Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

From Harvey and Lee, selected pages from 707-738:

The Texas Employment Commission


In 1963 the TexasEmployment Commission (TEC) was divided into districts
according topopulation density. The Dallas district encompassed Dallas County,the
Fort Worth districtencompassed Tarrant County, and in the thinly populated areas of
West Texas TECdistricts encompassed several counties. In Dallas the industrial office
of the TEC waslocated at 1206 Ross Avenue where employees Donald Brooks, Laura
Kittrell, and Mrs.Harlan Brown helped applicants find factory-type jobs. The clerical.
sales. andprofessional office of the TEC was located at 1025 Elm Street where Helen
Cunningham, RobertL. Adams, A.K. Sayre, and Louise Latham helped people find
clerical and officejobs. The TEC claims office was located at 2210 Main Street where
Harry Sanderson and Pauline Elrod helped people file in-state unemployment claims
while Henry McCluskey helped people file out-of-state claims.


NOTE: Mrs. Harlan Brown was the wife of Dallas FBI AgentHarlan Brown and also
worked for the TEC, but was never interviewed by the FBI or WarrenCommission.


When an applicant registered with the TEC a Linedex card was completed
which listed theapplicant's name, address, phone number, social security number, oc-
cupation codes, report date, office number, and the date and time of their scheduled
visits. Cards containing the names of all applicants currently registered with a particu-
lar office were kept by the receptionist. But Linedex cards created for Lee Harvey Oswald
were not published in the Warren Volumes from either the Fort Worth or Dallas office.


After registering job applicants were first given a series of tests to determine
their interests and aptitude and then interviewed by a counselor. Individual applications
(form E-13) were filled out for each type of job the individual was seeking, such as in-
dustrial, clerical,warehouse, photographic, etc., and each job was identified by a unique
code. Fort Worth counselor Annie Laurie Smith interviewed (Harvey) Oswald on two
occasions in 1962, but was never questioned by the Warren Commission. Counselors Donald
Brooks, Laura Kittrell, and other counselors in Dallas interviewed Oswald and created
numerous job application forms, but were never interviewed by the Commission. Following
the assassination all of these forms were turned over to the FBI but only one, an appli-
cation for a clerical position, was published in the Warren Volumes (Cunningham Ex. No.
1 & 1-A). The remainder of the TEC forms disappeared while in FBI custody.


NOTE: Numerous TEC application forms were filled out for Oswald and a few were
listed on Cunningham Ex. No. 4 and identified with codes "O-X3,O.X6, O-X7.1, 1-X1.1,
l-X2, 1-X4, but disappeared."


After interviewing job applicants, counselors recorded notes of their interviews
on counseling cards, which were turned over to the FBI after the assassination.Helen
Cunningham was interviewed by the Warren Commission and said that all of her coun-
seling records were missing from Oswald's file (a card from 1962), except one. 2 Irving Statman,
the assistant district director of the TEC office in Dallas, was also interviewed by the
Commission and said that all of Oswald's counseling records were missing from the Dallas
office. 3 The counseling cards disappeared after being turned over to the FBI, and there
is no indication the Warren Commission made any attempt to locate them.


After counseling an applicant was interviewed by a job placement interviewer
who recorded notes of the each interview on application forms E-13. Robert L. Adams,
Louise Latham, and others interviewed Oswald, but never testified before the Warren Com-
mission.


When a worker lost his or her job they visited the TEC claims office and filled
out an application for unemployment benefits. While unemployed they were required
to fill out a form each week which listed the locations where they had applied for work,
and then meet with a claims counselor. Oswald met with claims counselors Harry
Sanderson, Henry McCluskey, and others who were never interviewed by the Commission.


Oswald's weekly visits to the claims office and the dates of his unemployment
claims were recorded on TEC claim form B-3A. This in-state form was published in the
Warren Volumes as Cunningham Ex. No. 3, but the out-of-state unemployment claims
forms were not published. A small portion of one of Oswald's out of state claims forms
was cut from theo riginal and published at the bottom of page 403 in Vol 19 (shown be-
low Cunningham Ex.No 3 ).


After the assassination most of the TEC's records for Oswald, including
Linedex cards, GATB tests (General Aptitude Test Batteries), several counseling cards,
numerous application cards, and interstate claims cards, were turned over to the FBI.
Dozens of documents disappeared and only 4 were published in the Warren Volumes. The War-
ren Commission did not interview a single TEC employee who had both interviewed
and remembered Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.


