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A Farewell to Justice

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by Joan Mellen


  Shobe and, 447–448 “White Paper” of, 195–200, 203–204

  Sherman, Mary, 49–55, 405–406

  Shilstone, Cecil, 111–112, 323

  Shipes, John Henry, 347

  Shobe, Frederick Michael, 447–448

  Silva, Frank, 217, 220–221, 223, 231, 300, 347, 379, 466

  Silver, Myra, 273

  Simpson, Art, 278

  Simpson, Robert, 278

  Siragusa, Charles, 86

  Sirera, Julie, 342, 361

  Sklar, Zachary, 361, 363 “Sloman, Henry J.”, 180

  Slovenko, Ralph, 129

  Smith, Benjamin, 332

  Smith, David, 46, 47, 469–470

  Smith, James, 337

  Smith, Joseph Burkholder, 57

  Smith, Ron L., 47–48

  Smith, Sandy, 255–257

  Smith, Sergio Arcacha, 48, 67, 94, 96–97, 231, 239, 346

  Manuel identifies, 208

  Martin (Jack) and, 55, 76, 410

  RFK and, 382

  Snipes, Vaughn, 155

  Snyder, David, 102, 103, 321

  Society for the Preservation of Southern Tradition, 287

  Solie, Bruce L., 109, 402–403, 405

  Somersett, Willie, 92

  Somoza, Luis, 86

  Sorrell, Forest, 263

  Soule, Frederick A., 20, 330, 335

  Soustelle, Jacques, 137–138, 140

  Southwood, Jim, 153

  Spadafora, Guterez di, 137

  Spencer, James A., 73

  Spiesel, Boris, 305

  Spiesel, Charles I., 261–262, 300, 301, 305–306

  Spindel, Bernard, 200, 436

  Spooks (Hougan), 444

  Sprague, Richard A., 343–345

  Sprague, Richard E., 267, 289

  Springer, Eva, 28, 29

  St. Pe, Oliver, 57

  Stanley, Archbishop Carl, 36

  Stanley, Cristopher Maria, 406

  Stansbury, Thomas Garrison, 3

  Star-Spangled Contract, The (Garrison), 6, 14, 324, 336, 339

  Starnes, Richard, 471 “Jack Starr”, 295

  Starr, Mike, 285–286, 409

  State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw. See Shaw, Clay Lavergne, trial of Stein, Esther, 320

  Stern, Edgar and Edith, 103

  Stinson, Kern, 262

  Stone, Oliver, 362–363, 376. (See John F. Kennedy)

  Strakna, Edward, 401

  Strate, Zachary “Red,” 190

  Strawderman, Larry, 345

  Stuckey, William, 56, 248

  Sullivan, Monroe, 116, 132

  Sulzer, Jefferson, 192

  Sulzer, Nina, 192, 197–198

  Supreme Court, U.S., 9, 20

  Suydam, Hank, 443

  Sylvester, Jerry, 231

  Sylvester, Joseph, 112, 232, 233

  T

  Tadin, Nicholas and Mathilde, 314 “Taming of the Shrew, The,”

