Times-Picayune of George W. Healy, Jr s book,
A Lifetime On Deadline. Sunday afternoon Moe Waldron of the Times threw an open-house farewell for the press and victory celebration for the defendant at Mom s Good Eats. Terry and Leonard Flettich, Jeff and Nina Sulzer, Jerry Cohen, Hugh and Paula Aynesworth, Mike Parks, Jim Phelan, Bill Block and his young and pregnant wife, Judy, John Mourain, Rosemary and Jud James, Doc Queeg of the UP and perhaps twenty others were there, including some of the local newspaper fellows, who were indulging in a goodly share of drunken crowing over the local editorializing. It got a bit thick after a while and I could not help commenting that although the editorials were indeed called for and appropriate, it was surprising that the papers had been able to restrain themselves for a period of two years, since they now asserted, We don t think that charges ever should have been preferred against Mr. Shaw . . . and We have had to bite our tongue in th
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An important question is whether the FBI knew that Clay Shaw was the elusive Clay Bertrand. Here s an FBI memo from March 2, 1967 that seems to indicate they did have information that Shaw was Bertrand.
We can see that one source was Aaron Kohn, head of the Metropolitan Crime Commision. But, who was the other source that Shaw was Bertrand? In an FBI Airirtel, we see that the source was informant 1309-C, which is none other than Joseph Oster, who had once worked for Guy Banister.
The Airtel gives us additional information regarding the identification of Shaw as Bertrand:
So, we can clearly see that Aaron Kohn s identification of Shaw as Bertrand was only based on news sources. New Orleans was a cauldron of rumor, innuendo, and gossip (Indeed, the New Orleans
Russo failed the first two questions and the polygraph operator, Roy Jacob, thought he was a psychopath. Jacob knew he had to tell somebody that things were amiss but he also knew his job at the Jefferson Parish sheriff s office would be at risk.
Here is the internal report of the test sent to Jim Garrison (note that many documents use Jacobs, but his name was Jacob):
The polygraph test was administered on March 8, 1967, well before the preliminary hearing on March 14, 1967. The memo was typed up two months later. Garrison put Russo on the stand despite the report from Roy Jacob.