[….]


Laura Kittrell's first meeting with Harvey Oswald


Laura Kittrell wast he daughter of Bill Kittrell, a prominent local politician and
former secretary of the Texas Democratic Party, who was personally acquainted with
Franklin Roosevelt,Harry Truman, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy,
and numerous other national political figures. Laura had worked at the Texas Employ-
ment Commission (TEC) since 1950 and, by October 1963, was a counselor in the in-
dustrial office at 1206 Ross Avenue.


In early October (probably October 8th) Laura was interviewing a colored
woman who wanted to quit domestic employment and find work as a trainee in an elec-
tronics factory. During the interview the woman told Laura that she used to work as a
maid for a man named Murray Chotiner in California. [OCT, 63-04]


The two women's conversation was overheard by a young man sitting at the
desk of counselor Donald Brooks, who's desk was in front of Laura's. After completing
the interview with Mr. Brooks the young man, wearing a black leather jacket, stood with
three other people against a wall in the waiting area and watched as Laura continued
to interview the woman. Laura recalled that one of the people was a short woman who
was very pregnant,had blond hair, and wore no makeup. The second person was a man
similar in appearance to the young man who spoke with Mr. Brooks. Laura was un aable
to remember a description of the third person.


NOTE: Brooks told the Warren Commission that Oswald was reluctant to accept em-
ployment in the industrial field which consisted primarily of factory jobs. 41


After Laura completed her interview the young man walked over to her desk
and said, "Excuse me, I don't mean to be butting in, or anything like that, but didn't I
hear that colored woman tell you that she had worked in California for Murray
Chotiner?"Laura said, "Look, I know this is going to sound pretty silly to you, since you
have been listening,and no doubt have heard practically everything said, but this is a
government office,and there is a rule here that anything a person says at an interview
is supposed to be confidential. So I can't answer your question." The young man said,
"Well, I'll be damned," and pounded his hand on Laura's desk with such force that her
flower vase tipped over spilling water down the side of her desk. The young man then
left without saying a word and joined his friends near the elevator.[OCT, 63-05]


NOTE: Attorney Murray Chotiner was virtually unknown outside of California in
1963. On October 7, 1955 Lee Harvey Oswald delivered a note to Warren Easton High
School that was found in Oswald's school file after the assassination. The note read,
"Becaus (sic) we are moving to San Diego in the middle of this month Lee must quit school
now. Also, please send by him any papers such as his birth certificate that you may have.
Thank you. Sincirely (sic) ..... Mrs. M. Oswald. "42 If Harvey Oswald moved to Califor-
nia in 1955, it could explain how he knew about Chotiner.


Harvey Oswald returned to Mary Bledsoe's home around 2:30 pm and remained
in her home for the rest of the afternoon and evening. 43


[ …. ]


Laura's first interview with Harvey Oswald


A few days after Laura Kittrell spoke with Harvey Oswald about "Murray
Chotiner," sher eceived a call from Mrs. Pauline Elrod at the unemployment compen-
sation office. Mrs. Elrod said, "I am sending you a Mr. Oswald, 0-s-w-a-l-d, to be
reinterviewed."Mrs. Elrod told Laura that Oswald had made a mistake on his claim
form and as a result his unemployment check was being held up. She said that he re-
cently lived in New Orleans and worked in a warehouse loading merchandise with a
forklift. Mrs. Elrod was concerned about Oswald because his wife was about to have a
baby (Marina delivered Rachel on October 20, 1963) and he was broke. Mrs. Elrod asked
Laura to talk with Oswald and see if she could "put him down for some other kinds of
work" and possibly send him for an interview in the afternoon.49 [OCT,63-06]Laura recalled
that she interviewed Oswald during the time the Texas State Fair was running.


NOTE: The 1963 Texas State Fair ran from October 5 to 20th.50


A short while later a young man wearing a black motorcycle jacket appeared and
took a seat in the waiting area. Laura recognized the young man as the person who had
previously asked her about Murray Chotiner, and remembered that he was clean-
shaven, his hair was neatly cut, and his fingernails were clean. After introducing herself
Laura asked the young man how he knew the name "Murray Chotiner." When Oswald
failed to respond she asked, "Did you work for Murray Chotiner in California?"Once
again Oswald failed to answer but remarked, "He's a crook." Laura wondered how
Oswald could have known the name of a little-known political figure in another state
unless he, like the colored woman, worked for Chotiner in California.


