Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, August 8, 1967 Money Quote: Former Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos also was suggested as a possible target by one of the alleged conspirators in the assassination of President Kennedy, a key witness for New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison said here Monday. Perry Raymond Russo, star witness in the preliminary hearing of Clay L. Shaw on conspiracy charges, said the late David Ferrie mentioned former President Eisenhower as another potential

Penn Jillette, the talkative member of the magic act Penn & Teller, knows that people will find the duo’s new project a little surprising. It is a Supreme Court brief filed last month urging the justices to hear an appeal from Charles Don Flores, a death row inmate in Texas. A key piece of evidence in the case was tainted by a police officer’s “investigative hypnosis” of a witness, the brief said. Here is a summary of the case: The brief noted that there was no physical evide

Clay Shaw's Acquittal; New Charges; and Wegmann Goes Back to the Department of Justice. March 3, 1967, Clay Shaw arrives for a press conference after his arrest. Our last post ended with the start of Clay Shaw's trial for conspiring to kill JFK. During the course of the trial, there was ample opportunity for the Department of Justice to get involved and help Clay Shaw. For instance: Clay Shaw's attorneys had trouble with the Clinton witnesses because they did not have access

The Setting in New Orleans This is Part One of a ten-part series on attempts by Clay Shaw and his attorneys to get help from the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA. As you will see, nobody stepped up to help. In 1995, Patricia Lambert started submitting proposals to publishers for a biography of Clay Shaw. She ultimately published in 1999 False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK . In 2005, she put together a book prop

Here is an excerpt from his 1993 book, Trust Your Mother, But Cut the Cards : This section of Zion's book appeared in an opinion piece in the New York Times right after the acquittal of Clay. Shaw. Money Quote : This is not to suggest that the plot theorists will close up shop, for they are missionaries with all that the word implies in terms of resiliency. It is not too much to expect that the world will soon be treated to a revisionist treatise or two on the Clay Shaw tri

This cartoon from the L. A. Times of February 13, 1969 is a reference to the testimony of Perry Russo during the trial of Clay Shaw:...

The January 1992 issue of GQ featured an article by Nicholas Lemann titled "The Case Against Jim Garrison." Here is the text of the article: I know life is supposed to be full of surprises, but sometimes one comes along that exceeds the limits of what you should have to put up with. I never thought I’d see someone make an all-out effort to rehabilitate Jim Garrison, the six-foot-seven, booming-voiced district attorney of New Orleans during the years I was growing up there, a

This is an excerpt from an interview of Perry Russo by Clay Shaw's attorneys: The Robertson in the story is Willard Robertson, one of the founders of Truth and Consequences, the private organization that funded Jim Garrison's investigation. The story sounds familiar, no? Sioux Center, Iowa CNN — Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street. “I could stand in the middle of

Baton Rouge State Times Advocate, February 24, 1967 Our blog post yesterday discussed a memo that Garrison staffer Tom Bethell sent to...

Richard Billings with Robert Blakey Dick Billings was an editor at Life Magazine and for a while, was working with Garrison on his JFK...

Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe Edward Jay Epstein, author of Inquest and Counterplot,...

You can watch the video on YouTube. The date is marked March 15, 1967, but this is from a taped interview with Jim Kemp, February 24,...

Just after David Ferrie died, Perry Russo called the media in Baton Rouge to talk about his experiences with the man. Here is an audio of...

On February 27, 1967, Perry Russo was injected with sodium pentothal and was then interviewed by Andrew Sciambra who was an Assistant...

Yup, here it is! Courtesy of the Malcolm Blunt archive (found in the David Ferrie folder in the New Orleans -Louisiana section) Ok, there...

In April 1971, Perry Russo sat down with Shaw's defense team for one last interview. Here is the entire transcript: Some highlights of...

Here is the document that Jim Garrison submitted in order to get a search warrant for Clay Shaw's home. An interesting description of the...

Richard Popkin, the author of The Second Oswald, took a keen interest in the Garrison investigation. He wrote a long article on Garrison...

Once the so-called Garrison investigation became public, all sorts of people came out of the woodwork. Arthur Strout was fortunate. He...

Layton Martens was questioned before the grand jury on March 29, 1967. He told Garrison that he never saw Clay Shaw and David Ferrie...