Clay Shaw's Plaque in the French Quarter of New Orleans

When we first went to New Orleans, Andrew and I took a walking tour of gay highlights in the French Quarter. One of the stops was at the memorial plaque to Clay Shaw on Governor Nicholls Street. Nor surprisingly, our tour guide at the time, and this was back in 2005, took a very dim view of Jim Garrison and his persecution of Clay Shaw.

New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 3, 1994.

You can still book LGBT tours of New Orleans.

Here I am at the plaque for Clay Shaw:

Here is a picture from the September 30, 1976 edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

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