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

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

eleased under the

John F.

Kennedy Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992 144 USC

E107 Notel.

Case#:NT 53130

Date: 06-01-2017

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10254-10190

RECORD SERIES: NY

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-38431-331

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

HOPKINS. EMIL E.

DATE: 12/08/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 100-10461-2438

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

11/18/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/14/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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"Celai shoot for Informant Ropors or_

Motorial

FD-306 (3-21-58)

Date recolved

Recelved from (name or symbol number)

12/16/63

CI 104-S

Method of delivery (check appropriate blocks)

CX in person

[Jby telephone

[by mall

Corally

If orally furnished and reduced to writing by Agent:

Date

Recelved by

SA EMIL E. HOPKINS

I recording device

→ written by Informant

Dictated

to

Date jof Report

12/8/63

Datefs) of activity

Transcribed

Authenticated

by Informant

Brief description of activity or material

Report of CI 104-S re Commist Party meeting

12/8/63

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

File where.orlginal is located if not attached

Front St., Wheeling, West Virginia.

134-8A-557

Remarks:

Utmost care should be taken that

any Infornation taken from

this report 1s paraphrased to protect informant, since only

seven individuals attended the meeting.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

11 - Cleveland

(RM)

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEI

100-17257

(CP. Org.)

DATE 12/2/13 BY 9883RD0/Scl

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

4440

(JACK LEON RUSZ, Aka.)

105-

(LEE HARVY OSWALD)

305-38431-331

65-721

(ANTHONY KRCHMAREK)

SANCHED

_ INDEXED.-

100-17255

(Membership

100-16463 (Political Aétivities)

100-17797 (Factionalism)

FE + NEW

100-23484 (Mass Organisations)

100-17947 (Strategy In Industry)

3

Dallas (RM)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

44-

(JACK LEON RUBY)

Block Stamp

105-

New

York

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-

(RH)

(CP Org.)

62-

(Assassination of Pres. KENNEDY)

44=

(JACK LEON RUBY)

21:05-

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

SEARCHED - INDECE

B0MA112

JẢN 2

:1964

POLE

ITI

100-16021

(ARNOLD JOHNSON

EÉH/j2 (57)

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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)

100-

(ARNOLD JOHNSON)

62-

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

440

, (JACK' LEON: RUBY)

105 -

(LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-8549

100

(GENNE: KUHN)

(Factionaliom)

100-

(Political Affairs)

157•

(LEE M. JOHNSON)

100-

(Mass. Organisätiong)

100-14821 (HUGH GILMORE CROCKARD, JI. )

24°

Cincinnati

100÷3500 (CP. Organization)

134-8A

62-2758

(Assassination of President KENNEDY)

44-456

(JACK. LEON RUBY)

105-2505 (LEE HARVEY OSWALD)

100-7964

100-8225 (CP Membership):

(Political Activities)

100-8481 (Factionaliem)

100-12701 (Cominfil, Mass Organisations)

100-8359 (Strategy in, Industry)

100-12483 (CHARLES PALMER)

100-12408 (RANDALL CORBY)

100÷9142

(FLOYD WELLS)

100-7006

(GENNE KUHN)

100612474

(JOHN FABRY)

100-12475

(SHIRLEY FABRY)

100-6386

(FRED WALCHLI)

100-1910

(ARNOLD JOHNSON

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)

2.∞0

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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) Kuhn.: This was a Communist. Party Meeting.

The persons who were in attendance who were recognized

Were:

1 - Floyd Wells: - A Carpenter and treaturer of his

local Union from Steubenville.

2 - CHARLES PALMER: - Á steel worker and former grievance

Committeman 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

tormer shop stewart is a Member of Local Union #1190

U.S.W.A. C.I.O. A.fod.

4.- Arnold Johnson: A former state chairman of the

Communist Party of Ohio and who now is a sortsof public

relations man for the Commist 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 - Genne (Crockard) Kuhn the hostess 1s 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.

Gende

has three children

two to her first

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

about. 19yrs 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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C1 134-8A-357

4. 101

something, Constructive. This 6111 recently, a few yease

or less ago Made a trip to the soviet Unton ate 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 flald sucias youth.

At the start of the Macting Genne brought out

her brief case full of clipflage (Newspaper) ete she

also had a lot of penciled notes which she was

undouttedly going to use to show what she was doing

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

But the first discussion by: A. Johnson centered around

the late Pres. Kennedy.

Arnold explained that since Oswald was: Considared a

Commumist then a wave of hysteria was about to explode

against the C. party of Amerlea but by the time the

reactionaries vers getting started it was announced

that it had been disclosed that it seemad I1ke the

entrene Fight had been active.

This was bore out

by the declaration of Russia that it was not the

C. party that had done 1t because Kennedy vas 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 1t was the same caliber of people who

had Insulted Stevenson only Weeks before in Dallas,

TAKES.

Arnold atated 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 lons of lotters of enquiry about the

C. party and he probably answered it as he does hundred:

of others and even sent him literature 1f he requested

Thay (G.B.S.) wanted him to go on the air with d

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

lotter out andsbo sure before he Made any statement.

Randal Gorby asked Arnold Johnson 1f when he got back to

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

Wn Pokas, formerly from Ballaire, Ohio, and also at

Inmate of Cambridge Asylum for a perlod of timo, Gorby

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CI 134-8A-557

asked Johnson

to compare the

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 Bill

Moore, M Edgar Evers and others in the south going

by without punishment had set the stage for the

Assassination of Pres. Kennedy. Everyone rsadily

agreed.

Arnold Johnson further stated that no real Marxist

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

since the Soviet Union had expelled him by not

giving him a Cltizenship in the Soviet Union because

they thought him to be an Agent of Fascism. Genne

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 NACP 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 Commist

party Member, which brought about her expoision fron

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

Membership.

Then lately a Man. (Negro) by name of Johnson

bus driver In Steubenville,

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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CT 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 if Genne had stayed on the

phone

too long should have hung up quick.

He also

stated that

in 1948 when he had this trouble

everyone Knew about

it and then he got more hele and was successful in

defeating the reactionaries:

You have to always work

together on these Matters 1f 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 him on a so called Applachian Coal project

which haa

been going on for some time Adolph wanted to

meet

with him if he could find time later Was nable 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. Ilterature

No Collections

During the time Genne Kuim was belly aching about not

getting help from the valley group it

by A Johnson that some years back when the

the valley be no.

was pointed out

wheeling group

was a part of w. Virginia group that difficulties existed

and mon 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. Geme stated that Fred

Walchli was supposed to show up with the Beer.. She

was urged to call him against her wishes but she got

no answer on the phone"

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