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

As I noted in a blog post from April 2021, James DiEugenio is the Protector and Defender of the Garrison Faith : DiEugenio’s official title should be Protector and Defender of the Garrison Faith , and as such he must answer anybody who deviates, even if just slightly, from his conspiracy dogma. My heresy of writing an entire book critical of Jim Garrison gets me special treatment, and so the Protector and Defender of the Garrison Faith has also reviewed my other two books. I

Here is a story that appeared in the April 10, 1996 edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune . The papers of Edward Wegmann had just been made public and reporter David Snyder wrote this front page story. Jim Garrison's son Lyon responded to the article: New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 18, 1996 And, William Gurvich's brother Leonard responded to Lyon Garrison: New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 28, 1996 Money quotes: "There is no major prosecutor or investigator, save one,

His investigation was a circus. Everybody rationalized his craziness by thinking "he must have something." But, in the end, he had nothing.

Was Jim Garrison an incredible District Attorney? In 1961, Garrison was elected as the city's district attorney. He developed a good reputation and in his first two years he never lost a case. Jim Garrison wrote about his success: (page 26 of the Kindle version of On the Trail of the Assassins ) NEARLY THREE YEARS PASSED. These were years of great satisfaction for me. We had rebuilt a bucolic D.A.’s office into a crackerjack operation. The office had gone three years without

Screen shot from CAPA presentation In a recent presentation at the Citizens Against Political Assassination (CAPA ) conference , James DiEugenio mentioned that he wanted Jeremy Gunn, Executive Director and General Counsel for the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), to be in his so-called documentary series JFK: Destiny Betrayed : (15:26) James DiEugenio : And then, this is this was really a bad experience for me and I changed my opinion of Jeremy Gunn a lot. Okay, off

Journalist Jefferson Morley published the first of several articles reviewing JFK assassination news in 2022 . Unfortunately, he includes this: In November 2021, the Washington Post published a piece attributing the enduring skepticism about the Warren Commission to, yes, homophobia. Morley is referring to Professor Alecia Long's article in the Washington Post last November, "Behind Americans’ continued fascination with John F. Kennedy’s assassination." His assertion about L

Here is a YouTube video of an interview with Jim Garrison from September 26, 1967: You can download a transcript below in .PDF format. You can download a transcript below in Word format. There is no shortage of Garrison craziness in the interview. Here are some quotations: on Marina Oswald: Marina Oswald had long since been taken over and controlled literally by elements of the white Russian community in Dallas. And there are our individuals in the white Russian community in

One of the few known pictures of Jack Martin Jim Garrison interviewed Jack Martin in his office on December 14, 1966. Here is a recording of that meeting: The quality of the recording is not good. I have worked months to produce a transcript. Please feel free to email me with improvements -- I realize that my 66-year-old ears might have easily missed something. Here is the transcript in word format: Here is the transcript in PDF format: This was not the first interview that G

Relevant Past Blog Posts The New York Times on Clay Shaw's Acquittal An editorial from the March 2, 1969 edition of the New York Times . Washington Post Editorial on the Acquittal of Clay Shaw Their editorial from March 4, 1969. Garrison vs. the people An editorial from the Chicago Daily News right after the acquittal of Clay Shaw. Sylvia Meagher Congratulates Clay Shaw On His Acquittal A nice letter from Sylvia Meagher. Clay Shaw's Acquittal Reactions from the newspape

Jim Garrison was so focused on his fraudulent JFK assassination investigation that he ignored his basic duties as District Attorney. New Orleans States-Item, April 10, 1967 Judge Bagert commented on the problem to Aaron Kohn, head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans. Here is an excerpt from a memo dated June 1, 1967:

A few days ago, I posted a telephone message that was left for Jim Garrison with a lead involving people who were homosexuals. Here is another letter: Here is a transcript of the letter: Dear Mr. Garrison, The below named man checked into a hotel where I work as night cashier. He talked in the coffee bar for perhaps an hour about what a rotten deal you gave Mr. Ferrie, verbally berated you and your attempt to shed some light on the Kennedy killing, and said several times, qu

Some conspiracy theorists claim that Jim Garrison never brought up Clay Shaw's sexuality. Well, here's an interesting letter sent to Garrison with a lead. You can see Garrison's notation on the first page: NOTE: This was an anonymous call-in for the police recording phone. However, the details are quite specific. Subjects mentioned may have info re SHAW or FERRIE -- or re their relationship. Should be checked out. JG On the top of the page he writes "CONFIRMED LEAD - for foll

Like the child star gone bad in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Jim Garrison was the reformist District Attorney gone kooky, and Oliver Stone is the famous director who went down the rabbit hole. Modern day Baby Janes, they are irredeemably linked, although it does look like Oliver Stone is trying to break free. His so-called documentary series, JFK: Destiny Betrayed , has three scenes from the film JFK. All of them showcase actor Kevin Costner without telling the audience