“AGENCY INFORMATION - AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10184-10002 RECORD SERIES: TP AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-455-195 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: GENTRY. GLYDEB. JR. TO: TITLE: DATE: 12/15/1963 PAGES: 3 SUBJECT: — JFK, CONTACT, NATIONAL STATES RIGHTS PARTY DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified . NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 09/24/ 1997 UPDATE DATE: 02/12/2001 STATUS Redact © RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) ‘COMMENTS: Doclda:327176007FT Page 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote)©.-- DATE: 11-14-2017 Rong Cover’ Sheet for Informant Report or Material FD-306 (3-21-58) Date received Received from (name or symbol number) Received by 12/18/63 TP 6-C(RAC) SA GLYDE B. GENTRY, JR. Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks) i CHin person C“Iby telephone C_lby mail | orally | ‘| recording device x written by Informant If orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent: Date of Report: Date , 12/15/63 Date(s) of activity ‘ Dictated ie £0 { Transcribed Authenticated by Informant 12/15/63 Brief description of activity or material Meeting of National States Rights Party ne Lakeland, Fla., 12/15/63. File where original is located if not attached TP 137-6A-556 Remarks: COPIES : ACTION I - FBI Jacksonville (RM) Ll. info channelized to proper 1 - FBI, Miami (RM) oo, files. 1 - FBI, Atlanta (RM) 2. Index into 157-45: 1 - 157-45 (NSRP) Mrs. William BOWMAN 1 - 157-27 (TAFT) Mrs. EUGENS TURNER 1 - 157-893 (W. BOWMAN) Mrs. A. C. SMITH 1 - 157-894 (E. TURNER) , 1 - 157-293 (STONER) ~ - 157-165 (Lake Wales) a. 62-455 (KENNEDY Assassination) GBG-clis (11) anccecioal COM ‘TAINED | ML Ne: Sp Bre foyer } . . , Block Stamp USE REGISTERED MAIL Doclda:327176007T Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote)’ - DATE: 11-14-2017 ied oe So NOTE: Informant's report is set forth... herein exactly as received except for corrections in spelling and grammar. Lakeland, Fla. December 15, 1963 On December 15, 1963 at 3:15 PM eight women and 10 men held a meeting’ at the Hungarian Inn, five miles east of Lakeland on the old Winter Haven Road. Those recognized were: J. B, STONER (Atlanta, Ga.) DEWEY TAFT (Tampa, Fla. state chairman of the National States Rights Party) Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM BOWMAN (Lake Wales, Fla.) Member of the United Fla. KKK Mr. and Mrs. EUGENE TURNER (Lake Wales, Fla. ) Member of the United Fla. KKK O. V. BOATWRIGHT (Lakeland, Fla.) Member of the United Fla. KKK Mrs. A. C. SMITH (Auburndale, Fla.) Wife of a member of the United Fla. KKK A preacher from the Orthodox Church in Lakeland. The meeting was opened by TAFT. He said the meeting was to try to get members for the rights party and to start clubs wherever possible. He said there had been a club in Lakeland in about 1960, but it disbanded. TAFT stated he will be working all over Florida trying to get the party set up in every town. TAFT turned the floor over to STONER who said he is the one that defended some men in St. Augustine who had been arrested for beating up some Negroes. \ STONER said the people of St. Augustine have put up ot more of a fight against integration than the Negroes thought they would and he said the people there are not going to integrate. He stated the Negro has said they will not be . satisfied if they get everything they are demanding now. i When they get these things they will start a new list of a things. He stated the Negro will not be happy until they Po We : ' oon TAINED Dall w/z “ian iii Pa am nf ( (TFC | DoclIda:327176007FT Page 3