JFK Assassination - David Ferrie FBI, CIA, HSCA, ARRB, and Jim Garrison Investigation Files

JFK Assassination - David Ferrie FBI, CIA, HSCA, ARRB, and Jim Garrison Investigation Files

4,368 pages of FBI, CIA, United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), and Jim Garrison Investigation files involving David Ferrie.

The pilot David William Ferrie (1918 - 1967), who suffered from alopecia areata, a skin condition leading to hair loss, is remembered by many for his striking appearance due to his wearing of a home-made wig and false eyelashes. Ferrie flew for Eastern Air Lines (ESL), until he was fired in 1961, because of two arrests on morals charges.

Ferrie, although believed by some of being involved in a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy, publicly denied ever having any involvement in a conspiracy and said he never knew Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1993, a photograph of members of the Civil Air Patrol showed cadet Lee Harvey Oswald in a group of CAP members including Ferrie, which was released by the PBS documentary series Frontline.

On November 25, 1963, Ferrie was arrested in New Orleans for vagrancy, and was to be held for investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service but was released the next day.

Beginning in 1967, during his investigation of and allegations about the death of JFK, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison alleged that Ferrie knew Oswald and was involved a conspiracy to assassinate JFK.

On February 22, 1967, Ferrie was found dead in his apartment.

This collection contains:

FBI New Orleans Field Office Files

514 pages of David William Ferrie FBI Files - New Orleans Field Office. Files date between November 23, 1963, and February 24, 1969. Several memos give accounts of FBI agents questioning Ferrie about any possible connections between him and Oswald. Files mostly contain memos on information given by associates of Ferrie. Memos cover Ferrie's and Oswald's time at the Civilian Air Patrol (CAP) stationed at New Orleans Airport. The FBI questioned Ferrie and his associates about his contact with pro and anti-Castro Cubans and contact between Ferrie with Clay Shaw and the Garrison investigation.

LBJ Recording of Telephone Conversation, WH Series, 11562, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 02/22/1967, 6:40PM

A 6 minutes 14 seconds LBJ White House recording of a phone conversation between President Johnson and United States Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark, recorded on February 22, 1967. Clark reports on the investigation of the death of David Ferrie and the FBI’s investigation of Ferrie after JFK's assassination.

Central Intelligence Agency - CIA

182 pages of CIA files involving David Ferrie. Including a memo on Gordon Dwane Novel and Novel's accusations of connections between Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. A different memo concerns Novel's claim that both David Ferrie and Oswald were working for the CIA.

Assassination Records Review Board - AARB

Collection of 149 documents containing 3,238 pages from the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, Rockefeller Commission (United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States), collected by the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) containing mention or coverage of David Ferrie.

The Board was created by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. This independent agency was established to re-examine for release JFK assassination-related records held by federal agencies, that the agencies still considered to be too sensitive to make available to the public. The AARB finished its work on September 30, 1998, and issued a final report, and transferred all of its records to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, Investigation

443 pages from documents created or gathered by Garrison's investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Contains the contents of three folders titled, "Re Ferrie, Death of", "Ferrie, David," and "Ferrie, David William (Deceased)."

One folder contains a 79-page thesis by a group of three JFK conspiracy theorists and a photocopy of a holographic 2-page will attributed to David Ferrie. Also includes a typed suicide note attributed to Ferrie. The other 2 folders contain accounts of information obtained by Garrison and his investigators related to Ferrie.