Kennedy Assassination Theories Include American Government

[villager]

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Barbour's interest in the case is both personal and patriotic. In the 70s, he was the host and producer of the most popular television show in the country. But his career stopped in its tracks when he tried to publicize the work of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, portrayed in the film by Kevin Costner. Barbour wanted to put Garrison on national television to talk about the only criminal case ever prosecuted in the JFK murder. Instead, Barbour was fired.

He pressed on anyway and produced his own film about Garrison in which the lawman made the case that Oswald had been a patsy.

"He felt the CIA was telling Lee Harvey Oswald there's a plot to kill the president and we want you to infiltrate that. That's how they set him up," Barbour said.

As soon as word leaked out that Garrison was investigating the JFK murder, a campaign was launched against the district attorney. It is now well established that Garrison's office was infiltrated and his phones bugged in an attempt to thwart his effort to interview witnesses.

"All of these subpoenas were torn up by the government and thrown away. They literally broke the law to prevent Jim Garrison from prosecuting Clay Shaw," Barbour said.

If Garrison's case was as weak as critics said it was, Barbour wonders why the CIA went to so much trouble to sabotage it, and to smear Garrison. Why not let the case collapse in court on its own?

Forensic historian Patrick Nolan, the author of "CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys" is not a big fan of Garrison's but says there's no doubt the CIA did a number on him.

"He knew early on that some of the people connected to Lee Harvey Oswald were also connected to the CIA, and were connected with the mob. I think he started to put the pieces together, and they shut that down pretty quick," Nolan said.

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http://www.8newsnow.com/story/24048603/kennedy-assassination-theories-include-american-government

[Archae]

1. So all those people who actually worked for Garrison are in the conspiracy.

Garrison was described by many of those he worked with as a grandstander, and never could stay focused on a topic, he'd run off chasing yet another theory at the drop of a hat.

There are many lists on-line of Garrison's deceptions.
Here's just one of the lists.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/jimlie.htm

And "JFK" is controversial because of all the liberties Oliver Stone took with the facts.

John Barbour was a co-host of "Real People," and the "documentary" he made sank like a rock, since all it did was repeat wild charges, and had zero actual evidence to back up anything in it.

[HooptieWagon]

2. There were CIA files released under FOIA...

internal memos and notes inre Garrisson. At the time Garrisson was publically claiming the CIA was spying on him and had moles in his office, the CIA's discussion was "We have somebody there? Can we get a report of what's going on? What the hell is going on?" ....and similar comments. The CIA wasn't spying on Garrisson...he was just paranoid (and probably trying to gin up publicity).

Garrisson was just a publicity hound and homophobe. He thought rigging evidence against a homosexual suspect would be a slam-dunk guilty verdict. Instead, the jury laughed him out of court. Just another case of prosecutorial abuse of power and misconduct.

[villager]

3. Garrison is an admittedly flawed character

But his notion that all the ties/roads that overlapped in New Orleans weren't thoroughly investigated -- to say the least -- was correct.

His own penchant for grandstanding seems to have gotten in the way of pursuing that essentially correct notion.

[pacalo]

5. Your second paragraph is not true.

Garrison didn't go after Clay Shaw because of his sexual orientation. As the article states:

Garrison failed in his prosecution of Clay Shaw, but 20 years later -- after Shaw had died -- the CIA confirmed that Shaw had been a covert operative for the agency. The counsel for the House probe said in 2003 that the CIA withheld information and "unilaterally deprived the commission of the last chance to learn the full truth."

[pacalo]

4. The article includes a link to the Garrison tapes.

http://johnbarboursworld.com/garrison.html