WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:07.160 Good morning everybody. Corey Hughes Bloody History back again today. 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:11.480 We're going to continue on with the David Ferry file, 3 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.679 Section two. We're going to start off today with a 4 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:20.440 memorandum Landry Ferry Cia March twenty eight, nineteen sixty seven 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:25.440 to Jim Garrison, District Attorney from Andrew J. Scambra, Assistant 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.760 District Attorney. Reference interview with Al Landry, March twenty third, 7 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:33.600 sixty seven. The Al Landry story is very important. It 8 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.880 goes to show a lot of the character that David 9 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.840 Ferry actually represented. So here we go, let's kick it off. 10 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.560 Mister Landry was born on January thirteenth, nineteen forty five, 11 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.679 and is now twenty two years old. He stated to 12 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:52.560 me that he first met Ferry when he was a 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.520 member of the Lakefront CAAP. He said this was around 14 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.719 late fifty eight or early fifty nine. He said Batista 15 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:00.759 was still in power in Cuba, so he imagines it 16 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.359 must have been late fifty eight. He says he was 17 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:06.359 fourteen years old when he joined the CAAP and lived 18 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:09.439 at five two two one Arts Street. He said that 19 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.920 he first met Ferry about four months after he joined 20 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.799 the Lakefront CAP. The CAAP used to hold meetings at 21 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.840 the Lakefront Airport on Friday night and Sunday afternoon on 22 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.359 a weekly basis. He said that it was at these 23 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.120 meetings that he met Ferry. He said that sometime in 24 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.000 nineteen fifty nine, after Castro had taken over in Cuba, 25 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:34.079 Dave Ferry disappeared for about seven to nine weeks, and 26 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.280 the next time he saw him was on a Saturday afternoon. 27 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.879 He was at the CAAP meeting when Ferry came to 28 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:43.159 the meeting with al Cheremi in Ferries fifty three. Tan 29 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:46.920 Ford Sharemy was driving the car. As Ferry could not 30 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.920 move around as he was apparently injured. Jeremy got out 31 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.560 of the automobile and started moving all Fairies papers and 32 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:55.359 files from the CAP building and began putting him in 33 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.079 Ferry's automobile. It seems that Ferry had some misunderstanding with 34 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:03.959 Colonel Morrell and Pat Prinz's mother, and as these two 35 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.040 people sort of ran the Lakefront CAAP, it appeared that 36 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.439 they had asked Ferry to resign. Ferry did resign from 37 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:13.360 the Lakefront CAP and formed his own CAP group called 38 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.560 the Falcons. He did this about five months after he 39 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.840 resigned from Lakefront. This group actually came into existence in 40 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.080 late nineteen fifty nine. It was shortly at this time 41 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.080 that Landry said he ran away from home, which dated 42 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.759 back to early nineteen sixty. Landry said that approximately one 43 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.479 year later, while Ferry was living at three thirty one 44 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.719 Atherton Drive, Ferry told him about the incident that occurred 45 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.400 to him when he disappeared for about seven to nine weeks. 46 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.280 Ferry mentioned this after he had a lively discussion with 47 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.159 Landry in regards to his views concerning the Cuban situation 48 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.280 that he and Arcocia Smith and some other Cuban friends 49 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:52.879 would liberate Cuba from Castro. Landry told him that he 50 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.560 had no idea that Ferry could liberate Cuba, and that 51 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.800 he questioned his ability to do so. Ferry at this 52 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.319 time told him of the incident which had occurred when 53 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:03.599 he was away from the city for seven to nine weeks. 54 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:06.120 Ferry said that a couple weeks prior to the time, 55 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.000 when Landry had seen him in the car with cheering 56 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:10.960 me at the airport removing his equipment, he and several 57 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.000 other Cubans had been to Cuba in an effort to 58 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.719 help the Cubans escape from Castro's prison. Ferry told him 59 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:18.520 that during one of these visits to Cuba, he ran 60 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.759 into some trouble and was attacked by a Castro soldier 61 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.599 and was stabbed in the stomach. He showed Landry a 62 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:26.960 scar across his stomach, approximately ten to fifteen inches long, 63 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:31.439 which he said resulted from the stab wound. Ferry at 64 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.360 this time told him he was working for the CIA 65 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.199 rescuing Cubans out of Castro's prison in Cuba. He said 66 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.639 he was called down to Miami and stayed there approximately 67 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.840 one week in a hotel before he was contacted by 68 