Mugshot of David Ferrie, August 8, 1961.

David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 - February 22, 1967) was a pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Image File history File links David_Ferry_mugshot_1. ... Image File history File links David_Ferry_mugshot_1. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... A district attorney is, in some U.S. jurisdictions, the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminals. ... Earling Carothers Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) -- who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early 60s -- was District Attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ... John F. Kennedy The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). ...

Ferrie was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A Roman Catholic, Ferrie attended St. Ignatius High School , John Carroll University, St. Mary Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood, and Baldwin-Wallace College. He next spent three years at the St. Charles Seminary in Carthagena, Ohio. He suffered from alopecia areata, a skin condition which causes the loss of body hair in clumps. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Saint Ignatius High School is a private Roman Catholic Jesuit high school for 1430 young men located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Founded in 1886 by a group of German Jesuits from Buffalo, New York on the invitation of Bishop Richard Gilmore, the school was originally a six-year secondary school... John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area in the United States. ... Baldwin-Wallace College is a small, highly respected liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio. ...

Picture of Ferrie standing outside St. Charles Seminary.

In 1944 Ferrie left St. Charles after suffering a nervous breakdown. He obtained a pilot's license and began teaching aeronautics at Cleveland's Benedictine High School. He was fired from the school for several infractions, including taking boys to a house of prostitution and flipping a car over in the driveway of the school. He then became an insurance inspector, and in 1951 he moved to New Orleans where he worked as a pilot for Eastern Air Lines until losing his job in August, 1961 after being arrested on morals charges. Image File history File links David_Ferry_at_St_Marys_Seminary. ... Image File history File links David_Ferry_at_St_Marys_Seminary. ... Benedictine High School is a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school for men, located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The school serves grades 9-12 and has an enrollment of over 420 young men for the 2005-2006 school year. ... For the Chinese airline, see China Eastern Airlines. ...

Ferrie was involved with the Civil Air Patrol in several ways: He started as a "senior" with the Fifth Cleveland Squadron at Hopkins Airport in 1947. The Squadron Commander tried unsuccessfully to bounce him in 1949. When he moved to New Orleans, he "transferred" to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron at Lakefront Airport, first as instructor and later as Commander. After a Ferrie-trained cadet pilot perished in a December 1954 crash, Ferrie's annual re-appointment was declined. He was asked to be a guest lecturer at the smaller squadron at Moisant Airport, and he did so, lecturing from June to September 1955. On July 27, 1955, 15-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald joined this squadron. In March 1958, a former cadet-turned-commander invited Ferrie back to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron. He served unofficially for a time and was reinstated as Executive Officer in September 1959. Ferrie quit the squadron in a huff in June 1960 after a disagreement during a bivouac. In September 1960, he started his own unofficial squadron, called the Metairie Falcon Cadet Squadron. An offshoot of this group was the Internal Mobile Security Unit, a group formed for the fight against Castro's Cuba. Over the years, he used both his official and unofficial squadrons to develop improper relations with post-pubescent (age 14-18) boys (called ephebophilia), and his August 1961 arrests caused the Falcons to fold. Civil Air Patrol seal The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). ... Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four US government investigations, the assassin of US President John F. Kennedy. ... An Ephebe Kisses A Man Tondo from an Attic kylix, 5th c. ...

According to friends and family, Ferrie had a mixed bag of political views. As a young man he was described as antinomian, having no adherence to established moral codes. While he actively avoided the draft in 1941, his younger brother went on to become something of a war hero. Perhaps owing to this, Ferrie became stridently anti-Communist by 1950. When Fidel Castro opposed Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Ferrie initially approved of him, but he became convinced Castro was a Communist by the summer of 1959. In November 1960, he became associated with the New Orleans office of the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, a CIA-backed organization. This association changed after his morals arrests. In the early 1960s he was an associate of Guy Banister, a former FBI agent, New Orleans police official, political activist and private investigator. Guy Banister William Guy Banister (March 7, 1901–June 6, 1964) was a private investigator alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. ...

In 1962 Ferrie began working for the lawyer G. Wray Gill and his client, Mafiosi Carlos Marcello. This involved attempts to block Marcello's deportation to Guatemala. George Wray Gill, Sr. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Carlos Marcello ( born Calogero Minacore Tunis 6 February 1910 – Metairie 3 March 1993) was born to Sicilian parents in Tunis. ...

On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, Guy Banister and Jack Martin went drinking together. On their return to Banister's office the two men got involved in a dispute about a missing file. Banister became so angry that he drew his Magnum revolver and hit Martin with it several times. Martin was so badly injured that he had to be detained in the local Charity Hospital. November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Jack Martin can refer to any of the following people: Jack Martin a former ice hockey player in the National Hockey League Jack Martin (guitarist) an American guitarist Jack Martin (cricketer) an English Test cricketer Jack Martin, P.I., a private investigator who claimed to have information on the assassination...

Over the next few days Martin told reporters and authorities that Ferrie had been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to Martin, Ferrie had known Lee Harvey Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, had given him lessons on how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight, had flown Oswald to Texas and had threatened JFK and outlined plans to kill him. He also said that Oswald had Ferrie's library card in his possession when arrested, but later added that this was a misunderstanding of something he had seen in the news. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ...

On November 25, Martin was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He told them that he thought Ferrie had hypnotized Oswald into assassinating Kennedy. The FBI considered Martin's evidence unreliable. Nevertheless, they interviewed Ferrie twice and interviewed about 20 other people in connection with the allegations. They were unable to develop a substantial case against Ferrie. November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency, which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

David Ferrie (second from left) and Lee Harvey Oswald (far right) in the Civil Air Patrol in 1955.

This information reached Jim Garrison, the district attorney of New Orleans who, by 1966, was very interested in the New Orleans aspects of the assassination. In December 1966 he interviewed Martin about these accusations. Martin claimed that during the summer of 1963 Ferrie and Guy Banister were involved in something very sinister with a group of Cuban exiles. Image File history File links Ciravolo. ... Image File history File links Ciravolo. ... Earling Carothers Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) -- who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early 60s -- was District Attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ...

Jim Garrison now became convinced that a group of right-wing activists, including Ferrie, Guy Banister, Carlos Bringuier and Clay Shaw, were involved in a conspiracy with the CIA to kill John F. Kennedy. Garrison claimed this was in retaliation for his attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam. Earling Carothers Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) -- who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early 60s -- was District Attorney of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ... Clay Laverne Shaw (March 17, 1913 - August 14, 1974) was a successful businessman in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

On February 22, 1967 Ferrie was found dead in his apartment. Two typed letters were found: The first, found in a pile of papers, was a screed about the justice system, beginning with "To leave this life is, for me, a sweet prospect." The second note was found in an envelope taped under a table, marked "To be opened in the event of my death", along with a will and a list of people to be contacted. It was to a close friend whom he named executor of his estate, and began "When you read this I will be quite dead, so no answer will be possible." New Orleans Metro Crime Commission director, Aaron Kohn believed that Ferrie was murdered. The New Orleans coroner officially reported that the cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage. A cerebral hemorrhage or hemorrhagic stroke is a form of stroke that occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures or bleeds. ...

Ferrie was portrayed by actor Joe Pesci in the Oliver Stone film JFK (1991), and by Tobin Bell in the motion picture Ruby (1992). Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro in Casino. ... Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... JFK is a film, first released in Canada and the United States on December 20, 1991, which purports to tell the history of the President of the United States John F. Kennedys assassination. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1991. ... Tobin Bell in the 2005 miniseries Revelations. ... Sherilyn Fenn in Ruby Ruby is a film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1992. ...

External links

• Photo gallery of David Ferrie