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>From MAN ON THE GRASSY KNOLL, by John R. Craig and Philip A. Rogers:
"The Southwest Freeway was then under construction about a mile south of
Cherryhurst, and various establishments were springing up along its path.
One such place he found to his liking when it opened in 1959 was Winterland,
an ice-skating rink one block north of the new freeway and just to the west
of Shepherd Drive, at 2400 Norfolk, about a mile and a half from the Rogers
home."
The above excerpt refers to a man named Charles Rogers, a man who grew up in
Houston, worked for Shell Oil, flew his own plane, and allegedly worked for
the CIA. He was last seen shortly before his parents, in whose house he
lived, were found butchered and stuffed in the refrigerator at 1815
Driscoll, a short distance from 2400 Norfolk.
http://www.wf.net/~biles/jfk/ramparts.txt
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THE PROBE REFOCUSED ON on Ferrie, and on December 15 he was brought in
for further questioning. Asked pertinent details of the whirlwind Texas
trip in 1963, he begged lack of memory and referred his questioners to
the FBI. What about the goose hunting? "We did in fact get to where
the geese were and there were thousands," he recounted. "But you
couldn't approach them. They were a wise bunch of birds." Pressed for
details of what took place at the ice rink, Ferrie became irritated.
"Ice skate -- what do you think?" he snapped.
It didn't take the DA's men long to poke holes in Ferrie's story.
Melvin Coffey, one of his companions on the 1963 Texas trip, deposed
that it was not a sudden inspiration:
Q: The trip was arranged before?
A: Yes.
Q: How long before?
A: A couple of days.
The probers also determined that no one had taken along any shotguns on
the "goose-hunting" trip.
In Houston, the ice skating alibi was similarly discredited. In 1963,
the FBI had interviewed Chuck Rolland, proprietor of the Winterland
Skating Rink. "FERRIE contacted him by telephone November 22, 1963, and
asked for the skating schedule," a Bureau report, one of the few
unclassified documents on Ferrie, reveals. "Mr. FERRIE stated that he
was coming in from out of town and desired to do some skating while in
Houston. On November 23, 1963, between 3:30 and 5:30 PM, Mr. FERRIE and
two companions came to the rink and talked to Mr. ROLLAND." The report
continues that Ferrie and Rolland had a short general conversation, and
that Ferrie remarked that "he and his companions would be in and out of
the skating rink during the weekend" (Commission Document 301). When
Garrison's men recently talked to Rolland, they obtained pertinent facts
that the FBI had either missed or failed to report in 1963. Rolland was
certain that none of the three men in Ferrie's party had ice skated;
Ferrie had spent the entire two hours he was at the rink standing by a
pay telephone -- and finally received a call.
At Houston International Airport, more information was gleaned. Air
service personnel seemed to recall that in 1963 Ferrie had access to an
airplane based in Houston. In this craft, the flight to Matamoros would
take little more than an hour.
Ferrie had patently lied about the purpose of the trip. One of the
standard tactics of bank robbers is to escape from the scene of the
crime in a "hot car" that cannot be traced to them, then switch to a
"cold car" of their own to complete the getaway. Garrison considers it
possible that Ferrie may have been the pilot of a second craft in a two-
stage escape of the Dallas assassins to south of the border, or may have
been slated to be a backup pilot in the evnet contingency plans were
activated.
Did Ferrie know Oswald? The pilot denied it, but the evidence mounts
that he did. For example, there is now in Garrison's hand information
that when Oswald was arrested in Dallas police, he had in his possession
a CURRENT New Orleans library card issued to David Ferrie. Reinforcing
the validity of this information is a Secret Service report on the
questioning of Ferrie by that agency when he was in federal custody in
1963. During an otherwise mild interrogation, Ferrie was asked,
strangely enough, in he lent his library card to Oswald. No, he
replied, producing a card from the New Orleans public library in the
name of Dr. David Ferrie. That card had expired.
When he realized he was a suspect in Garrison's current investigation,
Ferrie seemed to deteriorate. By the time he died on February 22, 1967,
he was a nervous wreck, subsisting on endless cigarettes and cups of
coffee and enough tranquilizers to pacify an army. He had sought out
the press only days before his death, labeling the probe a "fraud" and
complaining that he was the victim of a "witch hunt." "I suppose he has
me pegged as a getaway pilot," he remarked bitterly.
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http://www.jfklancer.com/Garrison2.html
Well, naturally, this sparked our interest. We staked out his house and we
questioned his friends, and when he came back --- the first thing he did on
his return, incidentally, was to contact a lawyer and then hide out for the
night at a friend's room in another town --- we pulled him and his two
companions in for questioning. The story of Ferrie's activities that emerged
was rather curious. He drove nine hours through a furious thunderstorm to
Texas, then apparently gave up his plans to go duck hunting and instead went
to an ice-skating rink in Houston and stood waiting beside a pay telephone
for two hours; he never put the skates on. We felt his movements were
suspicious enough to justify his arrest and that of his friends, and we took
them into custody. When we alerted the FBI, they expressed interest and
asked us to turn the three men over to them for questioning. We did, but
Ferrie was released soon afterward and most of its report on him was
classified top secret and secreted in the National Archives, where it will
remain inaccessible to the public until September 2038 A.D. No one,
including me, can see those pages.
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Earlier, Longer David Ferrie FBI Interview
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