Weissman and Burley accepted Schmidt’s prompting and traveled to Dallas, arriving on November 4, 1963.[C6-462] Both obtained employment as carpet salesmen. At Schmidt’s solicitation they took steps to join the John Birch Society, and through Schmidt they met the fourth person involved in placing the November 22 advertisement, Joseph P. Grinnan, Dallas independent oil operator and a John Birch Society coordinator in the Dallas area.[C6-463] Within a week to 10 days after Weissman and Burley had arrived in Dallas, the four men began to consider plans regarding President Kennedy’s planned visit to Dallas.[C6-464] Weissman explained the reason for which it was decided that the ad should be placed: * * * after the Stevenson incident, it was felt that a demonstration would be entirely out of order, because we didn’t want anything to happen in the way of physical violence to President Kennedy when he came to Dallas. But we thought that the conservatives in Dallas--I was told--were a pretty downtrodden lot after that, because they were being oppressed by the local liberals, because of the Stevenson incident. We felt we had to do something to build up the morale of the conservative element, in Dallas. So we hit upon the idea of the ad.[C6-465] Weissman, Schmidt, and Grinnan worked on the text for the advertisement.[C6-466] A pamphlet containing 50 questions critical of American policy was employed for this purpose, and was the source of the militant questions contained in the ad attacking President Kennedy’s administration.[C6-467] Grinnan undertook to raise the $1,465 needed to pay for the ad.[C6-468] He employed a typed draft of the advertisement to support his funds solicitation.[C6-469] Grinnan raised the needed money from three wealthy Dallas businessmen: Edgar R. Crissey, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and H. R. Bright, some of whom in turn collected contributions from others.[C6-470] At least one of the contributors would not make a contribution unless a question he suggested was inserted.[C6-471] Weissman, believing that Schmidt, Grinnan, and the contributors were active members of the John Birch Society, and that Grinnan eventually took charge of the project, expressed the opinion that the advertisement was the creation of the John Birch Society,[C6-472] though Schmidt and Grinnan have maintained that they were acting “solely as individuals.”[C6-473]