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David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. [1] Garrison also alleged that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
In a memorable scene from Oliver Stone's JFK, one of Jim Garrison's prime suspects, David Ferrie (portrayed by Joe Pesci) confesses to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, and others. On January 29, 1969, Shaw was brought to trial in Orleans Parish Criminal Court on these charges.
As Oliver Stone tells it, David William Ferrie was one of John F. Kennedy's murderers, even though no evidence was ever produced linking Ferrie to the assassination. Stone even has him confessing to the crime, although no such confession ever occurred in reality.
6 kwi 2011 · David W. Ferrie is probably best known today through his portrayal by Joe Pesci in Oliver Stone’s film “JFK”. Ferrie was taller and had a deeper voice, but Pesci did a good job of showing Ferrie’s level of high energy, his intelligence, and his feelings.
David Ferrie has long been portrayed on paper and in film as an American grotesque: a raving hater of President Kennedy, who threatened to kill the President. He was said to be angry at JFK for failing to help the Cuban exiles restore liberty to their land.
23 gru 2022 · New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison alleged that Louisiana Civil Air Patrol pilot David Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald and helped assassinate President Kennedy. After JFK’s assassination, David Ferrie, a strange and relatively unknown man from New Orleans, became a prime suspect.
