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in the National Guard until I retired after 23 years of military
service. I should add that I would be still in the National
Guard, and still equating the Army with the government, when
President Kennedy was assassinated.
After Germany and my return to civilian life I followed
my family tradition and went to law school at Tulane. After
graduation I did postgraduate work and obtained a Master of Laws
degree.
My stint in the F.B.I., which came shortly after Law
school, was brief. Yet it was the competence which I saw there
which caused me -- years later in 1963 -- to drop the matter of
my arrest of David Ferrie, upon his return from Texas, when the
chief of the New Orleans F.B.I. office announced that the Bureau
had found that he had no connection with the assassination. I
enjoyed the gathering of evidence and the occasional stakeout on
a case. However, I found the ringing of doorbells to inquire
about the loyalty and associations of an applicant for employment
in a defense plant extremely boring.
Two things I retained from my F.B.I. experience. One
was that, because of the great across-the-board efficiency of the
organization, it could be as good as its leadership would allow
it to be. On the other hand, it was hard to ignore the fact that
--at least during the years when J. Edgar Hoover was in command
-- it strictly was a one man operation. Every order, every
directive, everything which clicked out over the Telex machines
in every office throughout the land was signed "Hoover.' In any
event, the day to day work which I did as an F.B.I. agent clearly
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