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.840 the CIA men in Miami. He said that he attributed 69 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.759 the delay in being contacted to the fact that the 70 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.800 CIA wanted to test him to see if he was 71 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.560 the type of person who told his business to anybody 72 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.680 on the street. He said that a woman from the 73 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.280 CIA was sent to his apartment and tried to get 74 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.599 information from him about his activities with CIA, but that 75 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:02.080 he did not tell her anything and it was after 76 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.599 this test that he was actually contacted by the CIA 77 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.439 people in Miami. He said that shortly thereafter, he in 78 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.639 about nine Cubans flew down to a point close to Cuba, 79 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.800 and they then got on rubber rafts and went into 80 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.560 Cuba and rescued some prisoners out of the prison camps. 81 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.000 He said it was during this incident that he was stabbed. 82 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.480 The soldier who stabbed him was killed by some of 83 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.519 the people in his party, and they carried him to 84 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.920 safety with them. Landry says he can recall that during 85 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.560 his relationship with Ferry, Ferry received long distance calls from Miami. 86 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.240 In Cleveland. Ferry also told him that Arkacha Smith was 87 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.879 the third man in line in the Cuban hierarchy when 88 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.319 Cuba would be liberated. The number one man lived in Miami. 89 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.879 Landry said that he can recall that at one time 90 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.040 the number one man, whose name he can't remember at 91 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:50.800 the moment, was supposed to make a trip down to 92 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.360 New Orleans to see how the Cuban revolutionary Front was 93 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.079 making out, and the planing was to come on, was 94 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.040 hijacked and taken to Cuba. He said that Ferry then 95 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:00.879 asked him if he would liked to make a trip 96 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:02.680 down to Miami to pick up the number one man 97 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:04.879 and fly him down to New Orleans in a private plane. 98 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:07.639 Landry told him that he would go with him, but 99 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.639 Ferry never did anything more to him about this. That 100 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.680 never did mention anything more to him about this. Landry 101 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.800 said that Ferry often told him that when Cuba will 102 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.439 be liberated from Castro, he would be a very big 103 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:20.720 man in Cuba, and he wanted Alandry to go and 104 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.639 live with him in Cuba. He said they would live 105 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.079 like kings because the people would always look at them 106 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.519 like their savior. Ferry said that there were three branches 107 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.240 working for the liberation of Cuba, one of Miami, one 108 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.680 in New Orleans, and won in Texas. Landry said that 109 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.040 after the Bay of Pigs, Ferry became annoyed with the 110 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.480 CIA and often belittled the CIA and President Kennedy. He 111 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.560 said the CIA in President Kennedy had screwed up the 112 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.560 whole invasion and that they betrayed the Cuban people by 113 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.240 refusing to send their air support that was promised. Landry 114 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.319 said that Ferry had a blackboard in his apartment and 115 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.560 he often drew on his own blackboard the actual plans 116 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.800 for the invasion of Cuba, explaining what the Cubans were 117 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.680 supposed to do and at what point the CIA was 118 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.319 supposed to send the air support. Landry said he talked 119 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.199 as if he knew all about the battle plans and 120 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.480 the invasion. Ferry told him of how the boats got 121 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.399 in touch with the CIA and requested the air support 122 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.079 and the CIA and had Kennedy on the hotline, and 123 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.560 how Kennedy was supposed to give the ok for air support. 124 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.519 But he said that Kennedy and the CIA did not 125 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.439 intervene like they said they would. The Cubans were promised 126 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.160 by the CIA that when the time was right after 127 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.279 some troops, right after some troops had already gotten on 128 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.519 the island, they would furnish the air support. Landry said 129 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.360 he can remember going to Arcata Smith's house on the 130 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.800 lake front somewhere with Ferry and some other people and 131 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:43.040 watched actual films of the invasion. Landry said that he 132 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.199 joined the service in June of sixty two and came 133 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.680 out in June of sixty six. He said he had 134 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.000 no contact with Ferry during the time he was in 135 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.120 the service, and actually had not seen him for a 136 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:58.160 few months before he had joined the service. It seems 137 