Jim Garrison also read Crafard s testimony and he marked it up with comments.
Volume XIII, page 404-405. Garrison is interested in Crafard s stint in the U.S. Army. He was only in for thirteen months and was then discharged for medical reasons.
Volume XIII, page 408-409. Garrison makes a note about Crafard s remarkable memory and then wondered about Crafard s work at the carnival - as what? A sharpshooter? Then Garrison marveled at his memory once again, Did you ever see a memory
like this Every week in order. All Crafard was doing was just going over all of his places of employment.
Here is a letter that Jim Garrison wrote Jonathan Blackmer of the HSCA in July of 1977:
Here is my transcription of Garrison s letter: Dear Jonathan:
Enclosed herewith are the random Morgan City and Lafayette materials I mentioned. You will at once perceive an absence of depth of inquiry and a lack of follow-up, with regard to these two statements which I am now marking A + B ) but that was because we didn t know what to with these, except put them on a shelf off to the side, while we headed down the little road we had stumbled across. Perhaps your people will be able to do more with these two random statements than we were able to do.
Both Jack Martin and David Ferrie were clergy in the Orthodox Old Catholic Church of North America. It was an odd sect which drew the attention of Jim Garrison, thinking that perhaps there was some CIA connection. Making it all the more suspicious, there was a rumor that Oswald had tried to seek refuge in the Abundant Life Temple, after killing office J.D. Tippit. He hadn t, but he probably ran through the alleyway next to the Temple.
And so Garrison had investigator Bill Boxley look at the Abundant Life Temple. Here is his report:
The Abundant Life Temple was a member of the American Council of Christian Churches - a right-wing organization headed by Carl McIntyre. This became more interesting to Garrison because Edgar Eugene Bradley, whom Garrison indicted for conspiring to kill JFK in December 1967, worked for McIntyre.