Episode 189 The Reverend Raymond Broshears Part 2

Episode 189 is the second and last in a two part mini- series wander covering the Reverend Raymond Broshears. In today's final mini-series "wander" episode, we present Broshears' taped audio deposition that he gave to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).  Broshears was one of the most bizarre witnesses that surfaced during the Garrison investigation. He met David Ferrie in New Orleans and became rather good friends with him.  They were sexual partners as well.  According to the story that  the good Reverend told back in the day, Ferrie confided in Broshears after the fact,  regarding his involvement in the  assassination plot to kill the president, with Ferrie participating  as the pilot who was to fly two of the assassins out of the country. The two men were purportedly  the shooters who were situated on the Grassy Knoll. The assassins changed the plan and apparently escaped by others means, thereby eliminating the need for Ferrie to fly them out of the country. Broshears  was a homosexual  who was also an ordained minister. Among his many notable notable assertions,  he claimed to have had sex with Lee Harvey Oswald.  After a sordid period of his life in which he was charged with sex crimes involving a minor, he would make his way to New Orleans and begin a tail that you will hear in these two episodes and capped off by today's rendering of his  testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations which occurred some ten years after his interviews with the Garrison team. After 1965, he moved to  California in search of a new start in his life,  and ended up as a rather controversial figure out there.  Broshears appeared on a local  Southern California television show, where he revealed the startling fact that he knew Ferrie and he told the story rather matter of factly  to the television audience regarding what Ferrie told him of his involvement in the assassination.  The show happened to be watched by a Garrison investigator living in the area, and Garrison and his team immediately moved to interview Broshears.  Four interviews were conducted, including two which took place in New Orleans. However, Garrison and his team, while they believed Broshears was telling the truth about the basic facts related to Ferrie, declined to use him in the Clay Shaw trial. Listen to these two episodes combined , and I think you will understand why. Even so, he is an important part of the history of the investigation, and we leave it up to you as a juror to determine which parts of his testimony may be credible. 

Even as early as 1964, rumors and serious concerns over  the lone gunman theory and the evidence that might contravene it,  were becoming a major concern for the government and the commission. Conspiracy theories were contrary to the government's stated narrative from the very beginning. This  real-life story is more fascinating than fiction.  No matter whether you are a serious researcher or a casual student, you will enjoy the fact filled narrative and story as  we relive one of the most shocking moments in American History. An event that changed the nation and changed the world forever.