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.279 like the document cuts off there. I know Landry give 138 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.920 a lot more statements than that. Maybe they'll pop up 139 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.600 here shortly, but we're going to move on to the 140 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:12.240 next document. Memorandum April fourteenth, sixty seven to Jim Garrison 141 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:17.040 from Jim Alcock, Executive Assistant District Attorney, referenced Lawrence Fox, 142 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:33.399 thirty six twenty six Dante Street, New Orleans. On Friday, 143 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.720 April fourteenth, nineteen sixty seven, I, along with Kent Simms 144 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.680 of our staff, interviewed mister Fox. Mister Fox is presently 145 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.560 employed by Houser American Printing Company at four forty one 146 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:46.279 Gravier Street in the city of New Orleans. Lawrence Fox 147 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.639 was a CAAP cadet from approximately November nineteen fifty five 148 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.480 until March nineteen fifty seven. His unit was located at 149 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.439 the New Orleans Airport. During this time, he does not 150 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.199 recall ever having met Lee Harvey Oswald. From March fifty 151 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.199 seven through December fourteenth fifty nine, Fox was a member 152 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.120 of the Armed Services United States Air Force. In the 153 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.519 latter part of December nineteen sixty, he again joined the 154 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.800 Civil Air Patrol as a senior member. He remained a 155 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.519 member of the CAP until approximately October nineteen sixty. During 156 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.000 this time, he was the administrative assistant to David Ferry, 157 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.560 who was the commanding officer of the unit. Fox recalls 158 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.240 having gone to Ferry's house in Jefferson Parish on a 159 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:25.439 few occasions. At times that he was at Ferry's house 160 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.160 were pretty usually at a party given by CAAP members. 161 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:31.639 As he recalls, some of the members of the squadron 162 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.720 at this time were Almeister, Carl Costa, and Leyton Martins. 163 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.639 During the summer of sixty one, Lawrence Fox solicited funds 164 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.759 for the Crusade to Free Cuba. As a result of 165 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.639 this work, he was introduced by Dave Ferry to Serge 166 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:47.799 Arcachia Smith. Also active at this time with Arcacia and 167 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.879 Ferry was Leyton Martin's. In fact, Fox and Martins on 168 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.840 several occasions went out soliciting funds together. On about two occasions, 169 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:59.399 Fox and Ferry went to the International Trademark to solicit funds. However, 170 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.679 Fox does not recall what office they went into in 171 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.360 the Trademark. He does recall that it was necessary for 172 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.480 them to take an elevator to get to the office. 173 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:10.759 On none of these occasions did Fox meet clay Shaw. However, 174 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.360 Fox seems to recall having met clay Shaw briefly in 175 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.960 the year nineteen fifty five. The occasion for this meeting 176 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.879 was the Inter American Investment Conference. Lawrence Fox's mother was 177 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.559 mister Nutter's secretary. Lawrence believes mister Nutter was the President 178 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.879 of the International House at the time. Fox does not 179 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.440 recall having been in Ferries, Louisiana Avenue Parkway apartment in 180 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.639 the year nineteen sixty three. He does not know Perry Russo, 181 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.559 Nils Peterson, Kenny Carter, or Sandrum Moffatt. Fox recalls that 182 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.919 a girl by the name of Carolyn Taylor, a CAAP cadet, 183 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.240 did some typing in the summer of nineteen sixty one 184 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.360 for the Crusader to free Cuba. Fox will attempt to 185 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.639 locate any CAAP records he has, and should he find any, 186 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:00.879 will call us and make them available. Memorandum January nineteenth, 187 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.879 nineteen sixty seven to Jim Garrison, District Attorney from investigator 188 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:11.200 Lynn luiseell Ree telephone conversation with Agent number one. Agent 189 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.679 number one called Lynn Waseell and told him that Dave 190 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:15.679 Ferry and he had gone to an apartment off the 191 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.720 Veteran's Highway to look at some dirty films last night. 192 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.639 That this apartment was in one of Carlos Marcello's apartment 193 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.440 houses and the apartment was eighteen n but he didn't 194 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.039 know the address. He said there were about fifteen people 195 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:29.639 present and he believed that the operator of the show 196 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:33.320 is a Cuban named Carlos. Agent number one also stated 197 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.200 that there were three colored girls whose names were Shwanda, Margaret, 198 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.159 and Barbara. He said that Margaret has been with Dave 199 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.000 since nineteen sixty two and that she knows plenty of 200 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.000 his associates. Shwanda and Barbara haven't been around that long, 201 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:50.360 and that Margaret was Dave's favorite. He said that Dave 202 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:52.799 had asked them Agent number one to burglarize this clerk's 203 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.320 house because he felt like he could make some easy money. 