AGENCY INFORMATION Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI a » Kennedy ; WSssassination Records RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10167-10328 . Ollection act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: CV (44 U5 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53025 Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-1848-91 n5—-22-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HOPKINS, EMIL E. TO: TITLE: DATE: 12/08/1963 PAGES: 6 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL NEW lassifi NEW CLASSIFICATION: §— “nelassilied CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 11/15/1996 UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 STATUS Redact v RESTRICTIONS: ~ JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: HW 53025 Docld:32166966 Page 1
a 4 . ry “a a. : =e ( Cover Sheet for Informant Report or ; . a + Material FD-306 (3-21-58) Date received Received by ROUSE from (name or symbol number) — | 12/16/63 | CI 104=s ; SA EMIL E, HOPKINS Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks) ca in person Coby telephone C4) by mail C1] orally Co recording device Cz written by Informant. If orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent: : Date of Report y Date H ' . fy 12/8/63 Dictated ————____—_~ to : { Date(s) of activity , - pranseribed ALL INFORMATION CONTAYRED | ; HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED lee Auth ted -fe ' Authenticated ae //- 1-93 By 9903 MA (12/8/63 Brief description of activity or material Report of TTT cmains nicy ene | “ie held 12/8/63 9 at home of GENNE KUEN = 6105 File where original is located if not attached” Remarks: Utmost. care. edd be be ‘taken. that any. information: ‘taken. from _ this report. is paraphrased to protect: inform ¢,. since. only — ' seven individuals attended the. meeting. mo “(> Cleveland (RM) .. 100-17257° (CP. Org. yo. SON). 100-.- = (ARNOLD JOHN : an ‘(Assassination of President: KENNEDY) 44< (JACK LEON Riley, Alea.) 105- (LEE HARVY OSWALD) 65-721 | (ANTHONY . RCHMAREK) 100217255 (Membership). 100=16463 (Political Activities) 100217797. (Factionalism) |. 1100-23484 (Mass Organizations) 100217947 (Strategy. in. Industry) 3 - Dallas RM a 622. (Assassination of President ‘RKENNED 442  . . . (JACK LEON RUBY) (“105- (LEE. HARVEY - “OSWALD) ® 6 = New York (RM)~ - . 100- — (cP org. ». oo  62- (Assassination of. Pres, KENNE 44e - (JACK LEON RUBY) | 105~- (LEE HARVEY. OSWALD) * 100-16021 (ARNOLD JOHNSON) Hi BER) dpASBrcnoce Page 2
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CL. 134-BA-557 7 informant ' ) , report set forth below: “Steubenville, Ohio. December. 8, 1963 "On the above date a group from. Steubenville, Met at 610 §, Front St. Wheeling, W. Va. the" home of a Genne | (Crockard) Kuhn. This was" a: Communist. Party Meeting. The persons. who were ‘in attendance who were recognized Were: . Le ‘Floyd Wells: - A Carpenter and - treasurer of his _ ' Local Union from Steubenville., | 2 = CHARLES PALMER: = A steel worker and former: grievance ! Committeman from the Wheeling Steel Corpn.- and Member’. of Local, Union. #1190. U.S.W.A. C.E.0. A. F. Le 3 = Randal Gorby: fom the Wheeling ~ Steel Corpa ‘anda ‘formar shop stewart is a Member of Local. ‘Union: #1190 _U. 5. W. A.  €.1.0. | Ae Fol. © 4 = Aveold Johmaon: .. A. former state. chairman, of th Communist. Party’, ‘of Ohio and who now is a: sortyof pe ' pelations man - for. the Communist. party: working out” New. York City, New York. He secures. speakers for: >, any engagements such as Colleges. and Campus lecturés. 8.2 John Fabrey a Miner . from Smithfield. He. is know as the eniling Slovak. (6 = Mra. John Fabrey his Wife - coke a ° 7 - Genne (Crockard) Kuhn the. hostess : is a. “long time. C. party worker former wife of Hugh. Crockard, Now deceased - and she since Married Emil Kuhn who now: resides at her home. Genme has three children two to her first. husband aid the other to. the. latter, . She.has a son about. 19 yrs ‘old who is being schooled and worked - over. by the C. party. in New York. : Genne. Kuhn Continued; The..¢ party. wanted to take. her son - Gill Crockard out of. her influence. so he. could. be taught | «3-6 HW 53025 Docld:327168968 Page 4
‘at 134-684-557 oY ew . . ‘something’ Constructive: this 5 G4it. recently, ¢ ‘a: tib'y ‘yeats or’ legs ago:.Made. a: trip: ‘tothe: ’ ‘Soviet ° ‘Union: ete. on ‘the: . Youth Conference ‘Know. as: the. ‘World ‘Youth: Conference,’ . He will ‘probably emerge ‘from the New York. thing:as*a- full time’. organiser in ‘some. special: field suck eas “youth. 