Garrison's Investigation
Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison was a district attorney in New Orleans during the time of President Kennedy's assassination. He believed that it was not possible for only one shooter to have been able to kill the president. Garrison believed Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and Guy Banister conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill Kennedy.
While Garrison was investigating who could have been working with Oswald, a witness, called Perry Raymond Russo, approached him. Russo mentioned a time when he went to his friend David Ferrie's party. Other people present at the party; Lee Oswald, Clay Bertrand (allegedly also known as Clay Shaw); quipped Garrison's attention. Other guests that were there left before before the party turned into an assassination planning gathering. According to Russo, the three men conspired about how to assassinate the president; he did not join them, he was only a witness. Garrison took Clay Shaw into custody with this new "evidence" and they soon had a trial. He also believed that Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw may have been planning this assassination while associating with the CIA.
"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug" - Jim Garrison
When Garrison opened up the case on those he believed conspired to kill JFK, he wanted to look into each man that was involved. Unluckily for him, David Ferrie died died a week after the case opened due to an aneurysm. Clay Shaw took Garrison's attention, and he tried everything he could do to put Shaw in jail for conspiring to kill the president. Using Russo's eye-witness account Garrison was successful in putting Clay Shaw on trial. However this failed because there was not any real evidence to show Shaw was Clay Bertrand or that he even knew Oswald or Ferrie.
Garrison was determined though, and he harassed Shaw for a few more years, trying to find a way to put him in jail or get another trial.
Garrison was never able to close his JFK conspiracy case. He was the only conspiracy believer who was able to bring someone to court for apparently assisting Lee Oswald.
While Garrison was investigating who could have been working with Oswald, a witness, called Perry Raymond Russo, approached him. Russo mentioned a time when he went to his friend David Ferrie's party. Other people present at the party; Lee Oswald, Clay Bertrand (allegedly also known as Clay Shaw); quipped Garrison's attention. Other guests that were there left before before the party turned into an assassination planning gathering. According to Russo, the three men conspired about how to assassinate the president; he did not join them, he was only a witness. Garrison took Clay Shaw into custody with this new "evidence" and they soon had a trial. He also believed that Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw may have been planning this assassination while associating with the CIA.
"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug" - Jim Garrison
When Garrison opened up the case on those he believed conspired to kill JFK, he wanted to look into each man that was involved. Unluckily for him, David Ferrie died died a week after the case opened due to an aneurysm. Clay Shaw took Garrison's attention, and he tried everything he could do to put Shaw in jail for conspiring to kill the president. Using Russo's eye-witness account Garrison was successful in putting Clay Shaw on trial. However this failed because there was not any real evidence to show Shaw was Clay Bertrand or that he even knew Oswald or Ferrie.
Garrison was determined though, and he harassed Shaw for a few more years, trying to find a way to put him in jail or get another trial.
Garrison was never able to close his JFK conspiracy case. He was the only conspiracy believer who was able to bring someone to court for apparently assisting Lee Oswald.