Dr. Robert McClelland with his bloody shirt from November 22, 1963 which he donated to the Sixth Floor Museum. Here is a memo written by Harold Weisberg after meeting Dr. McClelland : Weisberg writes that "He [McClelland] volunteered at some length about Garrison's men, describing Garrison as a psychopath, and seem proud that he talked them out of calling him as a witness." Towards the end of the memo, Weisberg writes that "McC was quite bitter about Garrison and Lane, but he

David Lifton sent this spoof to Sylvia Meagher: Meagher appreciated the satire: Previous Relevant Blog Posts An Unreleased "Top Secret"...

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Sylvia Meagher wrote Harold Weisberg in September 1967 and enclosed some excerpts of an interview of Jim Garrison by Mike Wallace: Here is what Meagher wrote to Harold Weisberg about the interview: There is no shortage of Garrison craziness in the interview: "Marina Oswald had long since been taken over and controlled, literally, by elements of the White Russian community in Dallas; and there are individuals in the White Russian community in Dallas who are involved in the as

Warren Commission critic Harold Weisberg played an important role in shaping Jim Garrison's thinking. Here is an excerpt from Dean Andrews' interview with NBC for their special from June 1967: Question: No, just tell the story (over Dean's laughter) what you ... what you ... Andrews: ... best as I can recall, sometime in October [1966], maybe the first part of November, I got a phone call to meet him [Garrison] in Brouss ... Question: meet him where? Andrews: Broussard's .

This memo reflects some strange conspiratorial thinking... Steve Jaffe is the person who wrote a letter to Jim Garrison telling him that...

Here are two letters that Bradley wrote Jim Garrison: Garrison did not take up Bradley on his offer to meet, although they did talk on the phone (see below). Bradley wrote again in September 1969: Bradley and Garrison eventually did meet. Here is an excerpt of a letter sent by Mary Ferrell to Harold Weisberg on September 10, 1991 : Yup, of course, Garrison had been misled. That's the standard line. How on earth could you blame the boss for indicting an innocent man for consp

In 1992. Dick Russell wrote a letter to Harold Weisberg with some important information on his upcoming book on Richard Case Nagell: Dick...

Was General Edward Lansdale in one of the pictures of the three tramps? Allegation #9: General Edward Lansdale was in Dealey Plaza on the...

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

Here's a picture of Jim Garrison packing up his office from the March 30, 1974 issue of the New Orleans Times-Picayune : You can see the boxes of documents in the picture. Now, the Democratic Primary for District Attorney was held on November 9, 1973, which Garrison lost to Harry Connick. This would have given Garrison just under five months to remove all his files to safety, and to even publish grand jury testimony, had he so wanted. Instead, he decided to take many of his f

Yes, Jim Garrison suspected that Larry Crafard, a handyman who cleaned up Jack Ruby's nightclub every morning, was a grassy knoll gunman, and perhaps that Crafard also killed J. D. Tippit. Just who was Larry Crafard? Larry Crafard Crafard was a drifter and worked many jobs, usually for a few days or slightly more, before meeting Jack Ruby at a carnival in Dallas. Even though he was in his early 20s, he had so many jobs that he could barely keep track of where he had worked wh

Here is an excerpt from a memo written by Aaron Kohn, head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, dated August 10, 1967. He bumped into Ed...

Here is yet another insane memo from Steve Jaffe. There you go - Dudnick is "almost too neurotic to be credible," and yet there is some value in what he had to say. Harold Weisberg didn't think much of Jaffe and Dudnick. Here is a short Weisberg memo on Jaffe - second to last paragaraph is on Dudnick: Weisberg also thought the confidential stamp was amusing:

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We all know the scene in Oliver Stone's film JFK in which Guy Banister (Ed Asner) pistol-whips Jack Martin (Jack Lemmon). Later on, Jack...

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James DiEugenio, in his book Destiny Betrayed, writes that "Dr. Jacob Hety knew a gay man named Greg Donnelly. Donnelly had known Shaw...