A comprehensive collection of research material about David Ferrie, including a trove of declassified FBI records, Jim Garrison's investigative file, archival news reports, and photographs.
Recorded phone call between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 02/22/1967. Clark provides Johnson with a full briefing1 on the death and the life of David Ferrie, who died early that morning.
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Photographs
Top: Digitally enhanced & colorized Benedictine High School (Cleveland, OH) yearbook photographs of Ferrie in the 1940s; left is from 1945, right is 1948. Ferrie taught English and sponsored the Aeronautics Club. Bottom left: Ferrie enrolled as a seminary student, circa 1944. Bottom right: Eastern Airlines Pilot David W. Ferrie in the early 1950s.
Digitally enhanced and colorized photographs of Ferrie on the tarmac of Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, circa 1966.
The living room of Ferrie’s apartment, Feb. 22, 1967.
1955 group photograph of a summer picnic for the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol—Moistant Squadron cadets, David Ferrie (left) and Lee Harvey Oswald (right).
David W. Ferrie’s olographic last will. Ferrie names Alvin R. Beaubouef as the executor of his estate and his sole heir. He also requests that his brother, Parmely T. Ferrie of Rockford, Illinois, and Bishop George Hyde of Elbereton, GA, be notified upon his death. George Augustine Hyde, who corresponded with Ferrie during his battle with Eastern Airlines, presided over the first openly gay congregation in the United States, Atlanta’s Eucharistic Catholic Church.
Alvin R. Beaubouef
Digitally enhanced and colorized photographs of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison, 1967.
