The Los Angeles Times of March 12, 1989 gave Jim Garrison some excellent coverage of his book, On The Trail of the Assassins . Here is what he had to say about the assassination: Ridiculous then, and ridiculous now. In the 1970s, Garrison told journalist Ron Rosenbaum that Larry Crafard, who worked for Jack Ruby for a short time, was a grassy knoll assassin. Of course, Jim Garrison also believed that Fred Crisman was one of the grassy knoll assassins.

Jim Garrison charged that the lawyers of various witnesses, including Gordon Novel, were paid by the CIA . In the late 1970s, Gordon Novel was charged with firebombing a building in New Orleans and one of his lawyers was Jim Garrison. This prompted a very funny comment from a prosecutor. Hat Tip: Don Carpenter's incredible biography of Claw Shaw: Man of a Million Fragments . New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 15, 1976 Previous Relevant Blog Posts Did the CIA Pay the Lawyers

There was a brief discussion of Richard Case Nagell at the New Orleans conference held in September 1968 with Garrison, a few of his investigators, and some of the buffs : Fensterwald = Bernard Fensterwald, founder of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. Bethell = Tom Bethell, a Garrison staffer. Turner = William Turner, a writer for Ramparts magazine and a part-time investigator for Jim Garrison. Boxley = Bill Boxley, a Garrison investigator. Fensterwald : Jim, hav

Here is an excerpt from a letter that Fred Newcomb wrote to Richard E. Sprague on December 2, 1969: The Mary in the letter is Mary Ferrell. Hey, nothing like using D.A. credentials to "terrorize" a postmaster. Garrison was flippant with the evidence. Here is a picture of Garrison at his home with the whips found in Shaw's apartment: Here is an excerpt from Edward Jay Epstein's Counterplot , contained in The Assassination Chronicles : (page 186 - 187) "Early next morning, I we

Gary Cornwell was the Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. In 1998, he published his book, Real Answers , about his work on the HSCA. Here is an excerpt from his chapter on Oliver Stone: "If it can be said that the Warren Commission acted irresponsibly in telling us that there was no conspiracy without having the any real factual basis for that assertion, wasn't it just as irresponsible for the New Orleans District Attorney to prosecute charg

Here is an article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune from February 19, 1973: Previous Relevant Blog Posts Clay Shaw's Journal His preamble about Jim Garrison Clay Shaw's Journal - His Arrest Jim Garrison asks Clay Shaw to take truth serum or a lie detector test Clay Shaw's Journal - After His Arrest Shaw's friends are shocked at his arrest. Clay Shaw's Journal, March 4 - 7, 1967 The reality of what Clay Shaw is up against starts to kick in. Clay Shaw's Journal, March 8

The three tramps have been a favorite topic for conspiracy theorists for decades. Jim Garrison was no exception. And in September 1968 in a discussion with a few of his investigators and some buffs, the topics of the tramps came up . Here is a photo that conspiracy buff Richard E. Sprague found interesting: The escorting police officer, on the right, is Marvin Wise. Here is a close-up of his face: What exactly is in his ear? Richard Sprague printed that photograph (Exhibit 2)

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

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell The QUICK article clearly demonstrates that Jim Garrison, in late February and early March 1967, put homosexuality at the heart of his investigation into the JFK assassination. It's consistent with what Garrison told journalists like Hugh Aynesworth, James Phelan, Jack Anderson, Merriman Smith, and Art Kevin. Garrison repeated the same nonsense to the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Times, March 2

Another candidate to consider for the authorship of the QUICK article is Nerin Gun, a Turkish-American writer who was born in Rome. He emigrated from Germany to the United States after World War II and changed his name from Emrullah Nerin Gün to Nerin Gun. In 1964, Gun published one of the first books on the JFK assassination, Red Roses from Texas. You can read a .pdf version of the book here. Nerin Gun also worked for the Italian newspaper Epoca. President Lyndon Johnson rec

It's quite possible that Lawrence Schiller wrote the QUICK article about a homosexual conspiracy that killed JFK. Several clues point to Schiller. First, he was with Jim Garrison in Las Vegas in early March 1967. While there he and Garrison discussed many of the allegations that ended up in the QUICK article: The homosexual conspiracy that killed JFK. A comparison to the Leopold & Loeb murder. Schiller knew about James Dondson being with Shaw in San Francisco during the weeke

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

As soon as details of the QUICK article got out, Jim Garrison was denying that he was the author. Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, April 3, 1967 It's interesting that Garrison complained that he "never told anyone the name of the person who fired the fatal shot at President Kennedy." He didn't say that didn't know the name of the assassin - he just hadn't told anybody. An American reporter for the West German public radio broadcaster Deutsche Welle wrote to Jim Garrison the

So far, we have posted a variety of reasons for believing Jim Garrison was behind the QUICK article from April 1967. In addition, there was a story in QUICK which was not in the press, and could only have come from Jim Garrison. It concerned James Dondson, who spent part of the weekend of the assassination with Clay Shaw in San Francisco. "The questioning of Shaw's male lover James Dondson made me even more certain that Shaw was head of the plot. At the very hour Kennedy was

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

In the early part of his investigation, Jim Garrison believed that a homosexual conspiracy was behind the JFK assassination. Yesterday's blog post included an article from QUICK Magazine supposedly written by Jim Garrison that discussed just such a conspiracy. I decided not to include the QUICK article in my book, On The Trail of Delusion. I just couldn't be sure the article was legitimate. However, upon reflection it was clear that there was a lot of information in the artic

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: