AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10075-10086 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-1639-4130 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT_TYPE: ' ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI CLEMENTS. MANNING C. DIRECTOR. FBI Released under the John F. Kennedy Lesassination Records Collection bet of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). rases#:Nl 544635 Date: 10-12-2017 01/31/1964 374 SEE FBI 44-24016-1113 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT NEW Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: 03/11/1996 UPDATE DATE: 01/22/2001 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) REPORT, TABLE OF CONTENTS , INDEX ON PAGE a-o HW 54463 DoclId:32144946 Page 1
“ee @ . @> FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN DATE INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD DALLAS DALLAS - TITLE OF CASE REPORT MADE BY j TYPED BY _ SA MANNING C, CLEMENTS gi JACK L. RUBY, aka; CHARACTER OF CASE LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka - VICTIM (Deceased) CR REFERENCE: Reports of SA MANNING C. CLEMENTS dated. 11/38/63, 12/6/63, 12/11/63, 12/14/63, 12/18/63, 12/19/63, 12/21/63, 12/31/63, 1/8/64 and 1/17/64, at Dallas. -p. LEADS: All leads are being set out by telephone and teletype and ame not repeated herein. ADMINISTRATIVE: No dissemination will be made outside the Bureau except on Bureau instructions. A (COVER PAGE) SPECIAL AGENT APPROVED IN CHARGE 00 NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW ; 5S =~ Bureau (44- 24018) Ory. Dallas (44-1639) Wd HW 54463 Docld:327144948 Page 2?
| TPR 44-187 _ IPO: jw ADMINISTRATIVE Re speech by OREN FENTON POTITO, St. Petersburg, Florida, “January 16, 1964, ° On January 17, 1964 TP 100 PCI (RAC) furnished to SAs JAMES P, O'NEIL and JAMES E, WALLACE. the following information: “on the evening of January 16, 1964 a dinner sponsored by OREN FENTON POTITO was heid at Donat's Restaurant, 6001 Haines Road, North St. Petersburg, Florida, The dinner neeting was informal pub-— lic in nature and approximately 41 persons were in attendance, The source has identified POTITO as a member of the National States Rights Party (NSRP) in the Spring of 1963 at which time POTITO resigned while holding. the office of National Organizer. — Since that time POTITO has held meetings of a public nature under various titles all of which are non-existent organizations. He is not known to have any national affiliation-at the present, time although he is in con-_. tact with. various leaders of. right-wing groups in the United States. In the course of his speech of some 3 hours following the dinner POTITO touched on ‘the association between LEE HARVEY OSWALD and RUBY. . ay \ ‘POTITO identified RUBY, real name RUBENSTEIN, as a Commun- ist’ Party Member since 1929 and through this connection linked -him to OSWALD... He identified OSWALD as a Communist through his association with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). According to POTITO only two “organizations knew the route of the parade in Dallas on November 22; 1963 for any. period of time prior to the parade and thesetwo were the: United States Secret Ser- vice and the Dallas Police Department. RUBY had insinuated himself into the Police Department-circle, obtained the route and arranged with OSWALD to take the job at the state school building along the route“to carry out the assasination. — POTITO said the "Surgeon Generals report’ on the assassi- nation statedthe first bullet entereu the President's throat beiow the adams apple clearly showing that two persons were involved with the first shot being fired from the bridge across the park way in front of the car. To further substantiate this, POTITO said there was a bullet hole in the wind shield of the President’ s car. 4 Cover Page HW 54463 DocId:32144948 Page 3 - -
FD 963 (Revs 5-1-8) 6 ; @ : FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN DATE | INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD DALLAS DALLAS E - TITLE OF CASE REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY SA MANNING C, CLEMENTS gi JACK L. RUBY, aka; CHARACTER OF CASE — LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka - VICTIM (Deceased) CR REFERENCE: Reports of SA MANNING C. CLEMENTS dated saysd/es, 12/6/63, 12/11/63, 12/14/63, 12/18/63, 12/19/63, 13 /24/a3" 12/31/63, 1/8/64 and 1/17/64, at Dallas. LEADS: All leads are being set out by telephone and teletype and aze not repeated herein. ADMINISTRATIVE: No dissemination will be made outside the Bureau except on Bureau instructions. A (COVER PAGE) APPROVED COR eM ANGE _— COPIES MADE: DO NOT WRITE {N SPACES BELOW [50 5 » Bureau (44-24016) “Sr Dallas (44-1639) NOTATIONS ee cneenneree cesses pensnesneecenefontneeenetne ae tat A fap | Decccceteeseesesea: [pesueeceseseece: [ecaceesseseeseccee|eccesseeereeeseee® An. Ceyehe 7 _ & aS Ce HW 54463 Docld:327144946 Page 4
January 16, 1964, TP 44-187 JRO: jw ADMINISTRATIVE Re speech by OREN FENTON POTiTO, St.. Petersburg, Florida, " On January 17, 1964 TP 100 PCI (RAC) furnished to SAs JAMES P, O'NEIL and JAMES E, WALLACE. the following information: “On the evening of January 16, 1964 a dinner sponsored by OREN FENTON POTITO was held at Donat 's "Restaurant, 6001 Haines Road, North St. ‘Petersburg, Florida, The dinner inéeting was informal pub— -lic in nature and approximately 41 persons were in attendance. The churce hes identified POTITO as a member of the Nativnal States Rights. Pa aa (NSRP) in the Spring of 1963 at which time POTITO ‘resigned w ng. the office of National Organizer. Since that time POTITO has nad meetings of a public nature under various titles all of which are non-existent organizations, He is not known to have any national affili®tion. at the present time although he is in con-_. ‘tact with. various leaders of. right. wing groups in the United States. In the course of his speech of some 3 hours following the dinner POTITO touched on | ‘the association between LEE HARVEY OSWALD and RUBY .. . 13s ‘POTITO identified RUBY, real name ‘RUBENSTEIN, as a ‘Commun - ist: Party Member since 1929 and through this connection linked -him to OSWALD, He identified OSWALD as a Communist through his association with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). According to POTITO only two. organizations knew the route of the parade in Dallas on November 22, 1963 for any period of time prior to the parade and these two were the United States Secret Ser- vice and the Dallas Police Department, RUBY had insinuated himself into the Police Department: circle, obtained the route and arranged with OSWALD to take the job at the state school building along the route“‘to carry out the assasination. POTITO said the “Surgeon General's report" on the assassi- nation stated the first bullet entereu the President's throat beiow the adams apple clearly showing that two persons were involved with the first shot being fired from the bridge across the park way in front of the car. To further substantiate this, POTITO said there was a bullet hole in the wind shield of the President’ Ss car. . ‘ ! Cover Page HW 54463 DoclId:32144946 Page 5 H