A Farewell to Justice

by Joan Mellen

  Perry Raymond Russo with Jim Garrison: “As far as I’m concerned, Bertrand and Shaw are the same” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  Garrison with Perry Raymond Russo: It didn’t matter whether “Leon” was “the Oswald that showed up in Dallas,” or was someone posing as Lee Harvey Oswald who “wanted to be remembered in that place at a certain time” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  James Phelan with Clay Shaw: “a casebook in the obstruction of justice.”

  (Donald) P. Norton: “Harvey Lee” told Norton he was from New Orleans (photograph courtesy of Donold P. Norton).

  David Atlee Phillips: “I was one of the two case officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald…”

  Marlene Mancuso: “They’re trying to destroy you and I’m not going to be part of anything like that” (photograph courtesy of Marlene Mancuso).

  Francis Fruge: “I’ve got your lady friend here in jail” (photograph courtesy of Anne Dischler).

  The East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson: “Do you know this is a mental hospital?” (photograph courtesy of Eric J. Brock).

  Henry Earl Palmer, registrar of voters for East Feliciana Parish during the summer of 1963: “Look, this is where Oswald registered…” (photograph courtesy of Margaret Harvey).

  Dr. Frank Silva in 2000. Dr. Silva was medical director of the East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson during the summer of 1963: “I’ve come to get a job at the suggestion of Dr. Malcolm Pierson,” Oswald says (photograph by Joan Mellen).

  Lea McGehee in his Jackson barbershop. “Hoping for a juicy argument, McGehee turned Oswald’s chair so that he stared directly into the face of Martin Luther King, Jr. (photograph courtesy of Lea McGehee).

  Anne Dischler at the time of the Garrison investigation: “We’re trying to find out what happened to our President” (photograph courtesy of Anne Dischler).

  Louie Ivon: “One of the best cops I ever met."

  The Reverend Clyde Johnson: “As the Bible says, no man is as blind as the man that don’t want to see.”

  Gerald Patrick Hemming: “One or more of Bobby’s boys gone bad.”

  “Jim Rose” (E. Carl McNabb): “My next assignment is to fly arms into a little revolution in Biafra” (photograph courtesy of AARC).

  Thomas Edward Beckham as Mark Evans: an infinite capacity to reinvent himself (photograph courtesy of Thomas Edward Beckham).

  Kerry Thornley: a course in “Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare” (photograph courtesy of the J. Gary Shaw Collection).

  From left, Lawrence Howard, William Seymour and Loran Hall: “Jackals for the CIA” (photograph courtesy of Christopher Sharrett).

  Lawrence Howard.

  Fred Lee Crisman: “Fred, I know you’re a government agent.”

  William Wood (“Bill Boxley”). The CIA had been “keeping an eye on him” (photograph courtesy of the J. Gary Shaw Collection).

  Clay Shaw: “Have you ever worked for the Central Intelligence Agency?” “No, I have not. ”

  Garrison and Governor John J. McKeithen visit Jasper in the hospital, 1970 (photograph by J.W. Guillot, The Times-Picayane,The Times-Picayune, courtesy of Lyon Garrison).

  Garrison lecturing on the Presidential motorcade route before members of PANO, the policemen’s union, 1970s (photograph courtesy of Irvin L. Magri. Jr.).

  Garrison at his wedding to Phyllis Weinert, 1976 (photograph courtesy of Phyllis Weinert).

  Garrison honored at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1977. From left, Jasper, Garrison, Eberhard and Snapper (photograph courtesy of Phyllis Weinert).

  Thomas Edward Beckham as a practicing Rabbi (photograph courtesy of Thomas Edward Beckham).

  Signing “On The Trail Of The Assassins,” 1989 (photograph copyright Donn Young Photography).

  Signing “On The Trail Of The Assassins,” 1989, at another venue (photograph copyright Donn Young Photography).

  Garrison as judge on the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).