LISTEN: Mafia Pilot, Participant in Anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswaldand Key to the JFK Assassination

The Wild Side was just that this past Tuesday as WBOB Podcast host Professor David Clyde welcomed world renowned writer Judyth Vary Baker to the show. She is the author of Me & Lee -- How I Came to Know, Love, and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. She also is the author of David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot, Participant in Anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald. In this book she provides an unique and never before heard prospective of the events leading up to and including the JFK assassination.

Of the all the people surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, few are more mysterious and enigmatic than David William Ferrie of New Orleans. Author, Judyth Vary Baker, knew David Ferrie personally and worked with him in a covert project in New Orleans during the summer of 1963. This book, David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot, Participant in Anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and Key to the JFK Assassination (October 2014, Trine Day), examines his strange and puzzling behavior both before and after the assassination.

At the time of the assassination, Ferrie was a 45-year-old New Orleans resident who was acquainted with some of the most notorious names linked to the assassination: Lee Oswald, Clay Shaw, Guy Banister, Jack Ruby, and Carlos Marcello.

He possessed assorted talents and eccentricities: he was at one time a senior pilot with Eastern Airlines until he was fired for homosexual activity on the job; he was also a hypnotist; a serious researcher of the origins of cancer; an amateur psychologist; and a victim of a strange disease, alopecia, which made all of his body void of hair. His odd lifestyle was embellished with an equally bizarre appearance featuring a red toupee and false eyebrows. This is the first book focused solely on David Ferrie and his alleged involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.

Listen to the author Judyth Vary Baker's interview on the Wild Side

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More On Judyth Vary Baker

Judyth Vary Baker is an American artist, writer, poet and social scientist specializing in linguistics. Born May 15, 1943, in South Bend, Indiana, she first became known as a young prodigy in cancer research, then, later, for her assertion (in 1999) that while conducting cancer research in New Orleans, in the summer of 1963, she had a love affair with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. She is the author of Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. She lives in exile in Europe.