Jim Garrison and the Media

Newsweek, March 17, 1969

Money Quote:

The papers -- and in particular, the States-Item (circulation: 134,707) -- constantly trumpeted Garrison's charges (headlines above). On Feb. 9 The Times-Picayune (circulation: 196,345) ran one story on Charles I. Spiesel, a state witness, who led the jury to the French Quarter in search of a building he contended was the site of a party hosted by Shaw in 1963. It was not until the 28th paragraph on page 10 that readers learned Spiesel believed himself to be the target of a conspiracy whose members had hypnotized him, tapped his phone, and disguised themselves as his relatives.

Here is the advertisement mentioned above that ran in the New Orleans newspapers on August 29, 1967:

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