Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
To: HOPKINS, EMIL E.
Document date: 12/8/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

NDENTNICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10006-10368

RECORD SERIES: CV

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-7674-70

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NIT 53025 Date:

05-18-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

HOPKINS. EMIL E.

DATE: 12/08/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

SEE FBI 100-10461-2438

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

11/15/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

11/16/2000

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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"y Govo sheet for informant Report or

Matetial

FD-306 (3-21-58)

GUINILGNHNL

Date received

Recelved from (name or symbol number)

12/16/63

Method of delivery

(C7 104-S]@4) (41

(check appropriate blocks)

[Ji in person

_Jby telephone

AIT: INFO

HEREIN IS

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VATION CONFATENS

Received by

SA EMIL E. HOPKINS

-Jby mail

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= recording device

LAl written by Informant

If orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent:

Date

Dictated

to

Date of Report

Date(s) of activity

(12/8/63)(4) (4

Transcribed

Authenticated

by Informant

AN

9-23-93

TFK

Brief description of activity or material

Report of CI 104-S re Communist Party meeting

held 12/8/63, at home of GENNE KUHN, 6105

File where original is located if not attached

Ront St Wheeling, West Visinta 6) (4)

[134-81:55776(1)

Utmost care should be taken that

this report is paraphrased to protect infont

any Information taken from

saven individuals attended the meting. & (Ul, ence only

since only

11

Cleveland

(RM)

100-17257'

(CP Org.)

100-0

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

41:050

(JACK LEON RUBY, Aka.)

(LEE HARVY OSWALD)

stalaz

Classiet br9803 sed/gel

Declass.

r0: JFK

Mon: MADR

65-721

(ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

100-17255

(Membership

100-16463

100-17797 (Factionalism)

(Political Activities)

100-23484 (Mass Organizations)

100-17947 (Strategy in Industry)

3 - Dallas (RM)

62-

105-7674-70

SEARCHED

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SERIALIZED.

LL FILET

JAN 1 0 1954

FBI • CLEVELAND

un

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

Block Stamp

105-0

6 • New

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

York (RM)

100-

(CP Org.)

62-

(Assassination of Pres. KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

105-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

SEARCHEO

SOMALIZZA

JAN

100-16021 (ARNOLD JOHNSON)

1964

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(Copies Continued)

COME DENTIAL

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100-145835 (CP, USA, Public Appearances of Party Leaders: - 414)

13- Pittsburgh (RM)

100-8571

(CP, State of West Virginia)

100-8572

(CP, Ohio Valley Section)

100-8664

(CP.

Membership

100°

(ARNOLD JOHNSONY

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY')

,:,

(JACK LEON RUBY)

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

(GENNE: KUHN)

(Factionalisn

(Political Affairs)

LEE M. JOHNSON)

(Mass Organisations)

(HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JI.)

240

105-

100÷8549

100-

100-

157-

100-

100-14821

Cincinnati

100-3500

CP

Organisationy:

(234-8A](€)

62 2758

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

440456

"JACK LEON RUBY)

105-2505 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-7964

(CP Membership)

100-8227 (Political Activitles)

100-8481 (Factionalism

100-12701 (Cominfil, Mass Organizations)

100-8359 (Strategy in Industry)

100-12483 (CHARLES PALMER)

100-12408 (RANDALL GORBY)

100-9142

(FLOYD WELLS)

100-7006

(GENNE KUHN)

100-12474

(JOHN FABRY)

100-12475

(SHIRLEY FABRY)

100-6386

(FRED WALCHLI)

100-1910

(ARNOLD JOHNSOND

100-1083

( ANTHONY KRCHMAREK).

157-195

(LEE M. JOHNSON)

100-14096

(HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JR.):

100-8402

(Youth Matters)

134-142

(ADOLPH PACIFICO)

100-12707 (Cominfil, Labor Unions)

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CONha

GI (134-84-55716, 4)

Informant'e report set forth below: Cl

"Steubenville, Ohio.

December 8, 1963

"On the above date a group from Steubenville, Met at

610 S. Front St. Wheeling, W. Va, the home of a Genne

(Crockard) Kuhn.

This was a Conmunist. Party Meeting.

The persons who were in attendance who were recognized

Weze: (4) (41

1 - Floyd Wells:

- A Carpenter and treasurer of his

local Inion fron Steubenville.

« (u)

2 • CHARLES PALMER:

A steel worker and former grievance

Conmittenan from the wheeling Steel Corpn. and Member

of Local UnIOn #1190 U.S.W.A. C.I.0. A.P.b. (, (4)

3 • Randal Gorby:

from the wheeling. Steel Corpa and a

former shop stewart is a Member of Local Union #1190

U.S. W. A. C.I.D. AF.I. ()(Ul

4 Arnold Johnson:

A former state chairman of the

Comunist. Party of Ohio and who now is a sortsof public

relations man for the Communist party working out

New York City, New York.

