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

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10155-10359

RECORD_SERIES:

NY

AGENCY FILE_ NUMBER: 44-974-257

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

HOPKINS. EMIL E.

DATE: 12/08/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

SEE FBI 44-1639-3870A

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

11/15/1996

STATUS Redact

Released under the John

' kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel .

Casef:WH 54463 Date:

10-12-2017

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Moterial

Sheer for Informant Report or

• FD-306 (3-21-58)

Date recolved

Recelved from (name or symbol number)

12/16/63

CT 104S

Mothod of dellvery (check appropriate blocks)

# in person

—by telephone

Rocoived by

SA EMIL E. HOPKINS

_by mall

- orally

J recording device

writton by Informant

If orally, furnished and reduced to writing by Agent:

Date

Date jot Report

Dictated

12/8/63

Date(s) of activity

Transcribed

Authenticated

by Informant

12/8/63

Brief description of activity or'material

Report of CI 104-S re Conmunist Party meeting

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

File where.orlglnal. is located if not attached

Front St., Wheeling, West Virginia.

134-8A-557

Remarks:

Utmost care should be taken that

any information taken from

this report is paraphrased to protect informant, since only

seven Individuals attended the meeting.

11 - Cleveland (RM)

100-17257

(CP Org.)

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON):

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON RUSS, AKa.)

105 g

LEE HARVY OSWALD

14.

974

-257

65-721,

100-17255

(ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

_INDEXED,

(Membership)

SLARCHED

SERIALIZED,

FILED

100-16463

(Political Activities)

100-17797 (Factionalism)

JAN 1 3 1904

100-23484 (Mass Organisations)

FBI- NE

YORK

100-17947 (Strategy in Indust

3 • Dallas (RY)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNIDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

Block Stamp

105-

New

100-

62-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

York

(RM)

(CP Org.)

(Assassination of Pres. KENNEDY)

(JACK LEON RUBY)

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

SEARCHED.

SOMALEE

JAN 3

:1964

POL

MATI

ENER

105-

100-16021

EER/j5 (57)

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

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134-8A-557

(Copies Continued)

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)

100gg

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

:14.400

(JACK LEON RUBY)

105-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-8549

(GENNE KUHN)

100-

100-

¡(Factionalisn

(Political Affairs)

157-

(LEE M. JOHNSON)

100-

(Mass Organisations)

100-14821 (HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JI. )

240

Cincinnati

100-3500 (CP Organization)

134-8A

62-2758 (Assassination of President KENNEDY)

440456 (JACK LEON RUBY)

105-2505 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-7964 (CP Membership)

100-82277

(Political Activities)

100-8481 (Factionalism)

100-12701 (Cominfil, Mass Organizations)

10090359 (Strategy in Industry)

100-12483 (CHARLES FALLS

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 JOHNSON)

100-1083

157-195

( ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

(LE 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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CI 134-8A-557

Informant's report set forth below:

"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) Kuh. This was a Communist Party Meeting.

The persons who were in attendance who were recognized

Were.

1- Floyd Wells:

• A Carpenter. and treasurer of his

Local Union from Steubenville.

2 • CHARLES PALMER: - A steel worker and former grievance

Committenan from the Wheeling Steel Corpn, and Member

of Local Union #1190. U.S.W.A.

C.I.O. A.F.L.

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.O.: A.E.I

4. Arold Johnson: A former state chairman of the

Communist Party of Ohio and who now is a sort of public

relations man for the Communist party working out of

New York City, New York. He secures speakers for

any engagements such as Colleges and Campus lectures

5 - John Fabrey a Miner from Smithfield.

He is know

as the smiling Slovak

6 - Mrs. John Fabrey his Wife

7 • Gene (Crockard) Kuh the hostess is a long time C.

party worker former wife of Hugh Crockard Now deceased

and

she since Married Emil Kuhn who now resides at her

home.

Genne 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

over by the C. party in New York.

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

Gill Crockard out of her influence so he could be taught

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something Constructive. This G111 recently, a few yeare

or 1ass ago Made a trip to the Soviet Union ete on the

Youth Conference Know as the world Youth Conference.

He will probably emerge from the New York thing as a

full time organiser in sone special fleld suchas youth.

At the start of the Meeting Genne brought out

her brief case full of clippligs (Newspaper) ete she

also had a lot of penciled notes which she was

undoubtedly going to use to show what she was doing

and to give others hell for not co-operating with her.

But the first discussion by A. Johnson centered around

the late Pres. Kennedy.

Arnold explained that since Oswald was Considered a

Communist then a wave of hysteria was about to explode

that it had been disclosed that it seemed like the

right had been active.

This was bore out

by the declaration of hussia that it was not the

C. party that had done 1t because Kennedy was a

friend of the Working class but the work of the extreme

right or almost a fascist act. This seemed to sober

the masses that it was the same caliber of people who

had insulted Stevenson only Weeks before in Dallas,

Texas.

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 loss 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 th

letter out andibe sure before he Made any statement.

Randal Corby asked: Arnold Johnson 1f when be got back to

New York to look in the files if he had a letter from &

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

inmate of Cambridge Asylum for a period of time, Gorby

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C1 134-8A-557

asked Johnson to compare the letter of pokey's with

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

Palmer stated that he thought

the statement by the

Methodist Minister Covered the situation very good

when he stated that the fact that the Murder of Bil1

Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the south going

by without punishment had set the stage for the

Assassination of Pres. Remedy.

Everyone readily

agreed.

Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist

Could do such & thing There 1s not Much doubt that

since the soviet Union had expelled him by not

giving him a Citizenship in the Soviet Union because

they thought him to be an Agent of Fascist.. Gene

Meanwhile was Chomping at the bit trying to get her

story told about the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE.

she finally got her Chance

to unload.

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 conversation was completed She had been

quoted in the newspaper and exposed as a Commumist

party Member, which brought about her expolsion fron

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

Membership.

Then lately a Man (Negro) by name of Johnson

head of the local core group was indicted for robbing a

bus

driver In steubenville, Onio

Genne had got In

touch with R. Gorby as she

thought Johnson was being

framed.

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

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

by doing it..

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CI

134-8A-557

"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 ning up quick.

He also stated that

In 1948 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 always 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.

Lunch was furnished by each and everyone with the

exception of A Johnson and he put away plenty.

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 hin on a so called Applachian Coal project

which has been going on for some time Adolph wanted to

meet 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.

No Iiterature

No Collections

During the time Gerne

Kubn was belly aching about not

getting help from the valley group it was pointed 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 weeling group in with Ohio valley the

trouble still exists.

He also pointed out that distance

has a

lot to do with it too.

Gemne stated that Fred

Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer.

urged to call him against her wishes but she got

answer on the phone'

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