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Conspirators Did An Outstanding Job David Ferrie David Ferrie was a strange but highly intelligent individual. He wore a flaming red wig, false eyebrows and heavy makeup to conceal burns suffered in his youth. The 40-year-old Ferrie was a homosexual, who on occasion, dated women to contradict his "gay" reputation. Although he was an excellent pilot, Eastern Airlines had erased his name from the payroll because of his strange sexual behavior. Ferrie worked for New Orleans Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello. He secretly flew Marcello back to New Orleans shortly after Robert Kennedy had the crime boss deported on April 4, 1961, to his adopted land of Guatemala. Ferrie worked out of Room 1707 in the Pere Marquette Building in New Orleans. The office belonged to G. Wray Gill, Marcello's attorney. Eugene Hale Brading also had an office in the same building (Room 1701) which was only a few steps away from Ferrie's office. Several persons have stated that Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald associated together on a regular basis. Oswald and Ferrie first became acquainted in 1962 when Ferrie persuaded Oswald to join his Civil Air Patrol unit in New Orleans. The charter was fraudulent. Ferrie worked with Guy Bannister, a former FBI agent in charge of the Chicago office. Bannister, who operated a "private detective agency" in New Orleans, hired Ferrie to fly him on various assignments. The office was actually a front for CIA operations. Bannister operated out of a building at 544 Camp Street
the same address used on literature Lee Harvey Oswald distributed
on behalf of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig said he saw a light blue Rambler station wagon leave the Book Depository area shortly after John Kennedy was murdered. |
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Eugene Hale Brading Eugene Hale Brading has an arrest record as thick as the Watergate files. He has been jailed for car theft, selling World War Two gas ration coupons on the black market, mail fraud, receiving stolen property, operating a gambling house, embezzlement and shoplifting. He has used several phony names including Harry Eugene Bradley, James Bradley Lee, Gene Brady, James Lee Cole and Jim Braden. Brading has close ties with New Orleans Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello. Marcello disliked the Kennedys because attorney general Robert Kennedy had the crime boss deported to Guatemala in 1961. David Ferrie later flew Marcello back to New Orleans. Brading maintained an office in Room 1701 in the Pere Marquette Building in New Orleans. The office waa only a few steps from Ferrie's office in Room 1707. Ferrie worked out of the same office with G. Wray Gill, Marcello's attorney. Brading met many times with the plotters while they were putting together plans to eliminate John Kennedy. Eugene Hale Brading was the field marshal of the group. He took his orders from General Edwin A. Walker, who recruited and trained the assassination team. Brading and Morgan Brown, a California oil company owner; checked into the Cabana Hotel (now the High House Hotel) in Dallas, on the evening of November 21, 1963. Brown was one of Brading's assistants. The two men rented three connecting rooms on the third floor. The rooms faced Stemmons Freeway, the presidential motorcade route. Three rooms were needed so Brading and Brown could entertain the members of the sniper team. According to hotel records, a lot of liquor was purchased by Brading, and on one occasion, five fifths of vodka were ordered. Although, Brading and Brown informed the hotel clerk that they were staying through Sunday, November 24, Brown checked out at 1:30 p.m. on November 22. Brown apparently learned that Brading had been taken into custody by Dallas authorities and quickly decided that it was to his best interest to check out of the hotel. Deputy Sheriff Lummie Lewis asked Brading why he was coming out of the Dal-Tex Building minutes after the assassination. Brading, using the name Jim Braden, told Lewis that he was looking for a pay telephone. The DalTex Building is located across Houston Street from the Texas School Book Depository. Brading told Deputy Lewis that he was an oil man and was in Dallas on business. After making a brief statement, Brading was released without being fingerprinted. At the time, Brading was on federal parole from California, for helping one of his partners in crime embezzle $50,000 from a New Mexico woman. Eugene Hale Brading was never questioned at length by the Warren Commission regarding his connections with the Kennedy assassination. |
