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Washington Evening Star, March 16, 1967 I am not sure of the date of this cartoon, but it was drawn by Hugh Haynie who worked for the Louisville Courier-Journal,

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)

Here's another Art Buchwald column on Jim Garrison.

I posted an important Max Lerner opinion piece yesterday on Garrison's early thinking on the JFK conspiracy. Garrison told Lerner, just like he told Hugh Aynesworth, James Phelan, Merriman Smith, and Lawrence Schiller, that homosexuals were behind the conspiracy. Here is another excellent Lerner opinion piece. Springfield Daily News, February 24, 1969 I find this article to be particularly persuasive. Lerner mentions Edward Jay Epstein's book, Counterplot . It's an excellent book, and I heartily recommend it. You can read Epstein's three major books on the JFK assassination, with added commentary, in one large compilation. A few important tidbits: "But I do know, from a long conversation with him after the Shaw case broke, how obsessed he has been with destroying the Warren Commission's report on Kennedy's death, and with exposing the malignant counter-conspiracy (as he sees it) to keep the truth about the killing from the American people. The trial is his means to that end. He sees himself very much as Darrow saw himself in the Scopes anti-evolution trial, and like Scopes, Shaw is as much symbol as defendant." I also like Lerner's conclusion: "I have one major quarrel with Epstein. My own emphasis would not be on Garrison as demagogue, but on Garrison as an obsessed man, caught in the cocoon he has spun, believing it, and beyond any hope of ever getting free of it."

Washington Evening Star, June 14, 1967 Max Lerner sat down with Jim Garrison at his home in New Orleans for three hours. Money paragraphs: It's not clear exactly when Lerner sat down with Garrison. But this is very consistent with what Garrison told Hugh Aynesworth, James Phelan, Merriman Smith, and Lawrence Schiller. In addition, here is what Perry Russo told Shaw's attorneys in March 1971: Sounds almost identical to the Lerner article. Check out this post on Jim Garrison and the issue of homosexuality in his investigation.

Here is an overview of the Garrison investigation from the New Orleans Times-Picayune of December 15, 1991. Here are some of the important quotes in this article: "He had changed from a liberal, crusading, dedicated public officer to a megalomaniac. Once he became fixed on the Kennedy probe, he became absolutely ruthless in his pursuit of it." David Chandler on Jim Garrison "A few of us quite frankly were relieved. We were hoping this was the opportunity we had been waiting for to shut it down, say the key to the case had died and get out. Unfortunately, Garrison's reaction was just the opposite." John Volz, Former Assistant DA to Garrison, on David Ferrie's death. "Garrison would develop the theory, then go out and try to get the evidence to back it up. And the theories kept changing." John Volz "A couple of assistants went off to interview Spiesel and came back and said, 'Well, he'd make a good witness, but he's crazy,' Then I realized they were planning to use him anyway." Tom Bethell on Charles Spiesel "Clay Shaw could have lived a tasteful, quiet, lovely life for 25 or 30 years on what he had saved. Instead his life was wrecked to advance Garrison's agenda. The cynicism was appalling." Rosemary James "Garrison took an innocent man and used him to get the international acclaim that he sought. He was a nut and a phony, and he never had a case. Irvin Dymond, defense attorney for Clay Shaw

Art Buchwald was a political satirist whose work appeared in over 550 newspapers across the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982. In 1967 there was a scandal regarding Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut. It centered on Dodd's association with Julius Klein, a public relations consultant for several West German clients and there were allegations of financial wrongdoing. Art Buchwald by Yousuf Karsh who was a very famous Canadian. Art Buchwald wrote about the scandal through the lens of Jim Garrison . I don't think the commentary is particularly funny, but it does show that Buchwald had a good understanding of Garrison and his ridiculous tactics. Ironically, Eberhard Deutsch defended Jim Garrison in both Gordon Novel's libel lawsuit, and in Clay Shaw's damages lawsuit. In fact, Deutsch was linked with Garrison as early as 1964. Art Buchwald died in 2007.

Here is an editorial from the Chicago Daily News right after the acquittal of Clay Shaw: Chicago Daily News, March 4, 1969 Unfortunately, Garrison was re-elected for another term. Here is an editorial from the Arkansas Gazette from March 4, 1969: And, here is the San Francisco Chronicle from March 4, 1969: Note the inclusion of homosexuals with "bums, perjurers...and other social misfits and bottom rungers." And in a paper from San Francisco. Gay people still had ways to go in terms of acceptance. Here is the Los Angeles Times from March 4, 1969: Here is a very good letter to the editor from the March 7, 1969 edition: And here is an Oliphant cartoon from March 8, 1969: Here is the Miami Herald from March 4, 1969: Other Relevant Blog Posts Clay Shaw's Acquittal Washington Post Editorial on the Acquittal of Clay Shaw The New York Times on Clay Shaw's Acquittal Sylvia Meagher Congratulates Clay Shaw On His Acquittal

An interesting FBI report : Sheriff Heyd told the FBI that "Garrison is psychotic and will do anything." The result of the press interviews which Heyd permitted: And this:

.I don't have the rest of the message. Was Marguerite looking for payment? Here is the article from the May 30, 1968 issue of the New Orleans States-Item. Here is Jim Garrison's reply to Marguerite Oswald: Yup, Oswald was an "intelligent, clean-cut American boy." What is really crazy is Garrison's statement that "One of the individuals working with our investigation had noticed that the federal government was buying up all copies of the book and got curious as to why this was happening." Really? I don't think anybody cared about Nerin Gun's book. Oswald was a victim, no? Update The original photo was sold by Marguerite Oswald to Dr. John Lattimer. Previous Relevant Blog Post Garrison Investigators Talk to Marguerite Oswald Did David Ferrie Know Lee Harvey Oswald?

New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 18, 1967 Here is a letter that Garrison wrote to Marina Oswald: Marina wasn't too happy about receiving a subpoena. Here is a headline that reflected her feelings: You can read Marina's testimony here. Of course, Garrison maintained that Clay Shaw conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald. Here is the grand jury indictment of Clay Shaw:

The poor woman (Jutta is a female name). Looking for Jim Garrison for help with her doctoral thesis is like asking Robert Kennedy Jr. to help with your medical exams. And then Garrison wants to receive any information she has on McIntire. Jutta did publish her work. Jim Garrison had a fascination with odd (and old) churches. Previous Blog Posts on Edgar Eugene Bradley Edgar Eugene Bradley Writes Jim Garrison Was Edgar Eugene Bradley One of the Three Tramps? Why Jim Garrison Indicted Edgar Eugene Bradley for Conspiracy to Kill JFK, Part Two... Why Did Jim Garrison Indict Edgar Eugene Bradley for Conspiracy to Kill JFK? Edgar Eugene Bradley - Another Garrison Victim Jim Garrison Finds Another JFK Assassination Conspirator! Reverend Raymond Broshears Tells Even More in New Orleans! Broshears talks about Edgar Eugene Bradley Jim Garrison Discusses The Three Tramps Was Edgar Eugene Bradley one of the three tramps? Steve Jaffe's Crazy Memo on Edgar Eugene Bradley