NOTE: In the 1940's Chotiner defended Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and other mob-
connected people. In 1946 Chotiner became a consultant on Richard Nixon's campaign
staff and in 1950 arranged a fund raising dinner for Nixon's Senatorial Campaign from
members of Lansky's syndicate. 51 From 1949-1952 Chotiner defended clients in 221
organized crime cases, and, by 1963, had become a highly successful Beverly Hills attor-
ney.


When Laura Kittrell interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in October 1963, it was many
years before Murray Chotiner came to national attention when Richard Nixon was in
the White House.


In the 1970's Chotiner was named as special counsel for the Committee to Re-Elect the
President (CREEP) and also worked in the "dirty tricks"department with Marvin
Liebman and William R Buckley. When George McGovern and Nixon were running for
President in 1972, Chotiner was the man who hired Lucianne Goldberg as a ''journal-
ist" to travel with McGovern s campaign. Goldberg said, "They were looking for really
dirty stuff-who was sleeping with whom, what the Secret Servicemen were doing with the
stewardess, who was smoking pot on the plane, that sort of thing."52 It was Goldberg who
learned that McGovern's running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had received elec-
troshock treatments 20 years earlier. This revelation was used as a campaign issue to show
that McGovern had poor judgment in choosing a vice-president and was indecisive. At
the height of the Watergate scandal Chotiner was killed in a hit-and-run automobile ac-
cident, and no one was brought to justice.


Laura's first impression of Oswald caused her to write a notation on his appli-
cation that he used to work for Chotiner in California. After Laura turned in his appli-
cation she realized that she had made a mistake but was unable to find the application
to make the necessary correction.


While interviewing Oswald a Cuban man, who spoke no English, handed Laura
a card with directions to a job interview. Laura tried to help the man and spoke with him
in her "Tex-Mex"brand of Spanish. After the man left she had a brief discussion with
Oswald about the Cuban situation and soon realized that he knew a lot about the Cu-
ban situation.


Oswald told Laura,"You know, your Spanish isn't half bad." Laura replied,"Oh,
you speak Spanish?" Oswald replied, "Oh, I speak three languages ..... Russian .....I've
been to Russia.Matter of fact, married a Russian girl." When Laura said, "Tell me, what
did you like best about Russia?" Oswald replied, "The opera!"


Oswald's answer convinced Laura that he had been to Russia. She said, "I have
read about this art museum in Leningrad where they have the great French Impression-
ists stacked in the basement." Oswald replied, "I've never been to Leningrad.... .I was
in Moscow for sometime and to ..... (Oswald named a town which Laura could not re-
member). You see, I had this job in a factory there .... .I worked for months in this elec-
tronics factory in..... (name not remembered by Laura). I was taking these little bitty
metal parts and doing something with them."


Laura suggested to Oswald that he accept any type of job because he had been
unemployed for months. When Oswald expressed his desire to find a white-collar job
in downtown Dallas,Laura said that he would be wasting his time. Oswald replied, "I
used to sell shoes(Dolly Shoe in New Orleans?) and that is white-collar experience, isn't
it?" He then told Laura about working in an office in California when he was 16 years
old.


NOTE: Once again the note of October 7, 1955 found in Oswald's file at Warren Easton
comes to mind: "Becaus (sic) we are moving to San Diego in the middle of this month .... . "
53 A few days after this note was written Harvey Oswald dropped out of Warren Easton
and probably moved to California.


Oswald explained,"It was before I went into the Marines, even. It was when I
was just sixteen. I had this messenger-boy job in California. It was a motor-scooter
messenger-boy job,but I worked in the office too, filing and taking care of mail. It was
for an investment company and I worked there six months. The name of it was the 'ETI
Realty Company' and it was in . . ... (Oswald told her the name of the town in California, which
she thought was 'ETI Realty')." [OCT, 63-07] Laura thought it was the same town the colored
maid had mentioned as the place where she had worked for Murray Chotiner (Beverly
Hills). She said to Oswald, "The ETI Realty Company . . .. .I thought you said it was an
investment company."He replied, "It was, but it was also an investment company."


