FBI reports and teletypes, May-October 1965: Humphreys before the grand jury, his June arrest in Oklahoma, and the perjury inquiry (Vault Humphreys Parts 23-24)

A Chicago report (file 92-348) says Humphreys appeared before the federal grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois on May 21, 1965 and was told by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schippers to remain subject to recall. A Bureau memorandum of June 25, 1965 (p. 8) reports that U.S. Attorney Hanrahan had asked Humphreys’s attorney on June 24 to produce him before the grand jury, that the attorney did not know where he was, and that Judge J. Samuel Perry that day issued a bench warrant and set bond at $100,000. (The viewer’s OCR misreads the memorandum’s year as 1969.)

The report says he was located at a railroad depot in Norman, Oklahoma, on the afternoon of June 26, held in the Oklahoma County Jail until June 28, returned to Chicago and released on the $100,000 bond, and that a civil Tax Court suit to collect about $79,000 in income taxes was pending. His lawyer’s motion to quash the warrant, describing him as “an aged man under doctor’s care,” was denied by Judge Perry, who said that leaving without telling his attorney where he was “bordered on contempt of the grand jury.” Teletypes of October 1965 (Part 24, pp. 22-27) say the grand jury would hear a perjury matter against him on October 27, on the theory that he testified falsely that he did not know he was wanted when he left Chicago on June 24.

The text of the perjury indictment itself was not found in the pages read. Relatives named in the report, and his street address, are not repeated. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).