  JG’s modernization of, 6

  Tanenbaum, Robert K., 48, 71, 343–344

  Tarabochia, Alphonso L., 92

  Tate, Joseph, 463

  Taylor, Maxwell, 168

  Teasdel, Jay, 6

  Tettenburn, Perry, 15, 28

  The New York Review of Books (Cole), 475

  Thomas, Carroll S., 123

  Thomas, Wilmer, 4–5, 119, 121, 461, 463

  Thompson, A. Roswell, 69, 74–75, 135, 223, 287, 299, 321, 374–375

  Thompson, Edward K., 443

  Thornhill, Thomas, 264, 265, 266, 269

  Thornley, Ken, 276

  Thornley, Kerry, 26, 61, 67, 123, 271–276, 285, 346, 361

  Thrasher, Charles O., 131

  Time, 195

  Time/Life, 443

  Timmons, Stuart, 236

  Timphony, Frank, 255–256

  Tippet, J. D., 259–260, 295, 420

  Tolliver, Kenneth Ralph, 109–110 “Tonight Show,” 245–246

  Torres, Miguel, 91, 94, 197, 202

  Touchstone, Ned, 210, 214, 227, 231

  Towne, Isaac Newton, 423

  Townley, Richard, 189, 192–195, 200–201

  Townsend, Robert, 51

  Trafficante, Santos, 88, 279

  Travis, Hardy, 216, 228

  Trent, Louis P., 20, 24

  Trettin, Carl, 182

  Triplett, William, 90, 280

  Trosclair, Presley, 71, 199

  Trotsy, Leon, 343

  Truman, Harry S., 161, 471, 476

  Truth and Consequences Committee, 111–112, 190, 191, 330, 362

  Tulane Library, 467

  Tulane School of Law, 4–5, 463

  Turner, Stansfield, 345

  Turner, William, 289–290

  Boxley and, 296

  Bradley and, 267, 268

  Breitner and, 122, 299

  Farewell America and, 297

  JG on, 342

  leaves investigation, 296

  McNabb/Rose and, 293

  Tweedy, Bronson, 373

  Twyman, Noel, 374

  U

  U-2 flights, 162–164

  Underhill, J. Garrett, 181

  Union Leader, 446

  United States of America v. Jim Garrison.

  See Garrison, Jim, trials of

  U.S. Customs, 46–55, 177

  U.S. Public Health Hospital, “Lab” of, 51–52

  U.S. Supreme Court, 9, 20

  V

  “Valdes, Juan,” 48–55, 94, 155, 299, 379

  Valentino, Rudy (aka “Valentinov”; “Rudy Balaban”), 394, 396

  Van Buskirk, Richard, 214, 224, 225, 228

  Van der Lubbe, Marinus, 68

  Vancouver Sun, 157

  Veciana, Antonio, 48, 57, 171, 179, 359–360

  Verdaguer, Guillermo, 88

  Verdaguer, Roberto, 88

  “Vice Man Cometh, The” (Chandler), 144

  Victor, Ed, 457

  Vidal, Gore, 129

  Vietnam, 171–172, 173, 418, 433, 471

  Vigurie, Chester, 182, 308

  Villard, Corinne Verges, 210, 232

  Vinson, Fred, 183, 242

  Vinson, J. D., 214

  Vodanovich, Chris “Bozo,” 335

  Volkov, Esteban, 343

  Volz, John, 96, 321

  at Garrison burial, 368–369

  Ferrie interviewed by, 44–45

  on Gervais, 12

  JG and, 1, 11, 23, 109, 223

  JG’s finances and, 326

  JG’s trial and, 336

  on Oser, 15

  Shaw and, 117, 149, 223

  W

  Wade, Henry, 96

  Wagner, Herbert, 37, 38–40, 123, 299

  Wagner, Richard Andrew, 423

  Wakeling, Michael Otty Clyde, 54

  Waldron, Martin, 307

  Walker, Edwin, 69, 224, 437–438

  Wall, Breck, 63

  Wall, John, 337

  Walter, William, 26, 59, 70, 300, 349, 366, 462

  Walthers, Buddy, 300

  Walton, Mrs. E. C., 307

  Ward, Charles, 31, 321

  Bradley and, 266, 268

  Morial and, 342

  National Convention of District Attorneys and, 291

  Norton and, 157–158

  runs against JG in 1969, 322

  Ward, Douglas, 91

  Ward, Lenore, 120

  Wardlow, Jack, 362

  Warner, Merritt Allen, 423

  Warren Commission Report, 377

  Dymond requests admission of, 149–150

  Esquire article on, 1

  FBI reports on evidence of Oswald/Ruby connection, 464

  JG on, 316

  RFK approval of, 427–428

  RFK’s private views on, 457

  volumes of exhibits, 1–2, 23, 26–27, 44, 45, 60, 106, 110, 141, 200, 234, 245, 271–272, 277