As Oswald sat quietly at her desk Laura completed an application for office work
and included the full name and address of the company that she remembered as "ETI
Realty." She then forwarded the application to the TEC clerical office a t 1025 Elm
Street, but the application disappeared.


Laura then filled out another application for Oswald, for temporary warehouse
work, and mistakenly wrote on the bottom of the application, "Worked 6 months for the
Murray Chotiner Investment Company .... .in 1956 (Laura forgot that Oswald told herthat
he had not worked for Chotiner)." She coded the application " 9-88.40"(order-filler/
warehouse man) and forwarded it to the West Dallas Labor Office, but this application also
disappeared.


NOTE: Following the assassination the TEC provided the FBI with their entire file on
Lee Harvey Oswald, but the Warren Commission received only a few documents which
they published in the 26 Volumes (including Cunningham Exhibits 1,1-A, 2, 2 -A, 3, 3-
A, 4,). The applications filled out by Laura Kittrell (temporary warehouse work-code
9-88.40), are some of the numerous TEC documents that disappeared while in FBI cus-
tody.


Laura also recalled that Oswald had a "sketchy background in offset printing"
(Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall) and suggested that he pursue that line of work. After filling out
an application for print-shop work and scheduling General Aptitude Test Batteries
(GATB), Laura took him to TEC placement counselor Mrs. Saenz. After speaking with
Mrs. Saenz, Oswald returned to see Laura and told her he had been given a job refer-
ral for the following morning (October 11?).


NOTE: The Warren Commission never questioned Mrs. Saenz.


After concluding one of the longest interviews she ever had, which lasted one
hour and forty-two minutes, Laura telephoned Mrs. Elrod and told her about Oswald's
job referral the following morning and gave her the code revisions.


NOTE: Laura Kittrell knew how much time she spent interviewing Oswald because her
boss kept track of the time. The Warren Commission never questioned Laura Kittrell, her
boss, or Pauline Elrod.


A few days later Helen Cunningham, who had been one of Oswald's counselors
in October 1962, informed Laura that Oswald's application for office work was already
on file and that he had previously taken the GATB tests in Fort Worth.


On October 10 the JOBCO Employment Agency set up an interview for Oswald
with the DeVilbiss Company on Irving Blvd. Oswald was supposed to have been inter-
viewed by DeVilbiss employee Jim Friel at 1:30pm, but there was no indication that
he kept the appointment.54 He may have missed the 1:30pm appointment because of
his lengthy interview with Laura Kittrell.


Oswald returned to Mary Bledsoe's around 2 :00pm, and once again interrupted
her afternoon nap. When Mary explained to Oswald that he was disturbing her privacy,
he promised not to disturb her again. Mary remembered that after Oswald returned to
her home he "fussed with somebody on the phone, I don't know whether it was his wife
or who it was."According to Mary, Oswald remained in her home the rest of the day and
evening.


[ ….]


Laura Kittrell's second interview with Harvey Oswald


A few days after Laura's first interview with Harvey Oswald he showed up at her
office a little after 1:00pm. (Laura thought a Friday and a week-end intervened between
the two interviews).


NOTE: Oswald moved into his new address at 1026 N. Beckley at 4:00pm on Octo-
ber 14 and began work at the Book Depository at 8:00am on October 16. The only day
that Oswald could have arrived at Miss Kittrell's office looking for work and given her
his new address and phone number in Oak Cliff was on October 15.On October 16,
Oswald was working at the TSBD.


Laura recalled that Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing a starched, cotton sport
shirt and apologized for being a few minutes late for the GATB tests. Laura escorted
him to the test room and then returned to her desk. Two and a half hours later (approxi-
mately 3:30 pm)Oswald met with Laura to discuss the test results. Laura recalled that
he made a "126"on the verbal part of his test, a "116" on the IQ score,and a score that
was "below the middle" on the physical quality score (eye-hand coordination).Noting
that Oswald recorded a high score on the verbal portion of the test Laura said, "You must
read a lot," to which Oswald replied, "Oh, yeah, I read." When she asked him the name
of the last book he had read Oswald replied, "Oh, a James Bond book, I guess."


NOTE: A year after the assassination Laura looked through the 26 Volumes and found
Oswald's test scores from the TEC office in Fort Worth in 1962.But the results from his
2 and 1/2 hours of testing in October 1963, which Laura remembered and interpreted,
were not published in the Volumes and disappeared from the TEC offices.


