We will start this off with a UPI story from June 11, 1968, just six days after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, quoting Mark Lane: Sylvia Meagher wrote a letter to Kerry Thornley, and wondered if Jim Garrison would back up the Mark Lane story. Thornley wrote Meagher back, and was anxious to write about Mark Lane. Of course, it didn't take long for Garrison to repeat the Mark Lane story! Here is the article that Kerry Thornley wrote. Update Here is a letter that Sylvia Me

Sylvia Meagher was a supporter of Kerry Thornley - the Marine buddy of Lee Harvey Oswald - and she even donated money for his defense....

James Phelan had a great sense of humor, and it is on display in this letter to Jim Garrison. Completely unrelated to this letter is one that Sylvia Meagher wrote to Garrison about A Heritage of Stone. I have presented, earlier in my blog, two memos that Sylvia Meagher wrote about Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw. She never thought much of his knowledge of the 26 volumes of evidence, and she never thought much of Garrison's case against the Warren Report as presented in th

I have previously posted two memos that Sylvia Meagher wrote about Jim Garrison. Today, I am posting two letters she wrote to Harold...

The October 1967 issue of Playboy Magazine contained the longest interview in their history - 20,000 words from Jim Garrison. About 5 million copies were printed and Playboy organized a press tour for Garrison. You can read the whole interview here . Here is Playboy's press release for their interview: Warren Commission critic Sylvia Meagher did not much like the Garrison interview and she wrote Playboy a 3-page letter. For the first time ever, here is her letter: As you can

In 1983, Garrison sent his manuscript, then titled The Execution , to McGraw-Hill which had published his novel. They rejected it. He then renamed it A Farewell to Justice but had trouble selling it. He hit pay dirt with Prentice Hall in 1986 for his newly titled book, Coup D'Etat , and they paid him a $10,000 advance. Sylvia Meagher served as the referee and she submitted a 26-page analysis, which noted several problems. She was not happy with the discussion of Shaw,, Fer

Here is an earlier Meagher article in which she exhibits her disgust at Warren Commission critics who ran down to New Orleans to support Jim Garrison. She refused to go. "I have not made the pilgrimage to New Orleans nor do I intend to make the journey. Testimonials notwithstanding, Mr. Garrison strikes me not as a hero but a master of improvisation." Of course, initially Meagher welcomed his investigation. She even wrote him a letter of support and offered her services. "My

In March 1969, Sylvia Meagher wrote an article, about the Clay Shaw trial which, to my knowledge, was never published. It was titled, "Not With a Roar But a Whimper: The Shaw Trial, the Garrison Wreck." She said that the "prosecution case had been humiliatingly rejected." She did not believe the Clinton witnesses, found that Vernon Bundy had no credibility, and that Perry Russo delivered the "coup de grace" to Garrison "by recanting those parts of his earlier testimony which

Sylvia Meagher was one of the most important critics of the Warren Report. In 1967, she wrote "Accessories After the Fact," probably the best critiques published. When I first got into the JFK assassination in 1975, her book was out of print. I went to every used book store I could get to, but no luck. But, in 1976, her book was reissued - and I remember when I went into W.H. Smith Books in Montreal and I was stunned to see it on the shelf. I bought it immediately and I devou