WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:06.960 Good morning, everybody. Core use bloody history. So we're going 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:11.320 to continue on with this article the inquest no housekeeping 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.000 or nothing, let's just hop right back into it. An 4 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.239 intriguing entry in Oswald's address book is the word micro dots, 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:22.679 appearing on the page on which he has notated the 6 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.519 address and phone number of Jagger Childs Stovall. Micro Dots 7 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.000 are a clandestine means of communication developed by German intelligence 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:33.799 during World War Two and still in general use among 9 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:38.880 espionage agencies. The technique is to photograph the document to 10 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.840 be transmitted and vastly reduce the negative to the size 11 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.520 that will fit inside a period. The microdot can be 12 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.280 inserted in an innocuous letter or magazine and mailed or 13 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:54.320 left in a dead drop, a pre arranged location for 14 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.600 the deposit and pickup of messages. Thus, it may be 15 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:01.560 significant that Oswald obtained library cards in Dallas and New 16 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:07.120 Orleans and usually visited the libraries on Thursday. The possible 17 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.640 implication of his visits was not overlooked by the FBI, 18 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.480 which confiscated every book he ever charged out and never 19 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:20.359 returned them. Ooh ooh, what a fucking bunch of collectibles 20 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.719 that would be right the books Oswald checked out of 21 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.120 the library that were seized by the FBI. I wonder 22 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.280 what happened to those books. A piece that may fit 23 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.239 into the puzzle is the discovery by Garrison of an 24 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.079 adult borrower's card issued by the New Orleans Public Library 25 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.200 in the name Clem Bertrand. The business address shown is 26 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:45.840 the international trademark Shaw's former place of employment, and the 27 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:50.400 home address thirty one hundred Louisiana Avenue Parkway, a wrong number, 28 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:54.079 but conspicuously close to that of David Ferry at thirty 29 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.439 three to thirty Louisiana Avenue Parkway. There may be a 30 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.920 pattern here, since Oswald supposedly cared a card issued to 31 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.159 Ferry when arrested in Dallas. Still, another hint of Oswald's 32 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.120 intelligence status is the inventory of his property seized by 33 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:13.960 Dallas police after the assassination. Included as such sophisticated optical 34 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.159 equipment as a stereo realist camera, a hans A camera 35 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:23.520 timer filters, a small German camera and Wolensack fifteen power telescope, 36 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.639 Micron six ex binoculars, and a variety of film, hardly 37 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:37.719 the usual accouterments of a lowly warehouseman. Stoveall exhibits upon 38 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.520 his return from Russia. The man who subscribed to Pravda 39 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.879 in the Marine Corps, and I didn't know it was Provda. 40 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.360 I thought it was the Worker or something else in 41 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.639 the Marine Corps and lectured his fellow Marines on Marxist dialects. 42 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:56.800 Set about institutionalizing his leftist facade. He wrote ingratiating letters 43 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.879 to the national headquarters of the Communist Party fair Play 44 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:04.240 for Cuba Committee and Socialist Workers Party. A copy of 45 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.240 the famous snapshot of Oswald with a revolver on his hip, 46 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.759 a rifle in one hand in the party organ the 47 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.840 militant in the other was mailed to the SWP office 48 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.080 in New York in April of nineteen sixty three. Garrison 49 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.919 believes that facade was intended to facilitate his entry into 50 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:27.000 communist countries for special missions. Yes, yes, yes, yes, um, 51 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:34.080 there is ah. This is kind of I don't know 52 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.039 what word this is sur fit, sir, fate of indications 53 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.560 of Oswald's status. Something story of Donald P. Norton, who 54 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.639 claims he was impressed into the Agency Service in nineteen 55 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.879 fifty seven under the threat of exposure as a homosexual. 56 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.159 So this too, Donald P. Norton's in this story. Believe 57 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.800 it or not, there's this Donald P. Norton. I think 58 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:57.599 who he's talking about, and is another one who comes 59 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:02.960 forward connected to the Harvey and Lee story, So too 60 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.039 Donald P. Norton's. In September nineteen sixty two, Norton related 61 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.800 that he was dispatched from Atlanta to Mexico at fifty 62 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.199 thousand dollars for anti Castro groups. He had no sooner 63 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:19.120 registered in the Yamaye Jelle Hotel in Monterey, Mexico, per 64 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:23.279 instructions than he was contacted by one Harvey Lee, a 65 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.720 dead ringer for Oswald, accepted his hair seem slightly thicker. 