Mr. Jenner. Did you repeat that again? Did you repeat again that you had not been in the Carousel Club at anytime?
Mr. Weissman. I don't know if I repeated it at that time. I just made a point of saying that he had better check his facts and talk with me also, and get both sides of the story here, before he got himself in trouble. By trouble, I had assumed he knew what I meant—I meant a lawsuit. And I would have sued him, but I could not find a lawyer to handle the case. They said any publicity that comes out of it would be only bad. So I dropped it. Several days later——
Mr. Jenner. Have you finished the conversation?
Mr. Weissman. I have finished the conversation with him. Several days later I got ahold of his office number.
Mr. Jenner. Would you fix the time of this Town Hall meeting broadcast, as best you can.
Mr. Weissman. I am pretty sure it was on the 28th or the morning of the 29th—on the Town Hall thing? That was the afternoon of the 28th of April, I believe. I believe it was April. It was prior to his coming to a hearing here at the Commission. And in any case, I telephoned him several days after our radio and telephone conversation—I telephoned him at his office in Manhattan and got him on the line again. And I said, "Well, what has happened?" I was very curious as to what he had done about this.
Mr. Jenner. Where did you reach him?
Mr. Weissman. At his office in Manhattan. I do not know the address. I had first contacted a law firm he was associated with previously, and they gave me his office number in lower Manhattan. And I telephoned him at his office. The secretary answered, then he got on the line. And he said this time—I don't recall exactly what was said before or after this particular part of the conversation. But I said that I want to meet this guy in Dallas, the one who told him this story and call him a liar to his face, and that I wanted it to be a public meeting, and Mark Lane said he would arrange for a public meeting, he would pay my transportation to Dallas to see this guy as soon as he could arrange a meeting. And I have not heard from him since.
Mr. Jenner. To check that date you gave us again. Mr. Weissman—Mr. Lane appeared before the Commission on Wednesday, March 4, 1964.
Mr. Weissman. March 4? March? I did not think it was that long ago. If he appeared March 4, then the conversation—well, I stand corrected. I am not positive of the month.