W Guy Banister

[Magda Hassan]

Oswald and 544 Camp, Part 1 Historian Dr. Michael L. Kurtz was a student at Louisiana State University in New Orleans during the 1962-63 school year. In 1958, LSU-NO, now the University of New Orleans, became one of the first racially integrated universities in the South. One of the most vocal opponents of that decision was W. Guy Banister. It is now common knowledge that Banister recruited LSU-NO students to spy on fellow students and faculty members. He also made frequent visits to the campus. One day in May 1963, Michael Kurtz attended an informal meeting in an unoccupied LSU-NO classroom where Guy Banister debated a number of students on the issue of integration. Banister was introduced by an LSU student named George Higgenbothan. Kurtz knew of Banister; he'd seen him on campus on perhaps a half-dozen occasions to this and would see him a few times more. Guy Banister brought a young man to the meeting with him; Banister introduced the young man as "Lee Oswald." Banister debated integration with the students, arguing for a return to full segregation and criticizing the group for attending an integrated school. While Banister tangled with the pro-integration collegiates, Oswald seemed to fade into the background, and -- to the best of Kurtz' recollection -- said nothing (Author's interview of October 5, 1998). Higgenbothan is mentioned in Hinckle & Turner's book, Deadly Secrets: "George Higgenbothan, one of Banister's collegiate undercover agents, recalled that when he kidded his boss about sharing a building with people papering the streets with leftist literature, Banister snapped, "Cool it -- one of them is mine" (Hinckle & Turner, 234-35). Higgenbothan admitted to a Garrison staff member that he indeed knew Oswald (Memo in Garrison files). Kurtz saw Banister and Oswald together once more, when he was working that summer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, located across the street from the Newman Building at 544 Camp Street and 531 Lafayette. One day in July or August, Kurtz walked across the street to Mancuso's, the coffee shop on the first floor of the Newman Building, to get a cup of coffee. Guy Banister and Lee Harvey Oswald, just the two of them, were sitting at a table together. Banister recognized Kurtz and waved, and Kurtz waved back (Ibid.). Oswald and Banister made at least one other visit to the LSU-NO campus. Kurtz was not present, but he heard about it from a fellow student who had been. The event apparently was very similar to the one Kurtz attended, with one exception - this time it was Oswald who debated the students and argued vehemently against the civil rights program of President Kennedy and against integration in general. This event suggests a reason for Oswald's reticence on the other occasion - he was in all likelihood observing the way Banister debated the students. Now, Banister was probably seeing how Oswald himself could handle such issues (Kurtz, "Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans," Louisiana History, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1981). A friend of Kurtz', Van Burns was working at Pontchartrain Beach, an amusement park off Lake Pontchartrain, in the summer of 1963. He was working his booth one night when a friend of his walked up with two others. Burns' friend introduced the pair to Burns -- their names were David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald. After a moment Ferrie and Oswald strolled off down the boardwalk together. Burns' friend told him that Ferrie was a pilot who had been involved with the Bay of Pigs, and that he had personally flown to Cuba with Ferrie as his pilot. Kurtz and Burns each recognized Oswald by face and by name when he saw him on television on November 22, 1963. Kurtz later found a number of people who recalled Oswald and Ferrie together; Oswald and Ferrie had spent numerous evenings during the summer of 1963 hanging out at a popular watering hole, Napoleon's, where they debated politics with local college students for hours on end. Is Kurtz a credible witness? Dr. Michael L. Kurtz is a professor of history at the Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond. He is the author of Louisiana: A History, and Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's Perspective, as well as a former associate editor for Readings in Louisiana History and a contributor to other scholarly historical journals. He is a two-time winner of the Williams Prize in Louisiana History, presented by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association, for his 1981 article, "Organized Crime in Louisiana History: Myth and Reality," and his 1990 book, Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana, co-authored with Morgan D. Peoples. He has never used his story for personal gain, and he has no ax to grind or theory to support; in the 1993 introduction to his book, Kurtz states, "I myself saw Lee Harvey Oswald and Guy Banister together in New Orleans, but I thought nothing of it at the time [of the assassination], and