Breck Wall was an entertainer in Dallas who developed, with his partner and lover Joe Peterson, a musical revue called Bottoms Up. For a while, they performed this revue at Jack Ruby s Sovereign Club, which later became the Carousel Club. Wall was one of Jack Ruby s friends, and Wall visited him in jail after he killed Oswald.
Breck Wall during his oral history interview at the Sixth Floor Museum on December 28, 1993.
On November 23rd, Wall drove to Galveston, which is fifty-one miles southeast of Houston. He wanted to get away from Dallas for a few days and visit friends. He stayed with Thomas and Nonie McKenna, a couple who had lived next to his family when he was growing up. He was always very close with them. Wall left their phone number with the operator so that he could be reached, and that night at 11:44 PM, Jack Ruby called him from Dallas. He wanted some help from Wall who was then the President of the
On Friday evening, November 22, 1963, David Ferrie drove to Houston with two of his friends, Al Beauboeuf, and Mel Coffey. This trip has become the stuff of legends!
Just have a look at page 7 of Garrison s
On The Trail of The Assassins, and you ll find skepticism about the trip: And the more he talked, the less his story held together. For example, when I asked him the reason for his departure from New Orleans only one hour following the assassination, he responded that he had driven to Houston to go ice skating. When I asked him why he had chosen one of the heaviest thunderstorms in many years as the occasion for his ice skating trip, he had no adequate answer.