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OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
MARCH 15, 1967
STATEMENT OF:
THOMAS LEWIS CLARK, WM age 19
RESIDING AT:
240 ORION, METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
TELEPHONE:
831-2975
PRESENTLY EMPLOYED:
CENTRY PRINTING COMPANY, 4422 TOULOUSE
In June, 1964, I met DAVE FERRIE
through my brother, STEPHEN RANDOLPH CLARK, who met FERRIE
approximately two days before I did, for a job at a filling
station he owned, (Daval's Service Station) on Vets Highway.
So I went over there and I noticed that there was something
about him that was weird, but he seemed smart and talented. He
seemed to be all right. I got to know him by working there and
that is where I met JIMMY JOHNSON. Then my brother was
mostly with DAVE more than I was. I really didn't get to
know
DAVE until five months later and from then on we seemed to
be friends. When I was working at the filling station, I
know I saw a small, white compact car, foreign, Renault type,
come there twice. I couldn't make out who it was, but it was a
big man. DAVE told me both times that he wanted me to watch
the station while he talked with him for a few minutes. He would
wind up staying in the car for over an hour. The car never came
and got gas. He just always pulled up on the side and DAVE
would walk over there and get in the car. They would be there
about an hour or so.
DAVE sola the filling station, and he
asked me if I wanted to work with him as a flight instructor
at the airport. He was working for Saturn Aviation at that
time. I agreed and more or less hung around out there and there
wasn't much to do. He quit and opened his own flight
school. He asked me to work with him there. This was 1966.
I lived with DAVE at one time for about
two months. This was right before he died. I have been to
his apartment quite a few times.
Q. Did DAVE ever talk to you about
his activities? Like flying down to Cuba, the Bahamas?
A. He told me once he went to the Bahamas.
Q. Did he do much talking about the
investigation? (Kennedy assassination)
A
He said something about you all
didn't know what you were doing. He was in bed - sick.
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