I still do not. No one has produced the slightest scintilla of evidence linking Banister to the assassination" (Kurtz, xiii). Michael Kurtz and Van Burns were both brushed off when they informed the FBI of their knowledge of Oswald and Ferrie. It also happened when State Representative Reeves Morgan told the FBI about Oswald's visit to his home in Jackson, Louisiana. The only report of Oswald and Ferrie that was investigated was that of Jack S. Martin. Why? BECAUSE HE DIDN'T CALL THE FBI. He called a friend of his on the staff of the New Orleans DA's office. Did the FBI come to investigate? No; the SECRET SERVICE did. Why did the FBI REFUSE to investigate Banister and Ferrie? Possibly because Guy Banister had been with the FBI for over twenty years, most of which time was spent of a Special Agent in Charge, not to mention his years with the New Orleans Police Department. Possibly because Guy Banister and David Ferrie have been alleged to have been an FBI informants. Possibly because Ferrie and Banister both had string ties to New Orleans Mob boss Carlos Marcello -- Ferrie's connections with him being quite overt, as an investigator for Marcello's lawyer, G. Wray Gill, Banister's connection to the mobster being less obvious. Possibly because 531 Lafayette/544 Camp was the focal point of any number of operations that involved members of local law enforcement, the intelligence community, members of organized crime, and anti-Castro Cuban exiles -- and a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald, whose role is unknown to this very day. The FBI did not want to know. Who Was Guy Banister? According to an autobiographical sketch, William Guy Banister was born in a log cabin in Monroe, Louisiana, on March 7, 1901. He attended Louisiana State University and Soule College in New Orleans. He was recruited as an investigator by the Monroe Police Department, then became a patrolman in 1929. He soon advanced to the position of Chief of Detectives. On November 5, 1934, he was sworn in as a Special Agent for the Justice Department's Division of Investigation, which soon changed its name to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He worked primarily around the northern US on special assignment for about three years, working alongside Special Agent George Starr, the FBI's top man in investigating subversives, meaning largely leftist activity. Starr familiarized Banister with the activity of the Communist Party, and Banister notes that Starr is credited with developing the FBI's anti-Communist investigations. Banister writes, "After I was promoted to SAC [Special Agent in Charge], it was my duty to supervise the work of Special Agents assigned to such activity. It was also my duty to develop and supervise those people commonly called informers. To be more specific, we might say that they were counterspies sent in to report on the activities of the Party members. That was part of my duty throughout the nearly 17 years I served as SAC" (FBI #62-103863-13). By his own account, he remained SAC until September 1952. He fails to mention that he spent World War II in the Navy working for the Office of Naval Intelligence. Virtually nothing is known about his activities on behalf of the ONI (Philip Melanson, Spy Saga, 33). At the end of 1954 he left the FBI under somewhat mysterious circumstances and accepted a position in January 1955 with the New Orleans Police Department. In New Orleans he joined Maurice Gatlin's Anti-Communist Committee of the Americas. At the invitation of Mayor DeLesseps Morrison, Banister stepped up to the position of Assistant Superintendent of the NOPD. Morrison assigned him to investigate police corruption. For reasons that aren't clear, he was demoted on June 27, 1956. Three days later Banister got in an altercation with several police officers at a New Orleans nightclub, and was arrested when he pulled a gun. He offered to resign from the NOPD the following day, but was instead suspended. On March 1, 1957, Banister was accused of being drunk and pulling a gun in a French Quarter bar (FBI #61-3176-A). Banister was fired from the NOPD on June 1, 1957. In March 1957, Guy Banister testified before the Joint Legislative Committee on Segregation of the Louisiana State Senate, which was investigating the alleged influence of Communism upon racial unrest and the civil rights movement. It was around this time that the First District Americanism Committee of the American Legion issued a statement "high in praise of Guy Banister for his work against Communism in New Orleans." Banister delivered an illuminating sermon to the Joint Legislative Committee: "The great danger from the Communist Party [of America] lies in [the] fact that its homeland is outside the borders of the United States . . . We know Russia, not only from reading intelligence and counter-intelligence reports, which I would like to avoid remembering as much as possible. . . . We know the nature of the land and the people of the land. . . . She is a nation at war all the time and for all times. . . . From