Ghosts of Dallas David Free

On March 1, 1967, the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested a local civic leader named Clay Shaw, and charged him with having conspired to murder President John F. Kennedy. To Garrison, it didn’t matter that there was no serious evidence to support that extremely serious charge. He set about simply manufacturing a case out of thin air, using a series of increasingly desperate measures, including coercion of witnesses, bribery, extortion, forgery, and threats of physical violence. When Garrison arrested Clay Shaw, he crossed the Rubicon. There was no turning back. He had nowhere to go except deeper and deeper into the almost incredible clusterf**k that he had set in motion. And unfortunately, the man who was going to pay for Garrison’s act of madness wasn’t Garrison himself. It was Clay Shaw, the man who suddenly found himself starring in a Kafka novel, accused of committing a crime that he’d had absolutely nothing to do with …
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To this day, the late New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw remains the only person ever to have been criminally prosecuted in connection with the murder of JFK. His trial began in New Orleans in January, 1969. On March 1st, a jury found him Not Guilty in just 54 minutes, but Shaw's life and reputation were destroyed by his very public prosecution. How was it that an entirely innocent man came to be prosecuted for conspiring to murder the President of the United States? The answer has nothing to do with Shaw, and everything to do with the warped mind of the man who prosecuted him: the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison was drunk on conspiracy theory; when the early conspiratorial books about the case came out, he fell disastrously under the spell. And before he tried to pin Kennedy's murder on Clay Shaw, he tried to pin it on another innocent man: the eccentric, wig-wearing David W. Ferrie ... 
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Sylvia Odio's claim that she encountered Lee Harvey Oswald in late September of 1963 was compelling - so compelling that we have almost no choice but to believe it, unless we can find rock-solid evidence proving that Oswald couldn't have been at her apartment when she claimed he was. The Warren Commission believed that there was rock-solid evidence to that effect. It concluded that the man at Odio's apartment couldn't possibly have been Oswald. But how rock-solid, really, were the Warren Commission's reasons for believing that? And if we find that those reasons were not as impressive as the Commission thought - if we find that the real Oswald could indeed have been present at Sylvia Odio's apartment that night - then what the hell did his presence there mean? And who were the two men in his company? Clearly, they were not who they claimed to be. So who were they? Was it possible that they were agents of the Castro regime? And if they were, did Oswald know that? The more you look at the Odio incident, the more you see why it has been called "the strongest human evidence of conspiracy." 
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One night in late September of 1963, two months before the Kennedy assassination, three mysterious men paid a visit to the Dallas apartment of Sylvia Odio, a Cuban-American woman who was active in anti-Castro politics. One of these men was introduced to her as Leon Oswald - and when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after the assassination, Sylvia Odio instantly recognized him as the man who had come to her apartment. But why had the "Oswald" who visited Sylvia Odio portrayed himself as a bitter enemy of the Castro regime, when the real Oswald was a big-time fan of Castro's? Who were the two men he was with? And why had this "Oswald" told one of those men that it would be an excellent idea to shoot President Kennedy?
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Within a few years of its appearance in 1964, the Warren Report had become a joke, a punchline. And the funniest thing about it, according to the critics, was the Single-Bullet Theory: the idea that a single bullet fired by Oswald had gone through both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. The conspiracy theorists had a name for this bullet. They called it the Magic Bullet, because they believed that no bullet in the real world could possibly have behaved the way the Warren Commission said this bullet had behaved. If the conspiracy theorists were right to believe that, then the whole Warren Report was a fiction. If on the other hand the Warren Commission was right about the single bullet, that would tell us something important about conspiracy theory. It would tell us that the conspiratorial worldview is too limited and one-dimensional, and that it fails to grasp how rich and surprising the world can sometimes be. If a single bullet did go through both Kennedy and Connally, then reality itself is more magical than conspiracy theorists are capable of imagining …
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On the afternoon of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Abraham Zapruder shot the most famous home movie ever made. Was the proof of a JFK conspiracy concealed somewhere in the Zapruder film's 486 frames? After watching the film over and over, one young investigator became sure that he'd stumbled on the secret of Kennedy's murder. Oswald couldn't possibly have acted alone. There had to have been a second gunman. The proof of it was right there on film ... 
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