How can i find William Gaudets HSCA testimony?

[Gerry Down]

FWIW, Banister's personal secretary (and later fiance before he died) was Delphine Roberts. She was interviewed (January '67) by the Garrison people during his investigation into the assassination. She told Garrison's investigators that Banister would meet and talk to leftwing people as part of his intelligence gathering operation (he was a private investigator at that time). So this may be an innocent explanation for the alleged Banister/Oswald sighting.

It's interesting to note that at no time in the interview did she mention Banister ever meeting Oswald, of Oswald ever being in the office, of having any association with Oswald. Later in interviews, in the late 1970s, she would claim that Oswald regularly came into Banister's office.

Posner covers her in his book Case Closed. The way he paints her in that book does not make her sound credible at all.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Posner covers her in his book Case Closed. The way he paints her in that book does not make her sound credible at all.

Yes, I've read the interviews of her; by the late seventies she was, frankly, a racist nut. Or a nutty racist. Either way will do although I believe she was a pro-segregationist/racist in the sixties as well.

Although if Oswald did meet with Banister, as she later claimed, then why not mention it to Garrison's people? And wouldn't Banister have mentioned that to her? After the assassination? I've read other accounts by people who say Banister would get information from leftist and rightwing groups - an assortment of characters; it was part of his job. Finally, Gaudet phoned the FBI in New Orleans five days after the assassination and never mentioned seeing Oswald before - with Banister or otherwise.

Anyway, in that interview with Garrison's people she comes across as credible. Or at least not unbalanced.