66 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:27.959 Huh. 67 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.759 In exchange for the money, Lee gave him a briefcase 68 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:37.040 containing documents in Manila envelopes. According to Plan, Norton delivered 69 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.839 the briefcase to an employee of an American oil firm 70 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.160 in Calgary, Alberta, who was repeated who repeated the passphrase 71 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.319 the weather is very warm in Tulsa. Norton also contends 72 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:52.560 he met David Ferry earlier in his CIA career. In 73 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.199 early nineteen fifty eight, he was tapped for a courier 74 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.000 trip to Cuba and told to meet his contact at 75 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.920 the Eastern Airlines counter at the Atlanta Airport. The contact 76 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.480 was a singular appearing man who called himself Hugh Ferris 77 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.759 or Ferris. Norton now states it was Ferry. Here are 78 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:14.079 your samples, Ferry remarked, handing Norton a phonograph record. It's 79 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:18.079 in the jacket. It was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 80 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.720 which Norton duly delivered to a Cuban television performer in Havana. 81 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.639 Norton asserts he went to Freeport Grand Bahamas on an 82 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.079 agency assignment in late nineteen sixty six, and upon his 83 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.800 return to Miami, his contact instructed that something was happening 84 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.879 in New Orleans and that I Norton should take a long, 85 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:41.279 quiet vacation. He did, and started to fret about people 86 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.920 who have died in recent months like Ferry, then decided 87 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.759 to contact Garrison. Norton was given a lie detector test, 88 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:55.480 and there was no indications of deception. Ferry's involvement with 89 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.639 CIA seems to stem mainly from his anti Castro paramilitary activity, 90 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.000 although there is a suggestion that he was at one 91 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.079 time a pilot for the agency. In the late nineteen 92 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.720 forties and early nineteen fifties, he flew light planes commercially 93 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.439 in the Cleveland, Ohio area. It was raided by his 94 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.800 colleagues as an outstanding pilot in the middle nineteen fifties, 95 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.040 as an untraceable gap in his career. Then he turns 96 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.319 up as an Eastern Airlines pilot. Although he supposedly obtained 97 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:27.240 an instrument rating at the Sunnyside Flying School in Tampa, Florida, 98 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:33.279 there's no record that any such school ever existed. Well, 99 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.439 he definitely lived in Tampa in forty nine. We have 100 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.920 the confirmation from Eastern Airlines of his IRS records, which 101 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.519 said he was married and had two dependents at the time. 102 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.879 And then Eastern Airlines finds the information on David W. 103 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.399 Ferry Junior, and they got that information basically because they 104 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.519 ran the license plates of cars that went to David 105 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.160 Ferry's apartment, and one of the license plates came back 106 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:07.759 to David W. Ferry Junior. It wasn't in New Orleans, 107 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:09.279 it was one of the suburbs. I don't remember which 108 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:14.519 one offhand, but that's a fascinating piece of trivia that 109 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.439 no one's ever really discussed or talked about. So you're 110 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.839 talking late sixty two, early sixty three. David Ferry has 111 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.480 a car in his driveway with the license plate registered 112 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:26.160 to a David W. Ferry Junior who lives in Maybe 113 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.399 it was Alexandria. I don't recall. I'll have to double check, 114 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:38.839 but that's super significant, super significant. I don't know why 115 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.480 David Ferry Junior would be in touch with David Ferry 116 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.160 Senior and there would be like no record of it 117 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.160 other than the Eastern Airlines investigation. Why are they hiding 118 00:07:51.600 --> 00:08:02.519 David Ferry Junior's activities? So continue on. A clue to 119 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.000 Fairy's activities may lie and the loss of Harry suffered. 120 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.680 A fellow employee at Eastern recalls that when Fairy first 121 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:10.959 joined the line, he was handsome and friendly, but in 122 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.600 the end became moody and paranoiac, afraid the Communists were 123 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.959 out to get him. The personality change coincided with a 124 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.319 gradual loss of hair. First, a bald spot appeared, which 125 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.480 Fairy explained was caused by acid dripping from a plane 126 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.360 a plane battery. Then the hair began falling out in clumps. 127 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.360 Fairy desperately studied medicine to try to halt the process 128 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.120 until his body was entirely devoid of hair. One speculation 129 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.320 is that he was moonlighting and suffered a psychological reaction 130 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:44.399 to exposure to the extreme altitudes required for clandestine flights. 131 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:47.519 Chinese Nationalists U two pilots reportedly have suffered the same 132 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.440 hair loss phenomenon. I think this one particular column here 133 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.200 is we already read through this earlier. I'll just go 134 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.840 through it again. One of Fairy's covert tasks in New 135 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.320 Orleans area was to drill small teams in guerrilla warfare. 