Springfield, Mo., Leader-Press gar 21 May 1968 Civic Leader Tied Into Plot Who Is Clay Shaw?

(Second in a Series.) Garrison inquiry became public By HOKE MAY • and six days be'fore Shaw was NEW ORLEANS (NEA) arrested. Physically, 55-year-old Clay L. Ferrie, who was 45, was ce: Shaw is perfect adversary for "the verge of arrest by the DA the tall, 44-year-old district at- when he died of what the coro. torney of New Orleans, Jim ner called a massive hemorr- Garrison. hage. at the base of the brain Like the man who has charged Illnd what garrison implied was him with conspiracy to murder either murder or suicide. President John F. Kennedy, In the light of more recent dis- Shaw is six feet, four inches in closures by Garrison, Ferrie's height. His massive, craggy past is fascinating. During the face is topped by a close- Bay of Pigs anti-Castro invasion cropped thatch of white hair. build-up, Ferrie worked for the Before his retirement almost Central Intelligence Agency, two years ago. Shaw was a re- running guns to Miami and spected businessman and a lead- training irregular troops for er of the city's international guerrilla combat. trade community in what, alter * * * New York, is•the nation's seOnd Part of his work for the anti- largest seaport. Castro Cubans consisted of fly- Shaw was managing .director ing fire bomb raids against Cu- of the International Trade Mkt, ban sugar cane 'fields. The man which promotes international who flew those raids with him, commercial relations with New Eladio del Valle (a former Orleans, especially in Latin member of the Batista Con- American nations. He retired af- gress) was murdered in Miami ter fulfilling a dream of 16 years the day Ferrie was found dead. — the construction of a 33-story His body was sprawled in the International Trade Mart Build- front seat of his Cadillac, his ing which towers over the Mis- head cleaved open with a mach- sissippi River levee at the foot ete and, as if for good measure, of world-famous Canal Street, a bullet through his heart. The * * * murder is unsolved. When Shaw was arrested by Ferrie worked during.late 1960 Garrison's office March 1, 1967,, and 1981 with a former chief of and accused of participating in plotting Kennedy's assassina- the Chicago FBI office, Guy tion, the city gasped. Friends of Banister, who retired, returned long standing rallied to Shaw, to New Orleans and established and his arrest; threw a blanket a private detective agency. Gar- of doubt across the town - rison says he can prove Banis- doubt which extended itself to ter's office here was a front for Garrison's motives and evein, his the CIA and that, in the DA's sanity. words, Guy Banister was the In his. bill • of information "green light man" and liaison against Shaw, Garrison accused officer for all CIA operations in the Kentwood, La., native of South and Central America. conspiring with Lee Harvey Os- That charge becomes impor- wald (the man named by the tent in light of Lhe main thesis of Warren Commission as Kenne- Garrison's conspiracy case. -..11071.1 dy's lone assassin) and a pecu- As for Banister, he was found the -wi- • , liar, onetime airline pilot, David tided in his home here in June, out that they thought (iu urn- , 1984. The official verdict was nged telephone number of Jack inocente trial Judge Edward A. W. Ferrie, to carry out the kill- Ruby at Dallas in 1963. heart failure. Haggerty Jr. disagreed with the ing in Dealey Plaza. To every charge, the Shaw de- Shaw's response was imme- pleadings and refused to move * * fense has issued a categorical diate. As soon as he was re- In his charges against Shaw the site. The defense appealed to denial and, in recent months, the State Supreme Court, which leased on bond, he held a press since the accusation was first the defense has struggled with conference in the offices of his I hurled, Garrison has added the refused to review Haggerty's de- the court to have Shaw's trial cision. However, more legal attorneys and long-time friends, name of Jack Ruby (Oswald's removed from New Orleans to a William and Edward Wegmann. televised assassin) to the list of maneuvers appear imminent. jurisdiction at least 100 miles Much less is known of Edgar He denied ever knowing either people with whom he contends, away. Oswald or Ferrie and called the they trade mart director con:• Eugene Bradley than of Shaw. The defense request for a In his late 40s, Bradley is the charge against him pre- spired. In publiele,recorded an- change of venue has delayed West Coast representative of Dr. posterous. swers to defense qfiestions, Gar- any imminent trial. Shaw's law- * * * rison said Shaw, Oswald and yers accused Garrison of engag- Carl McIntyre, a superconsery a- As was Oswald's, the name of Ferrie met with Ruby on at ing in a "concentrated barrage tive evangelist whose radio al- David W. Ferrie was well-known least two different occasions in tacks on communism and the to New Orleanians. The strange, other parts of Louisiana. of publicity" which has prej- udiced their client's case in the federal administration are hairless pilot, who lost his job Further, Garrison announced eyes of potential New Orleans broadcast nationally under the with Eastern Air Lines after in official pleadings that his of- jurors. auspices of a New Jersey-based being accused of homosexuality, fice had broken a code which church organization. had been found dead in his appears in the notebooks of both * * * Bradley. too, has denied all of t; apartment here Feb. 22 — five Shaw Old Oswald. One of the After 68 jurors testified Garrison's charges, including < days after knowledge of the numbers decoded from both no- recertly they could give Shaw a the accusation that he was in • a g fair trial (two of them blurted Dallas the day Kennedy was • u u coq