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Record:

ABT, JOHN JACOB

Sources:

WC Report (201, 289, 655); WC 3 (86); WC 10 (95-108, 116-7); WC 24 (481, 506, 695); CE 1937; HSCA Vol. III (472); Yalta Betrayal, Wittmer (15, 74); Accessories After the Fact, Meagher, pp. 218-219, 224, 232; Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? Joesten (63); Whitewash, Vol. I, Weisberg (137-40, 155); Whitewash, Vol. IV, Weisberg (141); Conspiracy, Summers (130-31); Red Friday, Bringuier, pp. 47-48; Legend, Epstein, pp. 246, 248; Plot to Kill the President, Blakey and Billings, p. 319; Act of Treason, Mark North, pp. 202, 405, 415, 417, 419, 426; NY Times, 8/13/91, C-18

Mary's
Comments:

DOB: 5/1/1904; POB: Chicago, Ill Graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Univ. of Chicago; law degree from Univ. of Chicago. Oswald attempted to reach him weekend of 11/22/63. Abt had been counsel for Arnold Johnson and J. J. Tormey. Died Sat., 8/10/91 in Columbia-Greene Medical Center in Hudson, NY; resident of Manhattan; survived by second wife, Vita Barsky and stepdaughter Judy Dodson of Sparkhill, NY.

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