Steamshovel Press was a conspiracy magazine that started in 1992. This 1992 issue had an interesting interview with Kerry Thornley For a good introduction to Kerry Thornley, check out this link . Thornley reiterates that he did not meet Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, and that they were only in New Orleans at the same time for a few weeks. "District Attorney Jim Garrison has always been convinced that Oswald and I met with one another in New Orleans but that a hypothesis

It was a blast talking with author Adam Gorightly about Kerry Thornley, Thomas Beckham, Fred Crisman, and Raymond Broshears. Adam has...

Clint Bolton was a friend of Kerry Thornley and he had a column in the Vieux Carre Courier, a local New Orleans newspaper. Here is an...

Kerry Thornley was still awaiting trial on his perjury charges. He sent an update to Sylvia Meagher, and noted that the Berkeley Barb had...

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

JFK researcher David Lifton died this week. This is very sad news as David was one of the good guys. Over the past couple of years, we...

In January 1968, Jim Garrison issued a subpoena to Kerry Thornley to get him to testify before the New Orleans grand jury. Here is a...

James DiEugenio wrote a review of Patricia Lambert's excellent book, False Witness, in the May-June 1999 issue of Probe Magazine. A large...

Here is a note that Jim Garrison sent to Gaeton Fonzi: For some strang e reason, Jim Garrison believed that he was on to something. Here is what Thornley said about his height to the Warren Commission: Only Jim Garrison could feel that this exchange was suspicious. Here is what he wrote in his book, On the Trail of the Assassins : (page 73) One of the reasons I had developed an interest in Thornley was that I suspected he could have been the man who used the name "Oswald" at

Gaeton Fonzi Here is a memo written by Gaeton Fonzi to Troy Gustavson about Kerry Thornley. This memo predates the HSCA and was written when Fonzi was doing some work for Senator Schweiker. Gustavson was Schweiker's press secretary. There are many people who believe that Fonzi was this amazing investigator. This memo shows him to be someone who was capable of swallowing the most amazing nonsense from Jim Garrison. Documents courtesy of the Malcolm Blunt Archive. You can downl

Here is another tape from the summer of 1977 of Jim Garrison being interviewed by investigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The focus is on Kerry Thornley and his supposed impersonation of Lee Harvey Oswald. Here is a Word document with the transcript: Here is a PDF of the transcript: Jim Garrison takes a variety of 'sightings' of Oswald and then tries to convince the HSCA that it was really Kerry Thornley. Garrison starts off the discussion with James

Here is yet another tape of Jim Garrison being interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in either late July or early...

In July and August 1977, Jim Garrison was interviewed by staff members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. I have five tapes of his interviews and, over the next several weeks, I will be publishing them here for the first time ever. Here is page one of the HSCA memo on the interviews: Here is the first of five tapes. And guess what? It's Jim Garrison at his craziest: This was not the first tape - it was recorded towards the end of the week with Garrison. Here is

Warren Commission critic Harold Weisberg played an important role in shaping Jim Garrison's thinking. Here is an excerpt from Dean Andrews' interview with NBC for their special from June 1967: Question: No, just tell the story (over Dean's laughter) what you ... what you ... Andrews: ... best as I can recall, sometime in October [1966], maybe the first part of November, I got a phone call to meet him [Garrison] in Brouss ... Question: meet him where? Andrews: Broussard's .

Here is a letter that Garrison wrote to Arch Kimbrough, another JFK assassination researcher: James Dondson was the man who was with Clay Shaw during the weekend of the assassination. Was there a second Dondson? Garrison writes: "The problem is that these curious CIA types -- such as Ferrie, Bradley and Beckham -- have made themselves part of odd religions or extreme right-wing groups, and sometimes a combination of both. In most instances, however, their history in intellige

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:

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian...

Here is an article from the New Orleans States-Item from November 27, 1963. Had Kerry Thornley seen Oswald in New Orleans in September...

Jim Garrison was convinced that Kerry Thornley was the second Oswald. Here is a memo regarding an interview with yet another felon about...

Raymond Broshears surprised everybody while he was in New Orleans. He confirmed a longstanding conspiracy belief about the Oswald...