It started with a night of drunken barhopping in New Orleans and a diamond stickpin that vanished. It ended years later with two men dead. Advertisement. A Shreveport Times headline summed up the first death on July 21, 1903: “SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD. Advertisement. J. Ward Gurley, District Attorney of New Orleans, Murdered by Demented Man”.
He died on the gallows on March 24, 1905.
1. The CIA training camp was stationed in Lake Pontchartrain near Oswald’s hometown of New Orleans, where he settled with his wife and daughter upon returning to the U.S. 2. A key anti-Castro rebels trainer was CIA operative David Ferrie, an associate of Oswald in the New Orleans chapter of the Civil Air Patrol going back to 1955. ...
U.S. spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers publicly stated that he believes Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union may have led to the downing of his U2 spy plane from 70,000 feet over Soviet airspace. If we are judged by the friends we keep, then Oswald was destined for infamy, sought or unsought.
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald and Ruby did not know each other and that both assassins acted alone. On the other hand, the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 confirmed Ruby’s ties to the Marcello crime family and noted: 1.
However, as it relates to the clandestine Bay of Pigs operation, two things possibly connect Oswald to rogue agents of the CIA: Among the few friends of Oswald was David Ferrie, an odd looking fellow with flaming red hair and pasted on eyebrows who had nefarious associates tied to JFK assassination conspiracy theories.
Jack Ruby (in dark suit) was able to pose as a reporter at the Dallas police station while Oswald was in custody. Within 48 hours, Ruby ‘took out’ Oswald while millions watched on TV. Ruby was often seen at the Dallas police station with complimentary fresh coffee and sandwiches.