Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/15/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/28/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10209-10296

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-9-33-377

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, NO

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/15/1963

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

CIP, CM, GAMBLING, PROSTITUTION, NARCOTICS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

NO. 92-50

conducting any investigation concerning the alleged beating

received by EDMONDS.

The March 14, 1963, issue of the New Orleans States-

Item newspaper carried a story quoting Jefferson Parish

President, M. DAN HOGAN, as saying Jefferson Parish is the

center of organized crime and he believes there is some sort

of struggle going on for control of gambling, prostitution,

and narcotics.

On the moming of March 15, 1962, New Orleans radio

Station WDSU broadcasted an "editorial" disclosing that the

station had learned of the beating administered EDMONDS by

The announcer then referred to HOGAN'S

that Jefferson Parish is the center of organized

crime and implied a connection between HOGAN'S statement

and the beating received by EDMONDS.

On March 15, 1963, NO 1207-C, who is an active

bookmaker and

gambler

in Jefferson Parish who regularly

frequents the Town and Country Restaurant and Lounge, furnished

the following information concerning the beating received by

EDMONDS. The informant talked to one of the bartenders at

the Town and Country Lounge shortly after the beating incident

caurred, about 4 or 5 a.m., March 10, 1963. The bartendel

normed him that EDMONDs had been drinkine considerabl

and had been in the lounge with a very young girl who appeared

to be about 17 years of age.

While EDMONDS and this girl were

in the lounge, an elderly man accompanied by a younger man

entered the lounge at which time the girl ran from the lounge

into the restaurant.

EDMONDS accompanied the elderly man

and the young man out on to the parking lot in front of the

lounge at which time the elderly man struck EDMONDS in the

face causing EDMONDS to fall to the ground. Thereafter the

younger man administered

a severe beating to EDMONDS, picking

him up off the ground and striking him several times and kicking

EDMONDS while the latter was lying on the ground.

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