332:, staged sometimes on a nightly basis. Newspaper headlines in 1962 praised Garrison's efforts, "Quarter Crime Emergency Declared by Police, DA. – Garrison Back, Vows Vice Drive to Continue – 14 Arrested, 12 more nabbed in Vice Raids." Garrison's critics often point out that many of the arrests made by his office did not result in convictions, implying that he was in the habit of making arrests without evidence. However, assistant DA William Alford has said that charges would, more often than not, be reduced or dropped if a relative of someone charged gained Garrison's ear. Alford said Garrison had "a heart of gold."
435:, Garrison says that Russo had already discussed the party at Ferrie's apartment before any "truth serum" was administered. Scambria said that the party information was simply accidentally left off the notes of his encounter with Russo. Throughout his life, Russo reiterated the same account of being present for a party at Ferrie's house along with Mr. Bertrand, where the subject of Kennedy's potential assassination had come up. Garrison defended his conduct regarding witness testimony, stating:
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Orleans, but was initially unsuccessful in his run for public office. He lost a 1959 election for criminal court judge. In 1961, he ran for district attorney and won against incumbent
Richard Dowling by 6,000 votes in a five-man Democratic primary. Despite lack of major political backing, he facilitated his victory through excellent performance in a television debate and last-minute television commercials.
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429:(sometimes called "truth serum"). An early version of Russo's testimony (as told in Assistant D.A. Andrew Sciambra's memo, before Russo was subjected to sodium pentothal and hypnosis) fails to mention an "assassination party" and says that Russo met Shaw on two occasions, neither of which occurred at the party. However, in his book
308:, he "found him to be physically qualified for federal recognition in the national army." Upon returning again to civilian life, Garrison worked in several different trial lawyer positions before winning election as New Orleans District Attorney, starting with his first of three terms in January 1962.
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Gervais ever followed through with the request and that there was no further mention of General Cabell in Garrison's investigation. The article also noted that, by the date in question, Gervais was no longer working for the district attorney in New Orleans.
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American public – i.e., the jurors of the case – were shown the movie for the first time. Until the trial, the film rarely had been seen, and copies were made by assassination investigator Steve Jaffe, who was working with Garrison's office. In 2015, Garrison's lead
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Garrison had a "severe and disabling psychoneurosis" which "interfered with his social and professional adjustment to a marked degree. He was considered totally incapacitated from the standpoint of
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Garrison charged nine policemen with brutality, but dropped the charges two weeks later. At a press conference, he accused the state parole board of accepting bribes, but could obtain no indictments. Critical of the state legislature, Garrison was unanimously censured by it for "deliberately
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Garrison "staged an assassination 'investigation' that involved recklessness, cruelty, abuse of power, publicity mongering and dishonesty, all on a scale that strongly suggested lunacy leavened by cynicism." Former Orleans Parish district attorney
275:, in 1921. He was the first child and only son of Earling R. Garrison and Jane Anne Robinson who divorced when he was two years old. His family moved to New Orleans quite early into his childhood, where he was raised by his divorced mother. He served in the
511:. The very same reasonings as to why he thought that President Kennedy was killed were espoused by Garrison in filmed television appearances that he would make leading up to his death, the year after Stone's release of his cinematic film
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overturned the conviction and struck down the state statute as unconstitutional. At the same time, Garrison indicted Judge
Bernard Cocke with criminal malfeasance and, in two trials prosecuted by Garrison himself, Cocke was acquitted.
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also described the investigation of Shaw as an "egregious miscarriage of justice". Others who have called
Garrison's case against Shaw a "miscarriage of justice" or "travesty of justice" include historian Alecia Long and journalist
507:. Garrison explained that cover stories were circulated in an attempt to blame the killing on the Cubans and the Mafia, but that he blames the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy firmly on the CIA, which wanted to continue the
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Pershing Gervais conducted by New Orleans reporter Rosemary James, Gervais had admitted to concocting the charges. In the same year, Garrison was defeated for reelection as district attorney by
299:, even applying for active duty with the Army in 1951, but because of recurring nightmares of past missions Garrison was then relieved of duty by the Army. Remaining in the Guard when it became apparent that he suffered from
680:... as the Garrison investigation continued to unfold, it gave cause for increasingly serious misgivings about the validity of his evidence, the credibility of his witnesses, and the scrupulousness of his methods.
589:, the Executive Branch, members of the Dallas Police Department, the pathologists at Bethesda, and various others lied to the American public. The book does not mention Shaw or Garrison's investigation of Shaw.
