DA SUBPENAS 3 IN JFK SLAYINGPROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300040006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 29, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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G a r I- i s on today sub
penaed three persons as
material witnesses in his
probe of the ass hssina-
tion of President Join F.
Kennedy.
The three
as:
i Lillie e enne y slay-
13 g.
It contends. he was in Dal.
las with Jack Ruby "and oth-
er. individuals believed to be
involved in the assassination,
that he brought a weapon to
Dallas shortly before the as-
sassination, that he was ac- ! New Orleans.
tive in the 'Free Cuba' move- B e f o r e the assassination,
Loran E. al,. of I{ernville, ". ment .in Florida, Louisiana Hall was present at discus-
Calif. and Texas, that he was previ- lions concerning it, the sub-
Thoa::as I eckl;am of Oiita- . ously engaged, in CIA-spon- .+ pena says.
ha, Nclb. sored guerrilla training in '1' h c document stipulates
that if hall obeys the sum-
I s -1 eitcc J. "uwaicl Jr (;j Florida for raids on Cuba
,
LOF that he. was in association molls, he will have immunity
from prosecution.
T the a .ape n,.,, n ere issued . with Lee Harvey Oswald in
b5' inal District Judge !I I TUT.' ut r?rTT tiar 1-
I says the DA's office has in-
The subpen
fc. t;a appearance of the three a, charges that
; formation that
etas in as-
the Orleans Parish before I3a11's arrival ;
D
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er
a
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Al
Jury :i~ cb. 1 and 2. las he was in the New Or- sociation with ferric and vari-
:I ous other individuals at 531
SL "t`vA for Hall leans area and was in con
Lafayette
.
sa ! D s information tact wilt David William It says he was further eon-
thy. c..,,,.,,;;u into i:he Dal- .? Ferrie, who has been named netted with Ferrie in that both
]as Young Allen's Cliri~tial- in an indictment as a con- ! were ordained priests in the
Association in October, 1ti ' spirafor to the Kennedy slay- "Old Orthodox Catholic Church
and remained in Dallas until ing, and other indtvidu all, i of North America."
ec
ha
CPYRGHT.
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THE DOCUMENT identi- i
fled the Lafayette St. address
ns the same office building
described as 544 Camp St., the
address used on leaflets
handed out by Lee Oswald in
x
m, he su pena says,
operated a "Cuban mission"
on Rampart st, and says lie.
was "in a c t i v e association
with certain Cuban exiles in
New Orleans in whose com-
pany 1.ee Oswald was seen."
F'OIAb3b
FOIAb3b
he had knowledge of the intel-
ligence activities occurring in
the office of W. Guy Banister.
The subpena says Beckham
subsequently was reported to
,be in Dallas in November of .I
1963 with one of the Cuban
exiles and that a number of
those persons with whom he
was in contact in New' Or-
leans and Dallas "are believed
to have played a part in ,the,
assassination."
The document grants him
immunity similar to that given
Hall if he abeys the subpena.
.THE SUBPENA for Howard
says information has been
given the Del that' Howard
was in association with Ferrie
in 1963 during the course of
visits 10 New Orleans.
It says the DA has informa-
tion that r oward was engaged
in CIA sponsored guerrilla
training in Florida for raids
on Cuba, that he was active
in the "Free Cuba" move-
ments in Florida, Louisiana
and,Texas and that he asso-
ciated with Petrie and others
at 531 Lafayette.
The. document. says Howard
arrived in D611a~ and checked
la~euu C A- ao1 P eGo4oGO6a s
guern7ha training. conducted untl e. ime of a ennedy
.a3
 LA1Vi;.EN:CI J. i OWVAfiD JR. THOMAS E. BECKI'IAM
I I ESE i':~, I,u,A ES. WVERE RELEASED TODAY by Orleans Parish District At.
for e; I uu C au k; ^,u as those of three lemons submitted as material Witnesses
CPYRGH1 In ~tionn Probe.
s
e manner find such ? ~?
as Hall and Beckham I
IT SAYS IIE was in contact
with :Ruby "and other individ-
ualsbelieved to have been in-..I.
volved 1, the assassination."- , ? in the Warren Commis-
The subpena grants Howard sion index-instead you will
imziumty in the
am
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In a statement issued in
connection with the subpenas,
Garrison said "Each of the
three witnesses was in a
unique position to observe
activities relevant to the ass-
inat.' n: None of them were
que:,t.inned by .the Warren
Corrunisslon."
GARRIS'IN CHARGED that
this was because the commis-
sion's objective "was to hide
the fact that for the first time
cn American history, a coup
d'etat had occurred, result-
ing in the carefully .planned
execution of a President . . ."
He reiterated his earlier
contention than "President
Kennedy plainly was shot
from a number of different
directions," you will not find the
names of Hall and Howard
DEC 2 40 1967
V dI1C1C$ d3 M 11Q111Ca U1 1 neU-
dore Roosevelt, Franklin D'.
Roosevelt, Rudy Vallee and
Xavier Cugat," Garrison said.
On the witnesses subpeaned
today, Garrison said Hall is
also gnown as- "Lorenzo Fas-
cillo" and "Skip" Hall.
He said Hall was in 1963 a
member of the Minutemen, a
right-wing organization.
HE SAID THE Minutemen
organization had no connec-
tion either with training Cu
,ban exiles or with assassinat-
ing the President, but that a
number of individual members
were active in guerrilla train-
ing.
Howard, Garrison said, is
alsd known as "Alonzo Escu-
ride."
"In the early 1960s he was
a close companion of Loran
Hall in guerrilla activity in Flor-
ida," Garrison said.
Beckham, the DA said, was
an associate of Ferrie and of ",
Sergio Arcacha, onetime New I
Orleans Cuban exile leader.
Garrison charged that., "the
American people have never
been told the names of 10 men
(some of whom we'have'iden
tified as participants in. the
assassination) who were ar-
rested in Dealey Plaza min-
utes after the assassination."
They later were quietly, re-
leased after the murder of of-
ficer Tippit, in another part
of Dallas, provided the neces-
sary diversion to cover their
release."
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