Mr. HUBERT. She is shaking her head—the answer is “no”.
Mrs. GRANT. Oh. I’m sorry; no.
Mr. BURLESON. Mainly, the only things you know about personally or
have heard about from other members of the family are the sale to the
magazine of the story, which you have told us about, and the small
amount you have told us about?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. And you know of no organization that has given any sum?
Mrs. GRANT. Not that I know—they may be now—Earl is trying to talk to
some organizations that he belongs to like B’nai B’rith, that he used
to belong to—I don’t know. This is what I know—what I told you.
Mr. BURLESON. All right, but you don’t know of any—say—labor unions or
civic clubs or anything like that that have given any money?
Mrs. GRANT. I’m sure—I’m sure they haven’t. In fact, wait a
minute—Michael Levin, another good friend of the family—we know him
only for 45 years and he’s my older brother’s friend since they were
14 years old and he has compiled a letter and is asking certain
individuals that he knows—doctors, lawyers, big business people—to
contribute, and when I talked to Eileen last, which was Saturday, she
said, “We didn’t receive one—” some of them don’t even answer the
letters and some say they haven’t got it or something else.
Mr. BURLESON. Now, there were some reports in the newspapers concerning
the fact that Dr. Hubert Winston Smith was going to raise a lot of
money.
Mrs. GRANT. Well, we hope he’s going to raise a lot of money—we hope he
can raise sufficient money to cover legal fees. He’s interested in an
academy institute of law and science.
Mr. BURLESON. Have you received any money from Dr. Winston Smith?
Mrs. GRANT. No; and I don’t think he’s gotten anything or even worked
on it yet.
Mr. BURLESON. Now, to clarify my position in the thing—you have paid
me, the family has paid me a total for everything, somewhere in the
neighborhood of $700 or $800 or $900?
Mrs. GRANT. At the most—that’s right.
Mr. BURLESON. You are trying to get more together, though, aren’t you?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, now, wait a minute—Belli was supposed to pay out of
that $13,000—$2,000—I asked him what he was going to pay you. He didn’t
pay you?
Mr. BURLESON. Right.
Mrs. GRANT. As he told me.
Mr. BURLESON. Right.
Mrs. GRANT. And I know he didn’t pay you—that was up until the time he
didn’t pay you at that time.
Mr. BURLESON. But I have entered into a verbal contract with you and
the other members of the family for you to compensate me on the appeal
and things of that nature—right?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. I’m through, as far as I am concerned, on that point.
Now, is there anything other than what we have talked about here that
you want to clarify further——