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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C., Wednesday, December 13, 1967
Garrison Says Photos Show
.45 Bullet Killed Kennedy
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison has re-
leased three pictures which he
says show that a .45-caliber bul-
let killed President John F. Ken-
nedy instead of a 6.5 Mannlich-
er-Carcano as the Warren Com-
mission concluded.
"In the absence of a prompt
explanation by the federal gov-
ernment as to why this bullet
has been kept concealed, there
Is no alternative but to conclude
that the entire assassination in-
vestigation and the Warren
.-Commission inquiry comprised
an elaborate camouflage de-
signed to protect the assassins
of President Kennedy as well as
the men behind them," the dis-
trict attorney said yesterday.
In trying to prove that there
was a conspiracy, Garrison con-
tends that Kennedy was killed
by a man with a .45 standing in
a manhole somewhere along the
Dallas motorcade route. He says
the man escaped through sew-
ers, A .45 has short-range
accuracy and inflicts a heavy
impact.
Says Johnson Knows
Garrison said yesterday the
photographs indicate that Presi-
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New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison says
this enlarged picture shows the hand of a
federal agent reaching for a .45-caliber bullet
(circled) at the scene of the Kennedy as-
sassination in Dallas. This is one of three
pictures which Garrison says proves a con-
spiracy.
dent Johnson "necessarily must identified, by a comparison Garrison said that before de-
known that the conclusion of the study of bullets, as a .45-caliber, scribing Lee Harvey- Oswald as
Warren Commission is a fraud the lone assassin, "the federal
and that the people of the United apparently steel-jacketed," Gar- government had to know that,
States. have been fooled." rison said. inasmuch as it is impossible to
One of the pictures shows an He said the man picking up fire a .45-caliber bullet from a
unidentified man bending over the bullet "indicated that he is 6.5 Mannilicher-Carcano, there
to pick up what Garrison said apparently a n investigative had to be a number of indivi- 1
was a .45-caliber bullet within to agent of the federal government, duals firing at the president and
minutes of the assassination in either employed by the Federal that the act was not accom-
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. The dis- Bureau of Investigation or Se- plished by a lone assassin."
trict attorney said the second cret Service." The bullet was not introduced
picture, an enlargement of a Garrison said dark splotches into evidence before the Warren
man's hand, shows the person on the ground scattered around Commission and was not re-
picking up the bullet and the the bullet, which can be seen in ferred to anywhere in the
third shows the man with the all three pictures, are pieces'of 26-volume report on testimony
bullet clinched in his 'left hand, matter from President Kenne- and exhibits, according to Garri-
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&aurison Cites Foreign Power in JFK Case
NEW RLEANS, July 12
(UPI)-.Di triet Attorney Jim
Garrison s id yesterday a "for-
eign po er on militarily
friendly to ms with the United
States" ha furnished him in-
formation o show that Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy was as-
sassinated 'by elements of the
Central Intelligence Agency."
Garrison, in an interview
with the imes Picayune, re-
fused to nme the country, in-
dicating oily that it was in
Europe.
The District Attorney, who las police force who allegedly
contends Lee Harvey Oswald participated in the assassina-
never fired a shot in Dallas, tion, established contact with
said he learned of the infor- one of the assassins, and un!
mation from an intermediary covered information about a
from another unnamed coun- trip David Ferrie made to Dal-
try. He said a representative las for an alleged pre-assassina-
from his office spent about a tion meeting.
month in the other country Garrison said the assossina-
talking with "the top men of tion was initiated by both ele-
their intelligence agency." ments of the CIA and by "a
Garrison said the foreign handful of extremely powerful
country has ,unearthed the individuals in the industrial
names of members of the Dal- complex of the Southwest."
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Way CleareaFor Shaw Trial
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison today
was free again to set the fourth
date for the trial of Clay L.
Shaw on charges of conspiring to
kill President John, F. Kennedy
in 1963.
The U.S. Supreme Court yes-
terday gave Garrison the green
light to try Shaw when it refused
to hear a countersuit filed
against Garrison.
The high court refused to
grant the 55-year-old New Or-
leans businessman a hearing on
the suit that asked, among other
things, that the Warren Commis-
sion Report on the Kennedy as-
sassination be made binding on
all courts.
Dist. Judge Edward Haggerty,
who has refused to accept the
Warren Report as evidence, said
yesterday the date of the trial is
at the descretion of Garrison's
staff.
Assistant Dist. Atty. James
Alcock, who has handled most of
the courtroom work in the case,
said a quick trial would be set,
but he said he anticipates
Shaw's attorneys will file addi-
tional pleadings in the state
courts to delay the trial further.
Defense attorney Edward
Wegmann would not comment
on what action would be taken.
