Mr. WEISSMAN. For the Wabash Railroad.
Mr. JENNER. Were those the only contributions?
Mr. WEISSMAN. To my knowledge; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. At least that you know anything about?
Mr. WEISSMAN. That is right. In all the letters I received the first
time we went to the box. I only went to the box once, that was, I
believe, the Sunday morning following the assassination.
Mr. JENNER. The 25th of November?
Mr. WEISSMAN. About; yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Did anybody have the key to the box in addition to yourself?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Up to that point, only I had the key. After that, I left
Dallas on Wednesday, I believe----
Mr. JENNER. I misspoke--it was the 24th of November rather than the
25th.
Mr. WEISSMAN. I left Dallas on the following Wednesday. And at that
time I didn't see Larrie personally--he couldn't get to the apartment
that Bill and I were staying at for some reason or another. And I left
all the dishes and things he had given us to use while we were there,
and in one of these dishes I left the key to the box.
Since that time, communications I received from Larrie, he says
the tenor of the letters had changed, they are more favorable than
unfavorable in the ensuing weeks and months. Of these letters--he
sent me one that called me all sorts of names, a lot of anti-Semitic
remarks, and he sent another, and he gave excerpts in one of his
personal letters, of letters that he received in support of the
position of the ad.
Mr. DULLES. Do I understand that you got all the letters that came in
up to Wednesday after the assassination, and that your associates have
the rest, or Larrie, I presume, has the rest?
Mr. WEISSMAN. I don't know who has the rest. I don't know if it is
Larrie or Joe.
Mr. DULLES. Larrie had the key.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes. I left him the key--I left him access to the
key. I received the letters written during the 2 days following
the assassination--the Friday afternoon and Saturday following the
assassination--because I picked the mail up the following Sunday
morning.
Mr. JENNER. Having in mind all your testimony up to the moment, I would
like to take you back to the telephone conversation that you had with
Larrie Schmidt, in which he made the reference to Stevenson, following
which, that is following this conversation, you eventually came to
Dallas.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And this conversation, as I recall it, the telephone call,
was in the month of October 1963?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes. It was the evening of the Stevenson demonstration.
According to the letter I think it was the 24th of October.
(At this point, Mr. Dulles withdrew from the hearing room.)
Mr. JENNER. Now, one of the members of the Commission is interested
in having you repeat that conversation in full, to the best of your
recollection.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Since it is recollection, it is going to change somewhat
in words, but in tenor it will be the same.
Mr. JENNER. You do your best.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Larrie called me on the telephone and he was very
excited, and he had described what had transpired in Dallas----
Mr. JENNER. Tell us what he said, please. That is what we are
interested in.