A Farewell to Justice
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Shobe and, 447–448 “White Paper” of, 195–200, 203–204
Sherman, Mary, 49–55, 405–406
Shilstone, Cecil, 111–112, 323
Shipes, John Henry, 347
Shobe, Frederick Michael, 447–448
Silva, Frank, 217, 220–221, 223, 231, 300, 347, 379, 466
Silver, Myra, 273
Simpson, Art, 278
Simpson, Robert, 278
Siragusa, Charles, 86
Sirera, Julie, 342, 361
Sklar, Zachary, 361, 363 “Sloman, Henry J.”, 180
Slovenko, Ralph, 129
Smith, Benjamin, 332
Smith, David, 46, 47, 469–470
Smith, James, 337
Smith, Joseph Burkholder, 57
Smith, Ron L., 47–48
Smith, Sandy, 255–257
Smith, Sergio Arcacha, 48, 67, 94, 96–97, 231, 239, 346
Manuel identifies, 208
Martin (Jack) and, 55, 76, 410
RFK and, 382
Snipes, Vaughn, 155
Snyder, David, 102, 103, 321
Society for the Preservation of Southern Tradition, 287
Solie, Bruce L., 109, 402–403, 405
Somersett, Willie, 92
Somoza, Luis, 86
Sorrell, Forest, 263
Soule, Frederick A., 20, 330, 335
Soustelle, Jacques, 137–138, 140
Southwood, Jim, 153
Spadafora, Guterez di, 137
Spencer, James A., 73
Spiesel, Boris, 305
Spiesel, Charles I., 261–262, 300, 301, 305–306
Spindel, Bernard, 200, 436
Spooks (Hougan), 444
Sprague, Richard A., 343–345
Sprague, Richard E., 267, 289
Springer, Eva, 28, 29
St. Pe, Oliver, 57
Stanley, Archbishop Carl, 36
Stanley, Cristopher Maria, 406
Stansbury, Thomas Garrison, 3
Star-Spangled Contract, The (Garrison), 6, 14, 324, 336, 339
Starnes, Richard, 471 “Jack Starr”, 295
Starr, Mike, 285–286, 409
State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw. See Shaw, Clay Lavergne, trial of Stein, Esther, 320
Stern, Edgar and Edith, 103
Stinson, Kern, 262
Stone, Oliver, 362–363, 376. (See John F. Kennedy)
Strakna, Edward, 401
Strate, Zachary “Red,” 190
Strawderman, Larry, 345
Stuckey, William, 56, 248
Sullivan, Monroe, 116, 132
Sulzer, Jefferson, 192
Sulzer, Nina, 192, 197–198
Supreme Court, U.S., 9, 20
Suydam, Hank, 443
Sylvester, Jerry, 231
Sylvester, Joseph, 112, 232, 233
T
Tadin, Nicholas and Mathilde, 314 “Taming of the Shrew, The,”
JG’s modernization of, 6
Tanenbaum, Robert K., 48, 71, 343–344
Tarabochia, Alphonso L., 92
Tate, Joseph, 463
Taylor, Maxwell, 168
Teasdel, Jay, 6
Tettenburn, Perry, 15, 28
The New York Review of Books (Cole), 475
Thomas, Carroll S., 123
Thomas, Wilmer, 4–5, 119, 121, 461, 463
Thompson, A. Roswell, 69, 74–75, 135, 223, 287, 299, 321, 374–375
Thompson, Edward K., 443
Thornhill, Thomas, 264, 265, 266, 269
Thornley, Ken, 276
Thornley, Kerry, 26, 61, 67, 123, 271–276, 285, 346, 361
Thrasher, Charles O., 131
Time, 195
Time/Life, 443
Timmons, Stuart, 236
Timphony, Frank, 255–256
Tippet, J. D., 259–260, 295, 420
Tolliver, Kenneth Ralph, 109–110 “Tonight Show,” 245–246
Torres, Miguel, 91, 94, 197, 202
Touchstone, Ned, 210, 214, 227, 231
Towne, Isaac Newton, 423
Townley, Richard, 189, 192–195, 200–201
Townsend, Robert, 51
Trafficante, Santos, 88, 279
Travis, Hardy, 216, 228
Trent, Louis P., 20, 24
Trettin, Carl, 182
Triplett, William, 90, 280
Trosclair, Presley, 71, 199
Trotsy, Leon, 343
Truman, Harry S., 161, 471, 476
Truth and Consequences Committee, 111–112, 190, 191, 330, 362
Tulane Library, 467
Tulane School of Law, 4–5, 463
Turner, Stansfield, 345
Turner, William, 289–290
Boxley and, 296
Bradley and, 267, 268
Breitner and, 122, 299
Farewell America and, 297
JG on, 342
leaves investigation, 296
McNabb/Rose and, 293
Tweedy, Bronson, 373
Twyman, Noel, 374
U
U-2 flights, 162–164
Underhill, J. Garrett, 181
Union Leader, 446
United States of America v. Jim Garrison.
