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alleged payments made to Ruby THE BATTALION Page 7 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1978 FBI continues probe United Press International -WASHINGTON — One tip pur- Ld in the FBI investigation of the Isassination of President John F. Kennedy was an allegation that two lays before the shooting, former ■la. Gov. George Wallace traveled | Texas and gave $35,000 to Jack The FBI quietly checked on Wal- L’s whereabouts for the days pre- eding the assassination, but drap ed the investigation after agents , e re unable to locate the individual fho made the accusations. I According to FBI documents re- IgLed Wednesday, a man who iden- [fied himself as “Jerry Coleman’ same to the office of Birmingham, |la,, attorney Arthur Shores on jpril 24, 1964, and asked to see bores. Upon being informed that Shores i-as not in, the man dictated a mes- iswald’s wife freveals Lee’s ixon attempt United Press International IvVASHINGTON-Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife told the FBI she had 1(1lock him in a bathroom in April, '111)63 to keep him from trying to as- Bssinate Richard Nixon, newly dis- iBosed FBI files showed Wednes- J], Edgar Hoover concluded that ®arina Oswald was confused and Sat Lyndon B. Johnson, then vice ; Jiresident and visiting Dallas at the Jme the incident occurred, was .Wswald's apparent target, the files ■lowed. M The incident tended to support 9ie ultimate conclusion of the War- Commission that Oswald was John F. Kennedy s killer and that he Kted less out of political opposition In Kennedy than out of a leneralized grievance against soci ety. I The commission found that Os- wald was “moved by an overriding Eiostility to his environment. — - - HV wail i«czr sage alleging that Wallace traveled to Texas two days before the assassi nation and gave $35,000 to Jack Ruby, who shot suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The money, Coleman claimed, was to be divided between Ruby, Oswald “and a cop.” In his message, Coleman said, “I can personally prove every word I am saying because I was there. In other words, I was working in the governor’s office...” In the message, the man left an address in Detroit, where he could be contacted if Shores wished fur ther information. Receptionists in the office told agents the man “appeared to be in a rather excited state of mind and had been drinking” and also “appeared to have recently been in a fight since he was bruised and cut about the head. ” The receptionists said they con sidered the message absurd and without foundation, but the FBI fol lowed up on it anyway. Agents went to the Montgomery, Ala., Public Library and reviewed copies of the local newspaper, “The Montgomery Advertiser, for the days surrounding the assassination to pinpoint Wal lace’s whereabouts. They found he had been in Columbus, Ga., on the evening of Nov. 19, 1963, for a speech and had been in his office in Montgomery on Nov. 20. There was no mention in the paper of Wallace’s whereabouts on the day before the assassination, Nov. 21. But agents noted “exten sive news coverage was afforded a local trial...and it is possible this coverage prohibited information concerning the governor’s where abouts or activities on the previous day.” In a Nov. 23 issue of the news paper, Wallace was reported to have attended a “Governor’s Day” meet ing in Haleyville, Ala., on the day Kennedy was shot. A team of FBI agents also checked out the Detroit address given by the tipster and found it to be nonexistent. They checked up on two indi viduals with the last name of Cole man who were listed in the city di rectory as living on the same street but found one, a woman, had moved six months earlier and the second, a man, did not know anyone by the name of Jerry Coleman. If You’re Tired of KINGS, MACS, & JACKS.. Ride the 109 Boyett 846-8223 Next to Campus Theater SUBMARINE SANDWICHES ^Tjour^^^or^^t^ubsfor^yoin^iextjgaiH^ First Meeting at MSC Camera Committee Jan. 23 7:30 p.m. Interested in photography? Come on by! Postal Inspector H.D. Holmes, ho questioned Oswald about buy- ng a mail order rifle, said: ‘Oswald at no time appeared con- used or in doubt as to whether or lot he should answer a question. On he contrary, he was quite alert and howed no hesitancy in answering fhose questions which he wanted to [nswer, and was quite skillful in arrying those questions which he lid not want to answer. I got the Impression that he had disciplined his mind and reflexes to a state vhere I personally doubted that he vould ever have confessed.’ She said she “locked him in the wthroom” to keep him from leaving heir home, the FBI files showed. The incident occurred only two peeks after Oswald fired a shot into |the home of Army Gen. Edwin Walker, a political conservative. He confessed afterwards to Marina of that attempt on Walker’s life. Oswald’s sister-in-law also gave authorities an account telling of how Oswald allegedly threatened to shoot Nixon. wmt THE BEST DISCO ^ IN ^ TOWN! Open 7 days a Week 813 WELLBORN HWY. 846-1100 TUESDAY: FOX HUNT Free beer all night long • Dance contest with prizes Ladies: No Cover Guys: $3.00 WEDNESDAY: “SKIP & GO NAKED” NIGHT All drinks 2 for 1 THURSDAY: AGGIE DRINK’N DROWN Free drinks all night longl FRIDAY & SATURDAY: WEEKEND FEVER SUNDAY: BEER BUST NIGHT Beer 25c all night • No cover charge! 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