As soon as details of the QUICK article got out, Jim Garrison was denying that he was the author. Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, April 3, 1967 It's interesting that Garrison complained that he "never told anyone the name of the person who fired the fatal shot at President Kennedy." He didn't say that didn't know the name of the assassin - he just hadn't told anybody. An American reporter for the West German public radio broadcaster Deutsche Welle wrote to Jim Garrison the

So far, we have posted a variety of reasons for believing Jim Garrison was behind the QUICK article from April 1967. In addition, there was a story in QUICK which was not in the press, and could only have come from Jim Garrison. It concerned James Dondson, who spent part of the weekend of the assassination with Clay Shaw in San Francisco. "The questioning of Shaw's male lover James Dondson made me even more certain that Shaw was head of the plot. At the very hour Kennedy was

The Girl on the Stairs blog has an interesting interview of Harold Weisberg by author Barry Ernest from 1999 : What about Garrison. What happened to him? I don’t know. I don’t know if he became crazy or just irresponsible. I think that as a district attorney he was a good district attorney. He was insensitive to what reflected on him personally. I can tell you stories about that. He got his start with what I wrote in Whitewash . He said it was Senator [Russell] Long who gave

Hat Tip: Jerry Shinley at David Reitzes' terrific website for the insights in this blog post. Kevin Bacon played Willie O'Keefe in the...

In January 1968, police officer Aloysius Habighorst made the following statement to Garrison's investigators: Towards the end of July,...

A good article from Nicholas Chriss from the Los Angeles Times of June 30, 1970:

There are some people who love to tell stories, and there are some people who love to believe stories. A conspiracy theorist was anxious...

On November 20, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jim Garrison's petition to overturn the permanent injunction against trying Clay Shaw for perjury. New Orleans Times-Picayune , November 21, 1972 Jim Garrison then issued this press release: Is this the product of a sane man? The assassination was a "professionally executed guerilla ambush," with four gunmen - two in front, and two in back. Oswald was "planted" in the Texas School Book Depository. Jack Ruby was a "

James DiEugenio, in his book Destiny Betrayed, writes: (page 208) "This collection by attorneys Bill and Ed Wegmann includes a report by...

In early 1971, Garrison filed a response, in U.S. District Court, to Clay Shaw's complaint regarding the upcoming perjury charges. He...

Our blog post from yesterday looked at L. P. Davis who provided information about a possible Clay Shaw - David Ferrie Link. Here is...

Here is a memo from the Garrison files about a possible Clay Shaw - David Ferrie connection. Now, this memo is unclear as to whether...

Clay Bertrand supposedly called lawyer Dean Andrews, who was in the hospital with double pneumonia, on November 23, 1963 and asked if he...

This is one crack investigator, no?

Judge Herbert Christenberry held three days of hearings regarding Garrison's two counts of perjury against Clay Shaw. Ultimately, in May...

One of the most bizarre accusations by conspiracy theorists is Clay Shaw's supposed involvement with the Freeport Sulphur Company. The...

On March 4, 1967, a Communist-controlled newspaper in Rome, Paese Sera, began a series of articles on Clay Shaw, his board membership on...

The story starts with Deuce Parent, a Sergeant on the Kenner, Louisiana police force, who told his friend Ronald Raymond that "an...

We previously blogged about Bill Boxley's investigation in Dallas of people listed in Clay Shaw's address book. He believed he found...

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