  see also Kennedy assassination investigations Warren, Earl, 2, 72

  Warren, Robert Penn, 365

  Washington Post, 471, 472, 475

  Wasserman, Jack, 44

 
Watson, Marvin, 184, 451

  Wattley, Helen, 51

  WDSU, 103, 322

  Webster, Robert E., 392–395, 398

  Wecht, Cyril, 307, 311, 312

  Wegmann, Edward F., 117, 118, 152, 187, 243, 281, 309

  Wegmann, William, 244, 292, 313

  Weinert, Phyllis. See Kritikos, Phyllis Weinert

  Weisberg, Harold, 197, 273, 278, 294

  Weiss, Victor J., 205, 206

  Welch, Frances, 9

  Welch, Wally, 249

  Welsh, David, 418

  Wershba, Joe, 119, 187, 190, 200

  Wershba, Shirley, 200

  Wessell, Bill, 348

  Westbank Herald, 34

  Whalen, Edward, 243–244

  Whalen, Ralph, 300, 310

  Wheat, Clint, 268, 278, 279

  White, Billie, 439–440

  White, Donald, 206

  White, Ross, 423, 424

  “White Paper” (NBC), 188–200, 203–204

  whitewash, 23, 29

  Whitmey, Peter, 260

  Whitten, John (“John Scelso”), 143, 167, 357, 359

  Wicker, Tom, 336

  Wight, Dick, 135–136, 320

  WikiLeaks, 475

  Wilbans, Charlie, 222

  Wilcott, James, 178–179

  Wilcox, George, 70

  Wilkes, Christine, 339

  Williams, D’alton, 8, 13

  Williams, David R. M., 367

  Williams, Edward Bennett, 449

  Williams, Enrique “Harry,” 173

  Williams, Fred, 193

  Williams, Hank, 385

  Williams, Tennessee, 129

  Williams, Thomas, 215

  Wilson, Benton, 38, 108

  on Ferrie, 467

  Wilson, Gloria, 216, 218, 223, 225, 237, 417, 463

  Wilson, John, 38, 41, 108, 113, 261

  Wilson, Matt O., 58

  Winsberg, Jerome, 340–341

  wire-tapping, 435–436, 442–443, 445–446, 449–452

  Wise, David, 163

  Wise, Erbon W. , 242

  Wisner, Frank, 137, 166, 278, 391

  Wolfson, Louis E., 246–248, 361–362

  Woods, Joyce, 9

  Wood, William C. (Bill Boxley)

  attempts to derail investigation, 239–242, 295–297

  Bradley and, 264–265

  fired, 296, 467

  Thornley and, 273

  Woodside, Aline, 222

  Woodward, William E., 228 “Working Group,” 404

  World Wide Church, 375

  Worrell, E. B., 158

  Wright, Marshal (barber), 225

  Wright, Charles A., 135

  Wright, Christine, 228

  Wright, Skelly, 19

  Wulf, William, 63–64

  Wyatt, George, 324

  Y

  Yarborough, William P., 179

  Yates, Wiley, 249, 279

  Yeagley, J. Walter, 242

  Yockey, Ross, 201

  Young, Aubrey, 210, 256–257

  Z

  Z (Costa Gavras film), 142

  Zamora, Oscar, 468

  Zapruder, Abraham, 307

  Zapruder film, 245, 291, 294, 298, 307, 311

  Zelden, Sam (Monk), 28, 29, 96

  Ziegler, Leah (Liz) (JG’s first wife), 22, 23, 120, 328, 363

  JG’s death and, 367

  JG’s trial and, 336

  remarries JG, 367

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JOAN MELLEN is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2004, she received Temple’s “Great Teacher” award. She has written twenty-two books, ranging from film criticism (Marilyn Monroe; Film Guide to The Battle of Algiers; Women And Their Sexuality in the New Film; The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan Through Its Cinema; Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film), fiction (Natural Tendencies) and Latin Ameri-can Studies to true crime (Privilege), sports (Bob Knight: His Own Man), and biography (Kay Boyle: Author of Herself; Hellman and Hammett; Our Man in Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic and The Great Game in Cuba: How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro.) She has written for a variety of publications, among them the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Wall Street Journal and the Baltimore Sun. She lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

  Jim Garrison’s maternal grandfather, William Oliver Robinson, seven foot three inches tall, as Uncle Sam, in Knoxville, Iowa (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).

  Jim Garrison at the age of three, with his sister, Judy Denison, Iowa. c. 1924 (photograph courtesy of Richard N. Billings).

  Garrison, right, at age sixteen or seventeen, on the Baker family boat. At left is Warren Malhiot, who married Peggie’s sister, Wilma (photograph courtesy of Wilma Malhiot).

  Garrison, age nineteen, drops out of college and enlists in the army. He is shown here with his mother, Jane Garrison, in 1940 (photograph courtesy of Garrison’s personal collection).

  Garrison at DachauGarrison concentration camp. in Germany. “What I saw there has haunted me ever since,” Garrison said years later (photograph courtesy of Garrison’s personal collection).

  Garrison at his desk. “The longer you sat in his office, the better your chances that the prosecutor would recommend no jail time at all.”

  District Attorney Garrison: “Just another day at Tulane and Broad.“ (photograph courtesy of Judge Louis P. Trent).

  Garrison with Liz Garrison and Benny Goodman (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).

  President Lyndon B. Johnson, six foot three and three-quarter inches tall, steps forward quickly so as not to appear smaller than Garrison (photograph courtesy of Lyon Garrison).