her ancient past, Russia seems to have inherited a state of mind and an institution, the conviction that they are chosen to inherit the earth . . . Russia has always exploited to the fullest every advantage she could secure from espionage and subversion . . . Espionage is the second oldest governmental activity of man. The first is law enforcement. . . . The oldest military treatise we have was published about 500 BC by Sun Tzu [a tract on espionage]. . . . [T]he use of spies is approved by Jehovah, and I don't see how we can well object. The woman, Rahab, Joshua's 'cut-out agent' in Jericho, lived in a house on the wall. That portion of the wall did not fall, when the walls came tumbling down. . . . Lenin said one day that . . . every Communist should be a spy. . . . When the Communist Party seizes control of a nation, it directs its espionage system against all who oppose Communism. . . . it becomes a police state. . . . Every member of the Louisiana Communist Party . . . is a Soviet agent. The Communist Party [of America] is an agency of the Soviet government. . . ." Banister referred to integration as part of a plot formulated by Stalin and the Communist Party to create "'dissension between the races'" (Records of the Joint Legislative Committee on Segregation of the Louisiana State Senate). In 1958 he testified before a Special Committee of the Arkansas State Legislature studying civil unrest; he claimed that the Communists had provoked the rioting that followed in the wake of the desegregation of Little Rock's public schools. Banister's brother Ross told A. J. Weberman in 1993 that he suspected some of Guy's difficulties with his superiors stemmed from "sort of secret detective work" he was doing on his own, and as his problems increased, so did his drinking. He left his wife Mary and had a series of minor strokes. Upon leaving the NOPD, he opened up Guy Banister Associates, a private detective agency that was, in reality, a front for Banister's brand of counter-intelligence directed at suspected spies, subversives, Communists, integrationists, and assorted leftists. Initially located in the Balter Building on St. Charles Avenue, Banister opened up part of his office to Sergio Arcacha Smith, the New Orleans delegate of the CIA-sponsored Cuban Revolutionary Council. For a short time a former NOPD associate of Banister's, Joseph Oster, was involved with Guy Banister Associates. Oster told A. J. Weberman in 1993, "There was phone calls come in from the CIA Director at that time. I wanted to say [Allen] Dulles, but that's not it. Yes, I heard the name [E. Howard] Hunt [CIA liaison officer with the CRC and Bay of Pigs plotter]. You see, all of the files, even the ones we had, suddenly disappeared . . ." When Banister moved to the Newman Building at the corner of Camp and Lafayette Streets in late 1959, the CRC moved with him. In 1978, Joseph Oster told House Select Committee investigator L. J. Delsa that he left Banister's office when it became clear that Banister wasn't interested in the actual private investigations being run out of the office, which were only a front. Oster said that Banister's real work revolved around the investigation of subversives; he recalled the office working closely with the American Security Council and Fidelafax, a private intelligence firm founded and operated by ex-government agents. He noted that a good amount of Banister's funds came in the form of checks from the Remington Rand Corporation, long ago exposed as a major CIA front operation (HSCA interview of January 17, 1978). The CIA claims that while Banister had been of interest to the CIA in 1960, consideration of his agency as a front mechanism was dropped shortly thereafter due to an unfavorable report received from the field (CIA Report of March 8, 1967; CIA #1338-1052). According to the New Orleans States-Item of April 25, 1967, Guy Banister was a key man in supplying arms for the ill-fated "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba, an operation coordinated entirely by the CIA, from whom Banister secretary and mistress Delphine Roberts remembers Banister receiving a great amount of funds in the early '60s (Summers, 326). Dr. Philip Melanson writes, "It is now known that the Agency's operational presence [in New Orleans] in 1963 was extensive. In order to administer its array of Cuban exile groups and activities, as well as to monitor international shipping in the port of New Orleans, the CIA established a very large domestic station -- one of the key stations in the country. A distinguished New Orleans attorney is believed to have served as station chief in the early 1960s. His name has never been publicly revealed; neither . . . has he ever been questioned by any official investigation" (Melanson, Spy Saga, 37). Although he had officially retired from the FBI, Delphine Roberts says Banister was still working in some capacity for the Bureau at 531 Lafayette Street (Summers, 289). This is supported by a 1967 CIA document, declassified in 1983, which named Banister as an "FBI