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Taylor Caldwell — Part 10
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Dear Mr. Welch:
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I received. the enclosed from some town in Texas a few days ago. -*
(My husband said I should have kept the envelop, but as I receive hun-
dreds of letters a week I don't even keep the ietters, not to mention the
envelops.)I thought the enclosed rather amusing ~ I've received dozens. ;
‘very similar from all over the country. And then I remembered a few things .
As I think you already know, I’ began to warn President Kennedy .
severel months before he was murdered that the Communists would prob=
ably iry to kill him. In some of my letters to him I also enclosed vicious
and defamatory and anonymous letters I had received, denouncing both the.
President and myself as "fasct st oppressors,” and similar Communist acm |.
cusations. We would both, Sujd at least a couple of letters, meet with . #
the proper fate and "soon." Mr. Kennedy was apparently amused by the —
letters for I received only grateful acknowledgments from the White House:.
and assurances that the President was not alarmed. Iwas. Solwrotea |.
long article for THE WANDERER, a Catholic newspaper in St. Paul, ous
ling why I wus pretty certain that the Liberal/Socialist/Communist Con-':
spiracy would scon attempt the President's life ~ not only from the letters.
I had been receiving from those people but from the angry denunications of.
him which I read in the national press, both newspavers and magazines...”
This article of mine was published in September, 1963, I believe. os
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A short time after the assassination a reporter from Dallas wrote .
‘me to mention that he had met me in Dallas a few years before, and theta, fe
he had read my article in THE WANDERER, and that he was writing a —
on the assassination, and that he had “sound information" that Oswald had
not been alone but was omly part of the Communist assassination team. His
name, if Il remember correctly, was a James Koether or Korthe. I sent him »
the letters I had received from the White House and asked their return, I.”
did not hear from him again, and so wrote him about a year or so ago ask-*
ing for the letters as I wished to give them to the Kennedy Library. My let-
ter was returned, stamped “Unknown" by the Postotfice. T don't remember :' of
what newspaper he was with.
A newspacerwoman in New York, Dorothy Kilgallen - who also
appeared on a TV program - was a friend of mine.’ 1 sent her a copy of .my ™
article and mentioned that it was my opinion that Oswald had aot been alone
but was part of a general Communist conspiracy. . She answered that she. :
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later, [ selleve, she died very suddenly. . ’
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