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Another long shot unexpectedly came through. We found a
witness who remembered Lee Oswald having been a member of the
Civil Air Patrol, as a youth, when Ferrie was the Captain of the
unit. Later evidence would be found which would corroborate this
I had met Dave Ferrie once. The encounter had been
casual but unforgettable. Shortly after my election as District
Attorney I had been walking across Carondelet Street, near
Canal. I was preoccupied with one thought or another but, half
conscious that the waiting traffic was about to head my way, was
beginning to quicken my step. At that moment I was stopped cold
by a man who grabbed me by both arms.
The face grinning ferociously at me was like a ghoulish
Halloween mask. The eyebrows plainly were greasepaint, one
noticeably higher than the other. A scruffy, reddish homemade
wig hung askew on his head as he fixed me with his eyes. The
traffic was bearing down on us as he gripped me and I hardly
could hear him amidst the din of the horns.
I remembered that he was shouting congratulations
regarding my recent election. As I dodged a car, at last
escaping his clutch, I recall his yelling that he had become a
private investigator. This brief street encounter would have
been sometime in late 1962, the preceding year.
This recollection caused others to stir. His reputation,
which had preceded our meeting, as an adventurer and pilot came
to mind. Because I had been a pilot myself during World War II,
the legend that he could get a plane in and out of the smallest
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