WHILE THE MASS MEDIA AND DEMOCRATS SEEM ENRAPTURED WITH EACH NEW PHOTO, AND LETTER FROM THE EPSTEAIN FILES, WE FORGET WHAT MAY BE THE LAST HOPE TO GET SOME TRUTH ABOUT WHO KILLED JFK IN DALLAS IN 1963

 I asked Google AI the following question.  It's answers demand further questions and answers.  Will they ever open the real files?

I attended PTS Beauregard Junior High for a year with Oswald.  I never knew him, though it is possible I may have asked him, "How much is this?" as we moved through a lunch line.  About 1,000 students, I was in the 9the grade classes; he was in the 8th.  If he ever attended Warren Easton Senior High, he did so for less than a month, and again, I did not know him.  At Easton, I had met Banister's daughter, Mary Jane' she was the date of a friend Tex Sanders and we had double dated to go to the large Saenger Theater on Canal St. to see "Rebel without a Cause."  The theater was packed and at the film's conclusio, it seemed the packed theater exhaled a breath of relief.  All the tv family programs of that era, like Father Knows Best, the Nelson Family (with little Ricky) were families that were all terrific, a minor problem each week, solved within a half hour.  None of the families of Rebel were ideal, Sal Mineo's never appeared, Natalie Wood's dad slapped her and called her a slut; James Dean's was usually wearing an apron and not heading the family against the mom's dominance.  The film itself was a Rebellion against the 1950s illusions of comfort and conformity.

Mary Jane and I met then for the first time.  We both attended Easton, and she had heard disturbing things about me.  She was concerned, worried, I might be moving into the communist camp, talking about race-mixing and things like that.  She thought I should meet her dad, who was an expert on the subject as he had been a leader of the FBI in Chicago before coming to New Orleans.  (Indeed, Banister had been Acting Superintendent of the New Orleans Police for a time).  He now headed a detective agency, and Mary Jane urged me to come to their home and talk to her dad, and get some sense in my head.  I went to her home, and Guy was then sorting mail, standing by a table.  I approached and introduced myself; he grunted, and kept sorting.  I was the only one speaking, and kept it short.  Mary Jane was a pleasant, likeable gal, and I did what she requested, and Guy probably did too.  Clearly neither of us were enthused about the meeting, but to please her we did so.  Later I learned that Banister was one of the "conservatives" who would pay young people to spy on youthful radicals.  I will discuss more on the atmosphere in New Orleans in that era in the forthcoming book.

In summer of 1963 I entered the Tulane Library and on a small table in the foyer was a stack of leaflets [ Fair Play for Cuba Committee, what many deemed a pro-Castro organization.  I picked up one; there was no one else around.  Iread it later and discussed it with a grad student in philosophy.  Hae either of us sent a letter to the address on the leaflet, it would have ended in the office of anti-com Guy Banister.

Are we really to assume that the Fed. Govt. had no files on Oswald with Banister, David Ferrie, the CIA training camp north of Lake Pontchartrain shut down in July 1963?  Stop forcing the Dept. of Justice to go through every Epstein pimple, and go to WHO MURDERED JFK.

Hugh Murray

why did "marxist" Lee Oswald work with staunch anti-communist Guy Banister in New Orleans in 1963 on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee?

The relationship between the Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald and the staunchly anti-communist Guy Banister in New Orleans during the summer of 1963 is a central mystery in JFK assassination research. While official government investigations generally concluded Oswald was a "loner," evidence and testimony suggest their collaboration served specific, often conflicting, tactical goals

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Key Evidence of the Connection

• Shared Address (544 Camp Street): Oswald distributed Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) leaflets that were stamped with the address 
  544 Camp Street
  . This was the side entrance to the Newman Building, which also housed Banister's private detective agency at 
  531 Lafayette Street
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• Witness Testimony: Banister’s secretary, Delphine Roberts, stated that Oswald visited the office frequently and "seemed to be on familiar terms with Banister". She also claimed Banister explicitly told her Oswald was "one of ours" and was working for him.
• Proximity to CIA-Linked Figures: Banister was a former FBI official who ran an anti-communist intelligence network and worked with David Ferrie, an anti-Castro pilot who had known Oswald since the Civil Air Patrol. 

Primary Theories for Their Cooperation

There are several major theories explaining why these two ideological opposites would work together:

• Establishing a "Legend" (Cover Story): Researchers suggest Banister was helping Oswald build a public persona as a fanatical pro-Castro Marxist. This "legend" could serve as cover for infiltrating leftist groups or, as some theorists argue, to later frame Oswald as a Cuban asset in the event of an assassination.
• Provocateur Operations: Evidence suggests Oswald’s FPCC activities were designed to provoke reactions. For example, Oswald staged a street fight while handing out leaflets to gain media attention and bolster his pro-Castro image, which some believe was a tactic to flush out communist sympathizers for Banister.
• Intelligence Infiltration: Some believe Oswald was a low-level informant or "asset" for the FBI or CIA. In this scenario, Banister, who maintained close ties with government agencies, acted as a handler while Oswald attempted to infiltrate the DRE (Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil), a CIA-funded anti-Castro group.
• Anti-Castro Schemes: Delphine Roberts believed their association was related to anti-Castro operations, potentially including gun-running or training Cuban exiles, activities Banister was known to support. 

