[ ... ] 28, chunky but well built, dark eyes, dark hair, Italianish. However, like all the DA's assistants, and indeed the DA himself, he wore a pistol, which I found rather unnecessarily dramatic. Once I was settled in his office, I wanted to know exactly why I had been asked out there and he explained that the DA's office was still interested in the Kennedy assassination. He told me further that information had been received that during his stay in New Orleans, Oswald had been associating with someone named Clay who lived in the French Quarter and of course they had thought about me. I assured him that I had never met Oswald and then told them the story of the distribution of leaflets. It seems that one day during the summer of 1963, Oswald had appeared at the International Trade Mart office and had talked to J.B. Dauenhaur, my assistant. He had asked JB's permission to distribute leaflets in front of the building, which were issued by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. J.B. told him he had no permission to do anything of the sort, but this apparently did not deter Mr. Oswald. At any rate, about 2:30 in the afternoon, someone came in and said there was a big commotion going on in front of the Trade Mart. Someone was passing out leaflets and TV cameras were there, as were the police. At the moment I was involved with a long distance call and said I would come down as soon as this was over, but by the time I had finished and got out in front of the building, the TV men were packing up their cameras, Mr. Oswald had disappeared somewhere and the police cars were departing. I put it down as just another nut --- God knows we had our share of them in and around the International Trade Mart --- and thought no more about it. Indeed I had forgotten it completely until in talking to J.B. from San Francisco after the assassination, he reminded me of the incident and said this was the man who was now charged as being the President's assassin. I explained to Sciambra that I had not at any time had an opportunity to see Oswald, and had never met him under any other circumstances and added what turned out to be a very ironic remark --- that it was perhaps unfortunate that I did not because then I might possibly have had a tiny footnote in history.
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