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Fred Litwin
- Nov 22
- 2 min
Harold Weisberg and Tom Wicker
New York Times journalist Tom Wicker wrote a long review of Oliver Stone's JFK on December 15, 1991: Some key quotes from Wicker's...
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Fred Litwin
- Jul 23
- 10 min
Paul Bleau's Plots
James DiEugenio's book about the so-called Oliver Stone documentary JFK Revisited has an interview with Paul Bleau, who is his expert on...
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Fred Litwin
- Jul 4
- 2 min
Sylvia Meagher on the Clay Shaw Case
Here is a short excerpt from a letter written to Harold Weisberg in 1972 by Howard Roffman, who went on to write Presumed Guilty in...
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Fred Litwin
- Sep 12, 2021
- 13 min
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Man of the Right?
Warren Commission critic Harold Weisberg played an important role in shaping Jim Garrison's thinking. Here is an excerpt from Dean...
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Fred Litwin
- Sep 5, 2021
- 2 min
Steve Jaffe's Crazy Memo on Edgar Eugene Bradley
This memo reflects some strange conspiratorial thinking... Steve Jaffe is the person who wrote a letter to Jim Garrison telling him that...
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Fred Litwin
- Sep 4, 2021
- 3 min
Edgar Eugene Bradley Writes Jim Garrison
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...
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Fred Litwin
- Aug 7, 2021
- 5 min
Is this Document the Smoking Gun on the Richard Case Nagell Story?
In 1992. Dick Russell wrote a letter to Harold Weisberg with some important information on his upcoming book on Richard Case Nagell: Dick...
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Fred Litwin
- Jul 19, 2021
- 12 min
Fletcher Prouty's Interview with the ARRB, Part Eight
Was General Edward Lansdale in one of the pictures of the three tramps? Allegation #9: General Edward Lansdale was in Dealey Plaza on the...
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Fred Litwin
- Jun 13, 2021
- 4 min
Harold Weisberg on Jim Garrison
The Girl on the Stairs blog has an interesting interview of Harold Weisberg by author Barry Ernest from 1999: What about Garrison. What...
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Fred Litwin
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
The Sorry State of Jim Garrison's Files
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...
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Fred Litwin
- Apr 30, 2021
- 10 min
Jim Garrison Names the Grassy Knoll Gunman!
Yes, Jim Garrison suspected that Larry Crafard, a handyman who cleaned up Jack Ruby's nightclub every morning, was a grassy knoll gunman,...
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Fred Litwin
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Two States-Item Reporters were also working for Garrison!
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...
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Fred Litwin
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Was a Hit Ordered Against Jim Garrison?
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...
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Fred Litwin
- Mar 22, 2021
- 7 min
Did Clay Shaw Sign the VIP Room Guestbook as Clay Bertrand?
The story starts with Deuce Parent, a Sergeant on the Kenner, Louisiana police force, who told his friend Ronald Raymond that "an...
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Fred Litwin
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
Why did Guy Banister Pistol-Whip Jack Martin?
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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Fred Litwin
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
Was Clay Shaw Part of the Gehlen Intelligence Apparatus?
Reinhard Gehlen was a Wehrmacht Major General and head of intelligence for the Nazis on the eastern front. Before Nazi Germany fell,...
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Fred Litwin
- Mar 3, 2021
- 1 min
Did Carlos Marcello's Doctor Friend Know About Clay Bertrand?
James DiEugenio, in his book Destiny Betrayed, writes that "Dr. Jacob Hety knew a gay man named Greg Donnelly. Donnelly had known Shaw...
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Fred Litwin
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Did Dean Andrews admit that Clay Shaw was Clay Bertrand?
Harold Weisberg spent a lot of time in New Orleans assisting Jim Garrison and interviewing witnesses. He also spent some time with Dean...
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Fred Litwin
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Dr. Cyril Wecht on Jim Garrison
Here's a letter that Dr. Cyril Wecht sent to Harold Weisberg in 1992: So, in private, Wecht said that "I certainly do not subscribe to...
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Fred Litwin
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
Why Didn't Jim Garrison Go to Montreal?
I was born in Montreal and so I am fascinated by the amount of times the city comes up in Garrison documents. In the 1960s it was the...
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