by Joan Mellen
p. 120: “I saw him throw a glass of wine”: “of ‘Not Guilty,’” by Rosemary James. New Orleans magazine. March 1971, p. 60.
p. 120: “I know you’re the District Attorney”: Interview with Liz Garrison, May 28, 1998.
p. 121: numbered Pershing Gervais: See February 21, 1967. Memo: to Billings, from Chandler. Papers of Richard N. Billings.
p. 121: Mrs. Brennan denies that she was at Clay Shaw’s table: Conversation with Mrs. Ella Brennan, September 27, 2001. In general for this incident: Interviews with Mrs. Liz Garrison, May 28, 1998, and Mrs. Lenore Ward, August 7 and August 8, 2000; October 4, 2001.
p. 121: the wine landed on Shaw’s white linen suit: Interview with Wilmer Thomas, March 7, 2001.
p. 121: In Jack Sawyer’s memory: Interview with Jack Sawyer, May 24, 1998. The story of Shaw and Garrison at Brennan’s runs through the bowels of the FBI: FBI 124- 10251-10211. 89-69-3209, 3210. To: Director, FBI. From: SAC, New Orleans. June 21, 1967. This report by FBI informant Betty Parent (No. 949- C) came to Regis Kennedy in June of 1967. Parent stated “this was no personal information.” She admitted that she was only passing on a rumor.
p. 121: Schiller reported three homosexual sources: Regarding Lawrence Schiller’s reports to the FBI about “three homosexual sources. . . .”: FBI, To: Director, FBI. From: SAC, Los Angeles. 124-10259-10152. 89-69- 1897, 1898. March 23, 1967. NARA. Regarding “code name”: FBI. To: Director, FBI. From: SAC, Los Angeles. 62- 109060-5420. June 19, 1967. NARA.
p. 121: handwriting comparisons: diary of Richard N. Billings, p. 35.
p. 121: CIA would create a document: See William Davy, Let Justice Be Done, p. 197.
p. 121: Barbara Bennett: Interview with Barbara Bennett, February 6, 2001. Another who knew Shaw as Bertrand, was of course, Daniel Campbell: Interview with Daniel Campbell, June 8, 2002. See also Daniel Campbell interviewed by Jim DiEugenio, September 14, 1994; and Memorandum. May 14, 1969. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew J. Sciambra. Re: Shaw Leads II (Interview with Dan Campbell). NODA. NARA.
p. 121: Shaw a frequent visitor to Pat O’Brien’s: Memorandum. November 29, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew Sciambra. Re: LEE OSWALD. NODA. NARA.
p. 121: “We were intelligent women”: interview with Rickey Planche, May 21, 2005.
p. 121: Fred Leemans Jr. saw “Clay Bertrand”: Statement and Interrogation of Fred Hendrick Leemans Jr. in the Office of the District Attorney, Parish of Orleans, on Friday, May 5, 1967. Leemans was questioned by Robert E. Lee. NODA. NARA. Leemans then repudiated his statement: Re: Clay L. Shaw. May 24, 1967. Statement to the file by F. Irvin Dymond. NARA. See also: Memorandum. To: Charles R. Ward. From: Robert E. Lee. June 19, 1967. Re: Fred Leemans. NODA. NARA. Leemans’ final word was on January 6, 1969, Statement to the district attorney, Orleans Parish.
p. 121: Virginia Johnson: Virginia Johnson saw a letter: Memorandum. To: Louis Ivon. From: Gary Sanders. Subject: Virginia Johnson— Clay Shaw’s Maid. January 15, 1968. NODA. NARA.
p. 121: Valentine Ashworth: See Ashworth to Jim Garrison, July 19, 1967. Interview with Valentine Ashworth by Richard V. Burnes and Sergeant Sedgebeer. September 7, 1967. Lake Charles Parish Prison. Ashworth calls the FBI and says he’s connected to the Garrison investigation, see: To: SAC. From: William H. Deily Jr. Subject: Valentine Ashworth. February 20, 1968. 89-69-3874. NODA. NARA. Valentine Ashworth identifies a photograph of Shaw as Bertrand: Memorandum. To: Jim Garrison. From: Richard V. Burnes. Re: Valentine Ashworth. September 8, 1967. NODA. NARA. The Agency checks into Ashworth: see 3 January 1968. Memorandum For: DC/CI/R & A. Subject: Valentine Ashworth. NARA.