Garrison arrested Shaw, for-
mer managing director of the
International Trade Mart, on
March 1, 1967, and charged him
with conspiring in New Orleans
to assassinate Kennedy.
He accused Shaw of conspiring
with Lee Harvey Oswald, whom
the Waraew-ik"rt says killed
Kennedy; David Ferrie of New
Orleans and Jack Ruby of Dal-
las, all of whom are now dead.
Shaw has denied knowing any
of the three.
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Shaw Trial Jury
Selection to start
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Se-
lection of the Clay Shaw trial
jury starts today in a court-
room showdown on Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison's assertion that
President John F. Kennedy was
killed by a band of conspirators
-not by a lone sniper.
Judge Edward A. Haggerty
Jr. summoned 169 citizens to
the state court examination asprospective jurors with still
others readily available.
Shaw, 55, a tall, chain-smok-
ing, retired business executive
is charged with conspiring to
murder Kew d9, M who was
assassinated in Dallas on Nov.
22, 1963.
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12 July 1968
GARRISON CLAIMS
.FOREIGN SPY LINK!
Says He Exchanged Data
About President Kennedy
Mr. Garrison said the'
"foreign intelligence agency"
had arrived "biy a completely
different route' at the same
analysis of the assassination of
President Kennedy on Nov. 22,-
1963 in Dallas as had his of-
fice.-He asserted it had had u
pre-assassination "penetration"
in the plotters' group "for other
reasons unconnected with the
assassination."
He contended the "servicing
of the operation was yet up by
individuals in. C.I.A." and
the men shooting were trained
by C.I.A."- Lee Harvey Os-
ry
and that its information "in,j mission to have been the lone
eludes an interview with oneli assassin, he went on, had been
of the assassins." recruited into the intelligence
He said his office had set up agency at Atsugi, Japan, buts
a "liason" with this unspecified didn't shoot anybody."
foreign operation for the "last , Involved, Mr. Garrison said,i
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By PETER KIIISS
District Attorney Jim Garri-
son asserted yesterday that his
office had been exchanging in-
formation with a foreign in-
telligence agency that he said'
had "penetrated the forces in-
volved in the assassination" of
President Kennedy.
In a telephone interview, the
New Orleans prosecutor said
that the agency was from a
government that was a mili-
ta ally" of the United States
1948 to 1950; he had been withIlin the back. Of the shots from)
the intelligence agency two to the front, he said, one hit the
ifive years in the 1950's over- President in the throat and an
seas and in Washington and other hit a street sign, but then'
had .,used as many as 10 dif-another "tore off the Presi-
ferent names in operations with dent's head"0+with a "frangible
the agency." bullet."
Comments on Epstein Mr. Garrison asserted the
District Attorney Garrison "top command of the C.I.A."i
made his statements after he had no knowledge of the plan,
had been asked for comment but afterward "the entire Fed-I
on a 25,000-word article by eral government banded to-
Edward Jay Epstein in The gether" to conceal the Federal
New Yorker magazine on role.
Mr. Garrison's 18-month in- He said President Kennedy,
quiry and charges of conspiracy had been "getting ready to rec-'
sent a representative abroad
who "went to several countries
in Europe" in that connection.
Over the telephone, Mr. Gar-
rison also introduced an in-
vestigator for his office, T3i1l
rule s a former Central in.
to igence Agency instructor In
the "clandestine operations de-
" He said he had
partment.,
found Mr.Boxley while seeking
a "man who had been with the
intelligence agency but still
i cared about the United States."
Mr. Boxley then said his real
name was William C. Wood;
he was 48 years old, originally
from Texas; he had worked 10
years as a newspaper reporter
-last on The Denver Post from
in the President's death. He ogmze. Cuba and Castro, ar-
held Mr. Epstein was "an ama- ranging a "detente" with Pre-
teur," and the "relevant com-:Imier Nikita S. Khrushchev of
ment" would be the current.ithe Soviet Union and "bringing
status of his Inquiry. troops back from Vietnam.
Afterward, Mr. Garrison said,
his death was "treated as a
mandate to change foreign
policy."
ful men in the Southwest oil
establishment," whose industry
"as a result of extensive opera-
tions in the Mediterranean area
has to work closely with the
C.I.A."
There were "four assassina-
tion teams," each with one
rifleman and one lookout, he
said - one team on the seventh
floor of the Dal-Tex Building,
one on an upper floor of the
Texas School Book Depository
Building, and two ahead of the
President's car on a grassy
knoll.
Those at the rear, he said,
hit President Kennedy and Gov.
John B. Connally Jr. of Texas
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WASHINGTON STAR -- 18 June 1968
Shaw Asks
Court to Bar
Prosecution
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Clay
L. Shaw has asked a federal
court to bar Dist. Atty. Jim
Gar- from prosecuting him on a
charge of conspiring to murder
President John F. Kennedy.
