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.
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.
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