The Campbell Brothers

"I talked to the brothers in 1979," writes Anthony Summers, in his book Conspiracy, "and even their guarded comments proved startling." Summers, who noted both brothers were former Marines, continued:

Daniel Campbell said he was brought into Banister's office initially because "they needed people with small-arms training for sticky situations." On the day Oswald took part in the street scene with Bringuier, however, Campbell was doing humdrum desk work. The incident occurred not far from Banister's office, and Campbell heard about it soon afterward from a friend who had seen it at first hand. As he sat with the friend in Mancuso's restaurant, on the ground floor of 544 Camp Street, she pointed out two men at a nearby table as being among those who had taken part in the street rumpus. Later, when Campbell returned to his office, a young man "with a Marine haircut" came in and used his desk phone for a few minutes. The next time Campbell saw his visitor, he says, was on television after the assassination. It was, Campbell is certain, Lee Oswald. His brother, Allen, also has relevant information. He told the New Orleans authorities, in a 1969 interview, that he was at Camp Street on one of the two occasions that Oswald passed out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets near the International Trade Mart. When somebody in the office mentioned the pro-Castro demonstration, Banister might have been expected to react with characteristic spleen. According to the 1969 interview, Allen Campbell said Banister merely laughed.

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