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called Garrison "intellectually dishonest, a reckless prosecutor, and a total charlatan". At the time, Garrison came under criticism from author and researcher Sylvia Meagher, who in 1967 wrote:
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and conspiring against him. The eight judges charged him with misdemeanor criminal defamation, and Garrison was convicted in January 1963. In 1964, the
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maligning all of the members". In 1965, running for reelection against Judge Malcolm O'Hara, Garrison won with 60 percent of the vote.
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series, airing in the United States beginning in 1988. After the Shaw trial, Garrison wrote three books on the Kennedy assassination,
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investigator's daughter released his copy of the film, along with a number of his personal papers from the investigation.
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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1188:"Perry Raymond Russo's Hypnosis: Making Testimony More Objective?"
1546:"On Truth: 'Snowden' and Oliver Stone's 10 Strongest Adaptations"
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called it a "tragedy". Political analyst and conspiracy believer
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Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK
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1667:"Epitaph For Jim Garrison: Romancing the Assassination"
1478:"Pershing Gervais and the Attempt to Frame Jim Garrison"
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1854:"'JFK' Is More Than a Film In City of Conspiracy Buffs"
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1794:"Carson Showed Stuff When Confronted With Conspiracy"
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Researchers of the assassination of John F. Kennedy
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1642:"Jim Garrison, 70, Theorist on Kennedy Death, Dies"
1148:"JFK assassination truthers will love this auction"
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1069:"Assassination Probe Conspiracy Being Kept Secret"
959:Jim Garrison, His Life and Times: The Early Years)
881:. New York: M Evans and Company, Inc. p. 11.
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467:Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
2071:(Thunder's Mouth Press, 2nd edition, March 1992)
2021:Ponies & Rainbows: The Life of James Kirkwood
1412:"Garrison Planned To Link General To JFK Slaying"
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1991:The Garrison Case: A Study in the Abuse of Power
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1231:"Perry Raymond Russo: Way Too Willing Witness"
287:. After the war he obtained a law degree from
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1302:The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes
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624:The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes
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255:in 1991, in which Garrison was portrayed by
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2102:(New York: Random House Publishers, 1993)
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2226:JFK Online: Jim Garrison audio resources
2136:. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
1544:Fernandez, Jay A. (September 13, 2016).
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2014:Aiming for the Jugular in New Orleans
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1922:"Garrison and JFK Conspiracy Writers"
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1146:Morgan, Richard (November 20, 2015).
444:In January 1968, Garrison subpoenaed
19:For the American football coach, see
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1883:"Can Hollywood Solve JFK's Murder?"
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1823:Laney, Ruth (September 23, 2014).
1613:Stone: A Biography of Oliver Stone
1291:, Will Robinson, October 10, 1992.
536:On April 15, 1978, Garrison won a
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1347:"Writer Not Sure Oswald Assassin"
1033:. Potomac Books Inc. p. 11.
961:. Potomac Books. pp. 33–36.
831:"The Murder Talents of the CIA".
2293:Assassination of John F. Kennedy
2215:Jim Garrison's Reply to NBC News
2023:(Bearmanor Media, December 2011)
1947:Sylvia Meagher (April 7, 1992).
1825:""The Trouble with Tight Pants""
1519:"The Story of Garrison Vs. Shaw"
1175:Testimony of Perry Raymond Russo
1027:Joan Mellen (October 19, 2005).
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291:in 1949. He then worked for the
239:assassination of John F. Kennedy
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1906:Interview with Carl Oglesby.
1858:The Christian Science Monitor
1574:Fisher, Bob (February 1992).
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432:On the Trail of the Assassins
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2703:Burials at Metairie Cemetery
2405:Texas School Book Depository
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1768:The New York Times Magazine
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1119:Clay Shaw Trial Transcripts
1109:, November 1969, pp. 34–35.
990:, August 26, 1969, page 54.
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1993:(Clarkson N. Potter, 1969)
1673:Retrieved January 12, 2012
1006:. Jordan Pub. p. 82.
875:Lambert, Patricia (2000).
776:The Star Spangled Contract
569:The Star Spangled Contract
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947:, Sheridan Square, 1988
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460:United States Air Force
2417:Presidential limousine
2028:The Kennedy Conspiracy
1829:Country Roads Magazine
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153:New Orleans, Louisiana
2012:William Hardy Davis,
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1233:. Mcadams.posc.mu.edu
1105:Clay Shaw Interview,
856:accessed May 27, 2015
854:Jim Garrison obituary
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2331:Assassination rifle
1739:The Washington Post
1592:on January 27, 2019
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1210:"The Sciambra Memo"
757:A Heritage of Stone
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2551:In popular culture
2410:Sixth Floor Museum
2356:Jacqueline Kennedy
2117:. Applause Books.
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1762:(August 6, 1995).
1646:The New York Times
1383:. January 20, 1968
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2160:Christine Wiltz,
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