The Saturday Evening Post of May 6, 1967 ran a front-page story by James Phelan on the Garrison investigation. Here is a copy of that...

Baton Rouge State Times Advocate, February 24, 1967 Our blog post yesterday discussed a memo that Garrison staffer Tom Bethell sent to...

Richard Billings with Robert Blakey Dick Billings was an editor at Life Magazine and for a while, was working with Garrison on his JFK...

This is from a partial transcript of a discussion between Mark Lane and James Phelan. I don't have an exact date for this discussion, but it was probably in 1967. Phelan refers to Breck Wald, who was Breck Wall, an entertainer whom Ruby phoned on the evening of November 23d. Garrison believed he ordered Ruby to kill Oswald. The idea that homosexuals were "used" was also mentioned by Garrison to journalist Jack Anderson. A paragraph from On the Trail of Delusion: (page 78) "

Richard Popkin, the author of The Second Oswald, took a keen interest in the Garrison investigation. He wrote a long article on Garrison...

There are several other clues which indicate that the QUICK article about a homosexual conspiracy represented Garrison's views. 1. "I found out that the night Ferrie and his two companions were waiting for a call in Houston and Galveston, a certain Breck Wall was also in Houston and then in Galveston. And now it gets interesting - Breck Wall is a close friend of Jack Ruby's - and oddly enough - Jack Ruby was also a homosexual, word of which has strangely enough to this day no

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

Few people realize just how much power Jim Garrison utilized in his position as District Attorney of the Parish of New Orleans. Milton Brener, in his superb book The Garrison Case , wrote: "By virtue of his office, the District Attorney is potentially the most powerful of the public officials domiciled at Tulane and Broad ... However, until 1962, the full extent of his strength had been convincingly impressed neither upon the community in general, nor upon the politicians the

Here's the link to Perry Russo Talks - In Baton Rouge, Part One The journalist James Phelan wrote a very interesting memo about the...

Just after David Ferrie died, Perry Russo called the media in Baton Rouge to talk about his experiences with the man. But he did not...

Breck Wall was an entertainer in Dallas who developed, with his partner and lover Joe Peterson, a musical revue called Bottoms Up. For a...

James Phelan had a great sense of humor, and it is on display in this letter to Jim Garrison. Completely unrelated to this letter is one that Sylvia Meagher wrote to Garrison about A Heritage of Stone. I have presented, earlier in my blog, two memos that Sylvia Meagher wrote about Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw. She never thought much of his knowledge of the 26 volumes of evidence, and she never thought much of Garrison's case against the Warren Report as presented in th

James Phelan was one of the first journalists that Jim Garrison talked to about his investigation. They both flew to Las Vegas and...

One of the first reporters that Garrison talked to about his case was James Phelan, who had written a laudatory article on him in the June 1963 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Garrison invited Phelan to Las Vegas and he explained what his investigation had found. He gave Phelan two memos on Perry Russo and Phelan had them photocopied at one of the hotels. He noticed that in a memo written by Andrew Sciambra there was no mention of any party at which there was a discussion