HSCA Record #: 180-10088-10485
AGENCY FILE #: 007271 [2 OF 6]

STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH OF ORLEANS

		AFFIDAVIT

	BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, personally came

and appeared

			PETER DEAGEANO

who, after first being duly sworn, did depose and state:

	
	I can remember being in the Bourbon House after the

assassination of President Kennedy when a picture of Lee

Harvey Oswald appeared on the television screen. As soon

as I saw his picture on television I immediately recognized

his face and remarked to someone that I had seen him before

in the Bourbon House. The first thing I remember about him

was that I saw him handing out leaflets on Canal Street

some time before the assassination. I was coming back from

a bid in connection with my job and I was walking on Canal

Street and as I passed in front of McCrory's Department 

Store in the 1000 Block of Canal Street, I saw him handing 

out leaflets in that vicinity. I recognized him as the same

person that I had seen a few days earlier in the Bourbon

House and I walked up to him to say hello and to see what

he was doing. When he saw me he handed me one of his leaflets.

I looked at it and when I saw that it said something about

helping Cuba, I just threw it down and walked off. I then

remembered that I also saw him a few days before this

incident in the Bourbon House. It was between 2:00 and

4:00 o'clock in the afternoon either in August or September

of 1963. I was sitting at a table in the Bourbon House eat-

ing a hamburger. There weren't too many people in the Bourbon

House and as I looked around I noticed Kerry Thornley, Jeanne

Hack and him sitting at a table close to me. I looked at

them and said hello and either Kerry Thornley or Jeanne Hack

introduced him to me. I cannot remember how he was introduced

or any of the conversation that we may have had as it was a

very casual meeting. However, I remember thinking to myself

that he might be related to Kerry Thornley as he resembled

him quite a bit. I don't remember how long they stayed in the

Bourbon House that afternoon, but they left together while I

was still in there. After the assassination of President

Kennedy a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald appeared on television

and I immediately recognized him as being identical to the

person I had seen handing out leaflets on Canal Street, and

identical to the person that I saw sitting in the Bourbon

House with Kerry Thornley and Jeanne Hack.


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				PETER DEAGEANO

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE

ME THIS ___ DAY OF _________, 1968.

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	NOTARY PUBLIC