Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CLEMENTS, MANNING C.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 01/31/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10075-10086

RECORD SERIES: DI

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-1639-4130

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

CLEMENTS. MANNING C.

TO:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

Released under the John F. Kennedy

issassination Records Collection

bet of 1992 144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54463 Date: 10-12-2017

DATE: 01/31/1964

PAGES: 374

SUBJECT:

SEE FBI 44-24016-1113

DOCUMENT TYPE:

' ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

03/11/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

01/22/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

REPORT, TABLE OF CONTENTS, INDEX ON PAGE a-o

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FD'-883 (RET. 41-381

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

DALLAS

JACK L. RUBY, aka;

LEE HARVEY OSWALD,

aka -

VICTIM (Deceased)

DATE

1/31/64

REPORT MADE BY

| INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

12/10/63 - 1/29/64

TYPED BY

B.1-

CHARATIA OF CAGE C, CISMENTS

CR

RETERENCE:

Reports of SA MANNING C. CLEMENTS dated 11/30/63, 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 2xs not repeated herein.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

No dissemination will be made outside the Bureau except

on Bureau instructions.

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

5

10

• Bureau (44-24018)

Dallas

(44-1639)

(COVER PAGE)

SP ALACENT

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

44/1639- 14138

sich donke

AGENCY..

REQUEST RECD.

DATE FWD..

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NOTATIONS

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TP. 44-187

JPO: jW

ADMINISTRATIVE

January 16, 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 meeting was informal pub-

_Ic 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 POTIFO

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.

POTITO identified RUBY, reäl 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 entere 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, POlITO said there

was a bullet hole in the

wind shield of the President's car.

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FD-983 (Re535-1-98)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OPrICE

DALLAS

TITLE OF CASE

OPrICE OF ORIGIN

DALLAS

JACK L. RUBY, aka;

LEE HARVEY OSWALD,

aka -

VICTIM (Deceased)

DATE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

1/31/69

REPORT MADE DY

12/10/63 - 1/29/670 Y

CHARA MONA C. CUMENTS

giL.

CR

REFERENCE:

Reports of SA MANNING C. CLEMENTS dated 11/30/63, 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.

LEADS:

All leads are being set out by telephone and teletype

and and not repeated herein.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

No dissemination will be made outside the Bureau except

on Bureau instructions.

APPROVED

COPIES MADE:

Bureau (44-24015)

5'- Dallas (44-1639)

11

(COVER PAGE)

ESCHANT

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

44-1639• 4130

i.d.

C ti

1L22

LE DIASEMINATION RECORD OF ATTACHEO REPORT

dallas 2-11.64

REQUEST RECO.

DATE FWD.

ноштно.

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TP. 44-187

JPO: jw

ADMINISTRATIVE

Re speech by OREN FENION POTATO,

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 held at Donat's Restaurant, 6001 Haines Road,

North st. Petersburg, Florida. The dinner meeting 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.

POTITO

identified RUBY, reäl 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

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 bullei entereu the President's throat bejow

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.

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