False Witness by Patricia Lambert

Author:Patricia Lambert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M. Evans & Company
Published: 1998-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

* Clay L. Shaw v. Jim Garrison, Civil Action No. 71-135, May 27, 1971, 328 F.Supp. 390, p. 392.

* Prior to his arrest Shaw was interviewed only once about the assassination, and Garrison did not find that session incriminating at the time (see Appendix A, item 29). The day Shaw was arrested he was questioned for an hour or more with no attorney present and without being advised of his rights (trial transcript, Feb. 19, 1969, pp. 14–15; Christenberry transcript, pp. 369, 372 [Louis Ivon], pp. 459, 473–475 [Clay Shaw]).

† See note p. 134. Also, Garrison testified that “no witness could have been used [at Shaw’s trial] without my passing on it” (Christenberry transcript, p. 246).

* One of those “other witnesses” was New Orleans Police Lt. Edward O’Donnell, who was present during the Bundy conference (see chapter 14).

* In an infamous 1935 incident at the Desoto Hotel in New Orleans, Herbert Christenberry was the “shorthand expert” who jotted down the surreptitiously gleaned conversation that Huey Long later described on the floor of the U.S. Senate as a plot to murder him. Long’s supporters had used a Dictagraph on the end of a pole extended between two windows to overhear the discussion by anti-Longites in the adjoining room (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long [New York: Vintage Books, 1981], p. 840).

† In the 1960s he issued an injunction ordering the Ku Klux Klansmen to cease all “acts of terror”; decreed unconstitutional a series of laws passed by the state legislature to prevent integration of Louisiana’s school system; and ordered school desegregation in Plaquemines Parish, a particularly pro-segregation region.

* Mostly the defense claimed the testimony was irrelevant because it didn’t bear directly on the perjury charge.

* In March 1967 Garrison called late one night from Las Vegas and told Gurvich to fly out and “bring him six bullets and a green sports shirt,” which Gurvich did. He also attended a show at the Las Vegas Thunderbird Hotel, called “Bottoms Up,” whose star performer (Breck Wall) had been in Dallas the day of the assassination and was regarded by Garrison as a suspect. As James Phelan later described, a Life photographer with a hidden camera snapped pictures of that show while Gurvich recorded the audio on a hidden tape recorder (Scandals, pp. 154, 164).

* A transcription of the recording, authenticated by the court reporter who typed it, was placed into evidence.

† Struggling to understand why Garrison targeted him, Shaw once told his cousin that he and Garrison had not been friends for years, and Shaw thought the animosity was caused by their disagreement over the French Quarter. Shaw wanted to preserve it, and Garrison wanted to develop it (telephone conversation with Willie Joe Yarbrough, Jr., July 16, 1996).

* This is described in chapter 16.

* Judge Christenberry, responding to an objection from Asst. D.A. William Alford, inquired why, if Garrison’s representatives wanted Russo to testify, they didn’t grant him immunity from prosecution. “We can’t do that,” Alford replied (Christenberry transcript, p. 484).

† What would this

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