 Teaser Image  FBI Surveillance of César Chávez: File
#105-157123 (Part 1)  Title: FBI Surveillance of César Chávez:
File #105-157123 (Part 1) Button: Click to display an enlarged
version of the image.   These pages in the Chávez FBI files,
from 1968 and 1969, include details of threats against the labor
leader and President Lyndon B. Johnson; a letter to FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover from an individual requesting an investigation
of Chávez and the United Farm Workers (UFW); and a documents
regarding a UFW-sponsored commemoration of the Delano grape
strike in Washington, D.C.  A memo dated June 14, 1968, reported
that Jerry Cohen, chief counsel of the UFW, relayed to the Kern
County district attorney's office a possible threat against
Chávez and President Johnson. According to Cohen, at a memorial
march for Kennedy shortly after his assassination, a person
named Juan Martinez was overheard saying that Chávez was "going
down soon" and that he and Johnson "are the only two left and
they would be gotten." This in