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The Dark Side of "Not Guilty"
Cover of New Orleans Magazine, March 1971 This issue of New Orleans Magazine, with its cover story by Rosemary James, was in the papers...
Fred Litwin
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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Chad Nagle and Dan Storper Lay an Egg
Headline from Variety after the 1929 stock market crash. Chad Nagle and Dan Storper published an article this week on Jefferson Morley's...
Fred Litwin
Mar 29, 202412 min read
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Clay Shaw Gets Permission to Visit his Mother
Here is what Clay Shaw had to go through to get permission to occasionally leave New Orleans. In this case, he wanted to visit his...
Fred Litwin
Dec 29, 20231 min read
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James Louviere - the Story of a Garrison Witness
Here is a very good case study in the duplicity of Jim Garrison's investigation. Somehow, a witness statement from 1967 is turned on its...
Fred Litwin
Dec 28, 20233 min read
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Clay Shaw Deserves an Apology
A very good article in Newsweek about Clay Shaw: "Shaw was forced to sell his house on Dauphine [Street] and move into smaller quarters....
Fred Litwin
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Jim Garrison: The Uninquisitive District Attorney
Was Jim Garrison really after the truth in his JFK assassination probe? Here are three instances in which he was incredibly...
Fred Litwin
Sep 20, 20236 min read
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Clay Shaw Writes Rod McKuen, Part Two
Clay Shaw's cancer was unfortunately not "happily cured." He died on August 15, 1974. New Orleans States-Item, August 15, 1974 New...
Fred Litwin
Sep 19, 20232 min read
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Clay Shaw Writes Rod McKuen
Here is a letter that Clay Shaw wrote to poet Rod McKuen: The United States Supreme Court had decided not to hear an appeal from a lower...
Fred Litwin
Sep 18, 20231 min read
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Rod McKuen's Tribute to Clay Shaw
Rod McKuen Rod McKuen's tribute was read at Clay Shaw's funeral on August 16, 1974. He also had his tribute printed in Variety magazine....
Fred Litwin
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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Mark Lane on Clay Shaw
Lane and Garrison in March 1967 in New Orleans I just blogged about Mark Lane's appearance on the Joe Dolan Show on KNEW radio after...
Fred Litwin
Jul 30, 20232 min read
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Clay Shaw's Unjustly Damaged Reputation
Here is a letter that Clay Shaw sent his attorney, Edward Wegmann, in 1973 about an article which clearly upset him: Relevant Past Blog...
Fred Litwin
Jun 30, 20231 min read
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The Return of Clay Shaw
New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 15, 1971 Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to kill JFK and for perjury forced...
Fred Litwin
Jun 20, 20231 min read
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Sylvia Meagher Writes Clay Shaw with an Idea
Sylvia Meagher wrote a letter to Clay Shaw with a terrific point: Clay Shaw was in San Francisco at the St. Francis Hotel on the 22nd and...
Fred Litwin
Jun 1, 20231 min read
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Assume Nothing
Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe Edward Jay Epstein, author of Inquest and Counterplot,...
Fred Litwin
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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Comments on my Clay Shaw Post
Two days ago, I asked an important question about Oliver Stone and Clay Shaw: The responses from people on Facebook have been incredibly...
Fred Litwin
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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When will Oliver Stone Admit he was Wrong about Clay Shaw?
Clay Shaw outside the courtroom in New Orleans In my response to the Matt Douthit and James DiEugenio review of my book, Oliver Stone's...
Fred Litwin
Feb 22, 20236 min read
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Paul Bleau's Reign of Error
From left to right: Oliver Stone, Paul Bleau, and James DiEugenio Conspiracy theorist Paul Bleau just published an analysis of Jim...
Fred Litwin
Sep 19, 202211 min read
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The Wisdom Decision
Jim Garrison appealed the Christenberry decision which prohibited his perjury charges against Clay Shaw from proceeding. The United...
Fred Litwin
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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The Christenberry Decision
In January 1971, Judge Herbert Christenberry conducted three days of hearings on Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for perjury. Here is...
Fred Litwin
Apr 11, 20227 min read
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Jim Garrison Hoped Clay Shaw Would Commit Suicide
New Orleans States-Item, February 25, 1967 Garrison actually thought that Shaw would commit suicide. Here is an excerpt from "Garrison...
Fred Litwin
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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