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Should We Blame Mark Lane?
Here is an ad for the film Rush to Judgment . I am not sure what newspaper this ad was placed, but clearly it was in New York City. Jim Garrison told all the critics that they were the ones who got him into the JFK assassination investigation. He knew how to flatter people. Most probably, the first book that he read was Harold Weisberg's Whitewash, and it was through that book that he learned that Dean Andrews stuck to his story about Clay Bertrand when testifying to the Warr

Fred Litwin
Oct 212 min read
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The Final Chapter in the Assassination Controversy?
Edward Jay Epstein wrote this for the April 20, 1969 edition of the New York Times Magazine . His conclusion was wrong - Garrison was not the final chapter and there was a new investigation. Money Quote : Like Lane, each of the critics claimed to have access to at least part of Garrison's "secret evidence," and on this basis they warned the public that the Johnson Administration would face dire consequences if Garrison were ever allowed to bring his evidence to court. For his

Fred Litwin
Aug 244 min read
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Sylvia Meagher's Report on the Warrenologists
Sylvia Meagher was planning on holding a meeting in her apartment with Warren Report critics in 1965. Here is a letter she wrote Maggie...

Fred Litwin
Jan 14, 20243 min read
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The Second Coming of Jim Garrison
Here is a very good Edward Jay Epstein article on Oliver Stone from The Atlantic in 1993: Money quote: Where Jim Garrison failed to build...

Fred Litwin
Jan 13, 20243 min read
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Edward Jay Epstein, R.I.P.
Edward Jay Epstein died today at the age of 88. He was a towering figure in the JFK assassination research community. His 1966 book...

Fred Litwin
Jan 12, 20243 min read
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Garrison, White-Collar Demagogue
Here is a book review of Edward Jay Epstein's 1969 book, Counterplot: (you can read his book here) New York Magazine, February 10, 1969...

Fred Litwin
Jan 9, 20241 min read
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Assume Nothing
Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe Edward Jay Epstein, author of Inquest and Counterplot,...

Fred Litwin
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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Garrison's Approach to the Handling of Evidence
Here is an excerpt from a letter that Fred Newcomb wrote to Richard E. Sprague on December 2, 1969: The Mary in the letter is Mary...

Fred Litwin
Jul 24, 20213 min read
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The Death of David Ferrie
Some rarely seen pictures of David Ferrie and his apartment after his death. That is a wig and fake eyebrows on Ferrie. You can see that...

Fred Litwin
Nov 10, 20202 min read
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Garrison's Playboy Interview - More Secret Information
Garrison tried hard to convince Playboy he was the real deal. And, so he wrote them a memo. I found this in the papers of Elmer Gertz,...

Fred Litwin
Oct 29, 20202 min read
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Garrison's Playboy Interview - What Couldn't Be Printed
The October 1967 issue of Playboy Magazine contained the longest interview in their history - 20,000 words from Jim Garrison. About 5...

Fred Litwin
Oct 28, 20202 min read
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