by Joan Mellen
p. 220: Dr. Frank Silva met Frank Bartes only once, in New Orleans: Interview with Dr. Frank Silva, January 7, 2002.
p. 221: “I’ve come to get a job at the hospital at the suggestion of Dr. Malcolm Pierson”: Interview with Dr. Frank Silva, October 7, 2000.
p. 221: “never seen or heard of Lee Harvey Oswald”: Memorandum, August 21, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Trip to Jackson, Louisiana and subsequent interview with Dr. Frank Silva, NODA, NARA.
p. 221: Dr. Silva had the flu: Interview with Dr. Frank Silva, October 7, 2000.
CHAPTER 14
p. 222, Epigraph: “back in jail”: Interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 222: Ned Touchstone confirms that Oswald applied for a job at East, his source a former Army intelligence officer: “Woman Who Told of Ruby-Oswald Link Found Dead,” The Councilor 5 (no. 4), August 5, 1967, p. 1.
p. 222: Moo Moo interviews Reeves Morgan and Henry Earl Palmer: June 1, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Interview with Mr. Reeves Morgan, Clinton, Louisiana, May 29, 1967, NODA, NARA, and Re: Mr. Henry Earl Palmer—Interview with Registrar of Voters, Clinton, Louisiana on May 29, 1967, NODA, NARA.
p. 222: Moo Moo talks to Henry Earl: Memorandum, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew Sciambra, Re: Mr. Henry Earl Palmer—Interview with Registrar of Voters, Clinton, Louisiana, May 29, 1967, NODA, NARA.
p. 223: Moo Moo tracked down Verla Bell: Interview with Verla Bell, January 17, 2002.
p. 223: Verla Bell had seen the black Cadillac: Memorandum, June 27, 1968, To: Jim Garrison and James L. Alcock, From: Tom Bethell, Re: Clay Shaw Case, NODA, NARA.
p. 223: Manchester: Affidavit of John Manchester, Town Marshal, Clinton, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 223: “in the scope of his employment”: Memorandum, September 7, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Conversation with G. Wray Gill This Date, NODA, NARA.
p. 223: John Volz examined Shaw’s appointment books: Memorandum, March 27, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: John P. Volz, Re: STATE versus CLAY SHAW, NODA, NARA.
p. 223: “well-dressed”: Dischler Notes. p. 224: Moo Moo meets Joseph Cooper: Memorandum, October 2, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Joseph Cooper, NODA, NARA. Based on Cooper’s information, Moo Moo asks Palmer about Banister: Memorandum, October 9, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Interview with Henry O. [sic] Palmer, Clinton, La., NODA, NARA.
p. 224: Oswald as a naval intelligence agent: “The Tragic Career of William H. ‘Joe’ Cooper” by Claude B. Slaton, 16 December 1996, “Redacted” (Web site).
p. 224: Dunn with Fruge and Dischler: Dischler Notes.
p. 224: Moo Moo interviews Andrew H. Dunn: Memorandum, July 18, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew Sciambra, Re: July 17, 1967, Interview with Andrew H. Dunn, NODA, NARA.
p. 225: Gloria Wilson told Veda Freeman there were four men in the car: Memorandum, January 30, 1968, To: Louis Ivon, From: Frank Ruiz and Kent Simms, Re: Interview with Miss Veda Freeman on January 10, 1968, NODA, NARA.
p. 225: they blew up the photograph: Interview with Steve Bordelon, June 14, 2000.
p. 225: Kline “talked to men in car”: Dischler Notes.
p. 225: William Kline didn’t see anything: Interview with William Kline, January 3, 2002.
p. 226: Jim Garrison thanks the Sovereignty Commission: Jim Garrison to Henry Sibley, August 21, 1967, NOPL.
p. 226: Martens had his mother committed: Memorandum, May 22, 1968, To: Louis Ivon, From: Gary Sanders, Re: Mrs. Marguerite Martens (Mother of Layton Martens), NODA, NARA.
p. 226: the FBI was questioning her: Memorandum, March 14, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andy Sciambra, Re: Beverly Farley, NODA, NARA.
p. 226: Mrs. Martens talks to Francis Fruge: HSCA. Francis Louis Fruge interviewed by Robert Buras, April 7, 1978, NARA. See also Interrogatories, HSCA, April 18, 1978, Baton Rouge, NARA. Regarding the statement of Mrs. Martens that “Clay Shaw, David Ferrie and Guy Banister” were in my home, see Memorandum, Summary of Deposition, To: G. Robert Blakey, From: S. Jonathan Blackmer, staff counsel, JFK, May 17, 1978, Re: Deposition of Francis Louis Fruge, Taken on April 18, 1978, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, NARA.
