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
When Ferrie was first asked about Oswald, he insisted he had never known him.
Again, the CAP member who took the Oswald-Ferrie CAP photo, Chuck Frances, told the FBI that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other.
Literally dozens of other people stated that they saw Oswald and Ferrie together or that Oswald and Ferrie knew each other. I just don't buy the argument that they were all lying or mistaken.
One of the more compelling accounts came from INS officer Wendell Roache. Roache told the Church Committee that during INS surveillance, Oswald was seen going into the offices of David Ferrie’s anti-Castro group in New Orleans, and that “Oswald was known to be one of the men in the group," as I discuss and document in
A Comforting Lie.
I agree with Dr. David Kaiser that “from all the available evidence it is clear that Oswald knew Ferrie, and Ferrie in turn was closely linked to both Marcello and the New Orleans anti-Castro Cuban community” (
The Road to Dallas, p. 203). I recommend readers check out Kaiser's discussion on the Oswald-Ferrie link.
I get the feeling that WC apologists reject Cummings' account automatically, that they never actually give it serious consideration but reflexively start looking for any reason/excuse to reject it.
Cummings never sought to profit from coming forward. He never sought out journalists or newspapers. He went straight to law enforcement people. He made no exotic or wild claims. He just said, to paraphrase, "I drove the guy with the weird appearance and Oswald to the Carousel Club, along with a third man whom I can't identify, and a few months earlier I drove Oswald from the bus station to a house. When I drove Oswald and Ferrie and the other man to that club, Oswald mentioned that he remembered me from the previous trip." That's it. I think most objective people would consider that to be a believable, low-key, no-frills account.
I don't understand how anyone can watch Cummings' videotaped comments and conclude that he was insincere, much less that he was a "publicity-seeking nut."
As I mentioned, I find it curious that WC defenders gladly believe Jack Ruby's problematic claims about his motives, his entrance into the police basement, his obvious stalking of Oswald, his Mafia ties, his presence at Parkland Hospital soon after the shooting, and his involvement in the assassination, but they summarily reject Cummings' account and look for any reason to question his character.
Cummings never beat up anybody, but Ruby did. Cummings was not involved in gun running, but Ruby was. Cummings did not have extensive Mafia ties, but Ruby did. No reliable IRS informant ever said that Cummings had foreknowledge of JFK's murder, but a reliable IRS informant who worked undercover among Dallas underworld figures said that Ruby knew JFK was going to be killed (
A Comforting Lie, pp. 28-30). Yet WC defenders believe Ruby and reject Cummings.