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Who's Who in the Jim Garrison Case
Jim Garrison
The hero of Oliver Stone's extraordinary film, JFK, New Orleans District
Attorney Jim Garrison (portrayed by Kevin Costner) believed that the John F.
Kennedy assassination had been the work of CIA personnel, anti-Castro Cuban
exiles, homosexuals, and ultra right-wing activists. "My staff and I solved
the case weeks ago," Garrison announced in February 1967. "I wouldn't say
this if we didn't have evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt." When Garrison
brought businessman Clay Shaw to trial, however, no such evidence
materialized. Jury foreman Sidney Hebert even said he thought more highly of
the Warren Report after the trial than before. Today, most reputable
conspiracy-oriented authors have denounced Garrison as a complete fraud.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
As depicted in JFK, the accused assassin (given an aptly enigmatic
performance in Stone's film by Gary Oldman) spent the summer of 1963 in New
Orleans. Jim Garrison theorized that Oswald's image as a loner and a Marxist
was merely a front, and that he had been set up to take the fall in an
assassination plot involving New Orleans residents. Many conspiracy theorists
continue to believe so.
David Ferrie
Memorably portrayed in JFK by Joe Pesci, David Ferrie (above right, with Bay
of Pigs veteran Julian Buznedo) was a highly eccentric pilot and scholar who
drove from New Orleans to Houston the night of the assassination, on vacation
with two friends. Though the trip was thoroughly investigated by the New
Orleans Police Department, the Houston Police, the FBI, and even the Texas
Rangers, Garrison was convinced it had something to do with JFK's death. When
Ferrie died on February 22, 1967, Garrison quickly labeled him "one of
history's most important individuals."
Jack Martin
Jack S. Martin (Jack Lemmon in Stone's JFK) came forward the day after the
assassination with a variety of tales about Dave Ferrie, such as the claim
that Ferrie "may have hypnotized Oswald and planted a post-hypnotic
suggestion that he kill the President." Martin, born Edward Stewart Suggs,
was no Jack Lemmon -- he was a diagnosed sociopath and admitted alcoholic
with a rap sheet and a history of furnishing false information to the
authorities, and he nursed a burning grudge against former pal Dave Ferrie.
W. Guy Banister
In 1963, former FBI Special Agent in Charge Guy Banister was a private
investigator, ultra right-wing activist, and associate of David Ferrie's,
with an office just around the corner from 544 Camp Street, an address
inexplicably stamped by Lee Oswald on a batch of pro-Castro literature that
summer. As depicted in Stone's movie (with Ed Asner in the role of the
ex-G-man) Jim Garrison believed that Oswald and Banister must have been
working together.
David Lewis
David Franklin Lewis was a roommate of Jack Martin's who'd been discharged
from the Navy for "psychiatric" reasons. He tried to bolster Martin's tales,
but ended up only an embarrassment to Garrison, which is presumably why he's
left out of Stone's film. (In an attempt to boost his credibility, for
example, he staged a fake assassination attempt on himself. A polygraph
examination indicated deception and he confessed.) Oddly enough, when the DA
claimed that he had "solved the case," his "evidence beyond a shadow of a
doubt" consisted of the statements of Jack Martin and David Lewis -- and
nothing else.
Dean Andrews
Dean Adams Andrews, Jr. (John Candy in JFK) was the jive-talking attorney who
told the Warren Commission that he'd been asked by a "Clay Bertrand" to
represent Lee Oswald in Dallas. He described "Bertrand" as a "swinging cat"
who occasionally guaranteed fees for some of his homosexual clients. Neither
federal nor local authorities were able to locate any trace of a "Clay
Bertrand" in New Orleans.
Clay Shaw
A successful businessman, playwright, and pioneer of restoration in New
Orleans' French Quarter, Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones in Stone's film) was Jim
Garrison's candidate for the elusive "Clay Bertrand." Garrison's evidence?
Shaw was a homosexual, the DA observed, and his first name was Clay. Shaw
adamantly denied being "Bertrand," insisted he'd never met Lee Oswald, and
strenuously denied having anything to do with the death of the man he called
"a splendid president." "If there was any one person in New Orleans who
believed in John F. Kennedy," a friend of his remarked, "it was Clay Shaw."
Eugene Clair Davis
When Dean Andrews refused to name Clay Shaw as "Clay Bertrand" to the Orleans
Parish Grand Jury, he was charged with perjury. He then confessed that he had
used the phony "Bertrand" name as a cover for his friend and client, Gene
Davis, operator of a gay bar in the French Quarter. Davis didn't know Oswald,
Andrews explained, but a phone conversation with him had given him the idea
to represent the accused assassin. For obvious reasons, he was not mentioned
in Stone's film.
Aloysius Habighorst
Officer Aloysius Habighorst of the NOPD testified that when he booked Clay
Shaw, he asked Shaw if he used any aliases, and Shaw responded, "Clay
Bertrand." However, Captain Louis Curole had assigned Sgt. Jonas Butzman to
guard Shaw during the procedure, and Sgt. Butzman testified that Habighorst
had not questioned Shaw, and that the name "Clay Bertrand" had not been
spoken by either man. Habighorst also stated that Shaw had been allowed to
have his lawyer present for the procedure, a claim flatly contradicted by
four separate witnesses. Even Mark Lane, a close personal friend and longtime
supporter of Jim Garrison's, blasted Oliver Stone for his handling of this
episode.
