Gaeton Fonzi's Notes from a Discussion with Jim Garrison
- Fred Litwin
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Here are Gaeton Fonzi's notes from a discussion with Jim Garrison on June 28, 1976:
The paragraph on Bill Turner is incredible. Garrison claims he was "deep cover." When Garrison tells Fonzi that "he even persuaded me to charge somebody and helped a guy who penetrated the office build up a totally false picture ..." he's talking about Bill Boxley who worked with Turner to finger Edgar Eugene Bradley as a conspirator in the JFK assassination.
Garrison brings up Red Bird Airport. There are lots of conspiracy stories about Red Bird, including Tosh Plumlee's story that he flew into Red Bird on November 22nd to stop the assassination.
Garrison talks about the supposed tap on his office phones. That story came from William Walter, who claimed that the FBI received a teletype warning about the assassination. That was complete nonsense and Walter was later convicted of mail fraud.
Garrison is completely wrong about Clay Shaw being in Italy in 1961. And, of course, there is absolutely no evidence that Shaw was a "conduit for large sums of money to the Italian right-wing party."
Garrison then goes into the Julia Mercer story, and tells Fonzi:
First of all, her actually recognizing Ruby as having driven the pickup truck that stopped at the grassy knoll. That helped to bring out the meaning of Ruby, which in turn brings in the CIA even more because then you're able to see Ruby as the man with Mafia origins but CIA background in the late 50s in regard to Cuba, so it illuminates the Agency involvement in the whole thing and so they had to conceal it.
The only problem was that it could not have been Ruby in the pickup truck because he was at the offices of the Dallas Morning News.
And, of course, the Julia Ann Mercer story leads to Larry Crafard.
The page above is just insane.
In the case of Crafard, he fits in so naturally as the young man getting out of the truck with the rifle case that, as a hypothetical postulate it's worth checking backwards on him, which I did, and he falls into place as the man whose job was as one of the killers. He absolutely fits in as the shooter of Tippit.
Garrison is then upset that the Dallas police never paraded Crafard in a lineup for the Tippit witnesses.
Garrison thinks that Crafard Is "a professional killer."
And then Garrison tells Fonzi that "he's worth checking out to see whether he leads straight to the Agency as part of a member of a pool, for example, or whether he leads to the mob."
For some reason, Garrison did not mention Crafard in his 1988 book, On the Trail of the Assassins.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Larry Crafard
The Laura Kittrell story.
Mort Sahl made up a quote about Larry Crafard that was used in the Chokeholds book.
A ridiculous article alleges that Crafard impersonated Oswald.
Garrison told a journalist that Larry Crafard was a gunman on the grassy knoll.