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cDuRAL burEAU Of InVestIGATIC 2/7/64 Date (1) Mrs. BERNICE H.XFRACTION, 3509 Baring.Street,..Phila- delphia, Fa.s.advised that she during June or July 1963, was employed as an entertainer-singer at the Ascot Restaurant, 13th near E Street, Washington, D.C...She said that one night. approximately at l0:30 p.m. during her engagement she met a patron of the club who 1dentified himself~as MIKE vInIcH of Jackscn, Wyoming. ' Between her numbers, she had several drinks with him and he toid her, during conversation, that he was in Washington as a result of'being a member of the PT-l0y crew which Jresident JOHN F. KENNEDy had during World War II in the Facific. vinich claimed to be in Washington, D.C., for. a reunion of this group. She stated vinich, at the time she met him, had been drinking, although he did not appear in- toxicated and his speech was normal.: She stated she had sev- eral drinks with him, and he left the restaurant about one and one-half hours after he came in.. She said that during the time she was talking with him in the Ascot Restaurant, he stated President KENNEDy was going to be shot. She said that she was amazed at this and asked him how he knew this. He did not explain the statement. any further, but repeated that President KENNeDy would be shot. She alsc advised that she was friendly with him because he told her that he was the brother of the nationally-kmown.comedian. DANNyXxAlE. She stated she took his story about being DANNY KAyr's brother at face yalue, because in her mind he did re-. semble KAYE. She stated that while in the club, she recalled ,that the manager of the Ascot, Mr.XzupaLupA, known.as"Mr.. I Lucas," and her accompanist, AnitayspaIn, had some.conver- saticn with Mr. VINIcH.: D.c She said that Mr. vinich returned the next-evening early and stayed until closing time, approximately 12:30. She had several drinks with him between numbers the second night, and when it was time for her to go home for the night it was raining out and she offered him a ride to his hotel In her automcbile. She said that Mr. vinich drank a consider- able amount of liquor that night and his speech became thickened towards the end of the evening.. 0n _1/31/64 Philadelphia. Fa. Fil.# Philadelphia 157-916. /mfp SA JOHN R. WINEHERG by ndation mcluslons of th. FBi. It ts the property of the FBi and ts loaned to rour agency; it and ita contents are ot to be dlstribyted outside your agency.