Clay Shaw's Acquittal; New Charges; and Wegmann Goes Back to the Department of Justice. March 3, 1967, Clay Shaw arrives for a press conference after his arrest. Our last post ended with the start of Clay Shaw's trial for conspiring to kill JFK. During the course of the trial, there was ample opportunity for the Department of Justice to get involved and help Clay Shaw. For instance: Clay Shaw's attorneys had trouble with the Clinton witnesses because they did not have access

Wegmann files a forty-five-page complaint in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans. Photo from Rosemary James' article, "The Dark Side of Not Guilty," in New Orleans Magazine. In May of 1968, Wegmann filed a forty-five-page complaint in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans. What does he have to lose? The DOJ won't help him so perhaps the courts will help. Click here for his complaint. Wegmann asks for "a 'sanctuary' in this Court to grant him relief from the irreparable ha

Wegmann Files a Civil Rights Complaint with the Department of Justice. Clay Shaw leaving the court house in New Orleans. Our last post on Clay Shaw left off with Ed Wegmann sending a letter to John Doar at the Department of Justice in late-September of 1967. He promised Doar that information on the case was being compiled and would soon be sent to him. As you can see in this post, there is some desperation on the part of Shaw's attorneys. They don't have many cards to play an

Wegmann Goes Back to Washington with Irvin Dymond Clay Shaw on the left, 1944 - 1945, with General Thrasher. In mid-September 1967, Wegmann and Dymond flew north to Washington D.C. They enlisted the help of Herbert 'Jack' Miller, a former assistant attorney general, who had been hired by Robert Kennedy in 1961. They told Miller that they waned to meet with someone at the CIA who can "steer them to the true facts and circumstances," of the various allegations being made by Gar