1 March 23, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: LYNN LOISEL, INVESTIGATOR RE: BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF CLAY SHAW I checked with the Bureau of Vital Statis ics, City Hall, New Orleans and found no record of CLAY LKVERNE SHAW, born March 17, 1913. This check was made by a Mrs. Penouilh, Supervisor of this Bureau. I then went to the State Office Building to the Louisiana State Board of Health in the Civic Center and checked with a Miss Montz, a Clerk in this office , and she made a record check of CLAY LAVERNE SHAW, born March 17, 1913. Records were not kept by the State until 19 1~ . - but in some instances persons have sent their certificates into this office for filing if they were born previous to the time the State started keeping these records. LYNN LOISEL LL/leb f" " I ' 1 ."! ! .i · c.s MARCH 23, 1967 Tci: LOUIS IVON, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR FROM: CHARLES JONAU, DE'l'ECTIVE RE: PHONE CALL MADE TO KENTWOOD, LOUISIANA AND NEW YORK CITY, RELATIVE TO CLAY SHAW (ALIAS CLAY BERTRAND) ------On March 15, 1967, De tective Jonau received a phone call from Mr. Jim Garrison directing the officer to check by phone possible records on CLAY SHAW ( alias CLAY BERTRAND ) . Mr. Garrison stated to check Kentwood, Louisiana, and also check New York City. The call was made to the Sheriff's Office in Amite, Louisiana, Tangipahoa Parish, which is the location for the Sheriff's Office in this parish. Information was given to the Re cord Division there and the results were negative. Detective Jonau also called Kentwood, Louisiana Police Department and negative results were also obtaine there on CLAY SHAW ( alias CLAY BERTRAND ) . A phone call was made to the New York City Police Department . Information was given to the Record Division. That office stated that they would call us as soon as n ame checks were made on SHAW and BERTRAND. At about 3:00p.m. same date, Detective Navarre r eceived information from New York City Police Department that they have no record on CI,AY SHAW or CLAY BERTRAND. DETECTIVE CHARLES JONAU ·(l ,;. ~----~----~ ' -~------~~~·~~------~------~------~----~--_j March 22, 1967 TO: LOUIS IVON, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR FROM: C. J. NAVARRE, INVESTIGATOR RE: INTERVIE\'1 HRS. VIRGINIA JOHNSON, C/F Residing 6434 N. Derbigny Street On March 20, 1967, at 5:40 P. M. Officer C. Navarre went to 6434 N. Derbigny Street and interviewed MRS . VIRGINIA JOHNSON. MRS. VIRGINIA JOHNSON stated tha~ she was employed by MR. CLAY SHAW for approximately eight years as a maid in his residence. She started working for him in a residence somewhere on Burgundy Street in the French Quarter. This employment terminated in September 1965, due to Hurricane Betsy. Her hours were from 3:00 P. M. till 6:30 P. M. and the work consisted of cleaning house, cooking supper, and the buying of food. Her salary was $35.00 per week and $20.00 for the purchase of food. This $20.00 for food was a check made out in her name and she cashed all of them at Puglia's Food Store on St. Claude Avenue. MRS. JOHNSON related that MR. SHAW would have friends over on occasions but she did not know their namea She said definitely that she did not see DAVE FERRIE, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, or MR. DEAN A~IDREWS there at anytime. Officer Navarre at this time confronted MRS. JOHNSON with witnesses' names who overheard her say that MR. SHAW received a letter addressed to his residence under the name of MR. CLAY BERTRAND. This conversation took place on Thursday, March 9, 1967, between 9:00 P. M. and 9:~0 P. M. at a serving class located 5324 Franklin Avenue which is Baltazor's Fabric Shop. MRS. JOHNSON stated that these people were kidding her about going to jail and she told them that she made a black hood for MR. SHAW which was part She could not say if he wore this costume was a couple " 1 of years ago. Further that she she saw a letter under the name --~-N~a~v~a~r~r~e~~t~-~-&ne~~~LO~:~~~~-Xtill~~~~~~~~L---~~~~~--~~ - ~? . that she heard MRS. JOHNSON could not give the correct spelling of thi but stated MR. FARMADOL would stay with MR. SHAW when he town and that his employment was fixing patios. She last -*~~~-;~~M~-noL in 1963. MRS. JOHNSON was-ve?y evasive abOut how she heard MR. SHAW was MR. BERTRAND. When MRS. JOHNSON was asked "How she knew about BERTRAND?" her answer was "I don't want to get mixed up in this mess." MRS. JOHNSON then stated that she can't quite remember and that, "the name 'BERTRAND' rings to her." MRS. JOHNSON then related that she heard the name BERTRAND -2- from MR. FARMADOL . ~!hen asked if MR. FORMADOL referred to MR . SH AW as BERTRAND she stated no, but she heard the name from him. Officer Navarre was unable to pin her down on any specific point in reference to the name "BERTRAi-TD ". When the question of homosexuals was brought up, MRS. JOHNSON stated that she had never