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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...
...Garrison, claiming that Gurvich had been only a "chauffeur and part-time photographer," called his former aide before the grand jury that had indicted Shaw. After twelve hours of hearings featuring Gurvich and two members of New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Commission, it decided that Garrison still had a case. Gurvich threatened to ask a federal grand jury to investigate...
...report-and charges that Garrison has offered to bribe witnesses in the investigation, prompted New Orleans' Metropolitan Crime Commission to call for an investigation of the D.A. himself. As for Garrison, he charged that NBC was trying to "torpedo the state's case." He also asserted that NBC had offered to pay Russo's expenses if he wanted to slip away to California before Shaw went on trial. NBC News President William R. McAndrew denied Garrison's charges, but the following day Russo told a news conference that he had indeed been offered such help...
Even without Russo's help, the investigation-which is still generating headlines for Jim Garrison-seems something of a shambles...