Shaw has asked, too, that the
three-judge court rule that the
Warren Report be made "valid
and binding" on every court in
the nation.
Edward F. Wegmann, one of
Shaw's lawyers, argued yester-
day that Garrison's sole motive
in' prosecuting the 55-year-old re-
tired businessman is to provide
himself with a forum for attack-
ing the Warren Commission.
The three-judge panel gave at-
torneys until next Monday to
submit rttten briefs 411 the four
technical motions argued in
court.
These included a Shaw request
that U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey
Clark be added as .a defendant in
the federal suit and a Garrison
motion that the judges immedi-
ately return the case to the state
courts.
Shaw contends that Clark, as
attorney general, should defend
such a court challenge to the
findings of a federally appointed
body.
'The government is fighting
Shaw's request.
At a preliminary hearing for
Shaw ,last year, a three-judge
state court ruled ,he Warren Re-
port "inadmissible. on grounds
that it was "fraught with hear-
(6
he.,eoprt gave no indication
when it would rule on the mo-
tions.
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GARRISON'S
PLOT SUSPECT
SURRENDERS
Bradley Denies Guilt;!
Louisiana Gets Tire
To Seek Extradition
gar Eugene Bradley sui?ren-
dered?today .to face charges
that he conspired to kill Presi-
dent Kennedy.
"I know I'm not guilty of any
crime," Bradley said after his
arraignment, "God knows I'm
not guilty. That's the important
th in g,"
A Municipal court judge or-
dered Bradley released on his
own recognizance and granted
a 30-day continuance during
which Louisiana could initiate
the extradition that Bradley's
attorney says he will fight.
Bradley, 49, of North Holly-
wood, is charged by James
Garrision, the district attorney
in connection with what Garri-
son has called a right-wing plot
to assiassinate President Ken-
nedy.
On A Bus At The Time
He has denied any prior
knowledge that the President
would be killed, saying he was
on a bus from Oklahoma to El
Paso, Texas, when the assassi-
nation occurred.
Bradley said he first learned
of Garrison's accusation when
his 19-year-old son received a
phone call from a newspaper
reporter. He said he thought it
was a crank call but later
'learned he had been charged in
connection with the assassina-
tion.
Accompanied by his attorney,
i George Jensen, Bradley surren-
dered at the office of the Los
Angeles County Sheriff on a
fugitive warrant obtained by,
Garrison In New drleans.
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SUSPECT SURRENDERS--Edgar Bradley surrenders in Los
Angeles as a snspcet ' in a Kennedy assassination probe.
"I will fight extradition tooth,
and nail," Jensen said, "I will' not let him go to Louisiana."
The final decision on whether
Bradley will be extradited lies
with Gov. Ronald Reagan of
California.
Bradley is West Coast repre-
sentative of Dr. Carl Mclntire,l
of Collingswood, N.J., president
of the American Council of
Churches and an evangelistic
radio broadcaster from New
Jersey.
Supported Hoover In '64
Garrison has said that Brad-
ley worked in 1964 in a move-
ment to get presidential support
in California for J. Edgar Hoo-
ver, FBI director.
. Bradley said today that he
did participate in such a move-
ment but dropped it after re-
ceiving little public support.
Bradley is the second man
charged by Garrison with con-
spiracy in the 1963 assassina-
tion of Kennedy in Dallas. A
New Orleans business man,
Clay Shaw, is under indictment
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George J. Jensen, Bradley's
attorney, has vowed to fight ex-1,
tradition "tooth and nail." He
said he has asked for a'
"full-fledged extradition hear-
ing" in Sacramento on the as-
sumption Louisiana would re-
quest Bradley's presence in New
Orleans for a trial.
The final decision on whether
Bradley would be extradited to
New Orleans rests with Gov.
Ronald Reagan.
No Objections Voiced
Bradley, 49, West Coast repre-
sentative of a radio evangelist,'
the Rev.. Carl McIntire, made a
Sheriff Peter Pitches and was
pre-arranged surrender before
then arraingned before Munici-
pal Judge David J. Aisenson.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Joseph
Carr told the judge his office
did not object to releasing
Bradley without bail because
there were no indications he
would atempt to flee. He noted
Bradley has lived i nthe same
home in Suburban North Holly-
wod since 1941.
Bradley has steadfastly main-
tained his innocence of the
charge of "criminal conspiracy
to murder" President Kennedy
on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Tex.
Bradley says the only time he
ever has been i nDallas was last
spring on a vacation trip. On the
day of the assassination, Brad- .
ley said he was on a bus en
route to El Paso, Tex., on a
business trip for Dr. McIntire.
Defended by McIntire
In a tlak taped for bradcast
tomorrow on radio stations
throughout the nation McIntire
defended Bradley and said the
charges were "iresponsible and
unsupportable."
