A wonderful celebration of the life of Hugh Aynesworth. Bob Schieffer is at 20:00; Researcher Dave Perry speaks at just past the first...

It didn't take long for James DiEugenio to trash Hugh Aynesworth. But he tells this story about the Clinton/Jackson witnesses. For in his...

This was taken at Hugh and Paula's house in November 2019. I was greatly saddened to hear that Hugh Aynesworth passed away last night at...

Pittsburgh Press, February 6, 1969 Money quote: At least a dozen witnesses -- none of whom came forward in the first three years after the assassination -- have placed Shaw with Ferrie, Oswald with Shaw or all three. Why Didn't Garrison's Witnesses Come Forward Before 1967? Stephen Roy, in his unpublished biography of David Ferrie, Perfect Villain: David Ferrie and the JFK Mystery , wrote: "The 1963 Ferrie investigation was as notable for what did emerge as for what did not

Pittsburgh Press, February 5, 1969 Money quote: Mr. Garrison has said publicly many times that all his witnesses must pass tests involving polygraphs, truth serum and hypnosis. "There's no margin for error this way," he explained. Russo, however, totally failed two polygraph tests, given by two different operators. Bundy, likewise, flunked the polygraph, and at least three of Mr. Garrison's closest assistants begged that he not be put on the stand. Here are some relevant blog

Money quote: On and on it went. Aides and newsmen close to the investigation wondered aloud how Garrison could tell the mental cases from the sincere witnesses, the truthful from the imaginative. You can see this in the leads that Garrison sent to the House Selection Committee on Assassinations. They were an amalgam of rumor, gossip and imagination. None of Garrison's leads amounted to anything. Here is a link to part two of this series. Here is a link to part one of this s

Money quote: The final irony of Shaw's two-year ordeal is that he will probably lose the jury trial now in progress and be convicted of conspiracy. It won't be because the Garrison case is any better than it ever was, but because of the spectacularly vague definition of conspiracy in Louisiana. Fortunately, Clay Shaw was not convicted. The point was the unfair fight that Clay Shaw faced in this trial. Here is a terrific memo written by Irvin Dymond, his trial attorney, on all

Part one of five-part series in the Pittsburgh Press , February 2, 1969 Previous Relevant Blog Posts Did the FBI Bug Garrison's Offices? Hugh Aynesworth debunks William Walters. Was Jim Garrison Napoleon or Rasputin? A terrific cover of Westward with a story by Hugh Aynesworth Why do Conspiracy Theorists Still Believe Julia Ann Mercer? Hugh Aynesworth saw Jack Ruby at the offices of the Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963. Jim Garrison Hoped Clay Shaw

New Orleans States-Item, February 25, 1967 Garrison actually thought that Shaw would commit suicide. Here is an excerpt from "Garrison vs. Shaw: The Big Melodrama in New Orleans" by Hugh Aynesworth from the second of five articles written for The Pittsburgh Press, February 3 , 1969: Previous Relevant Blog Posts When Shaw was Arrested, What Serious Evidence did Garrison have that he Conspired to Kill JFK? Please take the challenge. In June 1970, Clay Shaw and Others Look Back

Hat tip to David Reitzes who did an amazing job on the Julia Mercer story. Here is the complete Julia Mercer story. I know it's long, but...

As soon as details of the QUICK article got out, Jim Garrison was denying that he was the author. Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, April 3, 1967 It's interesting that Garrison complained that he "never told anyone the name of the person who fired the fatal shot at President Kennedy." He didn't say that didn't know the name of the assassin - he just hadn't told anybody. An American reporter for the West German public radio broadcaster Deutsche Welle wrote to Jim Garrison the

In the early part of his investigation, Jim Garrison believed that a homosexual conspiracy was behind the JFK assassination. Yesterday's blog post included an article from QUICK Magazine supposedly written by Jim Garrison that discussed just such a conspiracy. I decided not to include the QUICK article in my book, On The Trail of Delusion. I just couldn't be sure the article was legitimate. However, upon reflection it was clear that there was a lot of information in the artic

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

Here is the cover of Westward , a magazine that was published with the November 21, 1982 edition of the Dallas Times-Herald. I'll feature the complete article by Hugh Aynesworth in a future blog post. And Jim Garrison did have a portrait of Napoleon in his office: Sylvia Meagher had a different impression about Jim Garrison. Here is a letter she wrote to Kerry Thornley - note the last line:

James DiEugenio, in his book Destiny Betrayed and in Probe Magazine (July-August, 1977), has made the claim that Jim Garrison's offices were wiretapped by the FBI. Before we get to dealing with the allegation, it is worth pointing out that Garrison long believed the FBI was listening in on his conversations. In early 1967, journalist Hugh Aynesworth visited Garrison to discuss the case . Garrison, he said, would rush off periodically and shout a chess move into the handset

You can read more about Michael Lesser here. Paragraph relevant to the Jim Garrison investigation: "While at Syracuse he helped form a...