204 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.080 He also said that this clerk always had one thousand 205 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.399 dollars on him and knows he must keep money in 206 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.120 his house. Agent number one said the clerk was do 207 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.279 at the airport Monday, and Dave would get his license 208 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.159 plate number, check it out and find out where the 209 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.840 clerk lives. Then they would burglarize the house with Dave 210 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.840 acting as the lookout man and Dave going in. Agent 211 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.639 number one also said that Ferry put money in the 212 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.399 NBC bank yesterday. Agent number one said he doesn't know 213 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.799 where Ferry gets the money from, because Ferry only makes 214 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.679 living expenses by teaching student flyers at the airport. Agent 215 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:27.879 number one said Dave was carrying a rifle in his 216 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:29.679 car and he said he was going to shoot one 217 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.240 of those kids that burglarized his apartment. Luazelle asked him 218 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.879 when the apartment was burglarized and what was taken. Agent 219 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.000 number one said it was burglarized a few days ago 220 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.519 and two reels of dirty film, a letter, and some 221 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.039 pictures of Dave Screw and the nigger girl Margaret, and 222 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.879 a picture of Frank Woodruff in an army camp standing 223 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.279 naked jerking off. Later on this date, Agent number one 224 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.159 called me back, Lazel and told me that a Cuban 225 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.559 was out talking to Dave a few minutes ago, approximately 226 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.039 three pm, and he was sure that Dave called the 227 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.799 cuban Carlos. He said he didn't believe that this was 228 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.200 the same Carlos who had shown the film that night. 229 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:06.480 Agent number one also said that David Ferry told him 230 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.399 that the clerk would be at the airport Saturday, and 231 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.799 that Agent number one was to burglarize the clerk's house 232 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.559 maybe Saturday night, but that he would go by himself 233 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.600 and would burglarize the house when everybody was sleeping. Lazelle 234 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.279 asked Agent number one why Dave decided that he was 235 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.279 not going to go with Agent number one, and Agent 236 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:24.000 number one said that from here on out, I'm going 237 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.120 to leave the burglaries to you. That will be your department. 238 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.799 Agent number one said that he would call back tomorrow 239 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.360 to find out what he should do about the burglary. 240 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.080 All right, the next page is it looks like a 241 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.559 page of Dave Verie's last will and testament, at least 242 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:47.759 what we have that was it's not complete from what 243 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:52.039 we read yesterday. Only certain parts of it were released. 244 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:53.639 Or maybe that was the So we have a last 245 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.600 will and testament and two suicide notes. I'm sorry, I'm 246 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.080 mixing that up. It must have been one of the 247 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.879 suicide notes that they only released the section of, because 248 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.879 it seems here that we got this whole thing as 249 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:06.399 far as the will goes. July twenty third, nineteen sixty six. 250 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:10.639 This is my last will and testament, written by my 251 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:14.399 own hand, while of sound mind and body, I bequeath 252 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:25.080 all of my possessions real movable and immovable money, books, airplanes, auto, 253 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.120 whatever else I may own or have a right to. 254 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.279 At the time of my death to my dearest friend 255 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:38.240 Alvin R. Boboof, I bequeathed especially a diamond ring to 256 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.919 be found hidden in my dining room table. I hereby 257 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:50.440 concede and declare no any wills heretofore made by me. 258 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.000 I appoint Alvin R. Boboof as executor of my estate 259 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:59.919 and requests that no bond or inventory be required of him. 260 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.559 If any just debts or taxes remain to be paid 261 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.720 at my death, I direct that he pay them out 262 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:12.000 of my estate. I declare I have no quote forced heirs. 263 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.879 What does that mean? I declare I have no quote 264 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:21.559 forced heirs. It's rather interesting in light of the fact 265 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.559 that Eastern Airlines determined that there was a David Ferry 266 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.240 Junior who was a Marine Corps lieutenant in nineteen sixty two, 267 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.799 so he had to be born in the early forties. 