See Garrison, Jim, trials of
U.S. Customs, 46–55, 177
U.S. Public Health Hospital, “Lab” of, 51–52
U.S. Supreme Court, 9, 20
V
“Valdes, Juan,” 48–55, 94, 155, 299, 379
Valentino, Rudy (aka “Valentinov”; “Rudy Balaban”), 394, 396
Van Buskirk, Richard, 214, 224, 225, 228
Van der Lubbe, Marinus, 68
Vancouver Sun, 157
Veciana, Antonio, 48, 57, 171, 179, 359–360
Verdaguer, Guillermo, 88
Verdaguer, Roberto, 88
“Vice Man Cometh, The” (Chandler), 144
Victor, Ed, 457
Vidal, Gore, 129
Vietnam, 171–172, 173, 418, 433, 471
Vigurie, Chester, 182, 308
Villard, Corinne Verges, 210, 232
Vinson, Fred, 183, 242
Vinson, J. D., 214
Vodanovich, Chris “Bozo,” 335
Volkov, Esteban, 343
Volz, John, 96, 321
at Garrison burial, 368–369
Ferrie interviewed by, 44–45
on Gervais, 12
JG and, 1, 11, 23, 109, 223
JG’s finances and, 326
JG’s trial and, 336
on Oser, 15
Shaw and, 117, 149, 223
W
Wade, Henry, 96
Wagner, Herbert, 37, 38–40, 123, 299
Wagner, Richard Andrew, 423
Wakeling, Michael Otty Clyde, 54
Waldron, Martin, 307
Walker, Edwin, 69, 224, 437–438
Wall, Breck, 63
Wall, John, 337
Walter, William, 26, 59, 70, 300, 349, 366, 462
Walthers, Buddy, 300
Walton, Mrs. E. C., 307
Ward, Charles, 31, 321
Bradley and, 266, 268
Morial and, 342
National Convention of District Attorneys and, 291
Norton and, 157–158
runs against JG in 1969, 322
Ward, Douglas, 91
Ward, Lenore, 120
Wardlow, Jack, 362
Warner, Merritt Allen, 423
Warren Commission Report, 377
Dymond requests admission of, 149–150
Esquire article on, 1
FBI reports on evidence of Oswald/Ruby connection, 464
JG on, 316
RFK approval of, 427–428
RFK’s private views on, 457
volumes of exhibits, 1–2, 23, 26–27, 44, 45, 60, 106, 110, 141, 200, 234, 245, 271–272, 277
see also Kennedy assassination investigations Warren, Earl, 2, 72
Warren, Robert Penn, 365
Washington Post, 471, 472, 475
Wasserman, Jack, 44
Watson, Marvin, 184, 451
Wattley, Helen, 51
WDSU, 103, 322
Webster, Robert E., 392–395, 398
Wecht, Cyril, 307, 311, 312
Wegmann, Edward F., 117, 118, 152, 187, 243, 281, 309
Wegmann, William, 244, 292, 313
Weinert, Phyllis. See Kritikos, Phyllis Weinert
Weisberg, Harold, 197, 273, 278, 294
Weiss, Victor J., 205, 206
Welch, Frances, 9
Welch, Wally, 249
Welsh, David, 418
Wershba, Joe, 119, 187, 190, 200
Wershba, Shirley, 200
Wessell, Bill, 348
Westbank Herald, 34
Whalen, Edward, 243–244
Whalen, Ralph, 300, 310
Wheat, Clint, 268, 278, 279
White, Billie, 439–440
White, Donald, 206
White, Ross, 423, 424
“White Paper” (NBC), 188–200, 203–204
whitewash, 23, 29
Whitmey, Peter, 260
Whitten, John (“John Scelso”), 143, 167, 357, 359
Wicker, Tom, 336
Wight, Dick, 135–136, 320
WikiLeaks, 475
Wilbans, Charlie, 222
Wilcott, James, 178–179
Wilcox, George, 70
Wilkes, Christine, 339
Williams, D’alton, 8, 13
Williams, David R. M., 367
Williams, Edward Bennett, 449
Williams, Enrique “Harry,” 173
Williams, Fred, 193
Williams, Hank, 385
Williams, Tennessee, 129
Williams, Thomas, 215
Wilson, Benton, 38, 108
on Ferrie, 467
Wilson, Gloria, 216, 218, 223, 225, 237, 417, 463
Wilson, John, 38, 41, 108, 113, 261
Wilson, Matt O., 58
Winsberg, Jerome, 340–341
wire-tapping, 435–436, 442–443, 445–446, 449–452
Wise, David, 163
Wise, Erbon W. , 242
Wisner, Frank, 137, 166, 278, 391
Wolfson, Louis E., 246–248, 361–362
Woods, Joyce, 9
