Giesbrecht, Richard E.

Apon John Kenned assassins agreed tentatively to testify at Clay make sure that a certain car was far back on his head." (According to Shaw's trial, although Mrs. Giesbrecht destroyed. Ferrie said there was more mezzanine, turned N press reports, Ferrie wore a bright was afraid to see her husband get a newsstand that 1. money now at their disposal than ever. red wig and false eyebrows to con- mixed up in the case, the middle of the 3 They discussed a meeting to be held ceal burns he had suffered years be- What spurred Giesbrecht to agree ing area. He asked a at the Townhouse Motor Hotel in fore. Giesbrecht says he didn't notice to testify was a call he had got in early were police in the a Kansas City, Missouri, on March 18. the color of his hair.) It seemed to summer from Garrison himself. "He an RCMP detachme There had been no meeting since early him that the man resembled__Stän told me that my evidence would be a get there Giesbrech November of 1963." Laurer *when he gets that look_ as if great help to him, and that the pieces toward a covered b During all this time Giesbrecht was he's going to cry. Giesbrecht didn't locked perfectly into place, although terminal and the ad hunched over his calendar pad, strain- really see the second mari's face; they he didn't explain how. He confirmed He stopped. On the ing to pick up the low voices over the were sitting back to back. He noticed that Ferrie had been in Winnipeg at steps at the near c piped-in music, the muffled shriek that his chin and neck were badly the time and he said that no people was the man who of engines through the twin-paned pock-marked and that he wore a from Winnipeg were involved. Maybe at him in the Horizo windows and the conversation of hearing aid in his right ear. Both men these men were making connections to staring at Giesbrecht about a dozen other people in the were in their middle or late 40's; both Minneapolis or Chicago. They just "I felt uneasy," G. big dim room. He was aware of some wore light tweed suits and loafers. happened to be here when I ran into turned around, wer girls at a corner table who laughed Perhaps Giesbrecht was doing too them." newsstand and asked a lot. much craning around in his chair. At On that day, February 13, 1964, est phone was. He any rate, two things happened almost Giesbrecht had set up an appointment " 'Auntie" flies in mezzanine again, : simultaneously. The first was that he walked 100 feet or with a client who worked at nearby became aware he was being stared at Bristol Aircraft. He arrived at the air- again past a Walter There was more. The meeting would by a man sitting alone across a corner port early, shortly after 2 p.m., to sculpture that crouc be registered under the name of a of the lounge, in front of a metal have his first look inside the new tain in another cour textile firm. Ferrie mentioned an drapery separating the lounge and the terminal. He sauntered around, went of 10 telephones mc "aunt" who would be flying in from dining room. The second was that the into the Horizon Room, had one tile wall. Giesbrech: California. A name that sounded like conversation behind him changed, be- drink, a Moscow Mule, walked out to sixth phone, called Romeniuk came up several times. came innocuous. He can remember have a look at Gerald Gladstone's RCMP number, got Ferrie asked about paper or merchan- Ferrie saying that he had flown an introduced himself a sculpture, Solar Cone, in a fountain dise coming out of Nevada. Latin airplane like one on the apron outside courtyard near the lounge, called his right. Accent said it was too risky and that the window - a small, executive client, found he had more time to kill, a house or shop had been closed down plane, Giesbrecht thinks it was, with returned to the lounge, sat at the same Tattooed si at a place called Mercury. He said two propellers. table half-way along a wall of win- that "a good shipment" had reached "I felt a wee bit jittery or excited," dows and ordered a Seven-Up. Two "The same man, tl Caracas from Newport. There was he says. "I felt uneasy, uncomfortable. men had taken the adjacent table. just about a yard aw some speculation that investigation of I put on my overcoat. The conversa- His back to them, Giesbrecht planned on me. So I just hur Kennedy's death would not end if the tion had stopped. This third man was his sales approach and did some fig- away. I don't remen Warren Commission found Oswald just staring at me. He was sort of an said to the RCMP. uring on his weekly calendar pad. At guilty. ugly man. He had a nose that seemed some point, probably at about 2.45 phone I felt too un Giesbrecht managed to get a fast flat, a fighter's nose. It was a piggy p.m., he became aware that his neigh- his face, but I not look at the man he läter said was nose. He was very fair, with very bors were discussing the assassination markings on his fin, Ferrie. "I told the FBI that he had flushed cheeks. He was in his early wère tattoos. I wall in a way that seemed to implicate the ddest-hair and eyebrows I'd ever thirties, a big man, odd-looking. I had them. flight room, at gate seen," he says. "The eyebrows were to walk by him to get out." where there were a He started to listen, then to take wide and sort of streaky. The hair Giesbrecht, feeling uneasy, hurried notes. It seemed to him that one of stayed in there for was very shiny and it started quite past Gladstone's Solar Cone into the the men had a "Latin" accent; the I went out again and at the north end of 11 other, the one he later concluded was Ferrie, an "American" accent. The into the parking to from the airport and voices were rather high-pitched, pre- cise-sounding. He sensed that both of foolish thing. 1 men were homosexuals. about my client, an when I got about Oswald a the airport I took 14 them up and burn. "I got the impression that a man why and I don't knd notes as best I codi named Isaacs was to have been the tome and hid the assassin or one of them, but that he drawer." had taken on Oswald to do the dirty Giesbrecht deesn' work," Giesbrecht says. "In the opin- planations about ion of these men Oswald was a psycho. but he says he One of them said, "How did Isaacs spiracy killed get mixed up with a psycho like that?" is glad to be The man I think of as Ferrie won- especially since dered how much Oswald had passed on to his wife or, for that matter, had three anyone else. Being mixed up with child that Oswald had been a foolish thing. nobody Ferrie said that Ishacs could be seen person on some film of Kennedy getting off to a plane shortly before the assassina- it's. Shut tion. These men assured each other If that when a man named Hechman or authorit Hoffman got to Iscaes all loose ends At this table in Winnipeg's airport, Richard Giesbrecht took notes while in a pretti would be tied up. He would also overhearing two men who may have been in on JFK's assassination, it " JZ