136 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:01.360 One of his young protegees had revealed that he had 137 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.399 trained some of his CAAP cadets and Cubans and formed 138 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:08.799 them into five man small weapons units, this under the 139 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.519 auspices of the Marine Corps and State Department. Coupled with 140 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:15.600 this the information from another former protege that Faery confided 141 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.440 that he was working for the CIA rescuing Cubans out 142 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.159 of Castro's prisons, and on one occasion was called to 143 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.639 Miami so that the CIA could test him and see 144 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.679 what the type of person he was who told his 145 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.000 business to anybody. In a speech before the Military Order 146 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.120 of World wars in New Orleans and late sixty one, 147 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.480 Fairy related that he had piloted trained pilots in Guatemala 148 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:37.159 for the Bay of Pigs and professed bitter disappointment they 149 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:45.720 were not used. All right, all right, this looks I 150 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:49.399 think this is new. What pages is on doesn't indicate. 151 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.080 The probe refocused on Ferry, and on December fifteenth, he 152 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.639 was brought in for further questioning. Asked pertinent details of 153 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.480 the whirlwind Texas trip in sixty three, he begged lack 154 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.559 of memory and referred as questioners to the FBI. What 155 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.960 about the goose hunting? We did, in fact get to 156 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.159 where the geese were, But there were thousands he re counted, 157 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:08.840 but you couldn't approach him. They were a wise bunch 158 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:11.519 of birds. Pressed for details on what took place at 159 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.600 the ice rink, Ferry became irritated ice skate. What do 160 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:17.039 you think? He snapped. It didn't take the DA's men 161 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.120 long to poke holes in Fairiy's theory. Melvin Coffee, one 162 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.200 of his companions on the sixty three Texas trip, deposed 163 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.200 that it was not a sudden inspiration. Well, Coffee wasn't 164 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.679 on that trip. The trip was arranged beforehand, Yes, how 165 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.200 long before a couple of days? That's a quote, by 166 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.360 the way. The probers also determined that no one had 167 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.799 taken along any shotguns on the goose hunting trip in Houston. 168 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:45.399 The ice skating alibi was similarly discredited. In nineteen sixty three, 169 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:50.159 the FBI interviewed Chuck Roland, proprietor of the Winterland Skating Rink. 170 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.000 Ferry contacted him by telephone. Notice how they skipped over 171 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.840 his first name there. Fairy contacted him by telephone November 172 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.039 twenty second, sixty three and asked for the skating schedule. 173 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.159 A Bureau report, one of the few unclassified documents on Ferry, 174 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.039 reveals mister Ferry stated that he was coming in from 175 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.840 out of town and desired to do some skating while 176 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.919 in Houston. On November twenty third, sixty three, between three 177 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.159 thirty and five thirty pm, mister Ferry and two companions 178 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:15.840 came to the rink and talked to mister Roland. The 179 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:21.519 report continues that Ferry and Roland had a short general 180 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.919 conversation and that Ferry remarked that he and his companions 181 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:27.440 would be in and out of the skating rink during 182 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:31.440 the Weekend commissioned Document three ZHO one. When Garrison's men 183 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.720 recently talked to Roland, they obtained pertinent facts that the 184 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.039 FBI had either missed or failed to report in nineteen 185 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.600 sixty three. Roland was certain that none of the three 186 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.360 men in Ferri's party had ice skated. Ah, that's false. 187 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.559 That's not what he said. He said two of them 188 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.480 I skated and Ferry did not. That's what he told him. 189 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.840 So this article is clearly wrong. Ferry had spent the 190 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.879 entire two hours he was at the rank, standing by 191 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.879 the payphone, and finally received a call and made some calls. 192 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.240 At Houston International Airport, more information was gleaned. Air service 193 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.759 personnel seemed to recall that in nineteen sixty three, Ferry 194 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.879 had access to an airplane based in Houston. In this craft, 195 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.320 the flight to Matamoros would take little more than an hour. 196 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.120 Ferry had patently lied about the purpose of the trip. 197 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.000 One of the standard tactics of bank robbers is to 198 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.960 escape from the scene of the crime in a hot 199 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:27.360 car that cannot be traced to them, then switched to 200 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:30.080 a cold car of their own to complete the getaway. 