Following the GATB tests Laura and Oswald had a long discussion about the
type of work he wanted. Laura agreed to help him find a "white-collar" job and then
called the Clerical Office and advised that he had completed the aptitude tests. Before
Oswald left he gave Laura a new telephone number and a new address in Oak Cliff. T he
telephone number was WH 3-8993 and the address was 1026 N. Beckley.


A few days later Laura tried to contact Oswald (Oct 17 or 18 ?) and recalled that
a woman with a gruff voice answered the phone and identified herself as the house-
keeper (Earlene Roberts). When Laura asked for Mr. Oswald the woman said, "Who?
Who? ..... Oh, You mean Mr. Lee? (Oswald registered as "O.H. Lee")? The woman told
Laura that "Mr.Lee" was not in and said that his wife lived at another location.


[ …. ]


October17 (Thursday)- the Teamster


On or about October17, while Harvey was working at the TSBD, a man closely
resembling Oswald showed up at Laura Kittrell's office. Laura said, "I just looked up
from my desk and there he was, standing beside it, and grinning." She recalled the man
was wearing a red and white checkered sport shirt, which reminded her of a tablecloth,
and he appeared to be a "shaggy" type of person. [OCT, 63-09]


The man told Laura,"The (Unemployment) Claims Office sent me back to
you. You got to change my Primary Code. You got to change it back to what was in the
beginning. I have just joined the Teamsters' Union. Joined last night (or possibly the
night before last).You don't have to have a driver's license to operate a loading vehicle
within a plant. I was eligible for membership in the Teamster's Union when I left New
Orleans. I decided to go ahead and join them here. I was still eligible ..... They don't have
a job for me right now. That's why I' m back filing my claim again ..... A union member
doesn't have to take anything but a Union job, and be signed up for that. And I can go
on filing my claim now." [OCT, 63-10/11]


Laura could not understand why this man was allowed to join the Teamster's
Union when he could not drive. When she asked him for his Teamster's card he replied,
"They haven't got it to me yet." Having interviewed dozens of people each day,Laura
did not immediately remember the man's name, but recognized him as Lee
Harvey Oswald.


Laura retrieved Oswald's application and remembered that she wrote, "Gaso-
line-truck operator,belonging to the 6-88 category of occupational codes." She told
Oswald that she was going to note that his wife was going to have a baby (October 20)
and he said, "No,I said we have a baby, and are going to have another." Somewhat
confused, Laura later recalled the conversation with Oswald and thought, "What kind
of a fellow is it that can't remember that his wife has just had a baby?" She concluded
this individual was,"A fellow who was pretending to be the man whose wife has just
had a baby, and who had been coached upon how to answer certain questions which
might arise. and who forgets, a little later, how he has answered them, or if he has."


As the conversation continued Laura began to notice differences between this
man, who she called the "Teamster," and Lee Harvey Oswald, whom she had previously
interviewed. She recalled, "T he laughter which rocked the Teamster would be difficult
for me to imagine as belonging to (Harvey) Oswald." She knew the man sitting in front
of her was filing for unemployment compensation, but also knew that it was not unheard
of to send someone in their place to sign for a claims check and to make it appear as
though they were job-hunting. During the course of the interview Laura concluded the
man was not the Same person she previously interviewed. [OCT, 6 -12]


Laura said,"Although the man I remember as (Harvey) Oswald and the man I
remember as the Teamster (Lee Oswald) were much alike in size, shape, and outline,
generally, there was a marked difference between them in bearing and manner. The
man I remember as(Harvey) Oswald was a trim, energetic, compact, well-knit person
who sat on the edge of a chair, but the man I remember as the teamster was a trifling,
shiftless,good-for-nothing lout who sprawled oafishly over his chair and whose move-
ments seemed curiously uncoordinated, like those of a person who had been drinking,
and yet I don't think he had been drinking."81 [OCT,63-13]


Laura also recalled,"He (the "Teamster") was slouchy and he was kind o fun-
kempt, not dirty,but messy and very unmilitary looking. That was one thing about Mr.
(Harvey)Oswald, he always looked very military, neat as a pin, and this fellow wasn't.
And he had this peculiar way of laughing and talking so that people all over the room
could hear him, and Mr. (Harvey) Oswald wasn't like that at all." Kittrell said that al-
though she suspected the fellow (the "Teamster") might not have been (Harvey)
Oswald at the time,she wasn't sure and she didn't want to call him a liar and create a
scene without being sure.82


Laura said, " I simply did not see how the Teamster-fellow could have been
neither (Harvey) Oswald nor someone pretending to be (Harvey) Oswald." She consid-
ered the possibility that (Harvey) Oswald may have sent someone in his place to sign
for a claim check, but was not sure.