He said it may be a case of
mistaken identity. He also
asserted that the Communist
party had been trying to blame
conservative groups such as his,
for the Kennedy assassination.
McIntire said, "We have run
into a storm. We do not believe
he's guilty of any of the charges.
I understand Bradley in all my
association with him to be a fine
Christian gentleman and a hard
worker."
Bradley has been employed by
McIntire since 1962, he said. _
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LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Ed-
gar Eugene Bradley, accused of
conspiring to kill President John
F. Kennedy, was free today on
his promise to appear in court
Jan. 29 for extradition preceed-
ings.
Bradley was released on his
own recognizance without being
required to post bail following
his arraignment yesterday in
municipal court in connection
with a Louisiana warrant
requested by Jim Garrison, New
Orleans district attorney.
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The Army has begun an in-
vestigation to see if official
Army sources released informa-
tion from the military medical
files of New Orleans Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison.
The investigation was ordered
following the publication yester-
day of reports that the flam-
boyant district attorney had
been discharged from the Army
in 1951 after doctors had found
him to be suffering from "a
severe and disabling psychoneu-
rosis of long duration."
Personal medical records are
not supposed to be released
without the written permission
of the person concerned.
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confirmed that Garrison, who
had been a captain, had been
discharged by reason of physi-
cal disability on Oct. 31, 1951,
but that he had since become an
officer in the National Guard
and is now a lieutenant colonel
in the Army Reserve on in-
active duty.
The reports of Garrison's
medical record were published
three days after Garrison, in
one of his most free-swinging
press conferences, a c c u s e d
President Johnson and FBI Di-
rector J. Edgar Hoover of keep-
ing the truth about the assas-
sination of President John F.
Kennedy from his family.
Garrison, meanwhile, contin-
ued to press his probe. Yester-
day he subpoenaed three men to
testify, saying they had been "in
unique position to observe activi-
ties relevant to the
assassination," the Associated
Press reported.
The three were identified as
Loran A. Hall of Kernville,
Calif.; Lawrence J. Howard Jr.,
32, of El Monte, Calif., near
Los Angeles, and Thomas Beck-
ham, 27, of Omaha.
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Garrison said the three, want-
ed as material witnesses in his
investigation, had not been ques-
tioned by the Warren Commis-
sion, which said Oswald acted
alone in shooting Kennedy.
Hall, a bartender, denied he
ever knew anyone connected
with the assassination and said
he would fight the subpoena.
Howard, a welder and fitter,
was reported by his wife to be
somewhere in Mexico and una-
vailable for comment.
Beckham, who lists himself as
a bishop of the Universal Life
P Church and entertainigopy*b
Western music under the name
of Mark Adams, said he would tic
Beckham said he worked as
an investigator for Garrison for
about three months in late 1962.
A Pentagon official said the
investigation by the Army's in-
spector general into how Garri-
son's medical records were re-
leased would involve a check of
those with access to the records
and attempt to determine if they
had been released in an unau-
thorizd manner by someone in
the Army, the National Guard or
the Reserve.
His Record
Garrison first Joined the Na-
tional Guard In 1939,and served
on active duty in the Army for
five years during World War II.
Shortly after the war, while he
was a law student in New Or-
leans, his service record shows,
he began to suffer from severe
exhaustion.
From October 1950 until Feb-
ruary 1951, his record shows,
he was under the care of a
psychiatrist at Louisiana State
Universilty. He was told then
that he was suffering from "a
deep-seated, chronic severe
psychoneurosis."
He rejoined the Army as a
captain on July 24, 1951. Almost
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and was hospitalized at Fort
Sill, Okla.
In mid-September of 1951, he
was sent to the Brooke Army
Hospital at Fort Sam Houston,
Tex., and was discharged for
medical reasons on Oct. 31
after medical tests and appear-
ance before a Physical Evalua-
tion Board.
Records accompanying Garri.
son from the hospital at Fort
Sill showed a diagnosis of a
"schizoid personality suspected,
unproven.'
Schizophrenia Is a severe men-
marked degree.
"He is considered totally dis-
abled from the standpoint of
military duty and moderately
severely incapictated in civilian
adaptability.
"His illness existed long be-
fore his call to active duty July
24, 1951, and is of the type
that will require a long-term
psychotherapeutic approach... .
He can safely be discharged
in his own custody."
tal disease. The diagnosis by the
doctors at Brookeof psychoneu-
rosis is a less severe personality
disorder.
In fact, the report said he was
well-oriented and had no de-
lusions or hallucinations, which
would be characteristic of the
more severe disease. He report-
edly described his symptoms
openly and would comment, "I
know this sounds crazy, but this
is how I feel."
In discussing his case, the re-
port prepared by the physicians
at Brooke said:
"This patient has a - severe
and disabling psychoneurosis of
long duration. It has inter-
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