David Perry 2/2e/92 4001 Ainsworth Circle Grapevine, TX 76051

Dear Dave,

Your welcome mailing of the 24th I du thank you for: Please let me blow the cont.

I'll probably be doing over it again because I've been so snowed under I had to rush.

I've never met or to the best of my recollection ever spotten to the La rontaines or

had any connections with "euparado eroductions. That they Pelee of any release and said

nothing is surprising. At the least!

It also reminds me, and I do not recall whether I told Gary, Johnson of anyone else

down theee. What the Di'D gave the 'XI wan available years ago, on microfilm, I had it

5iint:d and gave x'ensterwald one set of the print:;, so iedtC now has them.

If at sone tiwe you can provide records on or a specific account of the finding of

those three men I'd apixeciate $a-find eomething on file if only because Gareison and

Stone made so much of that nothing. Hy info. was that it was a boxcar, not a gondola, but

you may have doeuement,tion of the gondola. That it was about 1:50 is not that far from the 9u minutes after the shooting that I was told. If that referred to when the picture:3 were taken, and I nee du not recall, then they coincide on tine.

If you need any cheek:111g done in Albany, N.Y. I have a lau0student friend there.

I'd heard that there is a record of x'ritz, having had the nen turned over to him if not more than that.

You do not any where the cur was when they were found in it or that they were drunk. Mr information was that it was behind the Centralize sex P.O. An /21. report of its investi-

gation that I triggered ISys it was about a mile away. I think that i:; wrong.

I lo,k forward to anything else you can send and thank you for it in advance.

emend other things there should be several internal investigations that should be

reflected in reports on them and at least one on DPD-III relations because Hoover, after compelling Curry to make public apoloo for tolling the truth, broke all relations with DPD

and that included even training. I do not recall hoe long that lasted..

"hiortal Lfror" is a fraudulent book I've not yet read but I'm interested in a copy of anything you nay see on it. He told the Heels Post, or his publinher did, that it trashes me. I ae:iume this is contrived for some special purpose because I did try to help him but also made clear that I thought his theory is impossible. So, criticizing me in the book could be designed to discourege the media from asking me about the book.

I've not read the Giancana fiction and do not expect to.

Iiivingstone ' 53 High Treason II is due soon.

Thanks and best to all,

Davit' B. Perri,' 4601 Ainsworth Circle Grapevine, TexAs 7&051

February 21, 1992

Harold Weisberg 7627 Old Receiver Road Frederick, Maryland 21702

Dear Harold,

Tramp, tramp, tramp the tramps are marching. Enclosed find the arrest records of the three tramps plus two others. Mary and I have been looking into it. The "nut cases" are complaining that they were told the tramps were never arrested so why were arrest records found? Well, our friends Ray and Mary LaFontaine (Desperado Productions) actually found the records. What they didn't say was that those documents were part of a 1989 release! Yep there was not much fanfare when the papers were turned over to city hall. It took Stone's movie to spark enough interest to have people take a look.

I think it went something like this. Vaughan and Wise pulled the three out of a gondola car about 1:50 PM. They took them to Harkness who told Wise and Bass to take them to the sheriffs office and Harold Elkins. Elkins claimed he turned them over to Fritz. Fritz said the Dallas Police checked them out and let them go. Now Harkness testified (Warren Commission) that they were arrested. But this was pre-Miranda so how would he know. Harkness was still in the rail yards when the trio were finally brought to DPD. Note they were tossed in jail at 4 PM.

There they languished for a few days . I believe there was so much going on that the police forgot about them. When the error was discovered they were let out. LaFontaine made a big deal over no arrest number and no thumb print. Notice that even the typed arrest forms don't have that information. Jim Leavelle says they didn't use that portion of the form anyway.

Well here's what I found. I believe Gus Abrams died

in 1987. Just before he arrived in Dallas that fateful day, he had been released from the Ohio State Pen. The record shows a date of birth that looks like Sept. 29, 1910. The Abrams I found had a d/o/b of Sept. 29, 1912. His address in 1987 was Newark, Ohio. I think Gedney is living in Melbourne, Florida. I am still working on him. Mary had great success with Doyle. Of course his address was shown as Red Jacket, W.Va. I understand he lives on the west coast - No he's not Holt - and has an attorney from Albany, New York.

Joe West has started up the Roscoe White stuff again. I am sure you know Giancana has written a book "Double Cross" in which he names Oswald, White, Tippit and others as shooters. I don't know who sold them on that old chestnut but it is getting a lot of play down here.

I have made three trips to city hall to look at the records. Enclosed is some of the fruits of my labor. Enjoy.

Best wishes,

Dave Perry

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