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~ * Tor on ¢ xplains -« Photograph. | Styles Horton gives his -ver- sion of the origin of the evi- dence used most frequently by jersons charging that Highland- er is Communistically oriented: “The example used by most groups to say we are Commu- nist is a photograph taken at our 25th anniversary in 1957. A man introduced himself to me as 4 free-lance writer from the Caribbean and showed me a letter to that effect. “Actually he wag a Commu- nist newspaper worker from THE DAJLY WORKER (the of- ficial newspaper of the Commu- nist Party in the United States), His name was Abner Berry. The strange thing is he left the party shortly thereafter and has been unheard of ever since, Strange conduct after being a member of the party for years. Tt suggests to me that he was jan agent of Marvin Griffin (former governor of Georgia). “Tt was at our 25th anniver- sary meeting. A large number of people turned out. Sandy (A.A.) Liveright (who attended the John’s Island workshop) and Joe (J. Arthur} Brown (presi- dent of the South Carolina | “Interesting is the-fact that padre Berry is squatting down er was Ed Friend who said he ‘er, I asked him to take some pictures for publicity purpo ’“But be waited and wait and waited. Then Berry came NAACP) were also there. lin the nirture The photograph- Was a commercial photograph- and so forth. i} along. There weren’t any chairs eet acmywrnmers st ts Ce ae en left so he squatted down in the front “It was obvious that the & forjasked about ft at the time I ever saw them, they were together.” s—————=- her had been waitin ey were in cahoots — a/tirst pho-llot_of people noticed it and pr TT