Mr. Stuckey.

features. They didn't particularly have current events value, but they were interesting topics, and I just went and talked about them. I talked about social welfare programs in Uruguay, the Mexican Revolution; Central American common market; the character of the Latin American university student, this sort of thing.
Occasionally, when I had a live one, when I heard there was somebody in town who was a Latin bigwig, I would bring him on and we would talk whatever he wanted to talk about.

Mr. Jenner.

How did you organize those programs?

Mr. Stuckey.

Well--

Mr. Jenner.

Did you have any preliminary discussions with the people you were going to have on your programs?

Mr. Stuckey.

Yes, yes; sometimes I took up to 3 to 4 days to prepare a 5-minute broadcast.

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.

Mr. Stuckey.

Actually it is 5 minutes which demands about 700 words, which was just about as long or longer than the column that I used to write, so these columns, 700 words, which would run about a column and a half of type in the paper, consumed within a 5-minute period on the broadcast. Anything else along that line?

Mr. Jenner.

I think that covers it generally. Tell us the nature of your work with Tulane University.

Mr. Stuckey.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

You became associated with Tulane when?

Mr. Stuckey.

In January, January 6.

Mr. Jenner.

Of this year?

Mr. Stuckey.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

What is the nature of that work?

Mr. Stuckey.

I write a syndicated column on higher education. The column is called Dimension in Education. We deal with all manner of events and affairs affecting higher education, and sometimes things that do not affect higher education. I roam the spectrum of interest in the things. It is extremely interesting.
I sometimes write about such things as the Common Market, the humanities versus science, all this sort of thing, all the current controversies we get into.

Mr. Jenner.

Is that in the nature of public relations work?

Mr. Stuckey.

Yes; very soft shell public relations. Sometimes we don't even mention Tulane. It is just that I think probably Tulane just wants to be established as a fount of wisdom in this particular field, and that is why they print these reports.

Mr. Jenner.

During the year 1963, did an event occur, a series of events occur, in which you became acquainted with a man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?

Mr. Stuckey.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

In your own words, taking it from the very first instant of the course of events, perhaps even before you met this man, tell us in your own words, and it doesn't have to be chronological, but the way you would put it out, about it.

Mr. Stuckey.

Fine. As I told you before, as a Latin American columnist and one interested in affairs, I had been looking for some time in New Orleans for representatives of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. There haven't been any. Most of the organizations that I had contact with in my work--

Mr. Jenner.

Excuse me--how did you learn about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee?

Mr. Stuckey.

I was going to get to that.

Mr. Jenner.

All right.

Mr. Stuckey.

Most of the organizations that I had contact with were refugee organizations, very violently anti-Castro groups, and there were a number of them in New Orleans. These people were news sources for me also. I used them quite frequently. One day, I think it was in August, the latter part of July of 1963, I was in the bank, and I ran across a refugee friend of mine by the name of Carlos Bringuier. Bringuier told me--