Contact" (Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, 290fn.), as well as a statement made by Jerry Milton Brooks, a former Minuteman and a Banister employee in the '60s. Brooks said that "Banister collected information on the left from every imaginable right-wing source" and that Brooks himself "regularly couriered this data over to the New Orleans FBI office, which incorporated it into its files." Brooks also named Banister as the Minutemen's Louisiana coordinator (Hinckle & Turner, Deadly Secrets, 231). Banister had files on much more than left wing groups, however. A partial index of his files received by the New Orleans DA's office in 1967 -- long after the files themselves has been dispersed -- reveals some of the files maintained at 531 Lafayette Street: American Central Intelligence Agency Ammunition and Arms Anti-Soviet Underground B-70 Manned Bomber Force Civil Rights Program of JFK Dismantling of Ballistic Missile System Dismantling of Defense, US Fair Play for Cuba Committee International Trade Mart Italy, US Bases Dismantled in General Assembly of the United Nations Latin America Missile Bases Dismantled -- Turkey and Italy From his 531 Lafayette Street address, Banister published the Louisiana Intelligence Digest, an anti-integrationist periodical which proclaimed desegregation as a Communist plot -- a view privately espoused by one J. Edgar Hoover -- and attacked President Kennedy for his "pinko" support of civil rights (Hinckle & Turner, 231). If Oswald was working for Guy Banister, it might explain what he was doing in the town of Clinton, Louisiana, in the late summer or fall of 1963 - at a highly controversial Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) registration drive -- whether Banister himself was also present in Clinton (as some claim) or not. (See "How Posner Impeaches Clinton" on the moderated NG.) On January 6, 1961, Banister drew up the charter for the Friends of Democratic Cuba, a fund-raising arm of the CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Front. Vice-President was onetime Oswald employer Gerard Tujague. The Front was an attempt by the CIA to unify the many dozens of Cuban exile groups springing up in Miami and New Orleans. The Friends of Democratic Cuba soon merged with the Cuban Revolutionary Front while E. Howard Hunt -- by his own account in his memoir, Give Us This Day -- was the Front's Chief Political Officer. A CIA document states that the Friends of Democratic Cuba folded after only one month (CIA #1338-1052; Weberman), which would mean that it was up and running just long enough to send two men named "Joseph Moore" and "Lee Oswald" to the Bolton Ford Dealership to look into buying a number of trucks for shipment to Cuban rebels. In two documents we find the CIA and FBI pointing fingers at each other of the issue of the late Guy Banister: The CIA reported that two of Sergio Arcacha Smith's "regular FBI contacts" were SA Warren de Brueys and "the deceased Guy Banister" (CIA #1363-501; Banister had OFFICIALLY resigned from the FBI many years before Arcacha Smith moved from Miami to New Orleans); while the FBI reported that "Banister was also active in the [CIA-affiliated] Cuban Revolutionary Front" (FBI #62-105198-5; 5 HSCA 129; Weberman). Weberman notes that a great deal of CIA and FBI documents on Banister are still heavily DELETED; an example is the FBI report that reads: "Banister related that he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Democratic Cuba, which he describes as a charitable organization chartered under Louisiana State law whose primary purpose is to lend assistance to Cuban exiles. In response to inquiry, Banister stated that he [DELETED]. Banister stated that he did receive [DELETED] from [DELETED]. His purpose would then be to furnish such information to [DELETED]. In addition to the above, Banister remarked that [DELETED] is hired by him as a part-time [DELETED]. He explained that [DELETED] is interested in ascertaining the political sympathies of Cuban and other students attending TULANE UNIVERSITY [emphasis added]. This is of interest to Banister in connection with his interest in the Louisiana State organization known as the State Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities" (cited in Weberman web site). Banister was involved in infiltrating Tulane University just as he had Louisiana State University. The morning after Lee Harvey Oswald's August 9, 1963, arrest in New Orleans for creating a disturbance with Carlos Bringuier and others, Oswald was interviewed by Lieutenant Francis L. Martello. Martello reported: "Oswald was asked how many members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee were in the New Orleans Chapter and he stated there were 35. I asked him to identify the members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans and he refused to give names of the members or any identifying data regarding them. Oswald was asked why he refused and he said that this was a minority group holding unpopular views at this time and it would not be beneficial