Coming soon: Part Two of my two-part series on David Ferrie, available exclusively to paid subscribers. As a bonus, paid subscribers will also receive (via email) a link to my entire research file on Ferrie, which totals more than 4,000 pages.
In this audio recording, Ferrie reads from a portion of a lengthy, single-spaced, 10-page document he typed in late 1961. The document is an emotionally fraught and occasionally vindictive personal narrative in which Ferrie details his multiple arrests for indecency with underage teen boys and accuses a litany of individuals involved in his legal case, including two of his lawyers, of criminality.
Ferrie presumably elected not to send the document. It was discovered among his possessions after his death and taken into evidence by Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison.
The recording first surfaced in Baton Rouge in March 1967. On March 17, 1967, the Baton Rouge State Times reported that East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Sargent Pitcher personally delivered the tape to Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison.
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