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() . STATES DEPARTMENT JSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Kansas City, Missouri In Reply, Please Refer io September'3, 1964 File No. 40,OO0 CROWD ANTICIPATED FOR APPEARANCE. OF-THE/ BEATLES.,.. .MUNICIPAL .STADIUM, KANSAS CITY,-MISSOURI, _SEPTEMBER 17,.1964; RACIAL MATTERS b7C Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, Informed on September 2, 1964, that possibly 40,000 persons may crowd the Kansas City, Missouri, Municipal Stadium at. 8:0opm, September 17, 1964, where the Beatles, a quartet singing group on tour here from England, are to perform at 9:2spm under contract to Charles O. Finley, owner of the. Kansas City Athletics (baseball club). said all .:: cancelled to enable assignment of 350 officers in and about. the stadium and about l0o officers elsewhere to cover the Municipal Airport, Hotel Muehlebach, and other places, respectively, arrival, sojourn and travel points and areas of the Beatles in Kansas City, Missouri. stated there has been no indication violence "will occur that will involve racial aspects; however, since the ball park (Municipal Stadium) is located in a Negro. residential neighborhood, the possibility of Negro involve- ment in any spontaneous action is recognized and Police Department plans cover this possibility. i.1 .. ENCLOSURE