JFK Assassination System Date: $/13/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI : : Kenne dy RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90143-10271 Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES : HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). , “ ase#: NU 54460 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER:  100-370750-103 pO-O8— 2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA ~ ; TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 02/28/1947 ‘PAGES: 7 SUBJECTS : JOHN HOWARD LAWSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 ; CURRENT STATUS: — Redact ° DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 10/09/1998 ; 5 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 | AW 34460 Docld: 323358853 20 Page 1
oe . a EE a ag fe 203 : - ~ ad ky z FEDERAL BUREAU AEL\ LRROAMATION CONTAINED | No.1 HEREIN NS UNCLASSLUFL This CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES RECEDT ny ent Showa ED rite NO. 10021198 REPORT MADE AT | DATE WHEN MADE 47, / pas i REPORT MADE BY { WHICH MADE A LOS ANGELES 2928247 [11-2954 212,14, ROBERT W. HOLLMAN irk CHARACTER OF CASE TITLE JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, wa NTBRNAL SECURITY - C gt Subject finishing historical text a considering SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: ] gcreen pffers from producers WALTER WANGER and Lo HOVE UGHES » suyect was recently host to NY CP MoS 0 functionary LIONTIA BERMAN and ‘identified attending an Q ries of meetings with BURMAN. Source has identified NY ay - LAWSON at meetings held to discuss ‘yainstream™, to i Or ~ Which he has contributed article. LAWSON has recently \ \ «=i eonferred with Seattle representative ICCASP and in \, _*« glose contact with WALDO“SALT regarding forthcoming Soop 4 o: Ni production of HOWARD’ FAST'g boo Freedom Road." Sus- moe aad ject named as speaker for program sponsored by H.V.M. — called "Counter Attack" and identified as adviser for local Negro weekly “California Fagle" and ngw Ce. Pe) an front organization "Stage for potion." g BASS ee eeBiye++99. Declassify on aSGueeer MSDSdBR] Agent ROBERT . HOLLMAN + Los Angeles, California. pyoiasBiFi=D BY 36 vat see Sg ORS OOS se faeed ON ae Source A has advised that the subject is very near completing ré= writing his text on United States history and that he had received offers from producers WALTER WANGER and HOWARD HUGHES to return to screen writing. This source stated that recently WANGER had sent LAWSON a copy of a book entitled “Lonely Road" to get LAWSON 's impression of the book. LAWSON sometime ago finished a screen | play for WANGER entitled “Crack Up" and may write a screen story”; for producer HOWARD HUGHES. iho mL ye , an F i f Z) “ APPROVED AND g . SPECIAL AGENT 0S"C/ DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES IN CHARGE | t , 8_ MAR 23 '$'OF THIS' REPORT ; fF 00~ 370750 -/63 ; . . (ge Bureau ; ne: = OP ; = “S : seo fi eo 1 - Seattle (Info. ) Co Pa AL “obese . . 1 1 - New York \(n -) Soe Z. 3 - Los Angeles \ oO OCB ae | OO Zé iL HW 54460 Docld:32336653 Page 2?
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