THE TWIFORD’S   Volume XI

AFFIDAVIT OF HORACE ELROY TWIFORD

            The following affidavit was executed by Horace Elroy Twiford on July 11, 1964.

PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION

ON THE ASSASSINATION OF                                           AFFIDAVIT

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

STATE OF TEXAS ,

County of Harris , ss:

            I, Horace Elroy Twiford, 7018 Schley Street , Houston , Texas , being duly sworn say:

            1. I have been a resident of Houston since May, 1956, and I am a merchant seaman. I am a member of the Socialist Labor Party.

            2. The first time I ever heard of Lee Harvey Oswald was in July 1963, when The Headquarters of the Socialist Labor Party in New York wrote me that Oswald had requested literature. The New York Headquarters usually furnishes me with the names of any persons in the Texas area who make inquiries about the Socialist Labor Party. I then routinely mailed Oswald literature concerning the Socialist Labor Party to a box number in Dallas appearing on Twiford Exhibit No. 1. I had my return address on the envelope containing the material I sent to Oswald.

            3. Twiford Exhibit No. 1 is the envelope which Oswald sent to the Socialist Labor Party in New York, and which they in turn sent to me.

            4. The handwritten note across the front of this envelope, containing the words "Labor Day issue WP, 9/11/63" is in my handwriting and indicates that I mailed to Oswald on September 11, 1963, the Labor Day issue of the "Weekly People." I do not recall if this was the first time I sent him material.

            5. I recollect having flown home to visit my wife on September 27, 1963, from New Orleans , Louisiana , where the S.S. Del Monte, the ship upon which I was working, was docked. Either at this time or on October 1, when the S.S. Del Monte reached Houston , my wife told me that a L. H. Oswald had called and asked for me during the week. My wife had written his name and the words "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" on a piece of paper in order to mention the telephone call.

            6. I recollect that my wife told me that this telephone call had taken place during the week preceding my visit home. I had been home on the previous weekend, and neither at that time nor prior thereto had my wife said anything about a telephone call from Oswald.

            7. I have never seen nor heard from Lee Harvey Oswald.

             Signed this 11th day of July 1964.

                                                       (S)    Horace Elroy Twiford,

                                                                HORACE ELROY TWIFORD.

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Mrs. Estelle Twiford

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AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. ESTELLE TWIFORD

            The following affidavit was executed by Mrs. Estelle Twiford on July 2, 1964.

 PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION

ON THE ASSASSINATION OF                                            AFFIDAVIT

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

STATE OF TEXAS ,

County of Harris , ss:

            I, Mrs. Estelle Twiford, 7018 Schley Street , Houston , Texas , being duly sworn say:

            1. I am the wife of Horace Elroy Twiford.

            2. In late September of 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald telephoned my house and asked to speak to my husband. I told him that my husband was at sea. Oswald inquired as to how my husband had his address. He also said that he had hoped to discuss ideas with my husband for a few hours before he flew down to Mexico . He said he only had a few hours. I assume he was calling from

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the Houston area since he did not, to my knowledge, place a long distance call. However, he did not specifically say that he was in Houston . I have no information concerning his whereabouts when this call was placed. I told him if he desired to correspond with my husband, he could direct a letter to 7018 Schley Street , Houston , Texas , and I would see that my husband received it.

            3. I cannot recall the date of the call, but I think it occurred during the week prior to the weekend my husband flew home to visit me from New Orleans where his ship was docked. I recall, my husband had shipped out the weekend prior to the call.

            4. I cannot recall the exact time he called, but I think that it was in the evening, sometime between 7:00 and 10:00 o'clock. I was not working during this period.

            5. I wrote down on a slip of paper that Oswald had called and that he mentioned he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. I did this in order to remember to tell my husband about the call. I told my husband about the call on the weekend he visited me. I have initialed and released note made of telephone call. (To Secret Service.)

            6. Oswald did not state what he was going to Mexico for, nor did he state how long he would be there.

            7. Other than the above mentioned telephone call, I have never had any contact with Lee Harvey Oswald.

            8. I am not a member of the Socialist Labor Party.

            Signed this 2d day of July 1964.

                                                          (S)     Mrs. Estelle Twiford,

Even J. Lee Rankin KNEW that

LEE CASHED HIS CHECK IN DALLAS ON SEPT. 26  Volume V page 613

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