The ACLU had some early concerns about a fair trial for Clay Shaw. I was happy to find this article, but I wish they had been far more...

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...

Here is an important internal Time/Life Magazine memo from journalist Holland McCombs to editor Richard Billings regarding Clay Shaw....

Today is the 58th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was only 46 years old when he was gunned down in...

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

This interview is from 1976 and contains some really ridiculous stuff: There's no shortage of crazy material in this interview. Whereabouts of Shaw and Ferrie on November 22nd. Q: But I think that the charge against you, more specifically, was that you failed to show any real link between Clay Shaw and the Kennedy assassination. A: We showed his connection with Lee Harvey Oswald and we had him in specific conversation about the assassination, even up to such details as whe

I posted an important Max Lerner opinion piece yesterday on Garrison's early thinking on the JFK conspiracy. Garrison told Lerner, just like he told Hugh Aynesworth, James Phelan, Merriman Smith, and Lawrence Schiller, that homosexuals were behind the conspiracy. Here is another excellent Lerner opinion piece. Springfield Daily News, February 24, 1969 I find this article to be particularly persuasive. Lerner mentions Edward Jay Epstein's book, Counterplot . It's an excellent

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 link to Perry Russo's testimony at the preliminary hearing. Here is the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for March...

Here is the document that Jim Garrison submitted in order to get a search warrant for Clay Shaw's home. An interesting description of the...

Here is a letter that Carlos Quiroga wrote to Clay Shaw: Here is the letter Quiroga wrote to the press. I don't know if his program ever...

When Delphine Roberts (secretary to Guy Banister) was interviewed by the HSCA, she told them several things she clearly made up. Here is...

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...

Here is lead #4 from Garrison's November 1967 leads memo: This lead was followed-up and here is the memo from Richard Burnes, who is one...

You never know who's going to phone... Here's the transcript of their conversation: Thank god they preserved the transcript of this...

Here is an article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune from February 19, 1973: Previous Relevant Blog Posts Clay Shaw's Journal His preamble about Jim Garrison Clay Shaw's Journal - His Arrest Jim Garrison asks Clay Shaw to take truth serum or a lie detector test Clay Shaw's Journal - After His Arrest Shaw's friends are shocked at his arrest. Clay Shaw's Journal, March 4 - 7, 1967 The reality of what Clay Shaw is up against starts to kick in. Clay Shaw's Journal, March 8

Here is an article from the Biloxi Daily Herald from April 29, 1967: The article says that "In accordance with the Louisiana Bar's...

Two days ago, I posted documents showing that the allegation that Clay Shaw was working for the CIA in Rome in the 1960s originated in...

The $64 challenge still stands: When Clay Shaw was arrested, what serious evidence did Jim Garrison have that he conspired to kill JFK? Jim Garrison himself could not meet the challenge. A few days I ago I posted an excerpt from Clay Shaw's journal. Before Shaw was arrested, Jim Garrison demanded that Shaw take either a lie detector test or truth serum. Shaw accepted but only if he was given one day to rest and provided his lawyers could "edit the questions to be sure that t

In the summer of 1977, Garrison was interviewed by the HSCA. Here is the first page of a fifteen-page memo regarding the interview as...