The New Orleans States-Item endorsed Harry Connick for District Attorney in the Democratic Primary in 1969. They ran a series of front page editorials - and here is their first from October 30, 1969:
Here is one of the reasons why they ran that editorial (from the same newspaper):
Here is the next one from November 4, 1969:
And, November 5, 1969:
And, November 6, 1969:
Here is a news story about the race from November 6, 1969 with some interesting information on crime in New Orleans:
Garrison wouldn t debate his opponents (see above) and so he bought television spots. This is also from November 6, 1969:
Garrison won the election:
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In January 1968, police officer Aloysius Habighorst made the following statement to Garrison s investigators:Towards the end of July, 1968, for some reason, Mr. Habighorst went on television in New Orleans and told his story about Clay Shaw admitting to be Clay Bertrand. It was immediately denied by Shaw s attorney, Edward
On November 20, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Jim Garrison s petition to overturn the permanent injunction against trying Clay Shaw for perjury.
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Jim Garrison then issued this press release:
Is this the product of a sane man? The assassination was a professionally executed guerilla ambush, with four gunmen - two in front, and two in back. Oswald was planted in the Texas School Book Depository. Jack Ruby was a professional operative for government intelligence. Even the control of night clubs, near military bases, was standard operating procedure for domestic espionage operation.
There was very little coverage of Garrison s press release but both the New Orleans
Probe Magazine of May-June, 1997 writes: In a Wackenhut interview with Carlos Bringuier (5/9/67), Bringuier stated that Shaw s friend Alberto Fowler revealed that Garrison had something big and that high persons were involved in the assassination conspiracy. Fowler said Shaw
felt confident because he knew that these high persons would have to defend him. [emphasis in original]
DiEugenio also wrote in the same issue: In the same Wackenhut report quoted above, it is revealed that Gordon Novel was a CIA agent and that Shaw was in the Intelligence Services of the armed forces.
Let s have a closer look.
Just who was Alberto Fowler? He was born in New Orleans and had worked in Cuba for his family in the 1950s. Fowler was a participant in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was captured by Cuban troops. He was freed in a prisoner exchange for food and medicine a year and a half later. Fowler became Director of International Relations for the City of New Orleans in 1965, and he k