It was a pleasure talking with Dr. Larry Haapanen, an historian and Professor at Lewis-Clark State College, who has long been involved in...

It was a blast talking with author Adam Gorightly about Kerry Thornley, Thomas Beckham, Fred Crisman, and Raymond Broshears. Adam has...

Mae Brussell was a researcher who saw conspiracies everywhere. Even researcher Dick Russell wrote that he had always considered her to be...

I previously posted an article about Fred Crisman , who was one of Garrison's favorite suspects. Ray Palmer popularized the UFO craze in the United States , and he shared an interest about Crisman with Jim Garrison. They corresponded in 1968. I don't have Garrison's letter to Palmer, but here is Palmer's letter to Garrison: (you can see Garrison's underlines and notations) This is all madness, no? Fred Crisman testified before the New Orleans Grand Jury on November 21, 1968

This article, from the Fortean Times, issue #355, is a pretty good overview of the life of Fred Crisman. This is a pretty good article,...

Here is yet another tape of Jim Garrison being interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in either late July or early...

Our quiz from yesterday was regarding the May 1958 issue of Flying Saucers magazine: The relationship to the JFK assassination is Fred...

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell The QUICK article clearly demonstrates that Jim Garrison, in late February and early March 1967, put homosexuality at the heart of his investigation into the JFK assassination. It's consistent with what Garrison told journalists like Hugh Aynesworth, James Phelan, Jack Anderson, Merriman Smith, and Art Kevin. Garrison repeated the same nonsense to the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Times, March 2

Confidential Magazine from August 1968. The article about the "homosexual ring" was written by Joel Palmer, a part-time investigator for...

Thomas Beckham was a con man who had lived in New Orleans in the early 1960s. He tried his hand in the music business with Jack Martin as his short-lived manager. He liked costumes and regularly wore a priest's collar. Here are some of our other blog posts on Thomas Beckham: Why Did Jim Garrison Want to Speak with Thomas Beckham? The above post looks at Beckham's con. Did Thomas Beckham Know Lee Harvey Oswald? Thomas Beckham's Book, Remnants of Truth, Part One The above tw

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian...

Raymond Broshears was interviewed twice in New Orleans which resulted in two lengthy transcripts. Instead of posting the entire memos, I...

Yesterday, I posted Jim Garrison's memo to the HSCA regarding Fred Crisman and Thomas Beckham. The memo included two pages describing several exhibits Garrison included: Here is my transcription of these two pages. There are still a few words that I cannot make out, so if you have an idea, please let me know. Now, here are the exhibits: Exhibit 1: Beckham's Arrest Record This was his rap sheet from 1968 - there was more to come... Exhibit 2: Anonymous Letter A I've already p

In July 1977, Jim Garrison submitted a memo to the HSCA regarding Fred Crisman and Thomas Beckham. Both men had testified before the New Orleans' grand jury and Garrison believed they were important suspects. Here is the handwritten memo (a typed version is below). If anybody notices any transcription errors, please let me know. Here is a transcription of this memo. The first part was taken from the JFK Lancer disk of Crisman/Beckham material; the last part is my transcriptio

I have already blogged about Jim Garrison's belief that Fred Crisman was perhaps behind the JFK assassination. But, Garrison also...

About two weeks after Garrison received the second anonymous letter (see my earlier post with the two anonymous letters), a shadowy...

In May 1967 Jim Garrison received an "important" anonymous letter and handed it to Bill Boxley to investigate. This was the beginning of Garrison being interested in Fred Crisman; he was already on the lookout for Thomas Beckham. I find it interesting that the letter writer claimed that Tippit was a homosexual. I have previously posted a cover story from Confidential Magazine about the homosexual ring that killed Kennedy. That article was written by Joel Palmer who worked wit

Jim Garrison thought he was a very significant witness. Garrison subpoenaed Crisman to testify before the grand jury in New Orleans, but...