Hat tip to David Reitzes who did an amazing job on the Julia Mercer story. Here is the complete Julia Mercer story. I know it's long, but...

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

Clay Shaw wasn't the only person that Garrison charged with conspiracy to assassinate JFK. He also claimed that Edgar Eugene Bradley, a...

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.

Conspiracy theorists offer different reasons why Richard Case Nagell did not testify at Clay Shaw's trial. James DiEugenio, in his book...

Rosemary James was the reporter who broke the story about Jim Garrison's investigation into the JFK assassination for the New Orleans...

Sandra Moffett [born Lillie Mae Moffett] hung out with Perry Russo in New Orleans in the 1960s. She considered herself to be his...

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

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

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

Hat Tip: Jerry Shinley at David Reitzes' terrific website for the insights in this blog post. Kevin Bacon played Willie O'Keefe in the...

Just after David Ferrie died, Perry Russo called the media in Baton Rouge to talk about his experiences with the man. But he did not...

In January 1968, police officer Aloysius Habighorst made the following statement to Garrison's investigators: Towards the end of July,...

{Note that I am standing on the shoulders of giants - David Reitzes wrote a terrific article on Lawrence Meyers years ago, and Stephen...

Clay Bertrand supposedly called lawyer Dean Andrews, who was in the hospital with double pneumonia, on November 23, 1963 and asked if he...

Jim Garrison claims he asked for a preliminary hearing on the Clay Shaw prosecution because of fairness. Here is what he says in his book, On The Trail of The Assassins: (page 151) "In this case I made the motion out of fairness to Shaw because of the extraordinary seriousness of the charge. My application requested that a panel of three judges then determine whether the charges should be dismissed or Shaw held over for trial. This was the first time in the history of Louisia

Hat Tip: The leg work for this story belongs to David Reitzes and Stephen Roy (under the name David Blackburst). This story starts with...

On March 4, 1967, a Communist-controlled newspaper in Rome, Paese Sera, began a series of articles on Clay Shaw, his board membership on...

Jim Garrison, in his book On The Trail of the Assassins, found an entry in Clay Shaw's address book that was curious, to say the least. ...