Jim Garrison was clearly not happy with Sylvia Meagher's extensive critique of his book. I found this Garrison letter that he wrote to his literary agent in the files of Richard Sprague, the Warren Commission critic who specialized in the photographs of the case, at the National Archives. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that it has been published on the internet. Garrison really goes after Meagher and says she was mistaken "on virtually every major point which she ma

Philip Pochoda Sylvia Meagher was hired by Prentice-Hall in 1986 to act as a referee for Jim Garrison's new book. Meagher accepted the job: Garrison then sent in his last chapter: Here is her report, and here. Meagher recommended that Prentice-Hall publish Garrison's book largely because he now believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was totally innocent. In 1967, Garrison had said that Lee Harvey Oswald was a co-conspirator with Clay Shaw, and that incensed Sylvia Meagher. In her a

On this episode, I review Sylvia Meagher's book, Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report on the JFK Assassination. Here is a link to Meagher's critique of the Warren Report from November 1964. It's not very impressive -- she even has a section on mysterious deaths (page 18). Here is some text from my upcoming book, a history of conspiratorial thinking in the JFK assassination, on Sylvia Meagher: (hat tip to Bill Brown for some of this)

I first came across Kaitlyn Tiffany when she wrote this article in March 2025: I wrote Ms. Tiffany an email introducing myself and I provided a link to my blog post about the Schlesinger memo which had just been unredacted. She replied that she had come across my blog in her research and that she looked forward to read my post. I then wrote Tiffany again in October 2025 when I first heard that she was writing her book. I wanted to make sure that she knew about my many article

Long John Nebel Here is an excerpt from a December 1970 letter sent by Sylvia Meagher to Mary Ferrell: Money Quote: I suppose, being the crude phony he is, Garrison will soon charge that because of CIA pressure on the media he was prevented from appearing on radio and TV to discuss the assassination -- just wait. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison Sylvia Meagher on the Sewer Shot and Jim Garrison An excerpt from a letter Meagher sent to Thomas Sta

Sylvia Meagher was writing Thomas Stamm. Money Quote : He [Garrison[ changes theories as often as I change linens, growing less responsible (if that is possible) with each public utterance. What a buffoon. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on the Sewer Shot Josiah Thompson on Jim Garrison's Shot from the Sewer Thompson thought the idea was ridiculous. Was JFK Shot From a Sewer? Jim Garrison sent Stephen Jaffe to Dallas to investigate the possibility of a shot from the sewer on E

Vincent Salandria I've written before about Sylvia Meagher's falling out with Vincent Salandria because of his support of Jim Garrison. Well, just before the Clay Shaw trial, Salandria had a proposition: Here is Sylvia Meagher's reply: When Sylvia Meagher mentions "the code" she is referring to Garrison's cryptologic abilities. Jim Garrison's Code and Sylvia Meagher A complete look at the code nonsense. Jim Garrison, the Cryptologist Garrison's codes and a nice spoof on Gar

Many people wrote Jim Garrison with tips and information on the assassination. Tom Bethell put together some of the zanier letters and sent them to Sylvia Meagher. Here is an excerpt from a letter he sent her : Meagher replied : Here is Bethell's memo on letters to Garrison: (the unfavorable letter referenced by Meagher is on page 4, and the letter from the student from Staten Island is on page 7) By the way, whenever I go through HSCA boxes at the National Archives, I come a

Philippe Labro was a French journalist who covered the JFK Assassination for France-Soir. He encountered Jack Ruby on November 23, 1963:...

Sylvia Meagher put together these excerpts from Turner's article on Jim Garrison in the January 1968 issue of Ramparts : You can read Turner's article in Ramparts here . Previous Relevant Blog Posts regarding Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison The Salandria-Meagher Phone Calls The issue of Jim Garrison ruptured their frienship. Sylvia Meagher writes Bud Fensterwald Meagher turns down membership in Fensterwald's JFK group because of the presence of Jim Garrison. Sylvia Meagher's

Sylvia Meagher was planning on holding a meeting in her apartment with Warren Report critics in 1965. Here is a letter she wrote Maggie...

Here are Sylvia Meagher's notes on two telephone calls in late 1967. I can't tell which call came first because the date on the first...

Here is a note from the October 1968 issue of The Progressive magazine about Mark Lane: Sylvia Meagher sent this note to a variety of JFK...

Here is an excerpt from a letter Mary Ferrell sent to Sylvia Meagher: Roger Craig had mental health issues. You can read more about this...

David Lifton sent this spoof to Sylvia Meagher: Meagher appreciated the satire: Previous Relevant Blog Posts An Unreleased "Top Secret"...

In 1968, Bud Fensterwald asked several people to join his new association to investigate the JFK assassination. I have already posted...

Conspiracy theorists like to accuse people they disagree with of being CIA agents. I've been on the receiving end of these accusations...

Here is Sylvia Meagher's review of Paris Flammonde's book, The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison...

Here is a expanded excerpt from my book, I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak (pages 69 -71). I thought this story illustrated how easy it is to fool people with over-the-top factoids. It was all good fun but yet today, many conspiracy theorists trade in just as ridiculous factoids that aren't meant to be satirical. While the early critics of the Warren Report were deadly serious, two writers decided to add a bit of fun to the proceedings. Jacob Brackman and Faye Levine wro

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