Perry Russo
Following the death of David Ferrie, Perry Raymond Russo contacted the DA's
Office to say he'd known Ferrie in the early Sixties and that Ferrie had
spoken about assassinating the President. He became Jim Garrison's star
witness when he claimed to have overheard Ferrie plotting the assassination
with a white-haired man named "Clem Bertrand," whom he identified as Clay
Shaw. Two years after the Shaw trial, Russo recanted his entire story.
Incredibly, he was not portrayed in Stone's JFK, although his testimony
became part of the basis for the fictional "Willie O'Keefe" (Kevin Bacon).
Edward O'Donnell
Lt. Edward O'Donnell of the New Orleans Police Department was ordered by Jim
Garrison not to reveal that Perry Russo had been unable to complete a
polygraph test administered by O'Donnell in June 1967. Russo confessed to
O'Donnell that his testimony against Shaw was false. O'Donnell, of course,
was of no interest to Oliver Stone.
Andrew Sciambra
Assistant DA Andrew "Moo Moo" Sciambra helped develop the testimony of a
number of Garrison's witnesses, including Perry Russo. His contribution to
the investigation would become extremely controversial, and he was quietly
omitted from Stone's film.
James Phelan
At the DA's invitation, Saturday Evening Post reporter Jim Phelan came to New
Orleans thinking he had the inside track to the story of the century.
Instead, he became the first outsider to discover major discrepancies in
Perry Russo's story.
Richard Billings
As an editor at Life magazine, Richard Billings was one of a select few
journalistic insiders to the DA's JFK probe. A longtime supporter of
Garrison's, his influence upon the House Select Committee on Assassinations
helped rehabilitate the former DA's tarnished image in the late 1970s.
Vernon Bundy
Heroin addict Vernon J. Bundy, Jr., testified that he saw Clay Shaw meet with
Lee Oswald by the seawall at Lake Pontchartrain in 1963. When Bundy failed a
polygraph examination, assistant DAs James Alcock and Charles Ward tried in
vain to convince Garrison not to use Bundy as a witness.
Alvin Beauboeuf
Al Beauboeuf (above left, with attorney Burton Klein) was one of two men who
accompanied Dave Ferrie on his legendary drive to Houston. Beauboeuf was
offered $3,000 and a position with an airline by Garrison investigator Lynn
Loisel if he would "fill in the missing links" of Perry Russo's story.
Attorney Hugh Exnicios surreptitiously tape-recorded the offer.
Charles I. Spiesel
Intelligent and articulate, New York accountant Charles Spiesel made a
devastating witness against Clay Shaw -- until his cross examination, when he
revealed that he had a $16 million lawsuit pending against the City of New
York for conspiring against him, sending some fifty or sixty people to
hypnotize him, ruining his business, destroying his sex life, and planting
look-alikes of his family in his own home.
Alvin Oser and James Alcock
Assistant District Attorney Jim Alcock (above right) led the prosecution at
the 1969 trial of Clay Shaw, with Assistant DA Al Oser (above left) handling
the bulk of the testimony and arguments related to the Warren Report.
Louis Ivon and William Gurvich
Bill Gurvich (above right) was a DA's Office investigator who resigned his
position in June 1967 and went public with his belief that Garrison's case
against Clay Shaw was a fraud. Lou Ivon (above left) was one of Garrison's
right-hand men during the JFK probe.
Sergio Arcacha Smith
Out of an office at 544 Camp Street, Sergio Arcacha Smith had been involved
in raising funds for the fight against Castro. Arcacha had briefly been an
associate of Dave Ferrie's, in mid-1961, and was an early suspect in
Garrison's probe. By the time Oswald arrived in New Orleans, however, Arcacha
had left both the crusade against Castro and the state of Louisiana behind.
Judge Edward Haggerty
"[Jim Garrison] violated [the pre-trial guidelines to refrain from speaking
to the press about the case] more than anyone else. . . . That, in and of
itself, it shows you the whole theory behind Garrison. It was not ever
leading up or possibly looking for a conviction. He wanted to blast the
Warren Commission . . . He was big enough to do it. Damn it, he did it."
Aaron Kohn
Aaron Kohn was managing director of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a
citizens' watchdog group in New Orleans. Garrison cut off all contact with
the commission in late 1966, when Kohn began vocally challenging the DA's
claim that there was no organized crime in New Orleans. "I [said when the JFK
probe began] I thought it was going to turn out to be a fraud, because this
is the way Garrison has functioned."
F. Irvin Dymond
Attorney F. Irvin Dymond led Clay Shaw's defense team, which also included
Edward Wegmann, William Wegmann, and Salvatore Panzeca. "The twelve men who
pass on this case are actually going to create history in our country.
Gentlemen, I implore you not to make a mistake."
Edward Wegmann
When attorney Edward Wegmann received a phone call stating that his longtime
friend and client Clay Shaw had been arrested for conspiracy to assassinate
the President, Wegmann barked, "I'm in no mood for jokes," and hung up.
William Wegmann
"You have to understand that district attorneys in this area for years
controlled the political system at Tulane and Broad."
Salvatore Panzeca
"I recognized Mr. Shaw's name when he identified himself. And I simply took
the position -- well, I'll be down there and we'll straighten it out."
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