Here is a very good Edward Jay Epstein article on Oliver Stone from The Atlantic in 1 993 : Money quote: Where Jim Garrison failed to build a plausible conspiracy case against Clay Shaw, how did Oliver Stone succeed? The answer is whereas Garrison attempted only to coax, intimidate, and hypnotize witnesses into providing him with incriminating evidence, Oliver Stone fabricated for his film the crucial evidence and witnesses that were missing in real life -- even when this li

Here is a book review of Edward Jay Epstein's 1969 book, Counterplot : (you can read his book here ) New York Magazine, February 10, 1969 Money quote: After reading Mr. Epstein's fascinating Counterplot (a chunk of it ran in the New Yorker ), I have evolved my own theory, to which I refuse to swear under oath. It is this: the "second Oswald" is really Jim Garrison. Both wanted a piece of the attention action in America. Both suffered from the strange new disease of media pe

Here is a very good case study in the duplicity of Jim Garrison's investigation. Somehow, a witness statement from 1967 is turned on its head in 1971. In 1971, Jim Garrison filed papers to dismiss Clay Shaw's attempt to stop his prosecution for perjury. His filing listed his prospective witnesses, and one witness was James Louviere, who worked for David Ferrie and Al Beauboeuf (they had gone into business together with a service station that was open for about ten months in 1

The January 1992 issue of GQ featured an article by Nicholas Lemann titled "The Case Against Jim Garrison." Here is the text of the article: I know life is supposed to be full of surprises, but sometimes one comes along that exceeds the limits of what you should have to put up with. I never thought I’d see someone make an all-out effort to rehabilitate Jim Garrison, the six-foot-seven, booming-voiced district attorney of New Orleans during the years I was growing up there, a

This is an excerpt from an interview of Perry Russo by Clay Shaw's attorneys: The Robertson in the story is Willard Robertson, one of the founders of Truth and Consequences, the private organization that funded Jim Garrison's investigation. The story sounds familiar, no? Sioux Center, Iowa CNN — Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street. “I could stand in the middle of

I am not aware if Mr. Shockley ever made a statement. Previous Relevant Blog Posts Five Wacky Garrison Memos Five crazy memos. Another Wacky Garrison Investigative Memo A memo on propinquity with notations from Jim Garrison. Another Wacky Garrison Investigative Memo - Was Oswald Impersonated? A crazy memo on the height of Lee Harvey Oswald. Five Crazy Garrison Investigative Memos! Another five crazy memos. Garrison's Weird Investigative Technique - The Theory of Propinqui

I previously posted an article about Fred Crisman , who was one of Garrison's favorite suspects. Ray Palmer popularized the UFO craze in the United States , and he shared an interest about Crisman with Jim Garrison. They corresponded in 1968. I don't have Garrison's letter to Palmer, but here is Palmer's letter to Garrison: (you can see Garrison's underlines and notations) This is all madness, no? Fred Crisman testified before the New Orleans Grand Jury on November 21, 1968

Was Jim Garrison really after the truth in his JFK assassination probe? Here are three instances in which he was incredibly uninquisitive. 1. The Black Cadillac in Clinton, Louisiana. Let's start with Clinton, Louisiana where several witnesses claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie together in late August or early September. John Manchester, the Town Marshall of Clinton, said in his statement to Jim Garrison that the black Cadillac seen in Clinton

Jefferson Morley thought it was newsworthy that RFK Jr. quoted Jim Garrison . Here is RFK Jr.'s tweet : RFK Jr. decided to quote a man who was responsible for "one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of American jurisprudence." Jim Garrison ruined the life of an innocent gay man for absolutely no good reason. Garrison also cynically exploited Vietnam war protests, and legitimate criticism of the war, to further his conspiratorial view of the assassination. Now we

Baton Rouge Advocate, March 4, 1992 Money Quote 1: Garrison himself was not without mental delusions. One of his postulates, which goes unmentioned in "He Must Have Something," was that other JFK assassins hid in the storm drains of Elm Street and shot the president from below the asphalt. These sewers were only three feet high, which would have required the CIA to recruit midget hit men to carry off the job. I've written about the ridiculous sewer shot here , here , here ,