  Pershing Gervais: “The Devil Incarnate.” 1962 (photograph by Terry Friedman, copyright The Times-Picayune).

  Garrison in court with Donald V. Organ: Judges like “the sacred cows of India,” 1963 (photograph by P.A Hughes, courtesy of Donald V. Organ).

  Garrison shared with John F. Kennedy an affinity for the media, and television in particular.

  Garrison 1965 reelection advertisement: “Possessing another man’s army record carries a federal penalty of up to ten years in prison.”

  Linda Brigette: The Cupid Doll (photograph courtesy of the late Linda Brigette).

  Aaron Kohn: “the economic importance of Linda Brigette to organized crime” (photograph courtesy of AARC).

  Garrison in 1967: “The Bill of Rights lives in an oxygen tent.” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  David Ferrie, left. Ferrie took movies at a Cuban exile training camp north of Lake Pontchartrain.

  Ferrie: “People are no damn good.”

  Ferrie: “We’re going on a hunting trip to Dallas.”

  A Civil Air Patrol (CAP) cook-out: Lee Harvey Oswald, in white T-shirt, smiles, at right. John Ciravolo is to Oswald’s right. David Ferrie, in helmet, is second from left (photograph courtesy of John B. Ciravolo, Jr.).

  Oswald distributing leaflets urging “Fair Play for Cuba” outside the International Trade Mart in New Orleans: “Through the efforts of some Cuban-exile ‘gusanos,’ a street demonstration was attacked.”

  Oswald arrested in New Orleans, August 1963: “Just call the FBI. Tell them you have Lee Oswald in custody.”

  Official FBI photograph of William Walter, 1963 (photograph courtesy of William Walter).

  Juan Valdes wins the best flower award from the New Orleans orchid society, April 1962: “they must be destroying paper.”

  Mary Sherman: “a close friend of David Ferrie.”

  William Gurvich with Jim Garrison in Las Vegas, March 1967. “Like a Greek bearing gifts.” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  New Orleans Police Sergeant, Intelligence Division, Subversive Section, Robert Buras, protecting the civil rights of Ku Klux Klan stalwart A. Roswell Thompson. Thompson is about to lay his annual wreath at the foot of the statue of Robert E. Lee (photograph courtesy of Robert Buras).

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p; Guy Banister: “Now all we have to do is kill Earl Warren and the country will clear up” (photograph courtesy of the J. Gary Shaw Collection).

  Thomas Edward Beckham, in black, photographed outside the International Trade Mart, as Oswald walks inside: “What are you trying to International Trade Mart, as Oswald walks inside: “What are you trying to do? Get yourself in trouble?” Beckham has confirmed that it was he. do? Get yourself in trouble?” Beckham confirms that this is indeed he. Others have expressed their doubts, insisting that this was a Japanese photographer.

  Director of International Affairs for the City of New Orleans, Alberto Fowler, with his wife, Paulette: “Jim, I didn’t kill him. . . .” (photograph courtesy of Alberto A. Fowler).

  Garrison during his investigation, 1965-1969: “I knew I was dancing with the CIA” (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  Martin F. Dardis, center, Richard Gerstein, right: “I should be able to find him” (photograph courtesy of Martin F. Dardis).

  Emilio Santana: “Wildcat Cubans.”

  Bernardo de Torres is at the right: “They will never find out what happened” (photograph courtesy of Christopher Sharrett).

  Clay Shaw’s signature as “Clay Bertrand” at the Eastern Airlines VIP room: “I saw Clay Shaw that day.”

  Clay Shaw is arrested, March 1, 1967: “Through the famous Looking Glass, the black objects can appear to be white and the white objects can appear to be black.”

  French Quarter chanteuse Barbara Bennett: “There’s Clay Bertrand!” (photograph courtesy of Barbara Bennett).

  Robert Lee Perrin after his autopsy (photograph courtesy of J. Gary Shaw Collection).

  The Garrison family in 1967: From left, Virginia, Eberhard, Mrs. Liz Garrison, Elizabeth, Snapper (front), and Jasper (photograph by Lynn Pelham).

  Garrison with the author, 1969 (photograph courtesy of Joan Mellen).

  Shaw (center) as aide-de-camp to General Thrasher (left): “worse than the former German concentration camps.”

  Shaw with fellow CIA asset Dr. Alton Ochsner (photograph courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library).

  Ferenc Nagy: “A cleared contact of the International Organizations Division of the Agency.”

 

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