Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until 1966, New Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison was a square. He was a hawk on Viet Nam. He was satisfied that the Federal Government was made up of relatively honorable men. He even believed the Warren Commission Report. Then one day Louisiana Senator Russell Long suggested that the Warren Report had serious holes in it. Intrigued, Garrison began reading everything he could find on the presidential assassination, including all 26 volumes of the documents and reports that had been sifted by the commission. His thinking on everything changed. Others had reached similar conclusions, but Garrison was different...
...names, make arrests and get convictions. He did just that-or at least he began. He arrested Clay Shaw, a retired bachelor businessman well known at several levels of New Orleans society, high and low. Shaw, Garrison said, was really one Clay Bertrand, whose name cropped up in the Warren Report. As Bertrand, he said, Shaw had met with three men, including one Leon Oswald, and conspired to kill President Kennedy...
Jury Time. That was 16 months ago, and Garrison's allegations were so sensational and so persuasive that the Louis Harris Poll reported that the number of Americans who questioned the Warren Report rose from 44% to 66%. Garrison, whose size (6 ft. 6 in.) and flamboyance have won him the nickname "Jolly Green Giant," is a district attorney who prides himself on a high conviction rate. Yet little has happened since Shaw's arrest. Even some of his supporters are beginning to ask, just what kind of case does he have against Shaw? Does he have evidence...
Among other Harvard teachers belonging to the group are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Sociology; James Q. Wilson, Professor of Government; and James Vorenberg, Professor...
...throttles back. What worries the Council of Economic Advisers is, first, whether the mixture will slow the economy too abruptly, and second, whether there is reserve power to be applied in mid-1969 when, projections indicate, the economy will need to be revved up again. The situation, said Warren Smith, the CEA's newest member, "calls for a very sophisticated use of fiscal and monetary policy that has never been attempted before...