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the name and the date of the incident, and I always 

 carried those in my car so that I would not have to 

 verbally testify against anybody. If I expected to 

 see an altercation I'd switch on my tape recorder and 

 I would get the words, and if one word led to another 

 and if one of them led to the flying of a fist, I 

 always was ready to take the picture of that first 

 blow, and with that knowledge that I had those instru- 

 ments in my car nobody struck a blow. 

 This was a preparedness campaign. 



Yes. Now, I also knew this: this is all that I testi- 

 fied in front of LaJollette, and I feel to this day 

 that I made the biggest monkey out of that gentleman 

 — and he was a wonderful man — that any man ever 

 did, for a guy that never went to school, and he was 

 supposed to be a reputable man of high intellect. I 

 actually will describe to you how I did it, if we have 

 time. 



Anyhow, we had heard about those reds coming in 

 there. These were not organizers, these were just 

 agitators. We had heard the names of a few and of 

 course the farmers were very anxious and there were 