Wood, William C. (Bill Boxley)
attempts to derail investigation, 239–242, 295–297
Bradley and, 264–265
fired, 296, 467
Thornley and, 273
Woodside, Aline, 222
Woodward, William E., 228 “Working Group,” 404
World Wide Church, 375
Worrell, E. B., 158
Wright, Marshal (barber), 225
Wright, Charles A., 135
Wright, Christine, 228
Wright, Skelly, 19
Wulf, William, 63–64
Wyatt, George, 324
Y
Yarborough, William P., 179
Yates, Wiley, 249, 279
Yeagley, J. Walter, 242
Yockey, Ross, 201
Young, Aubrey, 210, 256–257
Z
Z (Costa Gavras film), 142
Zamora, Oscar, 468
Zapruder, Abraham, 307
Zapruder film, 245, 291, 294, 298, 307, 311
Zelden, Sam (Monk), 28, 29, 96
Ziegler, Leah (Liz) (JG’s first wife), 22, 23, 120, 328, 363
JG’s death and, 367
JG’s trial and, 336
remarries JG, 367
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOAN MELLEN is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2004, she received Temple’s “Great Teacher” award. She has written twenty-two books, ranging from film criticism (Marilyn Monroe; Film Guide to The Battle of Algiers; Women And Their Sexuality in the New Film; The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan Through Its Cinema; Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film), fiction (Natural Tendencies) and Latin Ameri-can Studies to true crime (Privilege), sports (Bob Knight: His Own Man), and biography (Kay Boyle: Author of Herself; Hellman and Hammett; Our Man in Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic and The Great Game in Cuba: How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro.) She has written for a variety of publications, among them the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Wall Street Journal and the Baltimore Sun. She lives in Pennington, New Jersey.
Jim Garrison’s maternal grandfather, William Oliver Robinson, seven foot three inches tall, as Uncle Sam, in Knoxville, Iowa (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).
Jim Garrison at the age of three, with his sister, Judy Denison, Iowa. c. 1924 (photograph courtesy of Richard N. Billings).
Garrison, right, at age sixteen or seventeen, on the Baker family boat. At left is Warren Malhiot, who married Peggie’s sister, Wilma (photograph courtesy of Wilma Malhiot).
Garrison, age nineteen, drops out of college and enlists in the army. He is shown here with his mother, Jane Garrison, in 1940 (photograph courtesy of Garrison’s personal collection).
Garrison at DachauGarrison concentration camp. in Germany. “What I saw there has haunted me ever since,” Garrison said years later (photograph courtesy of Garrison’s personal collection).
Garrison at his desk. “The longer you sat in his office, the better your chances that the prosecutor would recommend no jail time at all.”
District Attorney Garrison: “Just another day at Tulane and Broad.“ (photograph courtesy of Judge Louis P. Trent).
Garrison with Liz Garrison and Benny Goodman (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).
President Lyndon B. Johnson, six foot three and three-quarter inches tall, steps forward quickly so as not to appear smaller than Garrison (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).
Pershing Gervais: “The Devil Incarnate.” 1962 (photograph by Terry Friedman, copyright The Times-Picayune).