He secures speakers for

any engagements

such as

colleges and Campus lecturesyu)

5 - John Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield

He is know

the smiling slovak. (P) (4l

6. - Mrs. John Fabrey bis WIfe CM)

7 - Genne (Crockard) Kuhn the hostess is a long time C.

party worker forer wife of Hugh Crockard Now deceased

and she since Married Emil Kuhn who now resides at her

home.

Geme has three children two to her first

husband and the other to the latter. She has a son

about 19

yrs old who is being schooled and worked

our by the e party in Net fork sli)

Genne Kuhn Continued: The C party wanted to take her son

G111 Caucard out of ter intluence do ha could be taught onl

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something Constructive:

This G111 recently, a few years

or less ago Made a trip to the Soviet Union etc on the

Youth Conference know as the 'World Youth Conference.

He will probably emerge from the New York thing as a

full time organiser lin gone spectal fleld suchas youth. felu)

At the start of the Meeting Genne brought out

her brief case full of clippings: (Newspaper) etc

she

also had a lot of penciled notes which she was

undoubtedly going to use to show what she was doing

amd to give ochars hell for not co-operating with her. (LU)

But the first discussion by A. Johnson centered around

ahe Late Pres. Kennedy. (e) (U)

Arnold 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

reactionaries were getting started It was announced

that it had been disclosed that it seemed 11ke the

extreme

sight 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

friend of the Working class but the work of the

extreme

right of almost a fascist act. This seemed to sober

the masses that it was the same callber of people who.

had Insulted Stevenson only Weeks before in Dallas,

Тежав. (Ф) (U)

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 lots of letters of

enquiry about the

C. party and he probably answered it as he does hundreds

Of others and even sent him literature if he requested

it. They (C.B.S.) wanted him to go on the air with a

statement. but he stated to them he would have to dig the

letter out and be sure 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 fron

In Pokas, formerly from Bellaire, Ohio, and also an

inmate of Cambridge Asylum for a period of time, Gorby

# (4)

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CI

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CONFIDENTIAL

asked Johnson

to compare the

letter of pokey's with

Oswald's to see if they didn't have a lot in Common.

Palner stated that

Methodiet Minister Covered the

he thought the statement by the

situation very good

when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bill

Moore, M Edgar Evers and others In the souch going

by without punishment had set the stage for the

Assassination of Pres. Kemedy. Everyone readily

agreed. (4) (4)

Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist

could do such a thing. There 18 not Much doubt that

since the

soviet Union had expelled him by not

giving hin a Citizenship in the Soviet Union because

they thought him to be an Agent of Fascisn.

Genne

Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her

Story cold about the 1Y. A A GoP. and CORE. (C(U)

sta finally 80t has chance to unload. (f)(W.

She

stated that about the time of the civil rights

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 corversation was completed She had been

quoted in the newspaper and

exposed as a Communist

party Member, which brought about her expulsion from

the N.A.A.C.I., but since has been restored to

Membership.

Then lately a

Man (Negro) by name of Johnson

head of

bus driver In Steubenville,

the local ComE gup we diated for mobing a

touch with R. Gorby

as she thought. Johnson was being

Iraned.

Gorby Found out 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

by doing 16 C/ Co8- Bad

help but do not put CORE and the NAACP out on a limb

CONFIDENTIAL

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"Palmer

stated that It was News to

him as;

the only thing

he Knew about It was

the articles In the

paper and the

first one looked as 1, Genne had stayed on the phone

too long should have hung up quick.

He also stated that

Im 19448

when he had this trouble everyone

Knew about

It and then he got more help and was successful In

defeating the reactionaries:

You have

to Glorys work

together on these Matters If you will be successful.

The hour was drawing Near ten

o'clock P.M. and the

steubenville delegation had to work that Nite. A)Ul

Lunch was furnished by each and everyone with the

exception of A Johnaou and he put away plenty. (y)(4

Johnson stated that he had been down this way about one

week ago and had Contacted some of his old friends by

phone,

one in particular was

Adolph Pacifico he

wanted to talk to him on

80

called Applachian Coal project

Which has been going on for some tine

Adelph wanted to

neet with him if he could find time later

Was 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.

Ф (4)

No Alterature

No colloctions Je/Ul

During the time Genne Kuhn was belly aching about not

getting help from the Valley group it was polnted out

by A Johnson that some years back when the wheeling group!

was a part of w. Virginia group that difficulties existed

and now with the Wheeling group in with Ohio Valley the

trouble still exists.

He also pointed out that distance

has a lot to do with it too Cemne stated that Fred

Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer.

She

was urged to call him against her wishes but she got

-6.

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