268 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.960 So what was the relationship between David Ferry and David 269 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.480 Ferry Junior And why was David Ferry Junior's vehicle seen 270 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.159 at David Ferry's apartment, which would indicate that some kind 271 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.799 of relationship going on in nineteen sixty two between David 272 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.080 Ferry and his son, David Ferry Junior. Now on the 273 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.639 original document, yeah, I believe it was an FBI document, 274 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.559 or no, it was the Eastern Airlines document. You have 275 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.879 some notes on the side. That paragraph is highlighted and 276 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.960 then it says Oswald question mark as if the person 277 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.600 and was thinking that the David Faerry Junior stuff was 278 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.000 a cover for Oswald. But I don't believe that at 279 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:10.519 all for many reasons. So I declare I have no 280 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.360 forced heirs. I don't know what that means. If you 281 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.240 have an idea what that means, hit me up and 282 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.360 let me know. Then it says I asked It's signed 283 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.440 David W. Ferry, and it says I asked Alvin to 284 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:25.960 notify my brother Parmalee T. Faery in Rockford, Illinois, and 285 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:34.519 Bishop George Hyde in Alberta, Georgia. Parmale T. Faery, it's 286 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:36.799 David Faery's brother, and he worked in the nuclear industry, 287 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.919 so he's a guy that probably should have some time 288 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:44.240 spent on him. The next page is just a copy 289 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.200 of the envelope open in the event of my death, 290 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:51.360 so that's not one of the suicide notes. Next one 291 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:57.879 Memorandum July twelfth, nineteen sixty seven two Jim Garrison, District 292 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.799 Attorney from Robert E. Lee, Assistant District Attorney, reference to 293 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.759 David W. Ferry. David Ferry was a pilot with Eastern 294 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.840 Airlines in nineteen fifty nine. I was employed with Eastern 295 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.320 Airlines while studying at Tulane in undergraduate school and completing 296 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.240 my law studies at Tulane. It must be a statement 297 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.279 during the course of my employment as a flight purser 298 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.320 with Eastern, I had on occasion been a member of 299 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.720 the same flight crew with David W. Ferry. After graduation 300 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.279 from Tulane Law School, I continued to fly with Eastern, 301 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.519 mostly at night, and practice law out of my office 302 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.039 on Veterans Highway and Metory on a full time basis. 303 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.080 I opened my law office in August of nineteen sixty 304 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.720 My second or third client was David W. Ferry. Ferry 305 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.159 had purchased some stock in a close corporation whose headquarters 306 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.080 were located in Honduras. In addition to buying this stock, 307 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.720 he had flown down to Honduras to look into kahuny 308 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.240 nut venture. Simply put, it was this. The kahuny nut 309 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.080 has a juice which, when it squeezed out and mixed 310 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.919 with a certain compound, will harden into a mass as 311 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.840 strong as iron and of course rustproof, and will endure 312 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.519 for centuries. There are only two machines available built to 313 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.720 squeeze the juice from the kahuni nut. One is in 314 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.799 Chicago and one is in Belize, Honduras. The owner of 315 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.359 the machine in Chicago won't exhibit or sell his machines 316 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.559 since he's preparing to move his equipment to Honduras to 317 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.880 start production. Incidentally, m there is only one area in 318 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.119 the world where the kahuny nut grows, in the jungles 319 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.160 of Honduras, so that if Fairy acts fast, he and 320 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:31.000 the corporation can lease all the land growing cohune nuts. However, 321 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.480 the corporation I eat, the President and his wife and 322 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.160 Faerry have to buy the only remaining machine, the one 323 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.240 hidden in the jungles of Honduras. I don't remember the 324 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.000 president's name, but he knows where the machine is. But 325 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:45.119 he must give two thousand dollars to an official of 326 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.160 the Honduran government and in return, the official who also 327 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.559 knows where the machine is, will issue an exclusive work 328 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:56.240 permit to harvest and manufacture kahuny nut juice. Ferry purchased 329 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.000 forty five hundred of stock and gave the president of 330 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:02.960 the corporation two thousand for the machine. Neither Fairy's money 331 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.559 nor the machine ever got together, and Fairy came to me. 332 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.519 The last occasion with David Ferry in my office was 333 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.759 when he told me that he wanted to adopt a 334 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:12.960 seventeen year old boy by the name of share Me. 335 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:15.680 I advised him that I would charge him seventy five 336 