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The 1991 release of the Oliv­er Stone film JFK led to the release of pre­vi­ous­ly clas­si­fied gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments about the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion. Rely­ing on some of this recent­ly released doc­u­men­ta­tion and his own exten­sive prob­ing of the case, author Bill Davy has craft­ed a bril­liant and thor­ough­ly read­able vol­ume that does much to vin­di­cate New Orleans Dis­trict Attor­ney Jim Gar­ri­son.

In this pro­gram, Davy dis­cuss­es his book Let Jus­tice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Gar­ri­son Inves­ti­ga­tion (Jor­dan Pub­lish­ing, copy­right 1999.) Gar­ri­son was clear­ly onto some­thing. The broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of a House Select Com­mit­tee on Assas­si­na­tions memo indi­cat­ing that Clay Shaw (indict­ed by Gar­ri­son) may have been one of the high-lev­el plan­ners (or a cut-out to the high-lev­el plan­ners) of the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy. After high­light­ing a memo from the CIA chief in New Orleans to Lan­g­ley indi­cat­ing that Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion was on the right track, the dis­cus­sion turns to David Fer­rie’s mys­te­ri­ous hunt­ing trip on the week­end of the assas­si­na­tion. (A sus­pect almost from the begin­ning of Gar­rison’s inquiry, Fer­rie also claimed that his mys­te­ri­ous ven­ture was under­tak­en for the pur­pose of ice-skat­ing. His ali­bi is full of holes and not cred­i­ble.)

Next, the pro­gram sets forth the mys­te­ri­ous 544 Camp Street / 531 Lafayette Place address that housed both Lee Har­vey Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Com­mit­tee and the Guy Ban­nis­ter Detec­tive Agency. (The alleged com­mu­nist Oswald was the only mem­ber of the New Orleans chap­ter of the FPCC, which shared an address with the oper­a­tions of the vio­lent­ly anti-com­mu­nist Ban­nis­ter’s office. Ban­nis­ter appears to have been deeply involved with the anti-Cas­tro efforts in the New Orleans.) Fer­rie worked with Ban­nis­ter against the Cas­tro regime.

The pro­gram doc­u­ments numer­ous con­nec­tions between prin­ci­pal fig­ures in the case and, in turn, con­nects them to the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the high lev­el gov­ern­men­tal obstruc­tion of Gar­rison’s probe and the role of the media in sub­vert­ing and dis­cred­it­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion.

Pro­gram Higlights Include: Fer­rie’s and Shaw’s involve­ment in the Freeport Sul­phur endeav­or (link­ing both of them to each oth­er and the anti-Cas­tro effort); the Clin­ton Louisiana inci­dent con­nect­ing Oswald, Shaw and Fer­rie in an appar­ent sur­veil­lance of black vot­er reg­is­tra­tion efforts in that city; the Houma muni­tions bur­glary (con­nect­ed to the Bay of Pigs inva­sion); a CIA plan to stage a fake attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Guan­tanamo as a pre­text to invade Cuba; the Deputy Chief Coun­sel of the House Select Com­mit­tee’s state­ment that the com­mit­tee saw a film of an anti-Cas­tro train­ing facil­i­ty that linked Oswald to Ban­nis­ter and CIA offi­cial David Atlee Phillips; Oswald’s attempt to gain employ­ment at a Louisiana hos­pi­tal that was involved in the CIA’s MKULTRA pro­gram; con­nec­tions of Dr. Alton Ochsner to that same facil­i­ty; CIA con­nec­tions of Lloyd Cobb, Shaw’s supe­ri­or at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade Mart; the mys­te­ri­ous Mary­dale Farm (a prob­a­ble train­ing site for the assas­si­na­tion); Ku Klux Klan con­nec­tions of Lloyd Cob­b’s broth­er Alvin; con­fir­ma­tion of Shaw’s use of the alias “Clay Bertrand;” attor­ney Dean Andrews’ con­nec­tions to Oswald; Clay Shaw’s numer­ous con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty; Jus­tice bepart­ment efforts to under­mine Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion; the mur­der of Fer­rie asso­ciate Ela­dio Del Valle (like Fer­rie, involved in the anti-Cas­tro effort; hos­tile fig­ures who infil­trat­ed Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion includ­ing Tom Bethell, William Wood (a.k.a. Bill Box­ley) and Bernar­do de Tor­res; attempts at intim­i­dat­ing Gar­rison’s wit­ness­es; writer James Phe­lan’s hit-piece on Gar­ri­son; jour­nal­ist Hugh Aynesworth’s con­nec­tions to the CIA and his smear­ing of Gar­ri­son; Wal­ter Sheri­dan’s NBC attack on Gar­ri­son and Sheri­dan’s con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty; Ban­nis­ter asso­ciate Aaron Kohn’s attack on Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion; rebut­tal of the spu­ri­ous but oft-repeat­ed alle­ga­tions that Gar­ri­son was tied to orga­nized crime. (Record­ed on 1/9/2000.)

