Big Jim Garrison was as good as his word. The towering (6 ft. 6 in.) district attorney of New Orleans had promised some arrests in his sensational crusade to unmask a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy, and last week, sure enough, he made an arrest. Clay Shaw, 54, former managing director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a well-known civic leader, was taken into custody after five hours of nonstop questioning. "There was an agreement and combination," said Garrison's office, among Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others "to kill John F. Kennedy." There it was—the first formal...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
