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

Mary Ferrell Over the past three years, I have posted many letters and articles written by Sylvia Meagher about Jim Garrison. You can see the list below. I have now found something written by Mary Ferrell about Jim Garrison, and she also realized that Garrison was a charlatan, Here is an excerpt from an April 1970 letter Mary Ferrell wrote to Sylvia Meagher : Here is Sylvia's response : The next day, Sylvia wrote another letter to Mary : You can read more about the "preposter

This was an early theory of David Lifton's and has to rank among the craziest. Here is an excerpt from the May 1967 issue of Esquire...

Headline from the front page of the Los Angeles Free Press of Dec 22 - 28, 1967 At the end of 1967, Jim Garrison went public with allegations that JFK was shot from a sewer on Elm Street. Here are my three previous blog posts on this topic: Was JFK Shot From a Sewer? Jim Garrison sent Stephen Jaffe to Dallas to investigate the possibility of a shot from the sewer on Elm Street. Jim Garrison on the Shot from the Sewer Garrison is interviewed about the shot from the Sewer. Ji

In 1973, Dr. Cyril Wecht published with Robert P. Smith, "The Medical Evidence in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," in the...

I have posted many memos and letters from Sylvia Meagher about her negative opinions about Jim Garrison. Here is some correspondence between Meagher and Wecht about Garrison: In 1992, Dr. Wecht once again wrote that he did not "subscribe to Garrison's conspiracy theories."

One of the many interesting documents I found in the Sylvia Meagher archives was a series of letters between Mike Farrell and Sylvia...

Here is a YouTube video of an interview with Jim Garrison from September 26, 1967: You can download a transcript below in .PDF format. You can download a transcript below in Word format. There is no shortage of Garrison craziness in the interview. Here are some quotations: on Marina Oswald: Marina Oswald had long since been taken over and controlled literally by elements of the white Russian community in Dallas. And there are our individuals in the white Russian community in

Here is a short excerpt from a letter written to Harold Weisberg in 1972 by Howard Roffman, who went on to write Presumed Guilty in...

Here are Sylvia Meagher's notes on a phone call with Penn Jones from July 1967. Note the last paragraph on Jim Garrison: Here are a few...

Sylvia Meagher in People Magazine, November 10, 1975 Look Magazine published a few letters to the editor regarding their article, "The...

Sylvia Meagher wrote Harold Weisberg in September 1967 and enclosed some excerpts of an interview of Jim Garrison by Mike Wallace: Here is what Meagher wrote to Harold Weisberg about the interview: There is no shortage of Garrison craziness in the interview: "Marina Oswald had long since been taken over and controlled, literally, by elements of the White Russian community in Dallas; and there are individuals in the White Russian community in Dallas who are involved in the as

In the fall of 1967, Sylvia Meagher published Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, The Authorities & The Report. Her...

This article appears in the August 26, 1969, issue of Look Magazine and is a very good overview of the treatment of Clay Shaw. You can...

The Assassination Inquiry Committee of San Diego had a spirited exchange of views in 1968. They noticed that Sylvia Meagher and Edward...

Washington Evening Star, May 29, 1967 An apt cartoon illustrating the damage Garrison was doing to critics of the Warren Report. Sylvia Meagher wrote about this in a letter to Harold Weisberg: Josiah Thompson also mentioned the damage Jim Garrison did to the critics in his 2021 book Last Second in Dallas : (page 112)

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

M.S. Arnoni was the editor of The Minority of One , a small, independent left-wing journal that was published monthly in the 1960s. The JFK assassination was an important topic in the journal and Sylvia Meagher was a regular contributor. Both Arnoni and Meagher took a dim view of Jim Garrison, and here is an unsigned article from the October 1967 issue that was written by Arnoni: Jim Garrison sent a reply to Arnoni: Garrison refers to the Ruby code - here is a blog post about

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 are several other blog posts on Sylvia Meagher on this site: Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison, Part One Meagher writes Clay Shaw...