Let Jus­tice Be Done by Bill Davy; Jor­dan Pub­lish­ing [SC]; 9780966971606; p. 202.

. . . . Con­clud­ing with infor­ma­tion review­ing aspects of New Orleans Dis­trict Attor­ney Jim Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion of the Kennedy Assas­si­na­tion. The pro­gram high­lights parts of the HSCA’s inves­ti­ga­tion that sup­port Garrison’s the­sis.

HSCA Chief Coun­sel, G. Robert Blakey, once referred to the Committee’s work as ‘the last inves­ti­ga­tion.’ As such, it is only prop­er that the HSCA have the last word on Clay Shaw. On Sep­tem­ber 1, 1977, staff coun­sel Jonathan Black­mer, authored a 15-page mem­o­ran­dum addressed to Blakey, as well as staff mem­bers, Gary Corn­well, Ken Klein, and Cliff Fen­ton. Black­mer was the lead coun­sel for team 3, the HSCA team respon­si­ble for the New Orleans and Cuban angles of the inves­ti­ga­tion. After an inves­tiga­tive trip to New Orleans, Black­mer con­clud­ed in his memo: ‘We have rea­son to believe Shaw was heav­i­ly involved in the anti-Cas­tro efforts in New Orleans in the 1960’s and [was] pos­si­bly one of the high lev­el plan­ners or ‘cut out’ to the plan­ners of the assas­si­na­tion.’. . .

Mary’s Mosa­ic: The Con­spir­a­cy to Mur­der John F. Kennedy, Mary Pin­chot Mey­er and Their Vision of World Peace by Peter Jan­ney; Sky­horse Pub­lish­ing [SC]; 9781616087081; pp. 447–448.

. . . . As Garrison’s chal­lenge to the War­ren Com­mis­sion emerged into the nation­al fore­ground, the pub­lic was unaware of what was tak­ing place at CIA head­quar­ters. On Sep­tem­ber 20, 1967, the CIA con­vened an urgent high-lev­el meet­ing, the sub­ject head­ing of which ”Gar­ri­son Group Meet­ing No1—20 Sep­tem­ber 1967” Present at this meet­ing were the CIA’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Gen­er­al Coun­sel, Inspec­tor Gen­er­al and oth­ers, includ­ing Ray Roc­ca, who was James Jesus Angleton’s chief lieu­tenant in the office of coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence. At the end of this meet­ing, the so-called “Mem­o­ran­dum for the Record” record­ed and sum­ma­rized four con­clu­sions. The meet­ing was chaired, and signed, by none oth­er than my own father—“F.W.M. Jan­ney.” Even today, this signed doc­u­ment is as stag­ger­ing as it is irrefutably incriminating—not mere­ly just the prover­bial “smok­ing gun,” but a smok­ing can­non! The third con­clu­sion of the mem­o­ran­dum reads as fol­lows:

3. [Ray­mond] Roc­ca felt that Gar­ri­son would indeed obtain a con­vic­tion of Shaw for con­spir­ing to assas­si­nate Pres­i­dent Kennedy.

That state­ment was noth­ing less than pri­ma facie evi­dence of the CIA’s involve­ment in the assas­si­na­tion of a sit­ting U.S. Pres­i­dent, which amount­ed to an open, doc­u­ment­ed admis­sion by a high-lev­el CIA offi­cer—dur­ing an inter­nal CIA meet­ing—that Clay Shaw [as well as the CIA itself0 was “indeed” part of the con­spir­a­cy to assas­si­nate Pres­i­dent Kennedy. . . .