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

Rose Cherami supposedly said that she worked for Jack Ruby. Was she a stripper, or a dope runner, or was she just making it all up? Is...

The Rose Cherami story is a staple of conspiracy theorists - her supposed foreknowledge of the JFK assassination has become almost a...

Hat tip: My friend Steve Roe found this gem in James DiEugenio's book. Destiny Betrayed, and wrote it up on the Education Forum. Once...

James DiEugenio, in his book Destiny Betrayed, writes: (page 212) "Another very interesting record which indicates a Ruby-Oswald...

{Note that I am standing on the shoulders of giants - David Reitzes wrote a terrific article on Lawrence Meyers years ago, and Stephen...

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 a letter that Jim Garrison wrote Jonathan Blackmer of the HSCA in July of 1977: Here is my transcription of Garrison's letter: "Dear Jonathan: Enclosed herewith are the random Morgan City and Lafayette materials I mentioned. You will at once perceive an absence of depth of inquiry and a lack of follow-up, with regard to these two statements which I am now marking "A" + "B") but that was because we didn't know what to do with these, except put them on a shelf off to th

One of our earlier blog posts looked at Eladio del Valle and the rumor that he was David Ferrie's paymaster. In 1975, an allegation was...

We've already blogged on Breck Wall and his trip to Galveston the weekend of the assassination. Jack Ruby called Breck Wall on Saturday...

Jim Garrison was convinced that Kerry Thornley was the second Oswald. Here is a memo regarding an interview with yet another felon about...

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 largest city in Canada, but was soon overtaken by Toronto. But it was a glorious time to be a Montrealer - Expo '67 was an incredible world's fair; the Montreal Expos became Canada's first major league baseball team in 1969, and, of course, the Montreal Canadiens were perennial winners of the Stanley Cup. A major part of the Garrison conspiracy

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

On March 9th, 1967 the press started reporting that a Dallas taxicab driver, Raymond Cummings, claimed to have driven Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie to Jack Ruby's nightclub. William Gurvich interviewed Cummings in Dallas. Here is his report. Raymond Cummings then flew to New Orleans to meet with Garrison and his staff. Cummings was then given a lie detector test. For whatever it's worth, the lie detector test showed Cummings was not telling the truth. In the meantime, Sh

Why wouldn't Jack Ruby want to partner with Lee Harvey Oswald in buying a nightclub or a restaurant? What a perfect partnership - Ruby...

When Anne Dischler, a Garrison investigator, interviewed witness Andrew Dunn, he said that Shaw, Oswald and Ferrie were in the car seen...

While going through Jim Garrison's papers at NARA in Maryland, I found this letter that was sent to him, along with a newspaper clipping....

One of the crazier stories to come out of the so-called Garrison investigation was that of Slidin' Clyde Johnson. He was a fringe...

Here is a memo dated March 6, 1967 regarding a walk-in lead. You can see that Alcock doesn't quite believe the lead - "this man's appearance was very shabby and in some respects his story was not believable." Well, Limbough did claim that Tippit was Ruby's body-guard-boyfriend! His story also made the newspapers. Here is a story by Washington Post reporter George Lardner from March 12, 1967. Now, Limbough tells the press that "I think's a queer ring." Bill Gurvich, the Garris