alleged payments made to Ruby
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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.
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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.
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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.
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