Clay Shaw testified at his trial that he had never worked for the CIA. Irvin Dymond: Mr. Shaw, have you ever worked for the Central...

The recent Oliver Stone documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, makes the claim that Clay Shaw was a "highly valued...

Here is a letter that Garrison wrote to Arch Kimbrough, another JFK assassination researcher: James Dondson was the man who was with Clay Shaw during the weekend of the assassination. Was there a second Dondson? Garrison writes: "The problem is that these curious CIA types -- such as Ferrie, Bradley and Beckham -- have made themselves part of odd religions or extreme right-wing groups, and sometimes a combination of both. In most instances, however, their history in intellige

Jim Garrison charged that the lawyers of various witnesses, including Gordon Novel, were paid by the CIA . In the late 1970s, Gordon Novel was charged with firebombing a building in New Orleans and one of his lawyers was Jim Garrison. This prompted a very funny comment from a prosecutor. Hat Tip: Don Carpenter's incredible biography of Claw Shaw: Man of a Million Fragments . New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 15, 1976 Previous Relevant Blog Posts Did the CIA Pay the Lawyers

For several months in 1967, Assistant District Attorney William Martin, of the New Orleans D.A.'s office, had a series of meetings and...

In the early part of his investigation, Jim Garrison believed that a homosexual conspiracy was behind the JFK assassination. Yesterday's blog post included an article from QUICK Magazine supposedly written by Jim Garrison that discussed just such a conspiracy. I decided not to include the QUICK article in my book, On The Trail of Delusion. I just couldn't be sure the article was legitimate. However, upon reflection it was clear that there was a lot of information in the artic

We have already done one blog post on this topic, and we showed that Gordon Novel didn't like to pay his legal bills from Elmer Gertz....

Many conspiracy theorists believe that Eladio del Valle, a former Cuban Congressman who was murdered in Miami in February 1967, was...

You can read Part One about Fred Leemans here. How do conspiracy books treat Fred Leemans? James DiEugenio, published the Leemans...

Sergio Arcacha Smith, an anti-Castro Cuban, was sent to New Orleans from Miami as a delegate to the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front....

In the lawsuit to stop Garrison's perjury charges, Judge Herbert Christenberry held three days of hearings in January of 1971. Jim Garrison, still the District Attorney, was forced to take the stand and was examined by Clay Shaw's attorneys - Edward Wegmann and Irvin Dymond. John Volz and William Alford were the lawyers for Garrison. Here are some of the highlights of Garrison's testimony: Right off the bat, Garrison is confused about how many times he asked Clay Shaw in for

I recently came into possession of the first three chapters of Jim Garrison's manuscript, A Farewell To Justice , from 1985. I am posting today the Table of Contents, and Garrison's chapter outline. Garrison got nowhere with this manuscript. He reworked it and retitled it Coup D'etat, and Prentice Hall paid him a $10,000 advance. They hired Sylvia Meagher as a referee, and she submitted a 26-page critique. She recommended publication because Garrison now said that Oswald was

Garrison believed that the CIA was paying the lawyers of several witnesses. In June 1967, Garrison appeared on NBC: Question : We now find three people who are outside Louisiana who are fighting their return to the state in connection with your investigation—Gordon Novel, Sergio Arcacha Smith, and Sandra Moffit. Could you briefly discuss these three people and their role in all this? Garrison : The point that you’re going for is that we are in private difficulty for getting t

Jim Garrison seemed to think so. Here is a memo he wrote in February, 1968. Here are two photos of the Old Post Office Building: You can...