I was sad to learn today that Milton Brener, author of the essential The Garrison Case: A Study in the Abuse of Power, died on Christmas, 2022, at the age of 92. His book deserves a wide audience and should be in any JFK assassination collection. I really didn't know much about this book until I was writing I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak. I wanted to learn more about Clay Shaw and Garrison's exploitation of homosexuality, and I thought that Brener's book might be helpfu

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