John Joerg

Garrison was just a cover up artist who protected Mafia interests and concealed the truth to protect illegalities and David Ferrie was also a sleazy, Carlos Marcello, Mafia asset.

I don't even understand why anybody would bother to write a book about these criminals...I don't think you will find the truth about them in any document -criminals don't document their criminal activity.

On January 21, 1969, after nearly two years of concocting and playing out his bizarre charges in the national media, Jim Garrison finally tried the accused, Clay Shaw, in a court of law in New Orleans. Even though Garrison had announced on February 24, 1967, that he had "positively solved the assassination of President John F. Kennedy" -and one week later, arrested Clay Shaw for conspiring to kill the president because that's what people do when they want the actual culprit to get away with murder, they produce a smokescreen. Jim Garrison provided cover for co-conspirators like David Ferrie when he handed him over to the FBI in 1963, because reports that Oswald carried Ferrie's library card threatened to unravel the case

The last known person to speak to Ferrie was George Lardner, Jr., of the Washington Post, whom Ferrie had met with from midnight to 4:00 a.m. on February 22, 1967. During this interview, Ferrie described Garrison as "a joke". Several hours later, Ferrie died of a cerebral hemorrhage [he was probably murdered because that's what "the joke" needed, to promote his bizarre allegations] Jim Garrison was clearly the hero of those who conspire to bury the truth about the Kennedy assassination -the way Ferrie was buried.

TRUTH SUCKS, when they can get away with this.

Wow! I'm amazed at your allegations. Hoover and Garrison were at opposite ends of the spectrum.

When Garrison decided to begin the investigation I was teaching literature at Loyola in New Orleans.

One of my students was Louis Ivon, who became Garrison's Chief Investigator. Both Louis Ivon and Jim Garrison were as honest as the day is long. Louis told me that Garrison at one point had mortgaged his house to continue the investigation. Garrison and his office were hasseled endlessly and villified with continual smears. How else could the Government, the CIA, the FBI, Bobby Kennedy have misled the nation as to what actually happened in Dealy Plaza. It's what they did to Oswald too.

I covered the Clay Shaw trial for the New Orleans Review. I thought Clay Shaw was guilty. The jury found Shaw innocent because he lied about his CIA connections. During the House Select Committee on Assassination, Helms admitted that Shaw was a CIA operative.

You're blowing smoke when you put Nixon, Hoover and Garrison in the same pot. Garrison, at least as one point was worried about being assassinated himself. Louis Ivon told me the story. When Garrison was being released from the hospital in St. Bernard Parish, he wanted his two bodyguards to wheel him out to the car with their guns drawn. There was a big flap because they wouldn't do it, but Garrison was worried about a drive by. Doesn't sound like a man in on the cover-up.

As for his connections to the Mafia, the FBI listed Carlos Marcello as a tomatoe salesman. Carlos owned a number of bars in New Orleans, but he lived in Jefferson Parish and he had his office in Baton Rouge. I was with the Vice Squad when they busted Mike Roach, "The King of Prostitution,"

according to the Times-Picayune (that had a very unhealthy relationship with the NO Police Department). Mike had 5 girls working for him. Some king! I also witnessed the clean up of Boubon Street, a joint effort between the NOPD and Garrison's Office. New Orleans had a long history of corruption, and Jim Garrison cleaned it up. There was never any evidence that would have resulted in an indictment of Carlos Marcello, which may have been the reason Bobby illegally kidnapped Carlos and dumped him in Guatamala.

You're blowin smoke, Lynn.

I was born in Chicago in 1933, the year beer came back. My family has been in the brewery business for generations. I was sent to France for my tour of duty in the US Army, and I married a French girl there. When we got back to the States, we went to New Orleans, and I went to Tulane where I got the BA, the MA and then the Ph.D in literature. I started teaching lit at Loyola University after my masters, and I remained at Loyola for 18 years. Because I had a growing family, I also taught lit in the Evening Division. The second year, as luck would have it, New Orleans decided to educate its police force, and I taught a large number of policemen over the years. The day after Oswald was gunned down the cops said it was a setup. They said they're trained to go for the gun. One of my students was Louis Ivon, who became Jim Garrison's Chief Investigator. I rememeber telling Louis about a Ramparts Magazine article or articles questioning the findings of the

Warren Report. Louis scooped it up and gave it to Garrison. Later I wrote a review of Harold Weisberg's Whitewash 1, 2 and 3 for the New Orleans Review. I wrote a thriller about a guy who knew too much about the assassination. I covered the Clay Shaw trial for the New Orleans Review, even though I didn't write an article about it. The novel I had written was rejected because Clay Shaw was found "not guilty." Later, Helms identified Shaw as a CIA operative, and Dean Andrews was found guilty of perjury. If the jury had known that Shaw was CIA, and that Dean Andrews was lying, the outcome would surely have been different.

I retired from Loyola in 1980. In 1983 we came to Florida to take care of my parents, and we've been here ever since.