p. 227: Moo Moo and Fruge interview Gladys Palmer: Memorandum, August 25, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Interview on August 22, 1967, of Gladys Palmer Wilson, 3554 Evangeline Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 227: Cal Kelly’s daughter tells Moo Moo that she had heard Oswald had sought employment at East in the company of Gladys Palmer: Memorandum, August 31, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew Sciambra, NODA, NARA.
p. 227: Shaw and Oswald at the Clinton courthouse: Memorandum To: File, From: Kenneth D. Klein, April 4, 1977, Re: Phone conversation with Ronald L. Johnson, HSCA, 180- 10076-10206, 008269, NARA.
p. 227: “suspicious of white people”: Memorandum, August 23, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Results of CORE meeting in Clinton, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 227: “we don’t know where our enemy is”: These comments following the slide show appear in Rough Side of the Mountain.
p. 228: Henry Burnell Clark’s sworn statement is HSCA 000019 and 000020.
p. 228: “One who may help you is Corrie Collins”: Dischler Notes.
p. 228: details from the life of Corrie Collins: Interviews with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000; February 3, 2001.
p. 228: for CORE demonstrations in East Feliciana Parish during the summer of 1963: “Judge to Hear Arguments on Core Ban,” Morning Advocate, August 28, 1963. The rest are all from the Times- Picayune: “March Halted in Plaquemine,” September 1, 1963, section 1, p. 4; “March Leaders Hit ‘Brutality,’” September 2, 1963, section 1, p. 16; “Mayor Wires RFK for Help; Plaquemine Officials Ask for Federal Marshals,” September 3, 1963, section 2, p. 2; “Farmer, Seven Others Are Found Guilty,” September 4, 1963, section 3, p. 2; “Students Hold Demonstration,” September 6, 1963, section 1, p. 12; “Judge refuses to Lift Order,” September 7, 1963, section 3, p. 2; “CORE’s Acts of Violence in Plaquemine Reported,” September 8, 1963, section 2, p. 2; “Case Remanded to State Courts,” September 14, 1963, section 1, p. 1; “Judge Studies Ban Injunction,” September 20, 1963, section 4, p. 1; “Lift Ban, CORE asks Rarick,” September 28, 1963, section 2, p. 5; “Order against CORE Still On,” October 1, 1963, section 1, p. 16; “Judge Halts CORE Hearing,” October 15, 1963, section 1, p. 6; “Hearing Friday Involves CORE,” October 16, 1963, section 1, p. 5; “District Judge Assails Action by Appeals Court,” October 25, 1963, section 1, p. 1; “LA. Sit-In Laws Target of Suit,” November 5, 1963, section 1, p. 20; “Voter Records Photos Sought,” November 13, 1963, section 1, p. 20; “Rarick Rejects CORE Protests,” November 22, 1963, section 3, p. 13; “Delay in CORE Hearing Given,” December 14, 1963, section 2, p. 2; “Dismissal Asked by Judge Rarick,” December 17, 1963, section 1, p. 6; “McKeithen Lays Turmoil to JFK,” September 22, 1963, section 1, p. 23. This is of course just a sample of the coverage of CORE in Louisiana during the late summer and early fall of 1963.
p. 229: “a Negro wearing a CORE T-shirt”: “Rarick Rejects CORE Protest,” Times-Picayune, November 22, 1963, section 3, p. 13. See also “Order against CORE Still On,” Times- Picayune, October 1, 1963, section 1, p. 16.
p. 229: He would go down before he would give in: Rough Side of the Mountain.
p. 229: “by the time I get there”: Interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 229: Corrie Collins knows when the Klan holds their meetings: Interview with Corrie Collins, February 3, 2001.
p. 229: “they knew better”: Interview with Corrie Collins, February 3, 2001.
p. 229: “Barney”: Interview with Corrie Collins, February 3, 2001. See also Corrie Collins, HSCA interview, October 24, 1978.
p. 229: did not equal the leave days: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Papers, Part 2, Southern Regional Office 1959-1966, Edited by August Meier
and Elliot Rudwick, University Publications of America, Frederick, Maryland, reel 3, frame 825.
p. 229: four men in it: Interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 229: Maxwell interviews Corrie Collins: HSCA, Corrie Collins, October 24, 1978, interviewed in Highland Park, Michigan, NARA.
p. 230: Sciambra did not write this down: Interview with Corrie Collins, Memorandum, October 26, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Interview with Corey [sic] Collins, NODA, NARA.
p. 230: Alcock and Sciambra interview Corrie Collins: Memorandum, January 31, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Clinton, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 230: Verla Bell also hears the line “trading with the enemy”: Memorandum, March 14, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andy Sciambra, Re: Clinton, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 230: did Shaw wear a hat? Collins says he told Sciambra that Shaw was not wearing a hat, interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 230: Bobbie and her husband Joe: Dischler Notes.