p. 121: Steve Bordelon found a witness: Interview with Steve Bordelon, June 14, 2000.
p. 122: Greg Donnelly: Greg Donnelly’s statement came to Jim secondhand from Dr. Jacob Harold Kety: Memorandum. To: Louie Ivon. From: Gary Sanders. Re: Dr. Jacob Harold Kety. February 14, 1968. NODA. NARA.
p. 122: Thomas Breitner meets Clay Bertrand: See Notes of Richard Popkin, August 15, 1968, p. 31.
p. 122: “disciplinary crew of queers”: Interview with Charles W. Frank Jr. May 11, 2000.
p. 122: dressed as a French executioner: Memorandum: November 28, 1967. To: Louis Ivon. From. C. J. Navarre. Re: LEAD FILE UNIT #23. NODA. NARA.
p. 122: “See Clay Shaw for prices”: Memorandum. February 14, 1968. To: Louis Ivon. From: Gary Sanders. Re: Dr. Jacob Harold Kety. NODA. NARA.
p. 122: Pope Clement shields homosexuals in the fourteenth century: Sophia Menache, Clement V., Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 20-34; Guillaume Mollat, The Popes of Avignon 1305-1378. Translated by Janet Love (London: Thomas Nelson and Sonsn, 1963), pp. 3-8; Fernand Mourret, History of the Catholic Church. Eight Volumes. Translated by Newton Thompson (London: B. Herder Book Company, 1930, 1955), Volume Five. pp. 48-65.
p. 122: the FBI learns that Shaw and Jones have rented an apartment: FBI. From: New Orleans. To: Director, FBI. March 21, 1967. 89-69-1778, 1779. 4 pages. NARA. See also: FBI. 124-10053- 10100. 62-109060-4925. March 21, 1967. NARA.
p. 122: Evelyn Jahncke hears about a postal carrier: Memorandum. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew J. Sciambra. February 19, 1968. NODA. NARA.
p. 122: Ferrie introduces Broshears to Shaw as “Clara”: Interview of Raymond Broshears—conducted by Steve Jaffe, James Alcock, Louis Ivon. No date. NODA. NARA. The presence of Jaffe places the interview in 1968. See also: Memorandum. To: Jim Garrison. From: Steven J. Burton. Subject: Rev. Raymond Broshears. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: “I know his slender hips”: Broshears quoted at the New Orleans conference by Moo Moo Sciambra, September 1968.
p. 123: “one of the best cops”: Reverend Raymond Broshears to James Alcock, August 16, 1968. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: Ferrie has privileged access into Shaw’s office: FBI teletype marked URGENT. To: Director. From: New Orleans. March 4, 1967. 89-69-1569. NARA.
p. 123: “a big fellow who walked with a very slight limp”: Statement of Herbert R. Wagner Jr. president of Herb Wagner Finance Service. December 6, 1967. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: L. P. Davis provides information on Shaw, Ferrie and the fishing camp: Memorandum. March 27, 1967. To: James L. Alcock. From: Charles R. Ward. Re: Special Investigation. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: Ferrie flies Shaw to a fishing camp: Memorandum. To: Jim Garrison. From: William Gurvich, Special Aide. April 5, 1967. Subject: Freemason Island Fishing Camp. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: Owners identified: Nat Milligan identifies Clay Shaw from his photograph: Memorandum. April 5, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: William Gurvich, Special Aide. Subject: Freemason Island Fishing Camp. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: Carroll S. Thomas: FBI. To: SAC. From: SA John Henry Love Jr. March 16, 1967. Interview with Carroll S. Thomas. 89-69-1780. NARA.
p. 123: Oswald knew someone named “Clay”: Interview with Layton Martens. March 12, 1967. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: Henry Lesnick persuades David Logan: Interview with Henry Lesnick, October 12, 2001. Interview with Mary Lesnick, October 14, 2001.
p. 123: Barbara Bennett saw Oswald at Dixie’s: Interview with Barbara Bennett, February 6, 2001.
