Post by Rob Caprio on Nov 5, 2019 21:48:29 GMT -5
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New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was the first investigator to notice the importance of the 544 Camp Street address. It linked key figures (Guy Banister, David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)) in what Garrison felt was the New Orleans portion of the assassination conspiracy. David Ferrie made another connection as he worked for the attorney of Mob boss Carlos Marcello -- G. Wray Gill.
In addition to being employed by Carlos Marcello's attorney, Ferrie was also employed as an investigator by Guy Banister Associates, a private detective agency at 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. When LHO was arrested in August of 1963 while passing out pro-Castro leaflets on Canal Street, some of the leaflets had 544 Camp Street---an address wholly associated with ANTI-CASTRO groups stamped on them. Witnesses reported seeing Oswald, Ferrie, Banister, and Sergio Arcacha Smith, leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Front, in the building together on several occasions during the summer of 1963.
Other witnesses, on a bewildering variety of occasions, also saw LHO and David Ferrie together during the summer of 1963. One witness saw them at a private party, during which the two openly discussed the desirability of a coup d'état against President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) administration. Several witnesses on several different occasions saw LHO and Ferrie in the Napoleon House Bar, a popular student hangout in the French Quarter. There they were overheard discussing the JFK administration's policies with whomever would listen.
Still another witness once observed them and two "Latins" at a political meeting in Baton Rouge, openly denouncing JFK's foreign and domestic policies---especially the President's positions on Cuba and civil rights for blacks. LHO and Ferrie evidently traveled extensively together that summer, for no fewer than six witnesses testified they saw them both in the company of an older man, perhaps New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw, perhaps Guy Banister, in Clinton, Louisiana, a small town 90 miles north of New Orleans, where the Congress of Racial Equality was conducting a voter registration drive among local blacks at the same time. And still another eyewitness observed the two men in military fatigues and carrying automatic rifles, conducting what appeared to be a "military training maneuver" near Bedico Creek, a bayou 50 miles north of New Orleans.
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I can't help but think of Beverly Oliver's comment that she saw so much of David Ferrie (and who could forget a face like that?) in the Carousel Club that she thought he was actually "a manager". Couple that with the fact that there were Carousel employees who came forward with Oswald working for Ruby that summer at the Carousel, it should give concern how library cards, telephone calls to Marcello on the 23rd from one of his motels in Houston from Ferrie's room were all too easily dismissed during their investigation as inconsequential evidence. (John H. Davis, “Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello And The JFK Assassination”, pp. 131-32)
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Why was the Warren Commission (WC) so disinterested in these sightings if they were searching for the truth as they claimed? These sightings should have been investigated thoroughly as they could have led to a number of places. Unfortunately, it never happened.
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New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was the first investigator to notice the importance of the 544 Camp Street address. It linked key figures (Guy Banister, David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)) in what Garrison felt was the New Orleans portion of the assassination conspiracy. David Ferrie made another connection as he worked for the attorney of Mob boss Carlos Marcello -- G. Wray Gill.
In addition to being employed by Carlos Marcello's attorney, Ferrie was also employed as an investigator by Guy Banister Associates, a private detective agency at 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. When LHO was arrested in August of 1963 while passing out pro-Castro leaflets on Canal Street, some of the leaflets had 544 Camp Street---an address wholly associated with ANTI-CASTRO groups stamped on them. Witnesses reported seeing Oswald, Ferrie, Banister, and Sergio Arcacha Smith, leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Front, in the building together on several occasions during the summer of 1963.
Other witnesses, on a bewildering variety of occasions, also saw LHO and David Ferrie together during the summer of 1963. One witness saw them at a private party, during which the two openly discussed the desirability of a coup d'état against President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) administration. Several witnesses on several different occasions saw LHO and Ferrie in the Napoleon House Bar, a popular student hangout in the French Quarter. There they were overheard discussing the JFK administration's policies with whomever would listen.
Still another witness once observed them and two "Latins" at a political meeting in Baton Rouge, openly denouncing JFK's foreign and domestic policies---especially the President's positions on Cuba and civil rights for blacks. LHO and Ferrie evidently traveled extensively together that summer, for no fewer than six witnesses testified they saw them both in the company of an older man, perhaps New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw, perhaps Guy Banister, in Clinton, Louisiana, a small town 90 miles north of New Orleans, where the Congress of Racial Equality was conducting a voter registration drive among local blacks at the same time. And still another eyewitness observed the two men in military fatigues and carrying automatic rifles, conducting what appeared to be a "military training maneuver" near Bedico Creek, a bayou 50 miles north of New Orleans.
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I can't help but think of Beverly Oliver's comment that she saw so much of David Ferrie (and who could forget a face like that?) in the Carousel Club that she thought he was actually "a manager". Couple that with the fact that there were Carousel employees who came forward with Oswald working for Ruby that summer at the Carousel, it should give concern how library cards, telephone calls to Marcello on the 23rd from one of his motels in Houston from Ferrie's room were all too easily dismissed during their investigation as inconsequential evidence. (John H. Davis, “Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello And The JFK Assassination”, pp. 131-32)
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Why was the Warren Commission (WC) so disinterested in these sightings if they were searching for the truth as they claimed? These sightings should have been investigated thoroughly as they could have led to a number of places. Unfortunately, it never happened.