Indeed, Garrison even told the press that he could ignore Judge Haggerty's guidelines on pre-trial publicity: New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 30, 1967 Money Quote : The DA, after Robertson had left, was asked about a statement that he, as district attorney, was not bound by guidelines set by Judge Haggerty as an attempt to prevent pre-judicial publicity concerning Shaw's trial. Garrison said it was his opinion that "the judge was just making a suggestion when he handed out

In January 1971, Judge Herbert Christenberry conducted three days of hearings on Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for perjury. Here is...

Here is an overview of the Garrison investigation from the New Orleans Times-Picayune of December 15, 1991. Here are some of the important quotes in this article: "He had changed from a liberal, crusading, dedicated public officer to a megalomaniac. Once he became fixed on the Kennedy probe, he became absolutely ruthless in his pursuit of it." David Chandler on Jim Garrison "A few of us quite frankly were relieved. We were hoping this was the opportunity we had been waiting

Here is a letter from Edward Wegmann to Irvin Dymond with a to-do list. They had a huge task list -- in addition to checking out a...

Conspiracy theorists offer different reasons why Richard Case Nagell did not testify at Clay Shaw's trial. James DiEugenio, in his book...

Niles "Lefty" Peterson was a close friend of Perry Russo's. Russo told Andrew Sciambra that Lefty Peterson, and others, would be able to...

Sandra Moffett [born Lillie Mae Moffett] hung out with Perry Russo in New Orleans in the 1960s. She considered herself to be his...

M.S. Arnoni was the editor of The Minority of One , a small, independent left-wing journal that was published monthly in the 1960s. The JFK assassination was an important topic in the journal and Sylvia Meagher was a regular contributor. Both Arnoni and Meagher took a dim view of Jim Garrison, and here is an unsigned article from the October 1967 issue that was written by Arnoni: Jim Garrison sent a reply to Arnoni: Garrison refers to the Ruby code - here is a blog post about

Jim Garrison claims he asked for a preliminary hearing on the Clay Shaw prosecution because of fairness. Here is what he says in his book, On The Trail of The Assassins : (page 151) "In this case I made the motion out of fairness to Shaw because of the extraordinary seriousness of the charge. My application requested that a panel of three judges then determine whether the charges should be dismissed or Shaw held over for trial. This was the first time in the history of Louisi

Right at the end of the Clay Shaw trial, two surprise witnesses came forward for the prosecution. Nicholas and Mathilda Tadin took the...

Some conspiracy books claim that while Clay Shaw was acquitted, the jury also believed there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. ...

Irvin Dymond wrote an undated memo about the difficulties in the Clay Shaw case. There was no discovery in Louisiana courts and so they...