201 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.360 Garrison considers it possible that Ferry may have been the 202 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.120 pilot of the second craft in a two stage escape 203 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.320 of the Dallas assassins to south of the border. That's 204 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.480 complete fucking fantasy nonsense, or may have been slated to 205 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:47.320 be a backup pilot in the event contingency plans were activated. 206 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.080 Did Ferry know Oswald the pilot denied it, but the 207 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.440 evidence mounts that he did. For example, there's now in 208 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.080 Garrison's hands information that when Oswald was arrested by Dallas police, 209 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.200 he had in his possession a current New Orleans Library 210 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.840 card issued to David Ferry. That is completely false. I've 211 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:09.480 dug deep into this story. It is complete nonsense. There 212 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.159 was possibly a rumor that went around to this, but 213 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:16.840 this didn't occur. I don't even know why the hell 214 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.240 they made this shit up. It definitely did not happen. 215 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.720 I do not believe the person we know is Oswald 216 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.240 was interacting with David Ferry whatsoever. There's no reason for 217 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:30.399 him to have had his library card period. Reinforcing the 218 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:32.720 validity of this information is a Secret Service report on 219 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:35.399 the questioning of Ferry by that agency when he was 220 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.200 in federal custody in sixty three during an otherwise mild interrogation. 221 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.000 Ferry was asked, strangely enough, if he lent his library 222 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.480 card to Oswald. No, he replied, producing a card from 223 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.759 the New Orleans Public Library in the name of doctor 224 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:52.799 David Ferry. That card had expired, so David Ferry had 225 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.360 his library card on him. So this whole story is nonsense. 226 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.000 It was probably. Oh so it was Jack Martin. I forgot. 227 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.600 This is Jack Martin. Bullshit. Jack Martin when he called 228 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.600 the FBI and told him about David Ferry being in 229 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.039 Fort Worth two days before the assassination and all that stuff. 230 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:14.879 I believe at that point in time he told him 231 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.240 that he had David Ferry's library card. I think that 232 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.480 is the origin of this entire thing. It's bullshit from 233 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:26.720 Jack Martin when he realized he was a suspect in 234 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.600 Garrison's current investigation. Faerry seemed to deteriorate by the time 235 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.440 he died on February twenty second, nineteen sixty seven. He 236 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.159 was a nervous wreck, subsisting on endless cigarettes and cups 237 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.240 of coffee, and had enough tranquilizers to pacify an army. 238 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.120 He had sought out the press only days before his death, 239 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.919 labeling the probe a fraud and complaining that he was 240 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.639 the victim of a witch hunt. I suppose he has 241 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:54.440 I suppose he has me. There is a quote. I 242 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.720 suppose he has me, And then it seems to cut off, 243 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:00.879 and then it picks up again. No number twenty seven. 244 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.320 It is twenty second sixty three. There were many men 245 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.639 in many places glancing at their watches. But if we 246 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.440 do not fight for the truth now, we may never 247 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.320 have another chance. Yeah, so it looks like it was 248 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:14.240 this little column missing. Oh here it is, Okay, here 249 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.960 we go. I suppose he has me pegged as a 250 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.360 getaway pilot, he remarked bitterly. When Garrison delivered his epitaph 251 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:25.159 of Ferry as one of history's most important individuals. Most 252 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.440 of the press winked knowingly. The probe was, after all, 253 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.879 a publicity stunt, and the DA had his headlines. Now 254 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.679 that his prime suspect had conveniently passed away, he had 255 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.080 the perfect excuse to inter his probe alongside the deceased pilot. 256 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.440 But for DA Jim Garrison, it was not the end 257 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:52.559 but the beginning. The FBI clear as a suspect on 258 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.120 the morning after the assassination. As the nation lay stunned 259 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.240 by grief, Garrison summoned his staff for the office for 260 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:01.720 a brainstorming session to explore the post disability that Lee 261 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.639 Harvey Oswald had accomplices in New Orleans, where the previous 262 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.320 summer he had stumped the streets advocating fair play for Cuba. 263 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.240 DA's men put out feelers into the city's netherworld, and 264 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:17.879 it was first assistant DA Frank Klein who registered the feedback. First, 265 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:23.279 a slight furtive sometime private eye named Jack S. Martin 266 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.039 confided that David William Ferry had taken off on a 267 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.240 sudden trip to Texas the afternoon of the assassination. The 268 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.039 tipster knew Fairy well, although there was bad blood between them. 269 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.200 Both had worked intermittently for the same detective firm W 270 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.879 Guy Banister and Associates, and were affiliated with the Apostolic 271 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:46.639 Orthodox Old Catholic Church, a sect steeped in theological anti communism. 