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upon John Kennedy S
assassing
agreed tentatively to testify at Clay
make sure that a certain car was
Shaw's trial, although Mrs. Giesbrecht
far back on his head." (Accordir
destroyed. Ferrie said there was more
press reports, Ferrie wore a b
was afraid to see her husband get
money now at their disposal than ever.
red wig and false eyebrows to
mixed up in the case,
They discussed a meeting to be held
ceal burns he had suffered years
What spurred Giesbrecht to agree
at the Townhouse Motor Hotel in'
fore. Giesbrecht says he didn't n
to testify was a call he had got in early
Kansas City, Missouri, on March 18.
the color of his hair.) It seeme
summer from Garrison himself. "He
There had been no meeting since early
him that the man resembled
told me that my evidence would be a
November of 1963."
Laurel "when he gets that look
great help to him, and that the pieces
During all this time Giesbrecht was
he's going to cry. Giesbrecht d
locked perfectly into place, although
hunched over his calendar pad, strain-
really see the second mari's face;
he didn't explain how. He confirmed
ing to pick up the low voices over the
were sitting back to back. He no
that Ferrie had been in Winnipeg at
piped-in music, the muffled shriek
that his chin and neck were b
the time and he said that no people
of engines through the twin-paned
pock-marked and that he wor
from Winnipeg were involved. Maybe
windows and the conversation of
hearing aid in his right ear. Both
these men were making connections to
about a dozen other people in the
were in their middle or late 40's;
Minneapolis or Chicago. They just
big dim room. He was aware of some
wore light tweed suits and loafe
happened to be here when I ran into
girls at a corner table who laughed
Perhaps Giesbrecht was doing
them."
a lot.
much craning around in his chair
On that day, February 13, 1964,
any rate, two things happened al
Giesbrecht had set up an appointment
e 'Auntie" flies in
simultaneously. The first was the
with a client who worked at nearby
became aware he was being stare
Bristol Aircraft. He arrived at the air-
There was more. The meeting would
by a man sitting alone across a co
port early, shortly after 2 p.m., to
be registered under the name of a
of the lounge, in front of a n
have his first look inside the new
textile firm. Ferrie mentioned an
drapery separating the lounge and
terminal. He sauntered around, went
"aunt" who would be flying in from
dining room. The second was tha
into the Horizon Room, had one
California. A name that sounded like
conversation behind him changed
drink, a Moscow Mule, walked out to
Romeniuk came up several times.
came innocuous. He can remer
have a look at Gerald Gladstone's
Ferrie asked about paper or merchan-
Ferrie saying that he had flown
sculpture, Solar Cone, in a fountain
dise coming out of Nevada. Latin
airplane like one on the apron outs
courtyard near the lounge, called his
Accent said it was too risky and that
the window a small. execut
client, found he had more time to kill,
a house or shop had been closed down
plane, Giesbrecht thinks it was, W
returned to the lounge, sat at the same
at a place called Mercury. He said
two propellers.
table half-way along a wall of win-
that good shipment" had reached
"I felt a wee bit jittery or excitel
dows and ordered a Seven-Up. Two
Caracas from Newport. There was
he says. "I felt uneasy, uncomfortab
men had taken the adjacent table.
some speculation that investigation of
I put on my overcoat. The conver
His back to them, Giesbrecht planned
Kennedy's death would not end if the
tion had stopped. This third man 7
his sales approach and did some fig-
Warren Commission found Oswald
just staring at me. He was sort of
uring on his weekly calendar pad. At
guilty.
ugly man. He had a nose that seer
some point, probably at about 2.45
Giesbrecht managed to get a fast
flat, a fighter's nose. It was a E
p.m., he became aware that his neigh-
look at the man he later said was
nose. He was very fair, with
bors were discussing the assassination
Ferrie. "I told the FBI that he had
flushed cheeks. He was in his
in a way that seemed to implicate
the oddest hair and eyebrows I'd ever
thirties, a big man, odd-looking. I
them.
seen," he says. "The eyebrows were
to walk by him to goi out."
He started to listen, then to take
wide and sort of streaky. The hair
Giesbrecht, feeling uneasy, hu
notes. It seemed to him that one of
was very shiny and it started quite
past Gladstone's Solar Cone into
the men had a "Latin" accent; the
other, the one he later concluded was
Ferrie, an "American" accent. The
voices were rather high-pitched, pre-
cise-sounding. He sensed that both
men were homosexuals.
Oswald a pawn
"I got the impression that a man
named Isaacs was to have been the
assassin or one of them, but that he
had taken on Oswald to do the dirty
work,' Giesbrecht says. "In the opin-
ion of these men Oswald was a psycho.
One of them said, 'How did Isaacs
get mixed up with a psycho like that?'
The man I think of as Ferrie won-
dered how much Oswald had passed
on to his wife or, for that matter,
anyone else. Being mixed up with
Oswald had been a foolish thing.
Ferrie said that Isaacs could be seen
on some film of Kennedy getting off
a plane shortly before the assassina-
tion. These men assured each other
that when a man named Hochman or
Hoffman got to Isaacs all loose ends
At this table in Winnipeg's airport, Richard Giesbrecht took notes while
would be tied up. He would also
overhearing two men who may have been in on JFK's assassination,
Democration Cube",
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