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(47,245 posts)Garrison's main source was one guy, the guy who claimed to see Oswald, Ruby and Shaw plotting the whole thing.
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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" , 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]
Russos 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" .[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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