272 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.240 An exceptionally skilled pilot, Ferry had been dismissed from Eastern 273 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.879 Airlines in nineteen sixty two due to publicity over alleged 274 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:58.679 homosexual activities. According to Martin, Ferry had commanded a Civil 275 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.639 Air Patrol Squadron, of which Oswald had once been a member. 276 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.000 He had taught Oswald to shoot with a telescopic sight 277 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.359 and had become involved with his protege in an assassination plot. 278 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.319 Less than two weeks before the target date, Ferry had 279 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:16.319 made a trip to Dallas. His assigned role in the assassination, 280 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:20.640 Martin said was to fly the escaping conspirators to Matamoros, Mexico, 281 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:24.079 near Brownsville, Texas. When Ferry returned to New Orleans on 282 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.200 the Monday following President Kennedy's death, he was interrogated by 283 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.000 the DA's office. He said his trip had been arranged 284 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.000 on the spur of the moment with two companions, Alvin 285 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:36.319 Boboo and Melvin Coffee. I still wonder why he tried 286 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.319 to protect Layton Martin's and leave him out of it 287 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.960 when it was clearly lighton Martins who went on the trip. 288 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.079 He had driven straight through Houston Friday night. On Saturday afternoon, 289 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:50.920 the three skated at an ice rank. That evening, they 290 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.920 made the short jog to Galveston and hunted geese Sunday morning. 291 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.039 Sunday afternoon, they headed back to New Orleans, but detoured 292 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.400 to Alexandria, Louisiana to visit relatives of Bo Boof. 293 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:03.720 I don't know. 294 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.920 It's interesting there's no interviews of Bob Boof's relatives at 295 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.960 all that are basically unacknowledged in this tale. Do you 296 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:14.039 think that'd be pretty goddamn important, wouldn't you think so, Alexandria, 297 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:16.440 The FBI really dug into this hotel that was there 298 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.079 that they knew that clay Shaw had stayed at in 299 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.480 the past. They dug into that hotel. Garrison has some 300 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.279 notations on it, but a lot of effort was put 301 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.799 into that, and there there's no outcome of what they determined. 302 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.279 So one thing that I find, and it slaps me 303 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.920 in the face more and more the longer I do this. 304 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.400 That when you go into Garrison's files or even the 305 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.839 FBI or wherever, and there's like a ton of effort 306 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.119 put into something, or a ton of effort put into someone, 307 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.000 and then it goes nowhere, there's usually something more there 308 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.880 than meets the eye. Right now, I'm looking into James Leuallen. 309 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.599 I'm beginning to look into James Leuallen. He was a 310 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.400 friend of in New Orleans. He's the Jimmy referenced in 311 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:10.160 the Dear Bastard letter, and there was a decent amount 312 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.799 of effort put into researching his background and stuff, and 313 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:16.200 so I'm starting to think there was more to it 314 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.480 than he was just a friend of Fairies. The amount 315 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.160 of effort they put into him is telling me that 316 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:25.440 there was something there that they were aware of. And 317 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.960 so my kind of initial take on him was he 318 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.839 worked in the car rental business at the time, and 319 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:36.440 so I kind of had a suspicion that perhaps he 320 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.319 maybe rented some of the cars that were used in 321 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:46.960 this plot that I can't seem to like get a 322 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.400 grip on who the owner was or whatnot, Right, like 323 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.680 the light colored Ford Falcon station wagon. No idea who 324 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.839 owned that Nune because all the records of it have 325 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:01.839 Fairies Mercury Comment license plate on it, right, So I 326 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.720 just kind of assumed that I don't even want to 327 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.480 say assumed, assume it's too strong overword, but I kind 328 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.799 of had the inkling that James le Well was perhaps 329 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:17.440 involved in renting some of the cars that we can't identify, 330 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.880 but perhaps there's more. Right And so my point is, 331 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:22.839 if they put a lot of effort into something and 332 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:24.799 it doesn't go anywhere. You might want to try to 333 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.559 take it somewhere because there might be something there. They 334 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:29.720 didn't put all that effort in for no reason. Right, 335 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.440 people who are minimal on the outskirts in the background, 336 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:35.000 you can tell the FBI has like a one page report. 