Garrison in court with Donald V. Organ: Judges like “the sacred cows of India,” 1963 (photograph by P.A Hughes, courtesy of Donald V. Organ).
Garrison shared with John F. Kennedy an affinity for the media, and television in particular.
Garrison 1965 reelection advertisement: “Possessing another man’s army record carries a federal penalty of up to ten years in prison.”
Linda Brigette: The Cupid Doll (photograph courtesy of the late Linda Brigette).
Aaron Kohn: “the economic importance of Linda Brigette to organized crime” (photograph courtesy of AARC).
Garrison in 1967: “The Bill of Rights lives in an oxygen tent.” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).
David Ferrie, left. Ferrie took movies at a Cuban exile training camp north of Lake Pontchartrain.
Ferrie: “People are no damn good.”
Ferrie: “We’re going on a hunting trip to Dallas.”
A Civil Air Patrol (CAP) cook-out: Lee Harvey Oswald, in white T-shirt, smiles, at right. John Ciravolo is to Oswald’s right. David Ferrie, in helmet, is second from left (photograph courtesy of John B. Ciravolo, Jr.).
Oswald distributing leaflets urging “Fair Play for Cuba” outside the International Trade Mart in New Orleans: “Through the efforts of some Cuban-exile ‘gusanos,’ a street demonstration was attacked.”
Oswald arrested in New Orleans, August 1963: “Just call the FBI. Tell them you have Lee Oswald in custody.”
Official FBI photograph of William Walter, 1963 (photograph courtesy of William Walter).
Juan Valdes wins the best flower award from the New Orleans orchid society, April 1962: “they must be destroying paper.”
Mary Sherman: “a close friend of David Ferrie.”
William Gurvich with Jim Garrison in Las Vegas, March 1967. “Like a Greek bearing gifts.” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).
New Orleans Police Sergeant, Intelligence Division, Subversive Section, Robert Buras, protecting the civil rights of Ku Klux Klan stalwart A. Roswell Thompson. Thompson is about to lay his annual wreath at the foot of the statue of Robert E. Lee (photograph courtesy of Robert Buras).
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p; Guy Banister: “Now all we have to do is kill Earl Warren and the country will clear up” (photograph courtesy of the J. Gary Shaw Collection).
Thomas Edward Beckham, in black, photographed outside the International Trade Mart, as Oswald walks inside: “What are you trying to International Trade Mart, as Oswald walks inside: “What are you trying to do? Get yourself in trouble?” Beckham has confirmed that it was he. do? Get yourself in trouble?” Beckham confirms that this is indeed he. Others have expressed their doubts, insisting that this was a Japanese photographer.
Director of International Affairs for the City of New Orleans, Alberto Fowler, with his wife, Paulette: “Jim, I didn’t kill him. . . .” (photograph courtesy of Alberto A. Fowler).
Garrison during his investigation, 1965-1969: “I knew I was dancing with the CIA” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).
Martin F. Dardis, center, Richard Gerstein, right: “I should be able to find him” (photograph courtesy of Martin F. Dardis).
Emilio Santana: “Wildcat Cubans.”
Bernardo de Torres is at the right: “They will never find out what happened” (photograph courtesy of Christopher Sharrett).
Clay Shaw’s signature as “Clay Bertrand” at the Eastern Airlines VIP room: “I saw Clay Shaw that day.”
Clay Shaw is arrested, March 1, 1967: “Through the famous Looking Glass, the black objects can appear to be white and the white objects can appear to be black.”
French Quarter chanteuse Barbara Bennett: “There’s Clay Bertrand!” (photograph courtesy of Barbara Bennett).
Robert Lee Perrin after his autopsy (photograph courtesy of J. Gary Shaw Collection).
The Garrison family in 1967: From left, Virginia, Eberhard, Mrs. Liz Garrison, Elizabeth, Snapper (front), and Jasper (photograph by Lynn Pelham).
Garrison with the author, 1969 (photograph courtesy of Joan Mellen).
Shaw (center) as aide-de-camp to General Thrasher (left): “worse than the former German concentration camps.”
Shaw with fellow CIA asset Dr. Alton Ochsner (photograph courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library).
Ferenc Nagy: “A cleared contact of the International Organizations Division of the Agency.”