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Record:

CASON, JACK CHARLES

Sources:

WC Vol. 4 (43); WC Vol. 7 (379-380); WC Vol. 22 (640); CD 87 SS 491, p. 2; Dallas Morning News, 11/23/63 (3); Dallas Morning News, 11/25/63 (5); CD 706L; CD 1347; Dallas Morning News, Sun. Jan. 13, 1985 (42-A); Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy (32, 34)

Mary's
Comments:

President of Texas School Book Depository, employer of Lee Oswald; ultra right-wing Conservative. At party for head of McGraw-Hill in 1961, Mrs. Cason, his wife, said, "John F. Kennedy should be shot." Reported by Ted Taylor, a guest, to Father Joseph Grew of Richardson, who told it to FBI. Died at age 77 Jan. 10, 1985. Survived by wife: Gladys S. Cason and 3 daughters. His DOB: 10/6/1907. POB: Cynthiana, Kentucky.

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