NOTE: After the assassination Laura learned that (Harvey) Oswald began work at the
TSBD on October 16. She could not understand how (Harvey) Oswald, while working
at the Book Depository, had time to visit the TEC Claims office at 2210 Main Street ( 1
mile from the TSBD) and her office at 1206 Ross Avenue ( 6 blocks from the TSBD ). She
also wondered why (Harvey) Oswald would continue to file unemployment claims if he
was working.


After the Warren Commission issued its final Report, Laura studied the 26 vol-
umes of testimony and evidence. She located two photographs in the Volumes that
reminded her of the"Teamster" and took the time to look up the man's name. She
learned the man in the photographs was Larry Crafard, a former employee of Jack Ruby,
and wondered if he was the "Teamster." After seeing Crafard's photograph, she searched
the TEC records for his name. She wrote, "I found it (Crafard's application with the
TEC) in the inactive file after my return to work that day." In her 90-page manuscript,
in which she memorialized her interviews with two Oswald's, Laura wrote, "I wish I
could settle this question in my mind (if Crafard was the Teamster), but I can't."But
why would Larry Crafard identify himself as Oswald? For what purpose?


A review of Warren Commission records appears to settle the question of
whether Crafard could have been the "Teamster" who visited the TEC offices pretend-
ing to be Oswald.


* Jack Ruby met Larry Crafard when he (Crafard) was working at the Texas
State Fair (October 5-20). Crafard did not begin working for Ruby and living
at the Carousel club until November 1, two weeks after Laura Kittrell interviewed
the "Teamster."




* Photographs of Crafard published in the 26 Volumes are very misleading as
they show him with a closed mouth and wearing a long sleeved jacket. When
these photographs were taken Larry Crafard's front teeth were missing en-
tirely and he had tattoos on both arms. If Laura Kittrell had known that Crafard
was missing his front teeth she would have realized that the "Teamster,"who laughed
loud enough to be heard throughout the room, was not Crafard.


NOTE: Laura Kittrell never realized she was one of the few people who met both Harvey
and Lee Oswald face to face. She was also the only witness who recognized the subtle dif-
ferences between these two young intelligence operatives. Had Laura been given the op-
portunity to interview two of Cuba s top intelligence agents,identical twin brothers An-
tonio and Patricio DeLaGuardia, it is doubtful that she would have recognized any dif-
ference. [OCT, 63-14]




