Episode 188 The Reverend Raymond Broshears Part 1

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 188 is the first in a two part mini- series wander covering the Reverend Raymond Broshears. 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 assassi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:24.1	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:28.1	Today's episode is episode 188.
0:34.6	Now that we're finished up with the Richard Case Nagel miniseries, it's time to get on to other things.
0:41.1	I know I promised you that we'd pivot to Oswald and the CIA, and we're going to do that, but I'm sorry. We're not going to do it on this particular episode. Every once in a while,
0:47.9	I just have to take another wander after a wander. And so today's wander is one of those crazy, zany, I would call him a witness.
0:58.7	His name is Raymond Brose Shears, and he's the subject of today's episode.
1:04.1	I guess you can call this another one of those you can't write this kind of stuff episodes.
1:09.7	And I guess we still are technically in the zone of the garrison investigation when we include this particular character.
1:17.1	But I think it's a wander worth taking, and I hope you'll take it with me.
1:22.3	And so, without further ado, let's listen to episode 188 of JFK, The Enduring Secret. One of the most famous of the lesser-known characters in the Garrison investigation is the Reverend Raymond
2:02.6	Broushires, also known as Earl Raymond Allen. Stephen Jaffe, who worked for Jim Garrison in the
2:10.9	New Orleans DA's office, conducted a series of four interviews in July and August of 1968. The first two were in Long Beach,
2:19.7	California, and the last two being conducted in New Orleans. Bruchers was an ordained minister in
2:27.1	the Universal Life Church, founded in 1960 by a Dr. Kirby J. Hensley of North Carolina, a man who apparently could neither read nor write.
2:39.7	Brochairs was active in doing civil rights work for the Congress of Racial Equality or Corps.
2:46.0	After a conviction for sexually molesting a minor in East St. Louis, Illinois in 1964, and serving six months
2:53.9	in prison, he found work in a carnival for a short time. And eventually, to escape my problems,
3:02.1	as he put it, he said that he went down yonder to New Orleans in 1965.
3:08.9	He was 30 years old at the time and almost penniless,
3:14.1	and he would find initial shelter in a hotel near the Continental Trailways Bus Depot,
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