The $64 challenge still stands: When Clay Shaw was arrested, what serious evidence did Jim Garrison have that he conspired to kill JFK? Jim Garrison himself could not meet the challenge. A few days I ago I posted an excerpt from Clay Shaw's journal. Before Shaw was arrested, Jim Garrison demanded that Shaw take either a lie detector test or truth serum. Shaw accepted but only if he was given one day to rest and provided his lawyers could "edit the questions to be sure that t

M.S. Arnoni was the editor of The Minority of One , a small, independent left-wing journal that was published monthly in the 1960s. The JFK assassination was an important topic in the journal and Sylvia Meagher was a regular contributor. Both Arnoni and Meagher took a dim view of Jim Garrison, and here is an unsigned article from the October 1967 issue that was written by Arnoni: Jim Garrison sent a reply to Arnoni: Garrison refers to the Ruby code - here is a blog post about

David Chandler was a stringer for Life Magazine, and knew Garrison quite well. In fact, Garrison was the best man at his wedding. Chandler was in Garrison's office quite often in the early part of his investigation. That all changed after he reported on organized crime in New Orleans. He testified at the perjury trial of Dean Andrews : New Orleans States-Item, August 9, 1967 David Chandler was also interviewed by James Kirkwood for his book American Grotesque. Here is an ex

In 1982, Jim Garrison sent the first five chapters of his new book on the JFK assassination, The Execution , to McGraw-Hill. He wanted to launch it in November 1983 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the assassination. The book was rejected a few weeks later in October 1982. Garrison then rewrote the book, renamed A Farewell to Justice , and it was also met with rejection by a variety of publishers. When Garrison told conspiracy radio host Ted Gandolfo about his book

The Girl on the Stairs blog has an interesting interview of Harold Weisberg by author Barry Ernest from 1999 : What about Garrison. What happened to him? I don’t know. I don’t know if he became crazy or just irresponsible. I think that as a district attorney he was a good district attorney. He was insensitive to what reflected on him personally. I can tell you stories about that. He got his start with what I wrote in Whitewash . He said it was Senator [Russell] Long who gave

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:

Here's a picture of Jim Garrison packing up his office from the March 30, 1974 issue of the New Orleans Times-Picayune : You can see the boxes of documents in the picture. Now, the Democratic Primary for District Attorney was held on November 9, 1973, which Garrison lost to Harry Connick. This would have given Garrison just under five months to remove all his files to safety, and to even publish grand jury testimony, had he so wanted. Instead, he decided to take many of his f

The New Orleans States-Item endorsed Harry Connick for District Attorney in the Democratic Primary in 1969. They ran a series of front page editorials - and here is their first from October 30, 1969: Here is one of the reasons why they ran that editorial (from the same newspaper): Here is the next one from November 4, 1969: And, November 5, 1969: And, November 6, 1969: Here is a news story about the race from November 6, 1969 with some interesting information on crime in Ne

What did Jim Garrison say or write on Rose Cherami? Here is an excerpt from his Playboy Magazine interview of October 1967: Garrison mangles the story. He claims a hospital attendant took notes of Cherami's remarks, but that is not true. There was nothing in Cherami's files about any comments on the assassination. Cherami didn't check out of the hospital - she was taken out by Lt. Francis Fruge of the Louisiana State Police. He took her to Houston to help investigate her tip

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

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

For many years, he was the cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times . This cartoon was from the December 26, 1967 issue: You can read more about Paul Conrad here.

At the New Orleans conference in September 1968, Jim Garrison and his investigators and some Warren Commission critics discussed the two Oswalds . Here is their discussion: (page 153+) F = Bernard Fensterwald G = Jim Garrison T = William Turner Box = Bill Boxley S = Richard E. Sprague Even amongst themselves, they seem to have a hard time explaining their theories. At one point, Bernard Fensterwald says, "Wait a minute, You all are losing me somewhere here now." There's the

Warren Hinckle was the editor of Ramparts Magazine, a fairly popular left-wing magazine from 1962 to 1969. He wrote a really fun book about the 1960s, called If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade. He devotes one chapter, "Give Us This Day Our Daily Paranoia," to the conspiracy theorists of the JFK assassination. His book is worth buying just for that chapter. Here is an excerpt about Jim Garrison: My last communication with Garrison was on November 5, 1968. It was not untypica

Here is further proof that Jack Martin was insane, and totally lacking in credibility. He actually told the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) that Jim Garrison was framed by John Dean, of Watergate fame. Here is the first outside contact report from a meeting between the HSCA and Jack Martin: There were at least two more discussions with Jack Martin. I am not sure why they bothered. We'll be posting them in future posts. Other Posts about Jack Martin Jack Martin

James DiEugenio makes the following allegation in his book, Destiny Betrayed : (page 294) "Before and during the trials, Garrison's witnesses were being surveilled, harassed, and physically attacked." Ok, let's go over his evidence. First up is Richard Case Nagell: (page 294) "For instance, Richard Case Nagell had a grenade thrown at him from a speeding car in New York. Nagell brought the remains of the grenade to Garrison and told him he did not think it was wise for him to

More Garrison craziness. Here is a good article about recent disclosures about Earle Cabell's (General Cabell's brother) ties to the CIA.

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

On November 20, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jim Garrison's petition to overturn the permanent injunction against trying Clay Shaw for perjury. New Orleans Times-Picayune , November 21, 1972 Jim Garrison then issued this press release: Is this the product of a sane man? The assassination was a "professionally executed guerilla ambush," with four gunmen - two in front, and two in back. Oswald was "planted" in the Texas School Book Depository. Jack Ruby was a "