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1 WC testimony of James Hosty, 4 H 446.
2 WC testimony of Helen Cunningham, 10 H 119.
3 WC testimony of Irving Statman, 10 H 156.
4 Memo from Winston Scott to Legal Attache Clark D. Anderson,l1/27/63; Document#104-10015-10428.
5 Record number l04-100 15-l 048, 11/27/63.
6 FBI Airte1 fromSAC, Dallas to FBI Director, 12/3/63.
7 WC HulenExhibit 7.
8 AP, 11/28/63;New York Times, 11/30/63.
9 National Archives FBI 124-10229-10425, HO 62-2115-170.
10 Nationa lArchives, FBI 124-10241-10364, HO 62-2115-248.
11 Alice Echo News, 11/27/63; Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 11/28/63; FBI report,11/25/63-#105-82555-165; AP, 11/28/63;HSCA #180-10031-10278; FBIreport, 11/26/63-124-10178-10419, AF #89-67-131; FBI report,11/27/63-#124-10018-10241, AF#62-1 09060-1543.
12 FBI interview of Dr. Ben Parker by SA John Russell Graham, 11/26/63; FBI report#124-10019-10236, AF #62-109060-800; WC Document 7, p. 137.
13 WC Exhibit2821.
14 Ft. Worth StarTelegram, 7/18/76, p. 6b.
15 Ibid.
16 Letter fromH.M. Hart, Detective, Criminal Intelligence Section, to Captain W.P.Gannaway, Special Service Bureau, Dallas Police Department.
17 WC testimonyof Leonard Hutchison, 10 H 328-329.
18 WC testimonyof Leonard Hutchison, 10 H 332, 338.
19 NationalArchives, HSCA 180-10120-10043, Numbered Files 003984; HSCA interviewof Leonard Hutchison by Jack Moriarty, 10/13/77.
20 WC Document205, p. 497; FBI interview of Ray Randuk by SA Bardwell Odum,12/12/63.
21 WC GanglExhibit 1; Affidavit of Theodore Frank Gangl, 6/16/64.
22 WC Exhibit1782.
23 WC Exhibit2124.
24 WC Report, p.737; WC Exhibit 2124.
25 CIA cable fromR.L. Easby to Director John McCone, 11/23/63; Doc # 104-10015-10289.
26 WC Document 5,p. 197; FBI interview of Ruth Paine by SA Joe Abernathy, 11/23/63.
27 Report ofPostal Inspectors Niewoehner and McCoy, 12/4/63.
28 WC Report, p.737; WC Exhibit 2124.
29 WC Exhibit2944.
30 WC Exhibit2448.
31 WC Exhibit2214.
32 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 426.
33 WC Exhibit1782; we Exhibit 2124.
34 FBI memo by SARobert Gemberling, 12/23/63; 105-2909-429.
35 FBI ExhibitD-88; WC Cunningham Exhibit 1-A.
36 Copied fromoriginal letter by J. Gary Shaw, Cleburne, TX.
37 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 403-404.
38 Ibid. at 404.
39 FBI interviewof Mary Bledsoe by SA James S. Weir, 11/23/63.
40 FBI ExhibitD-88; Cunningham Ex. No. 1-A.
41 WC testimonyof Donald E. Brooks, 10 H 144.
42 WC Exhibit1413, Volume 22, p. 814.
43 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 403-404.
44 FBI ExhibitD-88; Cunningham Ex. No. 1-A.
45 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 404.
46 WC Document183, p. 43, Interview of Jerome Cushman by SA John B. Lee, 12112/63.
47 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 404.
48 Cunningham Ex.No 3, line 14.
49 Kitrell p. 14.
50 Conversationwith Candace W heat, State Fair of Texas, 1/2001.
51 Mickey Cohen,"In My Own Words," (New York) 1975.
52 Anthony Lucas,"Nighthouse: the Underside of the Nixon Year. "
53 WC Exhibit1413, Volume 22, p. 814.
54 WC CD 7, p.496; FBI interview of Robert Hayes by SA Bardwell Odum, 12/12/63.
55 Wanted NoticeCard, Jacket No. 327 925 D.
56 Affidavit ofJames D. Crowley, 11 H 482.
57 WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 405.
58 Task ForceReport, CIA, 1977, p. 10.
59 Report of theInspector General p. 87-88.
60 ForeignRelations of the United States, 1961-63, U.S. State Department,Volume IV: Vietnam August-December, 1963.
61 ArthurSchlesinger, "A Thousand Days," p. 339.
62 WC testimonyof Clifton Shasteen, 10 H 314-315.
63 Ibid. at 31 7.
64.Ibid. at 316.
65. WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 427.
66. Ibid. at405-406.
67. WC testimonyof Ruth Paine, 3 H 32.
68. WC Exhibit1809.
69. WC testimonyof Mary Bledsoe, 6 H 406-407.
70. FBI ExhibitD-89.
71.WC testimonyof Ruth Paine, 3 H 34.
72. WC testimonyof Wesley Frazier, 2 H 212.
73. WC testimonyof Linnie Mae Randle, 2H 246-247.
74. WC testimonyof Earlene Roberts, 6 H 436-437
75. WC Exhibit1167, Volume 22, p. 248.
76. FBI memo bySA Robert Gemberling, 12/23/63, 105-2909-429.
77. NationalArchives, SSCIA 157-10008-10055, Memo. WC Memo from Coleman-Slawsonto Jenner-Liebeler, 3/12/64.
78. WC testimonyof Roy Truly, 3 H 214.
79. DOC#104-10015-10107, 104-10015-10289
80. WC testimonyof Roy Truly, 3 H 213-218
81. KittrellManuscript, pp. 80, 81.
82. NationalArchives, HSCA 180-10075-10162, Numbered Files 010133; Memo fromGaeton Fonzi to Blakey, 7/18/78, p. 9.