JFK Assassination System Date: 6/15/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI Released under the John RECORD NUMBER : 124-90108-10063 ‘ . Kennedy Assassination Records RECORD SERIES : DL Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). AGENCY FILE NUMBER: — 62-3035-58 ase#:NW 53025 Date: 5-23-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: KUYKENDALL TO: DL TITLE : DATE: — 01/13/1969 PAGES: | 2 SUBJECTS : AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 08/04/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO | eeSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSeSEEE v9.1 . 9 HW 53025 Docld:32333921 Page 1
|. cethonaL. FORA No. 16 ae ao MAY 1982 EDITION GSA FPMR ay po ‘CFR) 101-116 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - “Memorandum | TO: SAC, DALLAS 134" DATE: 1/13/69 FROM: * $A EDWIN D. KUYKENDALL se CT: . for 21-s Hexion : DL 21-S on 10/10/68, orally advised SA EDWIN D. - J KUYKENDALL that HARRY KOGER (of San Antonio) telephoned the _~yi home of J, C, BECKWORTH on 10/9/68, Route 1, Tatum, Texas, E and told MRS. BECKWORTH to tell her husband to go to Houston, fs Texas’. and contact a person (named but MRS. BECKWORTH did Yi not remember the name). ‘KOGER's interest was concerning © 2 J.C, BECKWORTH's claim (or case) presently pending before > the Texas State Board of Education, Austin, Texas, under > BECKWORTH' s loss. of his job as principal of Mayflower School, ‘4 ”, = Route 1,. Tatum, several months ago when Tatum's schools were AP lS integrated and Mayflower deleted its high school, (Mayflower ‘school previous ly was all Negro. KOGER also was concerned a about nine other Negro teachers who had lost their jobs fro AE Tatum High School following one year of integration there. Yel 9 BECKWORTH, upon learning about the above, tried by telephone to return KOGER's call but found out he had just gotten out of a hospjtal in the San Antonio area and could not be reached: WU) 134-02 -27gRO(W ’ | | RY ig 100-2228 (T.° H, KOGER) 100-9948 (J. CC, BECKWORTH) 62-3035 (ACLU, _DALLAS- CHAPTER) 100-671-7 (CP, USA , EDUCATION), 4100-11053 (CIRM): | 157-233 (RAC IAL,’ RUSK COUNTY) 100-10097 (H. C. THOMPSON) | 100-695. (CARL BRANNING) San Antonio (RM) (1-100- 7111. ) (THOMAS HENRY KOGER). _(1-100-9845_) (CIRM) (1-100- ~~) (AMER ICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES (1-100-_ ) CRONNIE DUGGER ) Houston “(RM) . (1-100- . ) (RONNIE DUGGER ) ee ML CE AP al Exempt from Cagy Dato of Declagefficat C= BPS See og HW 53025 Docld:32333921 Page 2?
a HW 53025 Dy 34-82A an 2H Yu —— PenBibaaatAe Informant further reported that J.C. BECKW ORTH recently had received a letter dated 10/3/68, addressed to him from FRED O. WELDON, JR., a member of the Board of Dallas Civil. Liberties Union, affiliated with American Civil Liberties Union: (ACLU) , Box 12371, Dallas 75225, telephone RI 1-4656. The stationery on which the letter was typed identified officers of the Dallas Civil Liberties Union as ROBERT L. LICHTEN, President; ELMER WATSON, Vice President; and CARL BRANNING, Secretary, A copy of this letter was directed to MR. DORAN WILLIAMS, Texas Civil Liberties Union, 1205 B East 11th, Austin, © fu) . The letter told ‘BECKWORTH that WELDON had received a letter dated 8/12/68, from DORAN WILLIAMS advising con- cerning BECKWORTH's problems with the Tatum School District and asked BECKWORTH if possible to come to WELDON's office in Dallas to furnish him all factual background on which BECKWORTH bases a claim that his dismissal from. his school job made a Civil Liberties issue, The envelope bore the return address "MULLINX, WELLS, MAUZY, LEVY, and RIC ak 1601 National Bankers Life Building, Dallas 75201, "NY, uw) According to informant, H. C. THOMPSON , former Mayflower school bus driver, told BECKWORTH around the first of October, 1968, that HARRY KOGER had written him stating that BECKWORTH would be getting letters from several sources; that KOGER had contacted the ACLU at Austin and BECKWORTH should be getting letters:from (unidentified persons there) Dallas, Austin, and Kaufman, Texas. KOGER had told THOMPSON. that RONNIE DUGGER of Houston needed to have the information that BECKWORTH could provide concerning his own situation in order that he could publish it both about BECKWORTH and to Tatum School District trial af he other nine Negro teachers who had lost their jobs. pUY Informant stated BILL WILDER, Henderson, Texas, is BECKWORTH's attorney representing him in BECKWORTH's claim before the State Board of Education. That claim is based upon failure of the Tatum School District to complete its contract with BECKWORTH which: had | never; r) expired nor terminated. IY UL) vdaet ACT ION: None. W Docld: 323339271 Page 3