to them if he gave their names. Oswald was asked approximately how many people attended meetings of the New Orleans Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and he said approximately five attended the meetings, which were held once a month. He was asked where and he said at various places in the city. He was asked specifically at what addresses or locations were the meetings held and he stated that the meetings were held on Pine Street. He was asked at whose residence the meetings were held and he refused to give any further information. It should be noted at this time [that] during prior investigation conducted, while I was a member of the Intelligence Unit [of the NOPD], information was developed that Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature was found in the 1000 block of Pine Street, New Orleans, which was near the residence of Dr. Leonard Reissman, a professor at TULANE UNIVERSITY [emphasis added]. This investigation was conducted by me. "As I remember, Dr. Reissman was reported to be a member of the New Orleans Council of Peaceful Alternatives, which is a 'ban the bomb' group recently established in the city and had conducted meetings and two or three demonstrations in the city. Knowing that Dr. Reissman was reportedly a member of the New Orleans Council of Peaceful Alternatives, I thought there might be a tie between this organization and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. "When Oswald stated that meetings of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee had been held on Pine Street, the name of Dr. Reissman came to mind. I asked Oswald if he knew Dr. Reissman or if he held meetings at Dr. Reissman's house. Oswald did not give me a direct answer to this question, however I gathered from the expression on his face and what appeared to be an immediate nervous reaction that there was possibly a connection between Dr. Reissman and Oswald; this, however, is purely an assumption on my part and I have nothing on which to base this. I also asked Oswald if he knew a Dr. Forrest E. La Violette, a professor at Tulane University. I asked him this question because I remembered that La Violette allegedly had possession of Fair Play for Cuba literature during the year 1962. . . . ". . . I asked him again about the members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans and why the information was such a big secret; that if they had nothing to hide, he would give me the information. Oswald said one of the members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans was named "John" and that this individual went to TULANE UNIVERSITY [emphasis added]. He refused to give any more information concerning the Fair Play for Cuba Committee" (10 H 55-56). Wesley J. Liebeler took Lt. Francis Martello's Warren Commission deposition. Mr. LIEBELER. . . . [In the report] you indicate that Oswald had told you that there were about 35 members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee here in New Orleans. Did you have any reason to question that statement? Mr. MARTELLO. I didn't believe it was a true statement because of the fact that there was very little activity, to my knowledge, of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the city of New Orleans, and since it was such a new organization, or which appeared to me to be a new organization in the city, it didn't seem likely there would be 35 members in the community. Mr. LIEBELER. Did you ever become aware of the existence of any other member of the group in New Orleans -- Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir. Mr. LIEBELER. Other than Oswald? Mr. MARTELLO. No; other than information that had been developed that there were some possible connections. However, there was no basis in fact that any other person, to my knowledge, was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This particular man, Oswald, was the first person that I have come in contact with that I knew for a fact stated he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba. Mr. LIEBELER. He is not only the first person you came in contact with who indicated he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, but he is the only one that you ever saw or heard of in the city of New Orleans? Is that correct? Mr. MARTELLO. That is correct. Mr. LIEBELER. . . . Your report refers to a professor at Tulane University by the name of Dr. Leonard Reissman. Did the department, to your knowledge, conduct any investigation of Dr. Reissman in an attempt to associate him with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee or to determine whether or not he was associated with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee here in New Orleans? Mr. MARTELLO. Not to my knowledge, sir. Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any personal knowledge of the background of Dr. Reissman, other than as set forth in your memorandum? Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir. Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know what he teaches at Tulane University? Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir; I do not. Mr. LIEBELER. Further on in your report there is a reference to another professor at Tulane by the name of La Violette, and you indicate on that you had some recollection that this professor allegedly had possession of Fair Play for Cuba [Committee] literature in 1962. Do you remember any of the details of that? Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir; I do not. Mr. LIEBELER. Was there any investigation conducted of this particular professor in an attempt to determine whether he was associated with Oswald in any way? Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir; there was not. Mr. LIEBELER. Did Oswald indicate to you in any way that he himself knew either of these two professors or any other professor at Tulane University, or had ever had anything to do with them or with other professors? Mr. MARTELLO. He did not indicate by name, but there was a meeting place on Pine Street, the 1000 block of Pine Street in New Orleans, where there were meetings held. Mr. LIEBELER. This is meetings of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee? Mr. MARTELLO. No, sir. . . . Just meetings by other groups. There was no indication of any names, but I had asked him if he held his meetings on Pine Street, and he reflected -- only in gesture that there was some, or there appeared to be some connection between the two, but it is mere speculation on my part (10 H 58-60). If, as Lt. Martello said, Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature was found on the 1000 block of Pine Street, by Dr. Reissman's home, and -- as we know -- there was no Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, only Oswald's fraudulent one-man "chapter," this FPCC literature must have come -- directly or indirectly -- from Lee Harvey Oswald or an associate. Peter Dale Scott notes that Martello's memorandum entered in the record during his Warren Commission deposition -- which was not written up at the time of Oswald's August 10th interview with Martello, but rather prepared for the Warren Commission in the spring of 1964 from Martello's August 10 notes -- differs slightly from the report that Martello dictated to the Secret Service following the assassination (26 H 763). In this report he emphasized that FPCC leaflets had been found near Sr. Reissman's home on the 1000 block of Pine Street, and that Reissman frequently entertained a Dr. James Dombrowski, noting that both men were "said to be active in the integration movement." He observed that Reissman and Dombrowski's lawyer were affiliated with the Quaker-associated liberal group, the New Orleans Council for Peaceful Alternatives (NOCPA). Martello reportedly told the Secret Service that an FPCC pamphlet "had blown out of Dr. Reissman's car" (Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 262; 26 H 763). Peter Dale Scott notes that Oswald "also told his aunt [Lillian Murret] that he had been to the Reissman home, and he told someone else that his FPCC organization 'was affiliated with Tulane University' (10 H 68)." Scott also observes that Carlos Bringuier, Oswald's DRE opponent in the street fracas, had already targeted the NOCPA as pro-Communist and pro-Castro. After the Kennedy assassination, the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities quickly issued a press release linking Oswald and the FPCC to Dombrowski's organization, the pro-civil rights, pro-integration Southern Conference Educational Fund. Scott adds that his personal interviews of Dr. Reissman's widow have convinced him that Oswald and Reissman had no contact whatsoever; in fact, in the spring and summer of 1963, Dr. Reissman was on leave from Tulane University to a research center at Stanford University of California. Mrs. Reissman also said that her husband had no association with James Dombrowski; it was she herself who infuriated local racists by arranging an integrated birthday party of seven-year-olds at her daughter's school (Scott, 263). Whether Oswald knew Reissman or not, he DID apparently tell his aunt, Lillian Murret, that he did. She told the Secret Service that Oswald had "mentioned that he knew, or was acquainted with, Dr. Reissman" (Scott, 263; 26 H 766). Interestingly, she went on to link Oswald and Reissman to another professed integrationist (and Quaker), Ruth Paine: "It was her impression that Oswald came into contact with Dr. Reissman through the Russian woman [sic]. Mrs. Murret stated that one of the two [Oswald or Ruth Paine; this could not be Marina because Marina spoke no English to Mrs. Murret] told her that Dr. Reissman had a daughter who was studying in Russia (Scott, 263-64; 26 H 766). Murret told the Warren Commission, "He also said that Mrs. Paine knew a Tulane professor. . . . I remember him saying that [Reissman] had a daughter that was attending the university in Moscow, and they either went to his home or they came to Lee's house" (8 H 147; Scott, 264). Continued in part two . . . Dave Reitzes
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