Mr. Weissman.

A thousand dollars the first day, and $400-odd on the second day.

Mr. Dulles.

Were both payments made before publication?

Mr. Weissman.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. Dulles called attention to the post office box number.

Mr. Weissman.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

That stimulates me to ask you this: Did you receive any responses to the advertisement?

Mr. Weissman.

Oh, did I? Yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, tell us about that and also, before you start, do you have any of those responses?

Mr. Weissman.

Not with me. All that I received I have at home.

Mr. Jenner.

And indicate to us the volume that you have at home.

Mr. Weissman.

I have approximately 50 or 60 letters; about one-third of which were favorable, and the rest, two-thirds, unfavorable. The favorable responses, all but one came before---they were postmarked, the envelopes were postmarked before the President was assassinated. And the threatening letters and the nasty letters came afterward.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you receive any contributions?

Mr. Weissman.

I still have a check to the American Fact-Finding Committee in the amount of $20. Since we never opened a bank account, I just sort of kept the check as a souvenir. There was one $2 contribution----

Mr. Jenner.

Cash?

Mr. Weissman.

Right--from a retired train engineer, or something.

Mr. Jenner.

And that is----

Mr. Weissman.

For the Wabash Railroad.

Mr. Jenner.

Were those the only Contributions?

Mr. Weissman.

To my knowledge; yes, sir.

Mr. Jenner.

At least that you know anything about?

Mr. Weissman.

That is right. In all the letters I received the first time we went to the box. I only went to the box once, that was, I believe, the Sunday morning following the assassination.

Mr. Jenner.

The 25th of November?

Mr. Weissman.

About; yes, sir.

Mr. Dulles.

Did anybody have the key to the box in addition to yourself?

Mr. Weissman.

Up to that point, only I had the key. After that, I left Dallas on Wednesday, I believe----

Mr. Jenner.

I misspoke---it was the 24th of November rather than the 25th.

Mr. Weissman.

I left Dallas on the following Wednesday. And at that time I didn't see Larrie personally--he couldn't get to the apartment that Bill and I were staying at for some reason or another. And I left all the dishes and things he had given us to use while we were there, and in one of these dishes I left the key to the box.
Since that time, communications I received from Larrie, he says the tenor of the letters had changed, they are more favorable than unfavorable in the ensuing weeks and months. Of these letters--he sent me one that called me all sorts of names, a lot of anti-Semitic remarks, and he sent another, and he gave excerpts in one of his personal letters, of letters that he received in support of the position of the ad.

Mr. Dulles.

Do I understand that you got all the letters that came in up to Wednesday after the assassination, and that your associates have the rest, or Larrie, I presume, has the rest?

Mr. Weissman.

I don't know who has the rest. I don't know if it is Larrie or Joe.

Mr. Dulles.

Larrie had the key.

Mr. Weissman.

Yes. I left him the key---I left him access to the key. I received the letters written during the 2 days following the assassination--the Friday afternoon and Saturday following the assassination--because I picked the mail up the following Sunday morning.

Mr. Jenner.

Having in mind all your testimony up to the moment, I would like to take you back to the telephone conversation that you had with Larrie