Bob Harris: Evidence against Ferrie, please - alt.assassination.jfk

Message from discussion Bob Harris: Evidence against Ferrie, please

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More options May 19 1999, 3:00 am

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From: blackbu...@aol.com (Blackburst)

Date: 1999/05/19

Subject: Re: Bob Harris: Evidence against Ferrie, please

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Robert Harris wrote:
>I consider Ferrie to be a primary suspect for a number of reasons. First,
>he obviously lied to the FBI when he claimed he never knew Oswald.

That's not the way I read Ferrie's interviews. He said he did not recall
ever meeting Oswald, but that a profile picture of Oswald bore a certain
familiarity. After he spoke to Ed Voebel and a few others within days of
the assassination, he was ready to concede that Oswald may have been a
member of the Moisant Airport CAP squadron when he was assisting with the
unit.

>We know
>from photographic evidence, that he was with him at a CAP picnic,

It was a "bivouac", in August 1955, eight years before the assassination.
Oswald was 15, one of nearly a thousand cadets Ferrie worked with over the
years, and was only in the squadron a few weeks.

>we
>know that he was seen with Oswald in Clinton, La.

I don't think it is a fair representation of the evidence to say this, not
to acknowledge that, while you and many others believe the Clinton
accounts, just as many others have reasonable doubts.

>We also know that Oswald used the address of the same building that Ferrie
>and Banister used, in his flyers

On some pamphlets, correct.

>It is more than obvious that [Ferrie] lied to
>the FBI, and did indeed, know Oswald.

Again, he didn't deny ever meeting him, he just didn't recollect him.

>That fact was further confirmed by people whom Ferrie worked with. Martin
>reported him to the authorities for example. And it doesn't matter that he
>was a bit of a crackpot.

I have just assembled numerous Jack Martin accounts and interviews before
me, and it is hard to discern what it is that Martin was claiming. In
1963, he made no substantive allegations. In 1966, he was saying that he
had seen Oswald, Ferrie and Banister together.

You can't discount the fact that there is contemporaneous documentation of
Martin's vendetta against Ferrie BEFORE the assassination. On May 31,
1963, Martin wrote to an officer of Eastern Air Lines that "This guy
(Ferrie) is a real 10kt. jerk, and anyone who would use him as a pilot and
entrust human life in his hands needs a pyschiatrist." This is a few weeks
before Martin sued Jim Garrison. The voice of moderation?

>More corroboration comes from Ferrie himself, who should have just laughed
>off the suggestion that Oswald had his library card. But instead, he
>panicked and rushed out to interview Oswald's landlady and neighbors

You are saying that, never in the history of jurisprudence has a person
who is the victim of what they see as false allegations gone out and tried
to disprove the allegations, to prove their innocence? It is impossible
that one would ever do anything but laugh off being accused of a
connection to a murder?

> three of Ferrie's
>acquaintances just "coincidentally" turned up at the Cabana motel with
>Jack Ruby, on the night before the assassination.

I know that someone in Gill's office called the number of the rooming
house of one of these people. Can you offer a citation that proves they
were acquainted with Ferrie?

>Ferrie, who had phoned West and used the same office that Braden
>did in New Orleans, denied any connection to Jack Ruby

Room 1701 and room 1707 of the Pere Marquette building were the same
office???

>But let's talk about *motive* next. I say that Ferrie had more than anyone
>on the planet

I don't. Do you discount the evidence that, while Ferrie was pissed about
the Bay of Pigs in 1961, he had voted for JFK and supported some of his
policies? Ferrie was an anticommunist who was sorta liberal on social
issues. Sound like any president we know?

>Ferrie had more than anyone
>on the planet, with the possible exception of the guy he was working for
>on 11/22/63

If you mean Banister, Ferrie was never employed by Banister. He was
employed fulltime by G. Wray Gill.

>with the possible exception of the guy he was working for
>on 11/22/63 and the exiles whom he worked closely with.

About 2 years earlier.

Again, Bob, I respect your analysis of the evidence, but I don't think
it's as strong as you do. We all give Oswald a very broad presumption of
innocence, but Ferrie never seems to be accorded the same presumption.

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