Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BROWN
To: DL
Document date: 2/12/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/15/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90010-10130

RECORD SERIES : DL

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-9734-765

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

BROWN

DL

Released under

the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NIT 54463 Date:

10-12-2017

DATE: 02/12/1962

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS:

AMERICAN G.I. FORUM

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/16/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

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SAC, DALLAS (134-1A-652A)

2/12/82

SA W. HARLAN BROWN

DI 6-S

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HE 15-41 5l8 SCO/SR

On 1/31/62 SA W. HARLAN BROWN received, in person,

a handwritten report, dated 1/17/62, Pron DI- 6S.

This report

has been

serialized

as 134-1A-652.

Informant determined on 1/17/62 that on that date BILl

and RUTH LOWERY visited JOF and MARGARET LANDIN.

This neeting

was a regular meeting of the CP. AUGUSTIN ESTRADA did not attend.

ESTRADA had inforned BIL. LOWERY that one of his sister-in-laws

was ill and that he was to baby-sit for her.

BILL LOWERY and JOE LANDIN decided to contact The

Committee

fox Peaceful Alternatives; they cut out a

coupon fren

"Texas Observer" and malled it to the committee's headquarters

in Houston, Texas.

In response they will get more information on

the committee.

It was determined that BILL LOWERY and JOE LANDIN

want to start one of its chapters here.

BILL LOWERY suggested that he and JOE LANDIN Join other

organizations besides the G. I. Forun and the NAACP.

In & sense,

he added, they isolated themselves from other organizations.

There

was a book organization that they should join.

This organization,

he informed JOE LANDIN, received andddiscussed books of different

views - any book.

1 • 134-1A-652A)

= 100-7929 (BO LOWERY)

1 = 100-10178 (R. LOWERY)

100-8001' (J. LANDIN)

1=

100-10177 (M. LANDIN)

100-7995 (A.

ESTRADA)

100-9734

(G.I. FORDU)

- 100-5857 (NAACP)

- 100-671-34 (MASS OnGS.)

100-10481 (R. JAMES)

3

100-671-11 (NEGRO QUESTION)

• 100-671-5 (ORG)

Houston (CP, USA-OnG, IS-C) (HI)

100-9734- 765

SEARCHED....

Antonio (CP,

USA-ORG, ISEC) (RA)

WH3: Jeg

(14)

FEB 1 2 1962

FBI = bALLAS

dia Mala.

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DI. 134-1A-652A

BILL LOWERY was not sure but he thought the name of

the book organization was the Greater Books Club.

He said he

would l00k up its conrect name.

BILL LOWERY and

JOE LANDIN

agreed to join the organization.

JOE LANDIN inforned BILL LOWERY that Rev.

RHETT JAMES

was now temporary president of the local chapter of the NAACP.

• The president, Mrs. FLANAGAN, had asked for a 4 months leave

of absence.

FLANAGAN's leave of absence gladened many in the

chapter who considered her uncooperative and unbearably inactive.

BILL LOWERY asked JOE LANDIN if he would attend the CP's

State Committee meeting at Houston in April. JOE LANDIN said that

he was sure he would.

Informant had no additional information.

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