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

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

Sylvia Meagher was planning on holding a meeting in her apartment with Warren Report critics in 1965. Here is a letter she wrote Maggie...

Here is a very good Edward Jay Epstein article on Oliver Stone from The Atlantic in 1 993 : Money quote: Where Jim Garrison failed to build a plausible conspiracy case against Clay Shaw, how did Oliver Stone succeed? The answer is whereas Garrison attempted only to coax, intimidate, and hypnotize witnesses into providing him with incriminating evidence, Oliver Stone fabricated for his film the crucial evidence and witnesses that were missing in real life -- even when this li

Edward Jay Epstein died today at the age of 88. He was a towering figure in the JFK assassination research community. His 1966 book...

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 Money quote: After reading Mr. Epstein's fascinating Counterplot (a chunk of it ran in the New Yorker ), I have evolved my own theory, to which I refuse to swear under oath. It is this: the "second Oswald" is really Jim Garrison. Both wanted a piece of the attention action in America. Both suffered from the strange new disease of media pe

Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe Edward Jay Epstein, author of Inquest and Counterplot,...

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 Ferrell. Hey, nothing like using D.A. credentials to "terrorize" a postmaster. Garrison was flippant with the evidence. Here is a picture of Garrison at his home with the whips found in Shaw's apartment: Here is an excerpt from Edward Jay Epstein's Counterplot , contained in The Assassination Chronicles : (page 186 - 187) "Early next morning, I we

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 David Ferrie was reading Edward Jay Epstein's book, Inquest . You can read Ferrie's autopsy report here. I previously wrote about Ferrie's last week here - he believed he was seriously ill with encephalitis. Ferrie died of natural causes - he had a berry aneurysm which is a congenital defect. The autopsy was done by Dr. Ronald Welsh, and "It

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, Gordon Novel's lawyer, and it appears that Garrison didn't have time to finish the memo. Once again, you can see that Garrison was well aware of the Paese Sera articles about Clay Shaw and Permindex/CMC. He references the Italian, French and Canadian stories - but all of those stories emanated from Paese Sera, a communist-controlled newspaper

The October 1967 issue of Playboy Magazine contained the longest interview in their history - 20,000 words from Jim Garrison. About 5 million copies were printed and Playboy organized a press tour for Garrison. You can read the whole interview here . Here is Playboy's press release for their interview: Warren Commission critic Sylvia Meagher did not much like the Garrison interview and she wrote Playboy a 3-page letter. For the first time ever, here is her letter: As you can