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FBI Date: 4/27/62 & | ° (Type in plain text or code) “a REGULAR MATL "~ a a ree ee ee ee ee ee ee es ee ee ie ee i i ee ee ee eee ee ee TO: DIRECTOR, FBI : - FROM: SAC, RICHMOND (80-0-681) - P VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERATXEE) ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, MAY 1, 1962 On 4/27/62 the Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia, in a lead. article by MELVILLE CARICO, carried an article relating that U. S. Attorney General ROBERT KENNEDY was steering clear of becoming involved over whether a Roanoke Negro Attorney, RUBIN E. LAWSON, will be on the Speakers Platform at his Law Pay Address, 5162 at Cross Roads - Mall, Roanoke, Va. c i” _ Article states a protest was filed with the Attorney General by ROBERT E. LILLARD, Nashville, Tennessee President of the predominantly Negro National Bar Association, stating LAWSON is being barred from participating in’ the ceremony because of race, although he is Second Vice- President of the Negro Lawyers Association. The article. “quoted unnamed spokesman for KENNEDY as saying the Attorney General wrote LI that he was invited by, andis . speaking under sponsorship of, the Virginia State Bar and not the Roanoke Bar Association. Further, the Virginia State Bar does not practice segregation and the meeting ill not be segregated. The article continued that he Virginia State Bar is an organization to police the ee 17 S1BEZ aed SrPPENEARE 28 182 alr gh 2Y SQEAID. | arn 1 tte es i - 5 G B ah! om a A” i As Approved: