Mr. Knight. Again this is strange, and I don’t know why he should pick me to give this to but he said, “You seem like a square guy, why don’t you look this over and read it?”
Mr. Griffin. Did he indicate any opinion as to his approval or disapproval as to the contents of that?
Mr. Knight. No, no. At the time—it struck me as kind of odd when I look back on it—at the time I couldn’t care less. But when I look back on it it did strike me as rather odd because he seemed to have no opinion, and I couldn’t figure why he gave me the copy of the speech if he believed it. I thought, my first impression was that he thought this was the form of radicalism that was sort of mumbled and talked about a little bit.
Mr. Griffin. What did he say about radicalism?
Mr. Knight. This is a word I use. I don’t think he even mentioned radical. But he did mention along with it a word which I can’t recall in this Saturday night conversation. I don’t think he used the word radical but I can’t think what he used, but we did discuss that area.
Mr. Griffin. Was he talking about people who were of the John Birch Society character, the rightwing radicals, or was he talking about the Lee Harvey Oswald type radicals?
Mr. Knight. That I don’t know.
Mr. Griffin. Did he indicate approval or disapproval of radicals?
Mr. Knight. Disapproval.
Mr. Griffin. Did the conversation indicate in any way that he thought there might be any connection between what you are calling radicalism in Dallas and the assassination?