JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90010-10119 RECORD SERIES: = DL AGENCY FILENUMBER: _ 100-9734-755 eee Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BROWN Released under the John TO: DL . Kennedy WSsassination Records TITLE: ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: Nl 54463 Date: WO-1i2-2017 DATE: 09/07/1961 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : AMERICAN G.I. FORUM [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/16/1997 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO > eee v9.1 66 HW 54463 Docld:32323115 Page 1
DL 134-1A-614A Even at that, LOWERY replied the work could be credited to the CP. ESTRADA stated that he wanted to quit mainly because of this reason: he had given much thought te what LOWERY said about. protecting his boy. LOWERY’s boy is in the service. — In a previous meeting, LOWERY advised him he definitely did not want to be a . delegate to the State Committee and would no longer attend State Committee meetings. His boy was in the service and if he (LOWERY) was ever identified as a big wheel in the CP, he was sure to ruin. his son’s career, He woula rather remain just a member, For this — reason, AUGUSTIN stated, hew could they stand by and have JOHN STAN- FORD persecuted —- when they as the local CP had not accomplished any thing, there was no cause for it. LOWERY said he still stood by his decision if he remains a delegate when the time came for their exposure as CP members he was sure to be identified as the CP head of the State of Texas = it had happened to him before, Oncs in the past he was accused of heading the CP in Texas ~ he and ELWOOD ROSS, ‘they claimed, were the state leaders = not ESTES. LOWERY did not specify who his accusers were, He asked LANDIN to give his opinion on the status of the Party. LANDIN said he would continue to work aS usual. He was working on a project now. Before thén he was working on another one.. He had always managed to keep busy. While he worked on an individual basis. As LOWERY had said his work could be credited to the Party. -The local CP, LANDIN continued, had not recruited anyone in years. He for one had 2 good number of Marxist books, pamphlets, etc. He didn’t have any use for them - it was shameful too for he imagined active CP members could make use of them. As it was he was going to burn them. LOWERY said he had sold $8.35 worth of Marxist literature. He wanted to look through JOE's Marxist literatiwre and. pick up some of it he could sel. LANDIN said he could. = LANDIN asked what the status of the local CP was. Both ESTRADA and LOWERY said there was no use deceiving themselves there wasn't a Party. LOWERY felt the next thing to do was to take the | subject to the State Committee, LANDIN asked for what, to notify | :. them of AUGUSTIN’s plans or to discuss it. His point was, would — anything they or the committee say change his mind? ESTRADA said they were obligated to the State Committee, They had responsibility and he would in the near future Meet with JOHN STANFORD and would, after that, contact JOE LANDIN and BILL LOWERY. st HW 54463 Docld:32323115 Page 3
DL 134—1A-614A . . | BILL LOWERY reported he had attoalted a counle of meetings with the Forum, one” @ Social, where he had neard J, O, GARCIA — speak concerning the dinner-dance honoring Sen. . GONZALEZ. Ue also reported that he had visited with JOHN STANFORD in San Antomio. STANFORD, LANDIN said, had moved and wonderéd how LOWERY contacted him, LOWERY said he called the operator feom Dallas, got his number, and called to make sare he would be there. STANFORD was there. ESTRADA said he did not know STANFORD's address or phone | number and did not know wheres to call him. If that was so, LANDIN asked, how could he contact him to meet with him. ESTRADA said he would write to another address and the letter would be forwarded to him. LOWERY said the letter LANDIN wrote on Cuba (8/14/61, "DALLAS TIMES HERALD”) was a good one. LANDIN said he regretted writing it, for while trying to point owt the folly of war and the prejudiced views of some people, he had done more harm than good. His wife was terribly upset remembering the hysteria the last U..S. hijacked plane caused. She pointed out the harm the letter could do to their children. They would be ostracized or persecuted by the children at school,and what of their teachers? She added that after a letter by LANDIN approved in the piéss, some children _ (quite sometime ago) that played with their children, never returned to play again. LANDIN said he had not givmit much thought, or else he would not have written it. LANDIN said his wife also brought up the question of crack-pots they could harm, and after all they ©. lived in a corner, next door to them the house was Wacant. and an alley was béhimG=them, in short they were exposed.’ LANDIN said that while others were free to write what they pleased he would not write letters of that nature any more. AUGUSTIN ESTRADA and BILL - LOWERY said that if they could help in some way they would do it. , Informant had noe additignal information. oe 3S HW 54463 Docld:32323115 Page 4