Oswald And Ferrie Seen Together By Dallas Cab Driver

[Michael T. Griffith]

What sleazy tactics of Shaw's defense team.

As you know, there was no discovery in Louisiana Courts at the time.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/clay-shaw-s-lawyers-faced-an-unfair-fight

Shaw had to finance detectives to run down every lead in the press. They had no access to Garrison's
investigative files. So, they talked to Holland McComb who gave them information, which was
reported by Wegmann.

Garrison wouldn't dare call Cummings as a witness in the Shaw trial. And Garrison didn't
mention him in his book.

The Criminal Intelligence file speaks to Cummings' credibility.

His whole story was ridiculous from start to finish.

fred

Given the considerable evidence that Ferrie and Oswald knew each other and worked together at times, I don't see anything automatically ridiculous about Cummings' straightforward account that he drove Oswald and Ferrie in his cab to Ruby's club. Cummings never claimed he heard them talking about anything sinister. He declined to ID Clay Shaw as the third passenger. There was nothing exotic or unusual about his account.

When Cummings came forward, he did so only after seeing Ferrie's picture in a newspaper and reading that Ferrie denied being in Dallas in 1963. Cummings sought no publicity, and his videotaped statements make it clear he wanted no publicity. His account contained no exotic claims, just a brief report that he once drove Ferrie and Oswald to Ruby's club and that on a previous occasion he had happened to pick up Oswald at a bus station and drove him to a house. He also mentioned that during the second cab ride, Oswald mentioned that he remembered Cummings from the previous ride a few weeks earlier--again, entirely ordinary and plausible.

What's more, when Cummings spoke with the New Orleans DA's office, he admitted to having been arrested, and he gave his side of the story. Also, Cummings volunteered to take a polygraph if Garrison's office would pay his fare to New Orleans. People who are trying to pawn off a false story rarely volunteer to take a polygraph. Additionally, no actual cab records were ever produced that disproved Cummings' account. Claims were made to this effect, but Cummings' attackers never managed to produce any actual cab records that refuted his account.

Garrison later changed his mind about Cummings after he realized that the polygrapher who had done his poly exam was questionable.

I find Cummings' videotaped statements convincing evidence that he was a sincere witness who was reluctantly coming forward because he thought it was the right thing to do. HIs videotaped interviews certainly give no indication that he was any kind of a "nut."

I find it curious that those who choose to disbelieve Cummings' account and to attack his character are willing to accept Jack Ruby's claims about why he shot Oswald, about whether he was involved in the assassination, about whether he was at Parkland Hospital soon after the shooting, about how he entered the police station, and about why he was following Oswald around with a gun in his pocket. Ruby was a violent thug with a long history of criminal activity, far worse than Cummings' life history, yet WC believers take his word even when several reputable witnesses contradict it.

[Fred Litwin]

There is no evidence that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other.

Yes, they are in a photograph from 1955, but Ferrie always
admitted that Oswald was vaguely familiar.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-david-ferrie-know-lee-harvey-oswald

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-david-ferrie-introduce-jack-martin-to-lee-harvey-oswald-in-banister-s-office

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-lee-harvey-oswald-have-david-ferrie-s-library-card

fred

[Michael T. Griffith]

There is no evidence that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other.

Yes, they are in a photograph from 1955, but Ferrie always admitted that Oswald was vaguely familiar.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-david-ferrie-know-lee-harvey-oswald

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-david-ferrie-introduce-jack-martin-to-lee-harvey-oswald-in-banister-s-office

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-lee-harvey-oswald-have-david-ferrie-s-library-card

fred

There is a veritable mountain of evidence that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other. Even Dr. David Kaiser acknowledges that there is clear evidence that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other. The Clinton witnesses alone should convince any objective observer that the two knew each other. I find it impossible to dismiss all the eyewitness accounts of Oswald and Ferrie being together as "mistaken," especially given Ferrie's unique, unforgettable appearance and Oswald's nearly universal post-assassination face recognition.

I present some of the evidence of an Oswald-Ferrie association in my book.

[Fred Litwin]

You might want to read my series on Clinton. I have now presented eight parts with about twelve to go.

Ferrie, Shaw and Oswald were NOT in Clinton.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/was-david-ferrie-in-clinton

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-origin-of-the-clinton-jackson-stories

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/why-did-the-clinton-jackson-witnesses-not-come-forward

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-clinton-jackson-witnesses-and-the-ku-klux-klan

There is more on my site. I have a major bombshell that is coming soon on Clinton.

Stay tuned.

fred

[Michael T. Griffith]

You might want to read my series on Clinton. I have now presented eight parts with about twelve to go.

Ferrie, Shaw and Oswald were NOT in Clinton.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/was-david-ferrie-in-clinton

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-origin-of-the-clinton-jackson-stories

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/why-did-the-clinton-jackson-witnesses-not-come-forward

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-clinton-jackson-witnesses-and-the-ku-klux-klan

There is more on my site. I have a major bombshell that is coming soon on Clinton.

Stay tuned.

fred

I've read those articles. I think they engage in a lot of severe nit-picking and special pleading, and that they ignore the weight of the evidence, especially given the status of the Clinton witnesses.

Regarding the photo that proves that Ferrie and Oswald were in the same CAP unit, we should remember that the man who took that photo, fellow CAP member Chuck Frances, told the FBI that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/glimpses-of-a-life/).

Yet, when Ferrie was questioned after the assassination, he falsely claimed he never knew Oswald. No one yet knew at that point that Ferrie and Oswald had served in the same small CAP unit together. Why did Ferrie lie about knowing Oswald? Why didn't Ferrie just say, "Oh, he was in my CAP unit back in the late 1950s, but I haven't seen him since"? Why the false claim that he had never known Oswald?

It should be remembered that when the Secret Service briefly interviewed Ferrie shortly after his suspicious "skating trip" to Houston on the night of the assassination, they asked him if he had ever loaned his library card to Oswald. Obviously, they would not have asked him this question if they had not had a reason to believe he did or may have done so--you can't loan your library card to someone you've never been around.

[Fred Litwin]

You clearly have not read my article:

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-david-ferrie-know-lee-harvey-oswald

Ferrie did  tell the FBI that Oswald was vaguely familiar. His friends told him he had briefly served
with Oswald in CAP. Then Ferrie actually called the FBI and told them, yes, I was with Oswald.

Fred

[John Mytton]

I address these attacks in my book.

I think anyone who watches Cummings' interview will conclude that he was a sincere and reluctant witness.

Sincere?

Mr CUMINGS. We talked at length on the way to the address he had given me, several months later and to the best of my memory....
From the video in the OP.
 
Oswald hardly spoke at all, much less with people he didn't know, and Cummings says that several months later out of the possible hundreds of passengers* later he recognizes Oswald from seeing Oswald that one solitary time?

Mr. BALL - On the way back and forth did you talk very much to each other?
Mr. FRAZIER - No. sir: not very much. lie is. probably in your line of business you have probably seen a lot of guys who talk a lot and some don't and he was one of these types that just didn't talk.

Mr. BALL. Is that what you said?
Mr. WHALEY. No, sir; that is not what I said, but that is the reason I didn't call one at the time and I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, "500 North Beckley."
Well, I started up, I started to that address, and the police cars, the sirens was going, running crisscrossing everywhere, just a big uproar in that end of town and I said, "What the hell. I wonder what the hell is the uproar?"
And he never said anything. So I figured he was one of these people that don't like to talk so I never said any more to him.

*While not conclusive, Whaley had about 20 passengers on the 22nd of November.


JohnM