p. 123: Oswald is at Dixie’s Bar of Music, seems to want to associ- ate with “gay guys”: Memorandum. November 29, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew Sciambra. Re: Lee Oswald. NODA. NARA.
p. 123: David Logan: What survives in the files is a transcription of a telephone conversation between Logan and Jimmy Alcock. April 13, 1968. See also: On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 119.
p. 124: on glass: Jim DiEugenio interview with Art Kunkin. June 23, 1994.
p. 124: “for sexual purposes”: Interview with William A. Morris by William Boxley and William Martin. July 12, 1967. Transcribed July 14, 1967. NODA. NARA.
p. 124: Betty Parrott con- firms part of D’Avy’s story: Memorandum. December 18, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew J. Sciambra. Re: Interview with “BP” In Re: Friends of Democratic Cuba. NODA. NARA.
p. 124: onl
y in the late 1970s: Leander D’Avy interviewed by the House Select Committee. Interview by Belford Lawson and Jack Moriarty. June 23, 1977. 001685. NARA.
p. 124: was a Clay Bertrand working there?: Memorandum. December 5, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew Sciambra. Re: Interview of Leander D’Avy. NODA. NARA. See also: Memorandum. August 14, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Andrew J. Sciambra. Re: Telephone Conversation with Mr. Leander D’Avy. NODA. NARA.
p. 124: “Clay Shaw’s alleged homosexuality”: Jim Garrison to Ted Gandolfo. April 14, 1986.
p. 124: Ronald R. Raymond “did not want to be involved”: Statement of Ronald R. Raymond. Office of the District Attorney. Confidential. NODA. NARA.
p. 124: Jessie Parker comes forward: Her Affidavit for the Shaw trial is dated January 29, 1969. NODA. NARA.
p. 125: seamstress for a family Numa Bertel knew: Interview with Numa Bertel, October 9, 2000.
p. 125: photographs of the guest book: Memorandum. September 20, 1967. To: Louis Ivon. From: Cliency Navarre. Re: Photographs Taken at Moisant Airport of a Clay Bertrand Signature. NODA. NARA.
p. 125: Moran became a DD/P asset on or about 15 December 1962: See: CIA. Memorandum For: Director, Domestic Contact Service. Attention: Mr. George S. Musulin. Subject: Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination: Alfred J. MORAN, 201-776772. 24 November 1967: From: Donovan E. Pratt, DC/ CI/R & A. Record number: 104- 10170-10154. NARA.
p. 125: a contact of JMWAVE: JMWAVE 0425, 100- 300017. Miami station reports their last contact with Moran was on November 19, 1967. REF: Director 55441.
p. 125: “positive Shaw was not at the airport: Memorandum. November 17, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Jim Alcock, Sgt. Tom Duffy. Re: Mr. Alfred Moran. NODA. NARA.
p. 125: he disliked him: Memorandum. November 17, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: Jim Alcock, Sgt. Tom Duffy. Re: Mr. Alfred Moran. NODA. NARA.
p. 125: Moran “objected strenuously but in vain to Clay Shaw’s appointment as managing director”: Lloyd Ray to Headquarters. Att’n: Office of General Counsel. December 13, 1967. Reference your 506 and our 007. Subject: Case 49364— Garrison Investigation. NODA. NARA.
p. 125: “ironclad case”: Ray writes to Headquarters: NO-406-67. 15 November 1967. To: Director, Domestic Contact Service. Att’n: Operational Support Staff (Musulin). From: Chief, New Orleans Office. Subject: Case 49364—Garrison Investigation. OGC 67-2195. See also: Memorandum Number 8: Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination. January 11, 1968. 25 pages. 104-10435-10009. RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE. From: DDO/PIC To: CIA Staff. Title: official routing slip with attached resanitized copy of Memo #8 of the Garrison Package. NARA.
p. 126: CIA runs a check on Moran: November 24, 1967. Memorandum For: Director, Domestic Contact Service. Attention: Mr. George S. Musulin. Subject: Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination (Alfred J. Moran). Reference: Report of DCS office, New Orleans, file no. NO-406-67, 15 November 1967. Subject: Case 49364—Garrison Investigation. Signed by Donovan E. Pratt, DC/CI/R & A. NARA.