Despite these accounts, the Warren Commission did not find credible evidence of a link, and the CIA has historically denied any official relationship with either man. However, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) later acknowledged that Oswald did indeed associate with anti-communist figures in New Orleans. 

JFK ASSASSINATION: MELLEN'S MUDDLED PARAGRAPH

     When Joan Mellon's book about New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison was published, I read it, and was pleased that her book was favorable to Garrison.  DA Garrison is one of my heroes.  Mellen had interviewed me for the book, and I gave her the names of some others whom she also interviewed.  I read the book, but did not review it.  The reason I did not is given below.  This is from a letter to someone who is also interested in the assassination of President Kennedy.  In one paragraph, Mellen got the thrust correct, but all of the details muddled.  The letter, in part, follows:

     Joan Mellen interviewed me by phone but made several errors in the paragraph.  Here is what she wrote in Farewell to Justice, p. 56-57: [Referring to how LHO seemed to have  no connections to the NO Left, what Leftist would avoid the Left?}  "None in history, young Bob Heller and Tulane student Hugh Murray both thought.  Heller's roommate, Oliver St. Pe, took a look at the Fair Play...leaflet, considered replying to the post office box of 'Hidelll,' stamped on it, then changed his mind.  It must be a trap, he decided."
     Judyth, There were so many errors in this one paragraph, I decided not to review her book.  Even though I look upon Garrison as a hero, I distrusted her research.  Let me clarify.  I am the one who picked up the FPCC leaflet in the Tulane library.  I then went upstairs, behind the public area to where grad students had desks, carrols (spell?).  I we to Harold Alderman who had been active in the FPCC, I think in Miami or some other city, and asked him, "What are you putting out?"  I thought it was his leaflet.  He wanted to see the yellow flyer.  He knew nothing about it.  We discussed what we might do, but were cautious.  I joked that if we sent a letter to the po box, it might be the FBI.  A trap.  We decided to do nothing until we found out more about the source of the flyer.  (This is discussed in v. 26 of the Warren material.)  Alderman took the leaflet and placed it on the door to his dorm room, until Nov. 22, when he took it down.  He was visited by the FBI, I think on Tuesday 26 November, and he told them about me, and I was visited by 2 FBI agents on that Tuesday as well.

     On Nov. 22, I assumed a seg had killed Kennedy.  I was stunned when Shelly Zervigon, wife of Carlos, called me in the afternoon to tell me they had arrested a Communist from NO for the crime.  WHAT!?!  Many thought I was a communist.  I assumed I would soon be rounded up.  In 1938 a minor diplomat was killed in Paris by a young Jew, and then the Nazis began the mass roundup of Jews in Germany.  Kennedy was no minor diplomat; he was the President.  I decided to go out that night and drink, for it might be my last chance to do so.  I was asking, who is Oswald?  Who knew him?  I finally was told that Bob Heller, a Tulane student who as a freshman in fall 1960 got involved in CORE and I think was arrested.  Heller had spoken to Oswald on Canal St. or somewhere downtown.  His was the only name I came up with and his contact with Oswald was most casual.  There had been no followup after the street meeting.  When the FBI interviewed me, I gave them Heller's name.  Another student a Tulane, Phil Good (spell?) then called me fink whenever he saw me.  I have no qualms about cooperating with the FBI on the assassination.  Had I not, how could I fairly criticize their efforts and the lone nut theory?

     Oliver St. Pe was my roommate.  He said he never knew Oswald, tho both were in Ferrie's CAP (but St. Pe was 2 years older than I, and so a little older than Oswald).  St. Pe was in CORE, but no radical.  Oliver was not Heller's roommate, and if they knew each other at all, it would have been more because of CORE, when many Tulanians joined at one time, and Oliver was reducing his activities.

     Because I found such confusion in the paragraph that mentioned me, I decided not to review her book.  The general thrust of that paragraph is accurate, but the details were hopelessly muddled.

MY NEW ORLEANS STORY - Part 2

Before reading Part 2, please read Part 1.  This may be incomprehensible without information from Part 1.------------------------------Hugh Murray

             Before I get lost in the story of Oliver St. Pe, and David Ferrie, I should get back to November 1963.  On Friday the 22^nd President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.  On the Sunday the 24^th, Oswald was shot and killed in the basement while being transferred by Texas authorities.  On Tuesday 26^th, I was interviewed by the FBI (after Harold Alderman had been interviewed.  A summary report of Alderman’s comments are included in v. 26 of the Warren Commission material).  That week, David Ferrie was interviewed by District Attorney Jim Garrison’s men in regard to possible connection to the assassination.  He was handed over to the FBI and then released.  I sent Oliver the news item from the newspaper about Ferrie’s arrest.

