Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were...
Last week, tired of the front-page charade of increasingly implausible accusations, Garrison's unofficial chief investigator, Private Detective William H. Gurvich, 42, quit, charging that his longtime friend "has no case against Clay Shaw-there is no case...
Then, too, everyone-except Jim Garrison-could see the case closing in on the 6-ft. 6-in. district attorney. The press and TV continued to dismantle his imagined maze of Machiavellianism: secret codes that supposedly led to Ruby's telephone number, the elusive and probably fictional "Clay Bertrand," the Cuban intrigue. In New Orleans, where the ambitious D.A. is widely feared and conspiratorial theories are as highly relished as crayfish bisque, the Crime Commission demanded a sweeping state inquiry into Garrison's office...
...time. As his pile of clippings grew, so did the number of skeptics. Last week, in an hour-long program called "The J.F.K. Conspiracy," the National Broadcasting Co. joined the crowd, accusing Garrison of going to considerable lengths to pin an assassination plot on New Orleans Civic Leader Clay Shaw...
...polygraph operator to suspect deception. Moreover, the test seemed to indicate that Russo had a psychopathic personality. But agents from Garrison's office took the list of questions away from the polygraph operator and told him not to say anything. When Garrison presented his case against Clay Shaw at a hearing, Russo and Bundy were his star witnesses. Garrison insists that Shaw, under the name of Clay Bertrand, met in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferric, who committed suicide earlier this year, to plot the assassination. Clay Bertrand does exist, said McGee...