shaw, i believe, was intended to get the national media back to town. as soon as he arrested clay shaw, they came back. and they realized the truth that there isn t anything there. garrison has based his case on the certainty that he can prove clay shaw is clay or clan burke within. they said a man by that name called him suggesting he provide legal defense for lee oswald. he had described him as having gay tendencies and represents gays as a lawyer. so therefore they believed it must be clay shaw. that was the extent of garrison s investigation. you have enough evidence now to go to trial? if i answered that i shouldn t be district attorney. the case he has built against
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it involves, too, the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, a man they call the jolly green giant. you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy? i do not want to get involved in the speculations as to individuals, but i will say that there s no question about the fact that there was a plot and there were a number of individuals involved. in 1967, he announced i ve solved the case. i ve found the real assassin. we will make arrests based on that, and we will make charges based on that, and we will obtain convictions based on that. now, you wouldn t have paid much attention to this, except he was district attorney of new orleans. i ve spent hour after hour with jim garrison. he has presented his case to me, detail by detail. the mark lane s and the conspiracy theorists all flocked initially to garrison. and i can report that a
the name clam bertrand was first introduced by lawyer dean andrews who said a person by that name telephoned him, suggesting he provide legal defense for oswald. he described him as having gay tendencies and representing gays as a lawyer. therefore, garrison believed clem bertrand must be clay shaw. that was the extent of garrison s investigation. do you have enough evidence now to go to trial? well, if i answered that, i shouldn t be district attorney. the case he has built against clay shaw is based on testimony that did not pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered and garrison knew it. can you say positively that the person you knew as clay bertrand is not the person you have seen as clay shaw? scout s honor, he is not. garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating
powerful domestic force, a force that is still part of the american structure, planned and initiated those acts that resulted in the assassination of president kennedy. they all thought here s a guy who s finally going to bring the case that we have been, you know, arguing about for years. if i seem somewhat confident, it is because our office is in its fifth year and has never lost a murder case. the press initiatively built garrison up, because everybody believes no district attorney in his right mind would do this unless he had something. arrested this evening in the district attorney s office was clay shaw, age 54, of 1313 darby street, from new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy.
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