            All that and more occurred at the end of November.  On December, all the teachers and staff were paid by the school where I worked, the Junior University of New Orleans, but most checks bounced.  Many of the teachers met and decided to inquire about suing the school.  I was among those not paid, so I had a new worry.  Around the middle of the month, a group of us sued the school.  When the news of the suit was published in the newspapers, parents began to worry about the economic stability of the new school.  At a meeting in the school, the administration informed the staff that only those of us who withdrew from the suit would be paid.  I was among those who walked out of that meeting.  Many were not paid, and the suit continued.  Some teachers sought to form a new private school, and I was invited to join the group.  When they discovered my integrationist background, I was uninvited.

            Meanwhile, JUNO limped along.  But it was losing teachers, student body, and tuition.  To protect the school from Communist agitators and union thugs, the school hired a private detective, Guy Banister.  Those of you who have read about the Kennedy assassination already know the name.  Banister had been an FBI agent in various northern cities, came to New Orleans in the early 1950s and was for a time the Acting Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Dept.  He was active in his church (I think it was Presbyterian) and a strong anti-Communist.

            His daughter, Mary Jane, attended Warren Easton High School, and was in the same grade as I.  Not only did we know each other, I occasionally bowled with her boy friend, “Tex” Don  Sanders.  In high school I was moving toward the Left politically and openly espousing integration.  Mary Jane feared that I was becoming a Communist.  (Example, when almost the whole student body left the school and marched to keep segregation on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Black Monday decision – the one that declared segregation un-Constitutional, I was one of the few students who remained in the school and did not join the march.)  Mary Jane urged me to speak with her father, who might save me from such maddening Left-wing views.  I was reluctant to do so, but Mary Jane was a nice girl (in those days one would not refer to a high school female as a woman).  To please her, I went to her home and was introduced to her dad.  He seemed as reluctant to meet me as I to meet him.  We said a few words, but he showed no interest in a debate or even a discussion, sorting his mail while we spoke.  Our conversation lasted only a few minutes, yet both of us had formally acceded to Mary Jane’s request.  Of course, neither of us had changed our political views.

            Apparently Oswald may have attended Easton for a short time.  Previously, he and I both attended P. T. G. Beauregard Junior High during the same year, but he was in 7^th and I was in 9^th grade, and there were some 1,000 kids.  (Beauregard was the officer who gave the order for the Confederates to fire upon the Federals at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, thus beginning the American Civil War.)  Even if I had stood beside Oswald in a lunch line, I did not know him.

            One reads today that Banister had sent young people to spy on the Left in New Orleans.  I cannot attest to this personally.  However, while at Tulane University, Clark Rowley from Connecticut became a friend.  I often spoke politics to him, and in time he became the editor of the Tulane University student newspaper, The Hullabaloo.  In the fall of 1964 I was teaching at Dillard University and took one of my Dillard students over to Tulane for a lecture before the Young Liberals Club.  By this time, Tulane had integrated, and the speaker may have been Birmingham’s civil rights activist Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who was then head of the Southern Conference Education Fund.  After the talk, several of the Tulane students and me, with my Black student, went to a nearby pizza place.  There were about eight of us at the table.  The owner came to tell us they would not serve us, and threatened us with arrest if we did not leave.  This surprise incident led to large-scale picketing of the Maple Street campus eateries.  Clark, editor of the Hullabaloo, ran some sympathetic stories.  He was getting information from various sources, including mutual friends in the Liberals Club.  One day Clark also told me then when we first met and began to discuss things, he had been paid to spy on the Left by Kent Courtney, a leading conservative in New Orleans.  This was a shock, but as I said nothing criminal, I was less concerned.  He told me he quit the job with Courtney.  Moreover, Clark did a good, and fair job as editor, and became a friend.

            In January 1964 I was no longer teaching at JUNO, nor at the newer, rival private school.  No one picketed JUNO, and it was cold and the weathermen had forecast snow flurries.  Because it almost never snowed in NO, I hoped to see some, but nothing stuck to the ground that month.  Another Tulane friend who was a teacher at JUNO suffered the financial pinch too.  He had withdrawn from the law suit, continued to teach there, but received only the December check.  The school closed down in early 1964, so he too had to search for other work.  But while teaching at JUNO in early 1964, he would see Banister walking around the school with his pistol hanging from his belt.  In those days, it was rare to have weapons in a school.

            A little later that year Banister was arrested after he stopped a bus when someone had yelled a remark about a female passenger in his car.  I think he stopped the bus, left his vehicle, and boarded the bus waving his gun.  In June 1964 Banister died.  In late 1963 and 1964 Guy Banister seemed to have no connection at all to the Kennedy assassination or Oswald or Dallas.  Even though some of the “Hands Off Cuba” flyers that Oswald had distributed had an address that was for the same building where Banister had his office, in 1963-64 almost no one would have connected Oswald to Banister.  Nevertheless, if anyone had picked up one of Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba flyers that contained the street address, and had they sent a letter to that address for a Fair Play Cuban Committee, the probably would have been delivered instead to the anti-Castro organization housed in Banister’s office.  (Banister’s office at some point housed weapons to be used in an invasion of Castro’s Cuba.  Banister felt strongly about the issue.)