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...highlight of the hearing was Perry R. Russo's testimony that he had heard Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald, and David W. Ferrie plotting in September 1963 to assassinate Kennedy...
...least a dozen theories are current in New Orleans-practically every bootblack and cabbie seems to have several. One of the favorites is that Fidel Castro, having unearthed a CIA plot to assassinate him, sent four teams of killers to the U.S.-one of them including Oswald-to get Kennedy in retaliation. Another, less incredible, conjecture holds that Shaw and others merely planted the seed of the assassination idea in Oswald; such encouragement would be enough to justify conspiracy charges under Louisiana...
Garrison insists that he has a witness to a number of 1963 meetings involving Shaw, Oswald and David Ferrie, a former airline pilot who died two weeks ago of natural causes. When police searched Ferrie's cluttered apartment, they filled 14 cartons with his effects, including a "Dear Al" letter to a boy friend ("I offered you love and the best I could; all I got in return, in the end, was a kick in the teeth"), but Garrison did not say whether he had unearthed any clues to the assassination. When police searched Shaw's home, among...
...claims that he is innocent, used the alias of Clay Bertrand, a name that had been introduced into the Warren Commission report by Louisiana Attorney Dean Andrews Jr. Andrews, who frequently defends accused homosexuals, said "Bertrand" called him on the afternoon of the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. While the FBI says that Andrews admitted he made the whole thing up, he insists that the story is true-but he does not say that Shaw and "Bertrand" are the same person. Garrison does...
That still left the D.A. a long way from establishing anything except that Oswald kept some odd company during his 1963 stay in New Orleans. Still, Garrison remains certain that he has something big. "I have no doubt about the case," he said. "There will be more arrests, and they will hold up. If you bet against me, you will lose...