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. And there are no organizational ties between the Communist
Party and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee; and since he was writing
on that subject, I wanted to make it clear that there is no such
relationship existing, so that literature that was being sent was not
being sent from the viewpoint of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee as
such, or anything like that.
Mr. RANKIN. By "organizational ties" did you mean to distinguish
between that kind of a tie and some other kind of a tie; is that what
you were trying to do?
Mr. JOHNSON. In the sense--well, in this sense, that while not being
responsible for what that committee may do, if there were activities
being done by a committee which would have our sympathy, well, there
would be that kind of relationship; but that is not any--not where we
would assume responsibility for it, nor could we indicate what its
policy would be, or anything like that.
Mr. RANKIN. You are trying to distinguish between some official
relationship and mere sympathy?
Mr. JOHNSON. That is correct.
Mr. RANKIN. Is that it? You did recognize a sympathy or desire to
encourage the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, I take it, then?
Mr. JOHNSON. That and other similar committees, whatever they may be,
but not exclusively that.
(Document marked Johnson Exhibit No. 3.)
Mr. RANKIN. I hand you Exhibit No. 3 and ask you if you recall having
received that from Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; I do.
Mr. RANKIN. Is that one of the letters that you delivered to the FBI at
the time you described?
Mr. JOHNSON. That is.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you receive it on or about the date it bears?
Mr. JOHNSON. I think so. I mean within those days; not on the day but
afterward.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall receiving the honorary membership card of
esteem that he says he is sending to you?
Mr. JOHNSON. Somehow I do not; at least I never kept it, and it wasn't
attached to the letter at all when I found it in the files, or anything
like that. I do not recall that.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you kindly initial Exhibit 3 too, please.
(Witness complies.)
Mr. RANKIN. There is a reference in the second paragraph of Exhibit No.
3 to a clipping. Do you recall that at all?
Mr. JOHNSON. I recall a clipping that had something to do with either a
distribution of literature or a--and I think that was it. I am not too
sure whether it also had something about an arrest or some altercation
that he had been in. I did not keep it. I did not regard it as of any
particular significance.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall destroying it or do you know what happened to
the clipping?
Mr. JOHNSON. Well, things like that I would just very likely throw in
the wastebasket; that's all.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall whether or not you responded to the Exhibit
No. 3?
Mr. JOHNSON. I responded to that together with other letters.
Mr. RANKIN. At some later date?
Mr. JOHNSON. At a later date.
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