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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

• 5/13/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90143-10472

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

100-370750-NR

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection

Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

H0-04-2017

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HERBERT BIBERMAN

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

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CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

COMMUNIST

4542 Coldwater Canyon (1941)

North Hollywood, Calif.

EAST COAST ADDRESS: Own residence, vicinity of Mystic Beach, three

miles from Morishes Long Island, New York:

BUSINESS ADDRESS:

At either residence

OCCUPATION:

Playwrite and Author

LAWSON was born in New York, date unknown. (Registrar of Voters, Los

Angeles County 10-10-41 LA 100-6769)

2:21-95

TON CONTAINI

SAn active Communist who "with HERBERT BIBERMAN is in control of the

ALL INFOR

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

Intellectuals and motion picture comrades in the Hollywood area."

A (Confidential National Defense Informant DR #57 of Denver, Colorado

•Field Division via Communist party letter received by JAMES ALLANDER

(District Organizer of Communist Party, Denver, Colorado 8-11-41,, LA

Acts as courier for HERBERT BIBERMAN in verbally transmitting instruc-

tions of Communist Party in Moscow to east coast (N.Y. C.) (LA 100-6769-

C/10/AT541

Leading United States Communist; has stated that he "hoped the revolution

could come here without blood shed but it should come even with blood

shed if necessary."

(HOWARD EMMITT ROGERS c/o lietro Goldyn layer Studios,

Hollywood, California LA 100-1763-272)

Arrested Birmingham, Alabama May 18, 1934, charge criminallibel, grow-

ing out of article written by LAWSON in Daily Worker, Communist Party

newspaper, defending Communist Party organizer HAROLD RAISTON (New

York Times dated 7-6-34 LA 100-6769-35-P5)

Member National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners; has

publically picketed German Consulate on behalf of the release of

ERNEST THAEIMANN, German Communist prisoner. (New York Times dated

5-29-34-P6, IN 100-6769-35-P5)

Defended HARRY BRIDGES in article written for Daily Worker, Communist

Newspaper, issued on June 14, 1941, page 4, column 6, stated trial

placed BRIDGES in double jeopardy and criticized FBI as "extra legal

Hitler Gestapo." President Screen Writers Guild, Hollywood, California

and writer for numerous Communist publications e.g. New Masses and

Daily Worker. (IA. 100-6769-35-P5)

Attended meeting of plenary sections of the National Fedhhiltteekofnthe ESTiGATION

Los Angeles file 67-69-3-P4).

U:S: DEPARTMENT DE JUSTICE

COPIES DESTROYED

28 MAR 25: 1963

ENCLOSURE

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