p. 231: “we’re short of people”: Interview with Frank Meloche, June 11, 2000.
p. 231: state legislator demands money from Jim Garrison: “Mystery Investigation Expense Accounts Probed,” by Bill Neikirk, States- Item, undated, and “State Police Aid in DA Probe Is Confirmed,” States- Item, April 30, 1968, NARA.
p. 231: The Sovereignty Commission was accused of being “a junior Central Intelligence Agency”: “Intelligence Unit Developed—Claim” by C. M. Hargroder. Times-Picayune, May 1, 1968, section 1, p. 1. See also “Garrison to Seek Early Trial in Shaw Case,” Times-Picayune, May 1, 1968, section 1, p. 17.
p. 231: Sciambra receives disinformation from Pete Reech: Memorandum, January 22, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Pete Reech, Jackson, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 231: Pete Reech delivered Dr. Silva’s newspaper: Memorandum, January 22, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Pete Reech, Jackson, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 231: false contention: Interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 231: emerged from a CORE meeting: Memorandum, January 22, 1968, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Henry Earl Palmer, Clinton, Louisiana, NODA, NARA.
p. 232: Andrew Dunn again identifies Guy Banister as a passenger: Memorandum, January 30, 1968, To: Louis Ivon, From: Frank Ruiz and Kent Simms, Re: Interview with Mr. Andrew H. Dunn, W/M General Delivery, Clinton, Louisiana on 1/10/68, NODA, NARA.
p. 232: Ruiz and Simms interview William Dunn: Memorandum, January 31, 1968, To: Louis Ivon, From: Frank Ruiz & Kent Simms, Re: Interview of William Dunn, 42, Box 793, Woodland, Louisiana, on January 17, 1968, NODA, NARA; William Dunn before the HSCA, April 18, 1978.
p. 232: Moo Moo interviews Ed Dwyer: Confidential Memorandum, April 2, 1969—Dictated and Transcribed, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Shaw in St. Francisville and Clinton, NODA, NARA.
p. 232: Jerry Sylvester dies in an airplane crash: “Further Feliciana Research” by Claude B. Slaton, June 24, 1997. Web site of “redacted.” Other leads came from a judge named Ossie Brown. Brown told Jim Garrison he knew a young truck driver for the Holsum Bakery, who had told him he knew Ferrie and Oswald, and thought one day a black car had been following him on his bread route. When Ferrie’s death was announced, the truck driver was deeply frightened. Richard Rolfe told Jim Garrison that “Shaw is much better known in Clinton than it would appear.” Brown’s is Number 95 of 100 open leads Jim Garrison amassed in the last months of his investigation. Courtesy of Lyon Garrison.
p. 232: a foreign lady in an old car: Jim Garrison to Jonathan Blackmer, July 15, 1977,
p. 232: same route: “Morgan City—late Sept?” “KT & LHO double,” New Orleans District Attorney’s Office List, undated, NARA.
p. 232: Moo Moo wrote to the FBI: Andrew J. Sciambra to Elmer Litchfield, January 22, 1968, 124- 10264-10050, 89-69-3885. See also Gene S. Palmisano to Andrew J. Sciambra, February 14, 1968; Andrew J. Sciambra to Honorable J. Edgar Hoover, February 19, 1968; FBI, To: SAC, New Orleans, From: Director, FBI, Personal Attention, February 26, 1968; Robert E. Rightmyer to Louis C. LaCour, February 28, 1968, NARA.
p. 232: not to acknowledge the letter from Garrison’s assistant: FBI, To: Attorney General, From: Director, FBI, January 25, 1968, 62- 109060-6672.
p. 232: Branigan calls Sylvester: To: SAC, From: ASAC: Sylvester, 89-69- 3805A, NARA.
p. 232: Litchfield contacts Rightmyer with his denial: FBI, To: SAC (New Orleans), From: SA Elmer B. Litchfield, January 25, 1968, 124- 10258-10321, 89-69-3808B, NARA. See also To: SAC (New Orleans), From: SA Earl R. Petersen, January 25, 1968, 89-69-3809.
p. 233: Hoover ordered Ramsey Clark: FBI 62-109060-6672, NARA. Hoover’s tone and method of address suggest a superior giving orders to an underling.
p. 233: Sciambra and Alcock visit Litchfield: FBI, January 31, 1968, To: Director, From: New Orleans, 124-10258-10329, 89-69-3817, NARA.
p. 233: “everything went through the Seat of Government”: Interview with Elmer B. Litchfield, January 10, 2002.
p. 233: Branigan telephones Sylvester again and instructs that Litchfield be brief: FBI, To: SAC, From: ASAC Sylvester, February 1, 1968, 89-69-3819, NARA.
