Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. JOHNSON. At the time when I turned this over I included copies of
what I would assume would have been the literature at the time.
Mr. RANKIN. That is when you turned it over to the FBI?
Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; I turned over copies of the literature at the same
time. That would be the normal thing for that particular period. I
think I could think through carefully----
Mr. RANKIN. Would that be four or five pieces?
Mr. JOHNSON. Possibly more than that; about seven or eight.
Mr. RANKIN. Could you briefly describe about what they were for the
record?
Mr. JOHNSON. Well, they would be those pieces of literature which
somehow state what was being distributed around that time from our
offices, and I know it included a pamphlet "End The Cold War" by Gus
Hall; it included a pamphlet on the McCarran Act. I think it would have
included at that time another pamphlet on "Peaceful Co-existence." Then
the pamphlet that we usually sent by Elizabeth Flynn, something of the
history of the Communist Party, "Horizons of the Future." I am guessing
now, to tell the truth about it, from here on.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall the reference in this Exhibit 1 to honorary
membership cards in the Fair Play For Cuba?
Mr. JOHNSON. I know the reference is there; yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall whether or not the cards were enclosed or not?
Mr. JOHNSON. I really don't remember that.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever have any oral communications with Lee Harvey
Oswald?
Mr. JOHNSON. None whatsoever.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever have any oral communications with anybody on
his behalf?
Mr. JOHNSON. None whatsoever.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall doing anything about the honorary membership
cards, giving them to Mr. Hall and Mr. Davis, or anything like that?
Mr. JOHNSON. No. That is where I don't really recall about them. If I
would have done that, then I am sure that I would have remembered it.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall doing anything else about the letter, Exhibit
1, and the printed sheet attached to it beyond what you have described?
Mr. JOHNSON. I replied to it.
(Document marked Johnson Exhibit No. 2.)
Mr. RANKIN. I hand you Exhibit No. 2 on your examination and ask you
if you will identify that by stating whether or not you have seen that
copy and the original of that copy at some time.
Mr. JOHNSON. Yes. This is my reply to the letter we have just been
discussing.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you prepare that reply?
Mr. JOHNSON. I did.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you send it on or about the date it bears to Mr. Oswald?
Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; I did.
Mr. RANKIN. Would you kindly initial it.
(Witness complies.)
Mr. RANKIN. Thank you. What did you mean in Exhibit 2 by the statement
that "We do not have any organizational ties with the committee"?
Mr. JOHNSON. That is in reference to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Mr. RANKIN. Yes.
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