Ut Si GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM 0: DIRECTOR, FBI (62- 107261) Date: 12/5/61 CONFIRENTIAL FROM: \\) SAC, MEMPHIS (62-1187) (RUC) LL INTORM AT TON commatrap HEREIN Teoeer genes. SUBJECT: "MINUTEMEN" Osmea SH sa ” INFORMATION .CONCERNING OTHERWISE. — .- Relet Bureau to Albany and all offices dated 11/6/61. The following racial matters sources residing in the territory covered by the Memphis FBI have advised that they know of no "Minutemen" activity or chapters to exist within the Memphis FBI territory: Identity of Source ‘Contacting Agent Date Contacted Dr. MYRTLE P, WALKER, . SA WILLIAM H, LAWRENCE 11/30/61 Confidential Source trac) Memphis, Tennessee OTHER 4 SA WELLTIAM BE, LAWRENCE 11/ 30/61 Confidential Source (Rac) Memphis, Tennessee E 156-8, Memphis | SA WILLIAM H, LAWRENCE 11/16/61) Ku ME 256-C(Rac). SA WILLIAM H, LAWRENCE 11/16/61 and 11/30/61 ‘2 = Bureau (62107261) ALL COPIES REGISTERED MAIL ~- Kansas City (Information) - Dallas , 2- San Francisco . , '1 = Houston (Information) JO z / 2 PO na 1 = San Diego (Information) 3 - Memphis SEARCHED cccordNGRED—| 1 - 62-1187, "Minutemen" ) SERIA HEN 1 - 137-1795 Memphis Citizens! Council) Loo i (961 00-3727, John Birch Society) FBI + Léicer 9 tal Classified By-D&. alk oS EF Beclassify prt\OAs TT ~ ALL INFORMETISY CONTAINED) SHY Py / 326 S)  CONPXOENTIAL RTE / je oY sepa le) HQENTT . a . HW 45880 DoclIda:32335614 Page 4
ME 62-1187 | CONFIDENTIAL Also on 11/30/61 ALLEN, Librarian, the "Commercial Appeal," daily newspaper, Memphis, Tennessee, . advised SA WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE that the files of his paper contain no information regarding any "Minutemen" activity in the Memphis or mid-South area. The following inquiries were made in Nashville, Tennessee: On 11/30/61 Miss CLARICE MILLER, Office of the Secretary of State, Nashville, Tennessee, advised that there is no record of this organization being chartered int the State of Tennessee. On 12/1/61 ME 249-C(RAC) was contacted tele- phonicaliy and advised that he has not heard of such a group being organized in Nashville. On 12/1/61 CS ME 175-c(RAS) was contacted tele- phonically and she advised that she read about this group in the newspaper but that she knows of no one organizing such a group in Nashville. The following investigation was eonducted at Memphis, Tennessee: On 11/30/61 FRANK KNOX AYCOCK, attorney, with offices in the Columbia Mutual Towex Bullding, Memphis, volunteered the following information to SA WIGLIAM H, LAWRENCE which may be pertinent to this investigation: AYCOCK volunteered that he is an activemember of the John Birch Society and of the Memphis Citizens! Couneil; further that on 11/22-25/61 he attended the National Indignation Convention held in the Dallas Auditorium, Dallas, Texas. This was sponsored by the John Birch Society. — During the lunch hour on 11/22/61, AYCOCK went to the Steak House Restaurant, located near the Baker Hotel in Dallas. He was wearing his National Indignation Convention identification tag on his suit lapel. There he was accosted by two white males who were also wearing National Indignation Convention identification tags and who indicated to him that they were also attending the National Indignation Convention . 22Qe CONFGENTIAC HW 45330 DoclId: 32335614 Page 5