MEMO: "GARRISON AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BERNARD FENSTERWALD ET AL"

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00366792
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: January 29, 1969

Th 104-10433-10151 � - � r. 14, ri4i; � (.0) 44 fl L�stm, � � .140rI9 . 14 � � .� � �, � 'HISTORICAL REV4E11 PROGRAM - � RELEASE IN FULL �;�-�" f�-�-� - U �-� INTELLICEi\:CE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20:35 s.:���� MEMOR.21--NDU.IZTFOR: Director T7ede,-al Bureau of Investigation Attention: M. S. J. Papich SUBJECT ; � - _ ...0�:-.����� ...e� :�-iii..;,.' �.:.%. � -. . ��-��"=:-----------..t ....,... ,�". ------�-,. � � �-s. �-�� � ..., ....:...-1�1�1-- . --..-.-F.-- .� ,�.�.... . . � : GARRISON and the Kenr.le.d.y Assassination: Bernard FF2:NSTERAV.ALD et al_ " 1. A Wa:shingto- n UPI dispatch of 3 January 2969 reads as follows: �_ r . --'-.X� ... - Washington -- NeW Orleans District Ar- ttorney Jim Garrison -. is one of seven board'rnernbers of a new.--national co---rsittee . :to investigate assassinations which is being forzneo nr-re. Bernard Fenster.wald, 47, of Arlinoton, Va. , another boa?..-c member, said the .c,--mrnirtee's uroose is To ern.b.,---,-a--zs or force- the government to make investifzations they have been putting oif since Nov. 22, 1963." That was the date of President Kennedyls assassination in Dallas. -Fe_nsterwald, who said he was setting-up an office which would open in a week, left the senate earlier this week after _ _ 12 years as counsel for several corn-----,-;tte.--.:es: "The committee will concentrate on the three best known assassinations -- President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King but will leave its options on sc-me other rather hlysterious- deaths, It he said.-- "C-Nu- oos;zion is there was a conspiracy in Dallas, \vere strong fo-z-zr,rints of a conspiracy in Memphis where - Dr. King v.-as s'ho: and nobcid.-,,, really k.r.ows much about \;hat went on in Los An,-,eles (where Senator-Kennedy was but open ���������.; '''' ----"2-s--",-57-r-7.--%!cY',/7--",;,-.5,-.7----',- ,, tO 1 0 ok. � *" 2 _ ,... ..:-----Lsr:...-_-_ NOT RECORDED .:..,... - --,-,:-, APPROVED FiR RELEASE: iq co' in / us.1.1.! ) 46 JAN 29 1269 He said the committee hoped to find private financial support to hire a professional staff for its investigations. r7: 11 � Other board members, said Fenste.rwale, include 'R'.1l Turner of an Francisco,. a former FBI agent; Richard - - ...._ .. �Sprague of :-arts dale, N.Y., a computer expert; Fred 3. Cook, En1ewo.od,,N.. J. , author; Lloyd Tupling; associated with the Sierra :lub here, and Pa-ri.s.Flarnrnonde,-a.-New York .. .... . writer who will have a '---rook out next week on assassinations. � Eight more board Members will be named later, Fensterwald .11. � -%:""--'-%.-----.3"--,%,,a..,-7...5%.,-,'-�.:.:.-.-f-- ---7%.---,- -,-.--_,.-",-":_-_-e- ,..,gs,"...-:-,-..�Z,;.--,,-, -:---,--=,------ ,_-,'.'" -----,,-, e.:----:-;:frq., --, .- -- ---,-- � --, -_,,:,...:-...,..;--- -74-14L--;-_-- Paris r�'lamrhonce aPpears in the. January 9o9 issue of Evergreen a? pears _ as the author of an article entitled "Why President Kennedy Was Killed". , His book The Kennedy Cons:piracy has been -published by .Me,e-dith, Press, New York. The dust cover of the book states that rlarnrnonde _ was for, many years the producer of the Long John Nebel radio show: We have no record of him. -5---------- - -------------,----.-�------- ---------------,--s-- -'-- --,_�_,---,-g,-5,--3----_-,-.,--_,----...-----,,,-----,;---r-,-- _---,...---,----.---;.-,--,-..- 3 E.....;.-,--. �:,...:--,W-:�.:- ---,-,,-.--:;-!.-..----:.;----7-1....0.--rb- ,:...-..it:-.<.--' ..,---,----,--,----V----,"::-1,--,-.7=::,-;!. 1 - --,..----------.,---,.:5--t- -.-:--;-- f-S- : ..0 '-3-- 11^44';'"If-'-'7:----5-3-::ti,--- .. . � ,-..,":1--,..---7". ---4---" -,-.",....%-i--,%:'-"::.-:,,,,. -__ . _...,. --'---:.4--7:4-:gi.j...5-.-4-.1,:?...f---=- --- 1.1....,4:-.,-__:,..,;.,,,:f.,4,,,,-.-, ..�,..;��.�,�,.....�,..".: sllc..., De graze:ui il you can determine i wnetner the Bernard Fensterwald who ap-_-.&:-.--_-rs in this renort.45 : I (3=-"n"riC1 _ _ .. . . with the 47 year.. old Bernard Fensterwald cited in the 1.;:-'-',i dis,patch. If so, any additional information is also requested. . -...._e - -...... ;-V_-___/...._$, _ 4. Our records show that R;cha.--d.Spr�:----gu-, a p.-nan----P.>:-.ar-nt consultant and photographic researcher, ap-De.:arE;c: in a New York Times article of 24 May 1966 in which he clairried that within an hour of the assassination of PresidentKenneey three men may have been pulled off fi-ight cars in a railroad yard near- Deals,' Plaza. We have no further identifiable record of him. -We also have no record of Lloyd Tuplirig. We shoulet-be grateful for any further information i 1 . about Sprar7ue. Tupling, or Flarnmon.de. 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