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.480 dollars and would begin to research and to call me 337 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.960 back in a week or so. About three days later, 338 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.240 he came to the office extremely agitated. Sharemi had joined 339 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.799 the Marine Corps and Fairy wanted him out and was 340 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.839 prepared to pay any amount. I patiently explained that the 341 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:33.039 Marine Corps would not discharge except for medical reasons or 342 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.799 moral turpitude. Fairry seized on the moral turpitude and asked 343 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.039 me to explain exactly what it meant. Upon telling him 344 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.920 that moral turpitude included homosexual offenses, he cut me off 345 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:47.079 abruptly and excitedly exclaimed that's it, that's it. Fairry told 346 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:50.359 me that he and Sharemi had a homosexual relationship. I 347 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.400 told Ferry that I didn't believe him, and further that 348 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.599 the Marine Corps would insist that a drastic admission such 349 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.039 as this be in writing. Fairy immediately pulled my typewriter 350 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.440 to him and typed three single space pages giving dates, etc. 351 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.759 When he was finished, he triumphantly thrust the document towards 352 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:09.359 me with a smirk on his face. I read it once, 353 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:11.519 tore it in three pieces, and pulled him to the 354 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.559 door and shoved him out. I told him I didn't 355 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:15.039 want him in the office again, and that he owed 356 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:16.920 me seventy five dollars for my trouble and to mail 357 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.799 it to my office. On the few occasions that I 358 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.240 was a crew member on Faerry's flights, he was a captain. 359 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.680 We flew to Houston, Corpus Christy and Brownsville, with stops 360 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.960 between New Orleans and Houston, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Iberia, 361 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.599 Lake Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur, thence to Houston Corpus Christy, Brownsville, 362 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.759 and backed the same way the same day. As a rule, 363 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.559 the flights would have about thirty minute hangover between stops 364 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.799 for passenger deplaying, baggage, cargo handling, etc. During this period 365 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.079 of time, the captain would go into the station manager's 366 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:50.160 operations office and check the weather ahead, fuel requirements, etc. 367 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:53.920 The last year I flew off and off and on 368 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.319 as a crew member with Ferry was nineteen sixty two. 369 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.440 Ferry never got out of the cockpit from the minute 370 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:01.400 we took off from New Orleans at eleven forty am 371 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.440 until we returned at midnight. Ordinarily, the captain at the 372 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:06.480 end of the trip would stop in operations, if for 373 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.039 no other reason than to stow his flight bag until 374 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:12.759 his next trip. Faerry never went through operations while starting 375 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.000 the flight or ending the trip the times I was 376 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:18.039 part of his crew. I casually asked them about this 377 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:20.880 in Houston once, and he told me that his life 378 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.079 was in danger, that the Communists were out to get him. 379 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.039 He did, in fact, appear very disturbed on every occasion. 380 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.319 When I knew him in the beginning, he was very 381 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:30.640 talkative and cheerful. But when I saw him in nineteen 382 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.759 sixty two, he was grimmed, to say the least, and 383 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.799 totally unresponsive to his fellow pilots or crew. Members. I 384 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:38.400 think I was the only one he really talked to, 385 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.119 and then only because I was an attorney. I can 386 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.559 remember occasions in nineteen sixty one in nineteen sixty two 387 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:48.039 when Ferry would stop by the office unexpectedly, usually on 388 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.559 Saturday afternoons when my office building was deserted. On these visits, 389 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:54.440 he began to tell me something of his extra curricular activities, 390 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.759 but only after inspecting my office for bugging equipment and 391 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:01.359 asking me to swear that I was not taping him. 392 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:05.400 These activities consisted of flying to Cuba and back with passengers, 393 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:07.680 once to the Isle of Pines. He would make these 394 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.240 trips via Tampa and one of the Keys, and then 395 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.599 on to Cuba. He also mentioned training Cuban guerrillas. In 396 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.960 nineteen sixty one or nineteen sixty two, the chief pilot 397 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.359 for Eastern in New Orleans asked me, in my capacity 398 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:21.880 as an attorney, to check into a report that Ferry 399 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.440 had stolen an ancient two thousand year old crucifix from 400 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:29.119 a Greek Orthodox church, either in Louisville, Kentucky, or Knoxville, Tennessee. 401 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.559