From: john.mcadams@marquette.edu (John McAdams)
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Subject: Questions for the LaFontaines - 2
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The LaFontaines place Oswald at 544 Camp Street in the summer of 1963,
hanging around in the same building as Guy Banister, and trying to
infiltrate Banister's operation at the behest of the FBI.  The LaFontaines
claim that the connection between Oswald and Bannister "has been a matter
of record for three decades. . . Oswald had Banister's address on his
pamphlets."  OSWALD TALKED, p. 149.

The LaFontaines claim:

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Oswald and Banister shared the same "space," not in some sterile high
rise, but a shabby three-story wooden building, the sort of unpretentious
cozy quarters where other tenants were likely to know something about your
business.  OSWALD TALKED, p. 149.

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Were the LaFontaines aware, when they wrote OSWALD TALKED, that there was
no internal connection between 544 Camp Street (the address on Oswald's
pamphlets) and Banister's office that had its entrance on LaFayette
Street?

This is established by HSCA Exhibit #1, 11/6/78 in the HSCA files in the
National Archives.  Were the LaFontaines aware of the HSCA investigation
of this issue?

A stairwell leads from Camp Street to the upper floor offices.  There is
no stairwell from the LaFayette Street entrance, and no internal stairwell
allowing someone with a 544 Camp office to get to Banister's office
without going downstairs, outside, around the corner, and into the
LaFayette Street entrance.

Just how does this affect the LaFontaine's thesis that the "544 Camp"
address ties Oswald to Banister?

.John