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JAMES B, LESTER AND WIFE, .CLARA LESTER, ROUTE 20, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE Miss EVERETT stated she did not understand “their hate" although she considered them leyal Americans, .She said she has asked them to move due to their attitude but had just now decided to report the matter, She further related that the LESTERs did not indicate they personally would take any action against Senator EDWARD KENNEDY or Mr.- ROBERT KENNEDY. The files of the Knoxville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation reflect one JAMES BROWNLOW LESTER, wife CLARA HARTSELL LESTER, was investigated ,as an applicant for the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. Mr. LESTER's application submitted at that time reflected he was born December 26, 1889 at Corryton, Tennessee, and was employed as a painter. -This applicant type investigation was favorable except according to files of the Security Office at the Atomic Energy Commission, his employment was terminated at Stone and Webster Company, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 18, 1945 as "discharged for participation in work stoppage in an emergency equivalent to striking". .The files of the Knoxville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation contain no information identifiable with CLARA H.. LESTER. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is leaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.