Clay Shaw's Torment
- Fred Litwin
- 23 minutes ago
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This article appeared in The Sun, first in 1969 and then in 1973:
Murray posits a conspiracy at the end of his article that is just plain ridiculous. Clay Shaw was chosen as a sacrificial goat in order to destroy Garrison so that there will never be another inquiry into the JFK assassination. It's bad enough that he wrote this article in 1969 but to reprint it in 1973 is bizarre.
Clay Shaw saw Murray's article and wrote this letter to his lawyer, Ed Wegmann:
Clay Shaw's last paragraph refers to his $5 million lawsuit against Jim Garrison. Unfortunately, Shaw died a year later before his suit could be heard, and because he had no heirs, the suit could not continue.
The Clay Shaw Series
The setting in New Orleans
The DOJ is told not to get involved. The FBI follows suit.
Ed Wegmann goes to Washington.
The CIA gets involved.
Wegmann goes back to Washington with Irvin Dymond.
Wegmann files a civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice.
Wegmann files a forty-five-page complaint in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
Clay Shaw's Acquittal; New Charges; and Wegmann Goes Back to the Department of Justice.
The new Department of Justice, under President Nixon, considers Shaw's new civil rights complaint.
Conclusion -- and a case study in how a conspiracy theorist gets it wrong on Clay Shaw.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Clay Shaw
A Rosemary James' profile of Clay Shaw.
A letter written just before Shaw's death.
Shaw writes about the Supreme Court decision stopping his prosecution.
Oliver Stone needs to apologize for re-victimizing Clay Shaw.
A lovely tribute read at Clay Shaw's funeral.
Here is Jim Garrison's full statement on the ruling.
Here is Judge Christenberry's ruling on Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for perjury.
Judge Wisdom upheld Judge Christenberry's decision.
Relevant Past Blog Posts on Clay Shaw's Acquittal
An editorial from the March 2, 1969 edition of the New York Times.
Their editorial from March 4, 1969.
An editorial from the Chicago Daily News right after the acquittal of Clay Shaw.
A nice letter from Sylvia Meagher.
Reactions from the newspapers in New Orleans.
It's time to admit that Clay Shaw had nothing to do with the JFK assassination.