p. 126: Lawrence Houston cleanses the record: 30 November 1967. To: New Orleans. From: Office of General Counsel. CITE: Headquarters 487 Ref: No-406-67. Signed by Lawrence Houston.
p. 126: a slipped disk sends Moran to bed: Headquarters: Attn: Office of General Counsel. Reference your 487 and our 006. “restricted handling supervisor only” and no signature on this cable. Sent by Lloyd Ray.
p. 126: Lloyd A. Ray reports back to Houston: December 13, 1967. Ray to Att’n: Office of General Counsel. Reference your 506 and our 007. Subject: Case 49364— Garrison Investigation.
CHAPTER 9
p. 128, Epigraph: “it is fair to conclude”: Jim Garrison’s Notes on PERMINDEX. NARA.
p. 128: Shaw’s name came up: Cartha DeLoach briefs Ramsey Clark in the morning. Interview with Ramsey Clark, February 21, 2000. “Shaw’s name had come up in our investigation”: To: Mr. Tolson. From: C. D. DeLoach. 3/2/67. 62-109060- 4635. NARA.
p. 128: a fragment: Report of the Latent Fingerprint Section. Your file number: 89-68. Re: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 11/22/63, Dallas, Texas. December 5, 1963. 89-69-1085.
p. 128: “Mr. Bertrand and Mr. Shaw were the same man”: Ibid., “Clark Discounts a Shaw Conspiracy.” See also: FBI Memorandum. To: Mr. Tolson. From: C. D. DeLoach. March 2, 1967. 62-109060-4628. NARA.
p. 129: the FBI had manipulated him: Interview with Ramsey Clark, February 21, 2000.
p. 129: Clark has been kept in the dark by Hoover and Helms: Interview with Gordon Novel, January 16, 2000. Hoover then directed that all inquiries on Shaw’s having been cleared be sent directly to Ramsey Clark: FBI 124-10237- 10347. 89-69-2007. NARA. Ramsey Clark asked Hoover for information on Jim Garrison, but was refused: “Information concerning these individuals is being furnished to the Department at Seat of Government,” he said, “where warranted as developments occur involving them”: To: SAC, New Orleans. From: Director, FBI. Personal attention. 89-69-1775. Clark’s original request is: To: Director. Federal Bureau of Investigation. From: The Attorney General. March 13, 1967. 129-11. NARA. See also FBI Record Number 124- 10237-10254. Agency file number: 89-69-1774. To: Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation From: The Attorney General. Subject: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Warren Commission Records. March 13, 1967. 129-11. NARA. The reply from Hoover: To: SAC, New Orleans. From: Director, FBI. March 16, 1967. FBI Record Number: 124-10237-10255. Agency file number: 89-69-1775. NARA.
p. 129: denying that Shaw had been investigated: “FBI never Investigated Shaw— Clark,” States-Item. June 3, 1967. p. 1.
p. 129: Shaw “involved in an FBI investigation”: “Clark Discounts A Shaw Conspiracy,” by Robert B. Semple Jr. The New York Times, March 3, 1967.
p. 129: “wound up as tight”: LIFE magazine memo from Angeloff. April 5, 1967. Papers of Richard N. Billings. Box 2, folder 21. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
p. 129: “quite calm and assured”: US Government Memorandum. CIA. To: Director, Domestic Contact Service. From: Chief, New Orleans Office. No. 133-67. April 6, 1967. Signed by Lloyd A. Ray. NARA. Bringuier, informing to CIA, is quoting Fowler.
p. 129: “a great admirer of Kennedy”: Penthouse interview: Clay Shaw. British Edition. September 1969. p. 28. See also Shaw interviewed by Walter Sheridan. NARA. Undated. This is number 24 in the MCC collection of Sheridan interviews.
p. 129: Ralph Slovenko gives a talk at Tulane: Interview with Ralph Slovenko, April 3, 1998. Slovenko’s speech was published in Tulane Studies in Political Science 4: 79, 1957, under the title, “Nationalization and Nasser.”
p. 129: Shaw seen with anti-Castro Cubans: Diary of Richard N. Billings, File 51b. AARC.
