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Nay 13, 1969
F:
This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New
York on Hay 13, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right?
W:
Yes, sir.
F:
Tell us a little
- primarily?
Me:
Yes.
Mu:
Once the assassination of President
Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was
suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you?
Me:
He contacted me at home the next morning.
President Kennedy was assassinated
on Friday around 1
- home down there on 6th
Street.
I had a wife and two sons, little kids.
born then.
Bill wasn't even
They'd throw bricks up on the house at night.
Once they
burst a window in the car and one time they cut a tire, did little old
things like
- then, when did you see him first?
M:
I saw him almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington.
I think he
arrived, as I remember it-F:
He arrived late evening on Friday.
M:
Late evening, and I think I saw him at his home that night.
F:
What
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dare to be too far away.
F:
Yes.
S:
But Berlin was a little soon for that relationship, and I think I
was far
away~
in answer to your question.
F:
Okay~
you're home from Berlin.
S:
Yes.
Then another couple of events took place.
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