7 ‘at the start of the: Meeting Genne ‘brought out J} her brief case full ‘of cliphiitgs . (Newspaper) ‘ete. she . _ ‘algo had a lot of pemciled notes which she was i _  tindoubtedly. going-to use to show ‘what she was doing ~ 4 and to. ‘give. others; hell: for not co-operating with’ her. . But the. first discussion by: A. Johnson centered around the Late Pres. Kennedy, ‘  Avmold: explained that. since ‘Oswald was:. considered: a” Communist then a wave of. hysteria was about to explode. against the'C. party of America but. by. the time ‘the ‘pacactionaries. were. getting. started: it was announced that it had. been disclosed that at. seemed ‘like the — extreme. fight ‘had been’ active. This ‘was. bore. out | by the declaration. of” Russia. that . ‘it was not the C. party that had done it because Kennedy.was a i . frlend of the. Working class but. the work of the extreme. - tight .or almost ‘a fascist. act. . This: seemed to sober. the masses that it was: the same caliber. of people’ who. had insulted. Stevenson only: Weeks: before. in Dalles, : Texas. Arnold stated. he was asked by.C.B.S. News about: this Oswald as to a ‘letter he ‘had. written to the party, he told them he gets Cr of letters.of enquiry about the “ C. party and he probably answered. it as he does. hundteds of others and even sent him literature if he requested a - it. ‘They (C.B.S.) wanted him to’ go-on.the air with 4 ih statement. but ke stated to them. he would have to dig th letter: out. and<baijauge before he Made any. statement. =| - Randal. Gorby asked. Arnold Johnson if when he: got back. to *. _New York to look in the files if he. ‘had a letter from @ Wn Pokas, formerly from,Bellaire, Ohio, ‘and. also at inmate. of Cambridge | Asylum for a period. of. time, -Goty «@ ho HW 53025 Docld:32168968 Page 5
CL 13484557 HW 53025 asked Johneon to compare the letter of Pokey's with: Oswald's to see if they didn't have a lot: in Common. Palmer stated that he thought the statement’ by the Msthodist Minister Covered the situation very good when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bill Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the. south going by without punishment had set the stage for the — Assassination of Pres. Kennedy. Everyone readily agreed, Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist Gould do such a thing.. There is not Much doubt that | since the Soviet Union had expelled him by mot giving him a Citizenship im the Soviet Union because - they thought him to be an Agent of Pascism, | Genne Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her story told about the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE. . 4 She finally got her Chance to unload. She stated that about the time of the Civil Right's March on Washington a few days before she had been working with CORE and NAACP the reporter from the Wheeling paper Intelligencer had Called and wanted to talk about her. She gave him answers on the © phone and finally hung up on him. from the time - this phone conversation was completed She had been. quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Communist party Member, which brought-about her expglsion fr the N.A.A.C.P., but simce has been restored to Membership. Then lately a Man (Negro) by name of Johnson head of the local CORE group was indicted for robbing a bus driver in Steubenville, Ohio. Genne had got in touch with R. Gorby as she thought Johnson was being Framed. Gorby found owt and told her at this Meeting that he had did the robbing and was Not being framed. The best thing to do stated Gorby was to give him help but do not put:CORE.and the NAACP out. om a limb by doing it. ‘ . oe 5 DoclId:327168965 Page 6
cen HW 53025 1L34-8A-557 , "palmer stated that it was: News to him as: the only thing he Knew about it Wae the articles in the paper and. the first one looked as. Lf Genne had stayed on the phone  — too long should have hung up’quick: He also stated that in 1948 when he hed this trouble everyone Knew about it. and then he got more help and was successful in defeating the reactionaries: You have to always. work together on these Matters if you: will be guecessful. The hour was drawing Near ten o'clock P.M. and the" Steubenville delegation had to work that. Nite. Lunch was. furnished, by each and everyone. ‘with: the exception of A Johnson and he put away plenty. a Johnson stated that. he had been down this way. about ‘one week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends by phone, one im particular was Adolph Pacifico he ~~ wanted to talk to him om a so called applachian” Coal project . which haé been going om for some time’ “Adolph: wanted to — meet with him Lf he could find time Later — Wes unable to see him at this time. Everyone present asked A. Johnson When he was coming back but he would not state exactly only he would notify the Next time he could make it. No literatures No Collections ‘During the time Gemme Kuhn was belly aching about not getting help from the Valley group it was pointed out by A Johnson that some years back when the Wheeling grou was a part of W. Virginia group that difficulties existe and now with the Wheeling group im with Ohio Valley. the trouble still exists, We also pofmted out that. distance has a lot to do with it. too. Genmne stated that Fred Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer. She was urged to call him. against her wishes. but he got no answer on the phone" DoclId: 37168968 Page 7?