p. 129: Shaw was “helping us”: CIA 1424-492-S. Enclosure 15. Subject: S. M. Kauffroth. FBI document dated April 6, 1967. Houston, Texas. 5627. CIA disseminated FBI report DDB 77370. NARA.
p. 129: “unscrupulous adventurer”: CIA memorandum #2. May 8, 1967. Subject: Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination. Reference: CI/R & A Memorandum of 26 April 1967, subject as above. Enclosure 4. NARA.
p. 129: his conversation: Interview with Jack Sawyer, May 24, 1998.
p. 129: “I believe in beauty and ecstasy”: Interview with Donald Scheuler, May 23, 1998.
p. 130: the Fowlers would not have seen Clay Shaw socially: Interview with Elizabeth Swanson, July 12, 2001. Swanson is a niece of Alberto Fowler.
p. 130: “they say I’m an octoroon”: Interview with Patricia Chandler, May 22, 1998.
p. 130: “the King of England”: Jim Garrison to Zachary Sklar, August 9, 1988. AARC.
p. 130: Shaw’s favorite New Orleans story: Interview with Jefferson Sulzer, January 15, 2000.
p. 130: Clay Shaw’s grandfather: “Clay Shaw of New Orleans” by Dorothy Raymer. Key West Citizen. March 28, 1971, p. 3. For Clay Shaw’s early life: Memo written by David Chandler. To: Lang for Billings, Newsfronts. Clay Lavergne Shaw. March 4, 1967. Papers of Richard N. Billings, Box 2, folder 21. Georgetown.
p. 130: “I woul
dn’t hurt a fly”: Interview with Dr. Harold Lief, May 25, 1999.
p. 130: “If there were no guns”: Memo written by David Chandler.
p. 130: “I didn’t even know what a fracture was”: Shaw Biography. For: Charles Ward. Re: Clay Shaw. NODA. NARA.
p. 131: Thrasher’s cruelty: See James Bacque, Other Losses: The Shocking Truth Behind the Mass Deaths of Disarmed German Soldiers and Civilians Under General Eisenhower’s Command (Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, St. Martin’s Press: 1991), pp. 91-92; 95-96.
p. 131: “principal backer and developer”: CIA. March 18, 1969. To: Director. TYPIC AMWIDE. REF: WH/Miami 3223 (IN17231). Identity A: Mr. Lloyd J. Cobb. NARA.
p. 131: Lloyd Cobb’s security clearance: CIA 18 March 1968. SUBJECT: COBB, Lloyd J. NARA.
p. 131: David Baldwin’s history: Memorandum. May 24, 1967. To: Jim Garrison. From: William R. Martin. Subject: Central Intelligence Connections in the City of New Orleans. NODA. NARA.
p. 131: “own CIA connections”: David G. Baldwin to Clay Shaw, May 31, 1967. Papers of Clay Shaw. NARA.
p. 131: “shoe leather”: Stephen Tyler interview with Jesse Core, in Shades of Gray: A New Orleans Native’s Search for the Real Clay Shaw. Unpublished proposal. Courtesy of Mr. Tyler.
p. 131: every consulate was bugged: Interview with Gordon Novel, January 16, 2000. Asked how he knew, Novel says, “I took it apart”: Interview with Novel, June 12, 2000.
p. 131: “blond hair blowing in the wind”: Billings, Haskell, Byers, Rowan, Orshefsky. From: Will Lang. LIFE magazine. March 5, 1967. Papers of Richard N. Billings, Box 2, folder 21.
p. 131: Shaw was paid one hundred dollars a month: HSCA interview with Ross Banister by Martin J. Daly. Subjects; Banister, Guy; Wilson, Mary Banister; Banister, Ross. February 20, 1978. 180-10082- 10170. HSCA 005967. NARA.
p. 131: apartment house in Madrid: Bill Turner to Bud Fensterwald, December 14, 1967. AARC.
p. 131: for the preceding five years: Interview with Robert Buras, September 18, 2002.
p. 132: Gaudet laughed: See Norman Kempster, “Oswald, CIA Trails Crossed: Shadowy Figure Emerges,” Washington Star. January 15, 1976.
