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Fri Nov 30, 2012, 12:36 PM
Nov 2012

Garrison's main source was one guy, the guy who claimed to see Oswald, Ruby and Shaw plotting the whole thing.

From Wikipedia:

Garrison's key witness against Clay Shaw was Perry Russo, a 25-year-old insurance salesman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the trial, Russo testified that he had attended a party at anti-Castro activist David Ferrie's apartment. At the party, Russo said that Lee Harvey Oswald (who Russo said was introduced to him as "Leon Oswald&quot , David Ferrie, and "Clem Bertrand" (who Russo identified in the courtroom as Clay Shaw) had discussed killing President Kennedy.[13] The conversation included plans for the "triangulation of crossfire" and alibis for the participants.[13]

Russo’s version of events has been questioned by some historians and researchers, such as Patricia Lambert, once it became known that part of his testimony was induced by hypnotism, and by the drug sodium pentothal (sometimes called "truth serum&quot .[14] An early version of Russo's testimony (as told in Assistant D.A. Andrew Sciambra's memo, before Russo was subjected to sodium pentothal and hypnosis) fails to mention an "assassination party" and says that Russo met Clay Shaw on two occasions, neither of which occurred at the party.[15][16] However, in his book On the Trail of the Assassins, Garrison says that Russo had already discussed the party at Ferrie's apartment before any "truth serum" was admitted.[17] Moreover, in several public interviews, such as one shown in the video The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes, Russo reiterates the same account of a party at Ferrie's apartment that he gave at the trial.[18][19]

Jim Garrison defended his conduct regarding witness testimony, stating:

Before we introduced the testimony of our witnesses, we made them undergo independent verifying tests, including polygraph examination, truth serum and hypnosis. We thought this would be hailed as an unprecedented step in jurisprudence; instead, the press turned around and hinted that we had drugged our witnesses or given them posthypnotic suggestions to testify falsely.[20]


In "JFK," Kennedy is seen to have been shot from several angles.
CREDIBLE ballistics have proven one shooter fired all three shots.
Marine marksman, far-far-left Lee Harvey Oswald.

And Stone had Garrison give a rousing speech, at the close of the trial.
Garrison wasn't even there at the close of the trial.

The jury took an hour and a half, including lunch, to get their verdist of not guilty.

Garrison was a grandstanding corrupt jerk.

And Stone celebrates him, making him out to be a crusading truth-finder.

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the thing that ruined "JFK" for me Enrique Nov 2012 #1
"Interesting?" Archae Nov 2012 #3
What is up with this Anti-Semitic meme running around in Hollywood? vaberella Nov 2012 #7
Not just liberals in Hollywood. Archae Nov 2012 #9
The part where he says Johonny Nov 2012 #31
The late Larry Hagman in Nixon (1995) MinM Nov 2012 #12
JFK was an incomprehensible confusing mess bluestateguy Nov 2012 #2
Well, O.K. (I read the whole link.)But it was priceless when STONE dropped his bomb on Morning Scab UTUSN Nov 2012 #4
I agree JFK was make believe. But it is great movie making. applegrove Nov 2012 #5
I also agree oswaldactedalone Nov 2012 #8
As a kid, my brother used to have a book on a jfk conspiracy. I used applegrove Nov 2012 #34
it's a ten-part TV series, not a 'documentary'. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #6
Ok, it's a "documentary" series then. Archae Nov 2012 #10
It's loathsome on a liberal website that anyone would DARE judge a move without seeing it first. KittyWampus Nov 2012 #39
Is there a post where the OP says they haven't seen it? zappaman Nov 2012 #45
i vowed around JFK never to watch a stone movie. pansypoo53219 Nov 2012 #11
last movie I saw from stone was platoon. Won't waste time with his vision of things anymore still_one Nov 2012 #27
Oliver Stone has been a RW whipping boy for a long, long time (since Platoon) JCMach1 Nov 2012 #13
"Sometimes?" Archae Nov 2012 #14
there are some of his movies that aren't JCMach1 Nov 2012 #53
Well, I would have to watch the piece in order to judge it fairly, MadHound Nov 2012 #15
Stone does the nation a service by bringing up the things the rightwing prefers we move on from. Octafish Nov 2012 #18
In other news: water is wet. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2012 #16
Absolutely no cred Berlum Nov 2012 #17
To me JFK was more about the fascination with the event and all the conspiracy theories CBGLuthier Nov 2012 #19
So you've seen it? joeybee12 Nov 2012 #20
Too many to count. Archae Nov 2012 #21
Is that the same Wikipedia famous for CIA revisions? Octafish Nov 2012 #22
Garrison was a fraud zappaman Nov 2012 #24
Garrison was a World War II hero and a guy who devoted his life to Justice. Octafish Nov 2012 #38
So war heroes can't be nuts? zappaman Nov 2012 #46
What? Like the time Eisenhower's CIA asked the Mafia to kill Castro? Octafish Nov 2012 #49
"What? Like the time Eisenhower's CIA asked the Mafia to kill Castro?" zappaman Nov 2012 #50
I think the other poster was asking if you'd seen the documentary you are testifying Bluenorthwest Nov 2012 #32
Yup. nt woo me with science Nov 2012 #43
What is sad is that way too many people view JFK as a documentary zappaman Nov 2012 #23
One Big Thing Oliver Stone got right: JFK was pulling US out of Vietnam. Octafish Nov 2012 #25
Not according to Bobby zappaman Nov 2012 #26
So what? That was before LBJ used the Tonkin Gulf Incident as casus belli for sending in draftees. Octafish Nov 2012 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author woo me with science Nov 2012 #41
I take it you object to the "USA as Empire" angle? Junkdrawer Nov 2012 #28
He did a hatchet job on Harry Truman JPZenger Nov 2012 #29
I don't care for most of his films, nor for him personally, but this is not valid criticism Bluenorthwest Nov 2012 #30
I watched 10 minutes of Stone's history show. Archae Nov 2012 #48
So, does this mean "Scarface" is fiction? LTR Nov 2012 #33
X - P = Richard Case Nagell MinM Nov 2012 #35
He's fantastic and I'll be watching this LittleBlue Nov 2012 #36
The worst part of that movie Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #40
First time I heard that stupid thing talk I fell "back and to the left" on my ass. :-p nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2012 #42
onto the grassy knoll? Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #44
A grassy Knoll in the Dagobah System. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2012 #47
These are not the magic bullets you're looking for Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #51
But his "W." had me laughing until I cried rock Nov 2012 #52
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