APOSTOLIC OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE AMERICAS

  EARL ANGLIN JAMES: 1967 JAMES:  MAY 30 1956
JAMES:  DATE UNKNOWN

In 1962-1963 David Ferrie made seven long distance phone calls from New Orleans to an unlisted number in the (416) area code:  Toronto Canada.

In 1967, at the request of the New Orleans district attorney’s office, Metropolitan Toronto Police linked the unlisted number to Earl Anglin Lawrence James, a bishop in the Old Roman Catholic Church of North America, a shadowy and highly factionalized heretical sect in which Ferrie was reportedly ordained and subsequently defroked as a priest.   (Ferrie has also been described in error as being a “bishop” in the sect; he was not.)  The group’s “apostolic tables of succession” prominently identify Earl Anglin James as a bishop in their movement, a rank held by very few in the movement.  See following links for more:

[ Tables of Apostolic Succession ]
[ Old Roman Catholic Church of North America Home Page ]   
[ “Official” Catholic info site on sect ]

In a local press interview in November 1967, the schismatic bishop Earl Anglin James vehemently insisted he only received one call in his entire life from New Orleans “in March 1965 and it was from Mr. J. S. Martin.  It was personal.”

Earl James characterized the allegations of his links to David Ferrie and the JFK assassination as a smear campaign by factions within his controversial church.  James insisted that he had never been in the State of Louisiana.

The 1967 Metro Toronto Police / New Orleans DA communications are classified, but senior Toronto inspectors kept filing Earl James – JFK related reports into an informal historic correspondence file as “memos for letter files.”

The last item in the file was a routine 1970 report on a stolen wallet recovered and returned by Toronto Police to  Earl Anglin James.  But prior to releasing the billfold to James, the police officer photocopied the troubling contents in the wallet and sent them to a senior Toronto Police homicide inspector, who subsequently deposited the copies into the “letter files.”  While ostensibly James was a Canadian residing in Toronto, the items in his wallet suggest his presence in New Orleans in the early 1960’s, where presumably he met David Ferrie.  Most curious are the Louisiana Department of Justice identification cards which James had in his billfold and his smuggling activities–of both, material and human beings.