337 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.519 I spoke to this person and got his information, and 338 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.039 he doesn't really seem to be involved, n FI, you know, 339 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:47.240 no further information. And so when they do put in, 340 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.720 you know, fifty pages of documents on somebody, there might 341 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:56.599 be something there, all right? Where did I leave off? 342 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:05.160 All right? Garrison was unconvinced by Fairy's account, and all 343 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.759 night dashed through the worst rainstorm in years to start 344 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.559 a mercurial junket of over one thousand miles in three 345 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.720 days for recreational purposes was too much to swallow. It 346 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:17.720 was a curious trip to a curious place at a 347 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:21.759 curious time, The DA recalls. He booked Ferry as a 348 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.559 fugitive from Texas and handed him over to the FBI. 349 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.960 The g men questioned him intensively, then released him. Since 350 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.200 the forty odd pages recording the FBI interrogation of Fairy 351 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:35.079 are still classified at the National Archives, one can surmise 352 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.960 the reasons the Bureau stamped its file on him closed. 353 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:40.960 All right, we need that, don't we. Let me screenshot 354 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.039 this for a reminder, but there's a forty page file 355 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:50.799 on David Ferry's recordings of his interview that weekend. That 356 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:55.720 so it should have been what Sunday, Monday Tuesday. Apparently 357 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.240 the FBI did not take the plot the pilot too seriously. 358 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:01.960 A short bureau document the National Archives revealed Ferry had 359 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.519 admitted being publicly and privately critical of Kennedy for withholding 360 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:08.119 air cover at the Bay of Pigs, and had used 361 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.920 expressions like he ought to be shot, but agents agreed 362 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.440 he did not mean the threats literally. Most convincing at 363 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:16.000 the time, the fact that Ferry did not leave New 364 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:18.519 Orleans until hours after the assassination seemed to rule out 365 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:20.640 his role as a getaway pilot. All right, let me 366 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:22.920 just comment on this real quick. That's bullshit. David Ferry 367 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.640 was in Fort Worth two days before the assassination, as 368 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:27.960 per Jack Martin, who told the FBI the truth because 369 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:31.480 he was angry and hated David Ferry. That's where all 370 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:37.559 the library card stuff comes from. But here where it 371 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:42.240 says that Ferry did not leave New Orleans until hours 372 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:44.559 after the assassination. Well, who the hell are his witnesses? 373 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:47.960 His alibi witnesses A bunch of mobsters, g Ray Gill, 374 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:54.000 Alice Gui, DROs and Regis Kennedy. That's it. That's it. 375 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.960 A corrupt FBI agent who worked directly for Hoover as 376 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:05.039 New Orleans point man on the Cubans, and a bunch 377 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.759 of mobsters and the mobster's lawyer and his secretary. Give 378 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:11.559 me a fucking break, Give me a fucking break. David 379 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:13.920 Ferry was the man seen by Eda Hoffman behind the 380 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:19.200 pick of fence. So the alibi story is complete bullshit. 381 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:21.519 The see, this is where you got to like reverse 382 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:24.000 engineer stuff, right, so what you got first? First you 383 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:28.119 have to look at the statements he gave to Garrison. 384 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:30.880 A perfect example of this is the in the JFK 385 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:33.240 movie when he talks to Ferry that summarizes the whole 386 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.920 thing in a nutshell. Right, he knows David Ferry is 387 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.279 full of shit. He knows it right, contradicting his story, 388 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:43.240 doesn't remember where he went all that stuff, and then 389 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.000 he's interrogated for a couple of days, paid a visit 390 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.319 by John Corporan, and then he's let go and he's 391 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:53.960 given a squeaky clean, you know, bill of health, basically 392 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:57.759 saying he was not in Dallas. Bullshit, He was in Dallas. 393 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.559 The FBI covered it up. Everyone covered it up because 394 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:06.319 everyone fucking knew. Everyone knew. So all right, I'll get 395 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:12.039 off my high horse and continue on Moreover, the stints 396 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:14.200 and monoplane he then owned was sitting at lake Front 397 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:18.759 Airport in unfliable condition. That's because he drove dumbass. Accepting 398 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:21.839 the FBI's judgment, Garrison dropped his investigation. I had full 399 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:24.240 confidence in the FBI, ben he explains, there was no 400 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:30.720 reason to try and second guess them. Then it seems 401 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.039