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COR eS oo nL ee oo Memorandum to Mr. Belmont yo. RE: ATTORNEY GENERAL'S VISIT TO NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 14, 1961 The Attorney General met with the press in the office of the United States Attorney. He also was interviewed for TV and filmed re- productions of this interview were shown on the TV stations in New York this morning. The Attorney General also conferred with the Senior Judges in both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. The Attorney General went out of his way to see United States District Judge J. Skelly Wright of Louisiana who is presently a visiting Judge in the Southern trict of New York. ' The Attorney General conferred with the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York but his visit to that office was very brief and more in the nature of a pep talk for members of the United States Attorney's staff. prepared for him for delivery before the luncheon meeting of the State‘Attorneys General Association. He remarked that the speech wouldn't do at all and he spoke extemporaneously. While his talk touched on the field of civil rights, he stressed his crime program and the speech seemed to be fairly well received by the State Attorneys General. While the Attorney General for the State of Albama, who had attended the conference, indicated he had urgent business in Washington which required him to leave prior to Kennedy's appearance and thus was not present most of the Attorneys General from the southern states seemed to make it a point to go up to Kennedy after his speech to shake hands and talk with him. . On the way up on the plane, the Attorney General read the | speech that had b New York FBI Office but that time was short and he mentioned to SAC Foster that he would stop in when he was in New York again and he knew what a wonderful job the FBI was doing. t— K " | The Attorney General said he wanted to stop by and see the