Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC
To: BERNARD, J. A.
Document date: 11/22/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10167-10390

RECORD_SERIES: PD

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 89-21-3, 4

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Masassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NU 53025 Date:

05-22-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

BERNARD, J. A.

TO:

SAC

TITLE:

DATE: 11/22/1963

PAGES: 3

SUBJECT: JFK, OPINION, BENJAMIN, DALE J.

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

01/21/1997

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

INC MEMO

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

5010-106

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA.GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC

DATE:

k1:/22/63

FROM

SA J.A.. BERNARD

SUBJECT:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Re BuTel 11/22/63.

On 11/22/63,

at 6:35 PaM., contact was had with ED 426-5 who is

close to the leadership of the Oregon Cormunist Party as well as a general source

on information regarding racial matters.

-no

Informatatiti had/knowledge of any individual, or of any circumstance

which might shed any light on captioned matter. Informant assured Agent that.:

should any information of any possible significance come to his attention he would

immediately notify SA BERNARD,

ACTION: File.

89-20

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(2)

JAB

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HERER IS U"

COLASSIFICO

DATE /1-15-93 8Y. 2803 RDD/KSR

JFK

89-21-3

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NO. 0

MAY 10R2 EDITION:

OSA GEN

REG. Ma D

UNITED STATES

VERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAC

DATE:

11/22/63

FROM

SUBJECT:

SA JOA. BERNARD

SEARCHED

_INDEXEI

SERIALIZEL

2 2 1965

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

AL INFOR CONTAINED-ORTLAND:

JOHN F. KENNEDY

FELLIN IS UNCLASSIFIEDS hER

Vice

DATE/- 13-93 BY C

803KD0 K52

PE BUTEL 11/22/63.

Intelligence Unit, Portland PD, regarding captioned matter.

he statod ho had loarnad

of nothing which might shed any light on cap loned matter, but assured his complete

cooperation

The only possible racial extremist of interest. to this matter is DAlE Je

BENJAMIN, a mould be evangelist and self-styled National States Rights Party nember,

134156

mho in the past has posed as the Oregon state chairman of this group.

It never fat

BENJAMIN resides at 4922 S.E. 86th Ot.

He hai: boon

outspoken against Jews and integration. To other admirers of his - both youthfulo whe

graduated from John warshal ligh School, Portland, in June, 1962, are EDMUND CRUMP and

WILLIAM EDWARD HOLBERT, Jr. CRUMP in particular is anti-Jewish and to a lesser oxtenti

anti-legro.

Officer TRIMBlE has had personal contacts with DALE J. BENJAMIN on several

occasions, developing from a complaint made by BENJAWIN soveral months ago. At writerlo

request,

Officer TRIBLE a few minutes prior to 6:20 Poli., by his or statement

telephonically contacted BEiJAIN, whose voice he readily recognizes.

BENJAMIN in

response to casual inquiry of pretext nature stated he had spent the afternoon fron

about 2P.l. to shortlyafter 6:00 Polio at the Central Christian Church, Portland. He

remarked in response

to comment by TRIBlE that ho, BENJAMIN, thought the assassination

of the President was a terrible thing and volunteered that he believed the person

responsible was some Cuban revolutionary antagonistic towards the President lif

#*#########·₩·#₩#₩##*###¿#·#₩######··####·#}₩########·₩*#®### H conmented that he

supposed that the rightists in the south mould blamed.

80-756-2

Shortly before 6:53 P. Officer TRIBLE advised, after prior consultation wih

SA BENar that he had just talked to Hallur HUSs, head of the freedom Center,, an outspoken

ofitic of the President and self-styled anti_Conmunist.

Huss advised TRIBA that he,

HuSS had had hectic day, what with having received numerous telephone calls from various

persons who tate berated him severely o

Ho noted 2 porson,

One unknon person accused ht.

of being a "murderer".

assassination, describing at

terrible.

he noted that there mas no reason for resom jing to violence is

if the President was not living up to expectations the ballet cold to usod to.

the address of EDMUND CRUMP,

advised

HERMARD that cRus ras forking this evening and would not be off work will P.M.

89-20Đ

1 co 105-617 (D. BENJAMIN);

1 cc 105-742 (E. CRUMP

89-21-4

1 cc 105-143 (W. HOLBERT)

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At 7:50 P.M. a pretext telephone call was also made by Agent to

the residence of WILLIAM EDWARD HOLBERT, JI., 9248 S.E. Taylor St.,

telephone HAL3-1235.

A male youth, juaging Iron these mine e.

answered.

He advised that WILLIAM HOLstll, Jro, was not

then avallabl

to his knowledge but he could find out where he could be reached. When

SA FRANCIS J. SMITH made a

pretext call to LOUIS WHISPELL, an alleged Marxist, whose views are so

extreme that even CP members avoid him.

WHISPELL stated that he had worked

all day 11/22/63, and was unatailable for a job the following day as he would

be working again then.

An effort was made to contact CHARLES B. MAXEY, proprietor of the Maxey :

Buy kite Grocery, 4601 N. Williams Ave., Portland, on the evening of 11/22/63.

It was ascertained from a youthful sounding female at the Grocery, presumably

his daughter, since the store is a family operated affair, that MAXEY had

a heart attack a month ago and currently is confined at the Beth Kaiser

Hospital

Portland. MAXEY is an established Source on racial matters used by

SA BERNARD.

OBSERVATIONS.S

Sources known to SA BERNARD have been alerted. Nothing developed.

There are no Klan or other established hate tyr groups in this

Division.

This office has no "bombing suspects", identified or listed as such

in connection with redial matters.

The only persons remotely near the

category of "bombing suspects" are DAlE J. BENJAMIN, EDMUND CRUMP and WILIAM

HOIBERT, Jr., the presence of all three of whom was established,as indicated

above, as being in Portland this date.

ACTION: NONE

FILE.

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