In December 1967, Jim Garrison issued a series of press releases about a supposed shot from the sewer on Elm Street. I have previously blogged about a shot from the sewer here, and here . I found Garrison's press releases in the Al Chapman folder in the Harold Weisberg Archive . Chapman was a researcher who supplied Jim Garrison with photographs. Here is his first press release: Jim Garrison writes that "the bullet has been identified -- by a comparison study of bullets -- a

In 1982, Jim Garrison sent the first five chapters of his new book on the JFK assassination, The Execution , to McGraw-Hill. He wanted to launch it in November 1983 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the assassination. The book was rejected a few weeks later in October 1982. Garrison then rewrote the book, renamed A Farewell to Justice , and it was also met with rejection by a variety of publishers. When Garrison told conspiracy radio host Ted Gandolfo about his book

Garrison tried hard to convince Playboy he was the real deal. And, so he wrote them a memo. I found this in the papers of Elmer Gertz, Gordon Novel's lawyer, and it appears that Garrison didn't have time to finish the memo. Once again, you can see that Garrison was well aware of the Paese Sera articles about Clay Shaw and Permindex/CMC. He references the Italian, French and Canadian stories - but all of those stories emanated from Paese Sera, a communist-controlled newspaper