p. 233: Sciambra now writes to Palmisano, and Palmisano replies: “We are sincerely attempting . . .”: Andrew J. Sciambra to Gene S. Palmisano, March 29, 1968; To: Mr. Fred H. Vinson Jr., From: Director, FBI, April 22, 1968, 62-109060-6357, NARA.
p. 233: Branigan again telephoned Rightmyer: FBI, To: Supv. Wall, From: SAC Rightmyer, April 18, 1968, 89-69-4008, NARA.
p. 234: Merryl Hudson is visited by the FBI at the East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson: Interview with Merryl Hudson, February 3, 2001.
p. 234: “I have some thoughts about who took it out”: Interview with Maxine Kemp, June 12, 2000.
p. 234: “That must be where that guy thought he saw Oswald”: Interview with Elmer B. Litchfield, January 30, 2002.
p. 234: the resident agent out of Lafayette took the knife and the bar slip signed “Hidell”: Memorandum, July 13, 1967, To: Jim Garrison, From: Andrew J. Sciambra, Re: Information received from Lt. Fruge, July 11, 1967, NODA, NARA.
p. 234: follow up: Interview with Lou Ivon, October 9, 2000.
p. 235: “not necessary to correspond with Blakey”: FBI. Record Number 124-10274-10196. File Number: 62-117290- 997x2. From: legal counsel. To: assistant director. 06/19/78. Subjects: Notes, Blakey, G. R., Retained by FBI. NARA.
p. 235: Aynesworth and Manchester: See In Re: Grand Jury Investigation of Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court, Request for Attendance of Out-of-State Witness, To the Honorable Matthew S. Braniff, Judge of section ‘B” of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, signed by Assistant District Attorney Richard Burnes, NARA.
p. 235: “I advise you to leave the area”: Aynesworth described the incident to Tom Bethell on his return to New Orleans, Tom Bethell, Diary.
p. 236: He called James Leo Herlihy: Interview with Stuart Timmons, June 12, 1999.
p. 236: Kluger would never have published it: Conversation with Richard Kluger, October 8, 1998.
p. 236: Kirkwood goes to Clinton: James Kirkwood, American Grotesque (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), p. 222.
p. 236: “we shall overcome”: Interview with Carl Bunch, January 2, 2002
p. 236: “bother me, not him”: Interview with Corrie Collins, June 13, 2000.
p. 236: employed at East: The HSCA accepted as fact that Oswald had applied for a job at the East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson: Summary Memorandum: Clinton, La., NARA.
p. 236: it would provide Oswald with a cover: Interview with Numa Bertel, February 6, 2001.
p. 237: “the crazed part would be accomplished at Jackson”: Jim Garrison interviewed in documentary film, Rough Side of the Mountain. (Work-in-progress) by Richard Cohen and Carol Kachmer.
p. 237:
the turkey on Thanksgiving Day: Jim Garrison in He Must Have Something outtakes.
p. 237: “aggression beyond control”: Jim Garrison interviewed in outtakes for He Must Have Something.
p. 237: “acting funny”: Interview with Robert Buras, January 16, 2002.
p. 237: “establish meaningful relationships”: Ibid. p. 423.
p. 237: “twisted”: Chapter VII of the Warren Commission Report: Ibid, p. 375.
p. 237: a “troubled American citizen”: Warren Report, Appendix XV, p. 778.
p. 237: “ a rather disoriented individual”: U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect To Intelligence Activities (SSCIA). Re: Interview of FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Warren C. de Brueys by SSC Staff Members, January 29, 1976, January 20, 1976: To: Director, FBI, Attention: Intelligence Division, W. O. Cregar, From: SAC, San Juan, Observations and Comments of SAC de Brueys. FBI 124-10273-10172, HQ, 62-116395- 1300X, 20 pages, NARA.
p. 237: the Diary was gone: Interview with Anne Dischler, February 2, 2001.
p. 238: Andrew Dunn’s suicide by hanging: “DA Witness Hanged Self, Clinton Records Confirm,” Times- Picayune, January 27, 1971, section 1, p. 10.
p. 238: Salvatore Panzeca claims Shaw was not there: Interview with Salvatore Panzeca, June 4, 2000.
p. 238: Anne Dischler’s statement of July 2000 repudiating Patricia Lambert, courtesy of Mrs. Dischler.
p. 238: Mary Ferrell linked telephone calls on David Ferrie’s telephone to Clinton: See Critics Conference, September 18, 1977, HSCA, AARC; interview with Mary Ferrell, February 11, 2002.
p. 238: Alvin Beaubouef says the Clinton people have been bribed: Telephone conversation with Alvin Beaubouef, November 27, 1999.
p. 238: “just wasn’t there”: Interview with Rosemary James, May 22, 1998.