Mrs. Geraci. I put my foot down and told him he couldn't do it any more, and I called the FBI.
Mr. Geraci. And the Better Business Bureau.
Mrs. Geraci. They told me to call the Better Business Bureau, but the man at the FBI told me he couldn't give out any information as to whether this was a Communist organization or not, and the headquarters were in Miami, and the best thing to do would be not to let him get involved in it any more. Then I called the Better Business Bureau, and they were supposed to check with Miami, but I never did get a report back from him.
Mr. Liebeler. Was this before or after you met Oswald?
Mr. Geraci. This was before.
Mrs. Geraci. But he has the receipt at home with the date on it. When he gave Carlos money, Carlos gave him a receipt.
Mr. Geraci. I remember Carlos making out a check to give the money to Miami too. When I gave him the money, he put the money in his bank and made out a check to the headquarters.
Mrs. Geraci. We met Carlos just now in the hall, and he told me the best thing Philip could do would be listen to his parents and be a good student. Right now that would be the way he could help combat communism. And I told him I thought he was too young to get involved in things like this, selling tickets for Cuba and all this stuff. Last year he was only 15 and too young to be involved in all that mess. The man at the FBI told me that an organization could be all right today and next week it would be Communist-controlled and how was I to know.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you know who you talked to at the FBI?
Mrs. Geraci. Gee, I may have his name at home with these slips of paper that I took from him.