April 7, 1964: Warren Commission Interviews Witness about Oswald/Ferrie/CAP Connection

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On this date in 1964, the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, interviewed a witness about any connection among suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans businessman David Ferrie, and a New Orleans area Civil Air Patrol squadron.

An excerpt from alt.conspiracy.jfk:

On April 7, 1964, the testimony of Edward Voebel was taken by Warren Commission senior counsel Albert Jenner in New Orleans.  While the Warren Commission had not actively investigated the possibility of an association between Oswald and Ferrie, Ferrie's name came up briefly when Voebel was questioned about Oswald's activities with the CAP.  Voebel recalled that he had first become a friend of Oswald's when he witnessed him being beaten up one day after high school.  Two brothers who had earlier gotten into fistfight with Oswald had sent a friend of
theirs to beat him up.  Voebel noted that their school "seemed to draw a lot of bad characters" and that "it was almost impossible to go to school without brushing against somebody or getting involved in a fight." In his testimony, Voebel stated that Oswald had attended "two or three meetings" of the CAP and "bought a uniform and everything, and seemed to be very interested at the outset?

 Toward the end of his testimony, Voebel was asked if he could recall who had headed their CAP unit at that time:

 Mr. JENNER. Who was the majordomo of the CAP unit that you attended ?
 Mr. VOEBEL. I think it was Captain Ferrie. I think he was there when Lee attended one of these meetings, but I'm not sure of that. Now that I
think of it, I don't think Captain Ferrie was there at that time but he might have been. That isn't too clear to me.

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