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MO 77-3192/jlc be has known or about f een years, they having met for the first time when while MARSHALL was acting as a consultant to a Leadership Conference held at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He said they considered each other close friends and while they do not see each other very often, MARSHALL generally telephones him when he makes ee ee ee ee ee a mead md ome OGGASA0BEAL Vasatne &O now WELLER, 407 US-8 20 Oo He said he knows very little about MARSHALL's relatives other than he has a brother, nase unrecalled, who is a doctor in New Jersey and his mother and father are both now deceased. He stated he has met both MARSHALL's first wife, VIVIAN, who died some years ago of cancer, and . bis second wife, CECILIA, and considers them both highly as to character, reputation, and loyalty. stated MARSHALL was a legal counsel with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) until about 1950. At this time, to circumvent treasury regulations which did not consider gifts to the NAACP as tax deductible, it broke into two separate and distinct organizations, one being a continuation of the NAACP and the other the Legal Defense and Educational Fund Incorporated, gifts to which are tax deductible. He stated MARSHALL was made and is director and chief counsel for this latter group. He said MAERSHALL's only connectidn itself is as a life menber _ bm — se lt i u ag avised the onl he knovs the appointee is a member are as ‘polices: ; The Alpha Phi Alpha, a college social fraternity; the Masons, of which be is a S3rd degree acting menber. and Grand Marshal of the United Supreme Counsel in Wash- ington, D. C., and a warden of the Saint Philip's Episcopal Church, New York, New York. He stated he considered MARSHALL as capable, “bonest to a fault,” of high integrity aad one who, if he makes a mistakes, is sivays willing to admit it to anyone. He said he is gregarious by nature and is equally friendly with people from all < ~ % & ie * He ¢ : c Kb al ee zs a cr - 0h