seen anything, but she heard around the French Quarter that MR. SHAW was like that. And further that the friends he would have over to the house appeared to have feminine tendencies and appeared to be gay. MRS. JOHNSON repeated the fact that MR. SHAW was a good man and the probe was a shock to her and that this is the entire truth as she is a church-going person and a christian. -~' _ _._L .L -·-----~---~ March 17, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: LORRAINE LE BOUEF RE: TELEPHONE CALL FROM DR. GORDON Lo GINN-887-3703 ... - ·- Dr. Ginn-'s maid told Dr. Ginn that her husband, one Bob Stratton (he was not sure of first name), works for the T &-R Demolishing Company in Algiers which is owned by a Mr. Gill. - In 1962 StrattOn was w~rking as _a - gatekeeper - for this company and; -alter seeing -shaw's picture in the paper, -_ remembered that during that- year he had -admitted Clay Shaw and two Cubans who were going hunting on the grounds. Stratton had made mention of the fact that ~ _t•ie ohll.ar men were 'funny looking" and was told - they were Cubans. - ~ March 17, 1967 TO: CHARLES R. WARD, Chi-ef" A-ssistant Distr:lct Attorney FR0!1: NUMA BERTEL, Assistant District Attorney ---- ~---~------~------~------~--~~------~:------~-- CHARLES RIVET, Secretary of the Ne-~1 Orleans Bar Association, was in to see me this day with the _following -information. He s·tated th<~t he had been told that LEE HARVEY OSWALD spent some time· at the Jes · · e, Ala am~ u pon h~s retur~ from Russia. He further stated that he _. •!1a(f"been told that CLAY SHAW nade a speach in Mobile. Alabama. He _did not have any . information as. to whe-ther or not both subject were in }1o~ile, Alabam~ at the same t .ime but thought that we migh wish to check on this information arid suggested .. that the Chamber.. · of Coinrnerc_e ·at Mobile might knov1 when SHA\\1 made a ·speach in Mobil and the official at the Jesuit House of. Stuqies mig:ht know when · OSWALD visited there. NUNA BERTEL March 17, 1967 TO: LOUIS !VON, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR FROM: CLIENCY NAVARRE, INVESTIGATOR RE: TRAFFIC VIOLATION CHECKS ON LI CENSE NUMBERS CONNECTED WITH CLAY SHAW ------The following license plates were checked by me throug the Traffic Bureau in city Hall and the Traffic court . From these records it was established that there were no viol ations registered under the name of CLAY SHAW, CLAY BERTRAND or CLEM BERTRAND. Al so, a license plate number check was made through City Ha l l and no violations were found for the below l icense number s. 66-67 Louisiana issue 6L760 65 Louisiana issue 66B832 66- 67 issue 6L760 and 2L939 These checks were made on March 1 6, 1967, by GENE GARY and LOUIS SERG IO, official s of the Traffic Court. Attac hment Marcil 16, 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON , DIS'i'RIC'l' ll'l'TORNEY FRO:..;: SG'l'. TOM DUFFY RE: TELEPHONE CONVERSATIO:J At approximaLcly 3:30 P. M. March 16, 1967, Sgt. Thoma Duffy received a long distance telephone call from Chicago, Illi nois. The person who called was a MR .• ~ IIARTrES KHOP, telephone number 663-1522, area code 312 . MR. KROP stated that shortly ~fLer 1he deal h of~ President of the United States, he was affiliated with a cubun organ~za·n on ~n Chicugo, Illinois . At ~~~n· s t :ti!1le _t "'il e orqan~za. t·~on" was t·rylng. to ralsc funas' to assasln-- ate FIDEL CASTRO. He then contacted the FBI and asked them if ~t h ey \'Jould ·be interested. .HR. KROP recorded a subsequent con versation with the Cubans involved and ~old them Lhat before he \•iou).d try to raise .any . funds for this assasini'l·Lion attempt he wpuld have to know who was involved and if any other ~itics were also raising funds. In the course of the conversation the Cuban. told him that they were also ruising funds in NcvJ Orleans, L·ouisi ana , and Lhat two of the men connected with it;.....:.'-"-"" we ...... '"""-l-+- and SHl\1\1. At that time MR. KHOP let the FBI listen to the tapes. --}/;!'{. KROP stated. that earl_i,,: today, March 16, 1967 , he contacted the FBI again because of the two names being mentioned in the Garrison investigation . .. MR. KROP stuted that he was leaving lown in a little while on business and would return to Chica~o on Tuesday , .Harch 21, 1967. The FBI advised that they would ·meet him Tuesday morning to list.en to the tapes again . MR. KROP then notified Sgl. Duffy lo see if we would be interested . Sgt. Duffy contacted Y!R. "KROP at approximately" 4 P. I-1 ., March 16, 1967, and requested that ~ffi. KROP send a copy of the tape to the Di.str ict Att.orney ' s Office. MR. KROP staled that he? would do this Tuesday Morning and also send the two names of the? Cubans involved in the conversation. Ile also requested that his name be kept quiet because the cubans involved were of t he militant type? . I FEBRUARY8 1967 TO: JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM: LYNN LOISEL, INVESTIGATOR