Here is a very good article from The New Republic after the acquittal of Clay Shaw: The New Republic, March 15, 1969 Money Quote: When one adds to this shambles the fact that not a single elected official in Louisiana, from governor and senators down, has yet dared to utter a single critical word about the D.A.'s action, what Garrison has proved is that Louisiana -- a state with an unenviable record for political chicanery, corruption, incompetence and negligence -- may now h

Previous Relevant Blog Posts David Lifton's Memo on Jim Garrison and Kerry Thornley A memo Lifton sent to other Warren Report critics. David Lifton's Camouflage Theory Lifton's early theory is just plain ridiculous. David Lifton (1939-2022), R.I.P. My obituary for David Lifton includes a letter that he wrote to Mark Lane about Kerry Thornley. David Lifton Writes to Oliver Stone Lifton writes to Oliver Stone about Jim Garrison.

Sauvage was the New York City correspondent for Le Figaro , a French newspaper. He wrote the book, The Oswald Affair.

New Orleans States-Item, March 29, 1974 (Original caption: Outgoing District Attorney Jim Garrison packs personal belongings into cardboard boxes as he prepares to leave the office he has occupied for 12 years.) Jim Garrison gave Mark Lane free rein to rummage through his files. Here is a note that Sylvia Meagher wrote about a phone call from Tom Bethell: Here are some excerpts from Bethell's diary about Mark Lane and the files: Sept. 22, 1967 Lane is quietly going through t

UPI photo of Lee Odom, May 18, 1967 Note: I appreciate that not everybody will read all of the enclosed documents. I wanted to make public all of the relevant documents regarding this ridiculous incident, so that future researchers can easily access them. In mid-April 1967, Edward Jay Epstein flew down to New Orleans to meet Jim Garrison. He had dinner with Garrison at Broussard's and then went to his office the following morning. Garrison wasn't there but Epstein, along with

Headline of an Open City article by David Lifton about his experiences with Jim Garrison. David Lifton started working with Jim Garrison in September of 1967 and met with him in October. He had become friends with Kerry Thornley and felt that they could help Garrison's investigation. It didn't take long for the tables to reverse and Thornley became a target of Garrison's probe. Lifton wrote about his experiences for the Los Angeles newspaper, Open City . Kerry Thornley also

Mary Ferrell Over the past three years, I have posted many letters and articles written by Sylvia Meagher about Jim Garrison. You can see the list below. I have now found something written by Mary Ferrell about Jim Garrison, and she also realized that Garrison was a charlatan, Here is an excerpt from an April 1970 letter Mary Ferrell wrote to Sylvia Meagher : Here is Sylvia's response : The next day, Sylvia wrote another letter to Mary : You can read more about the "preposter

Headline from the front page of the Los Angeles Free Press of Dec 22 - 28, 1967 At the end of 1967, Jim Garrison went public with allegations that JFK was shot from a sewer on Elm Street. Here are my three previous blog posts on this topic: Was JFK Shot From a Sewer? Jim Garrison sent Stephen Jaffe to Dallas to investigate the possibility of a shot from the sewer on Elm Street. Jim Garrison on the Shot from the Sewer Garrison is interviewed about the shot from the Sewer. Ji

I have posted many memos and letters from Sylvia Meagher about her negative opinions about Jim Garrison. Here is some correspondence between Meagher and Wecht about Garrison: In 1992, Dr. Wecht once again wrote that he did not "subscribe to Garrison's conspiracy theories."

Tablet Magazine has a lengthy interview with RFK Junior who is asked about the JFK assassination : A couple of years later, like I guess ’66 or ’67, he [Robert Kennedy] was walking through the National Airport with Frank Mankiewicz and Walter Sheridan. And he said there was a magazine stand there that had a lot of magazines with James Garrison on the cover. And he pointed to Garrison, who was then investigating my uncle’s death and thinking that the CIA was involved. And he s