Springfield, Mo., Leader-Press TES i 20 May 1968

12 , Mon., May 20. 1968 SPRINGFIELD (Mo.) LEADER-PRESS Public Is Still, in the Dark As Garrison Probe Plods On By WOKE MAY intimidation and public bribery (First in a Series.) ../ of Garrison witnesses. NEW ORLEANS (NEA) - Finally, Garrison has leveled Where is the Garrison in- theft charges against his one- vestigation — that probe of the time investigator, William Gur- murder of President John F. vich, who quit Garrison's office Kennedy which has evoked dedi- last summer after paying a call cated support, bitter denuncia- on Senator Kennedy in New tion, snickers and outright York and announcing that the laughter? Garrison investigation was a Few know it, because little is baseless fraud. The DA, in being reported through most of charge, says Gurvich stole se- the regular channels of the U.S. cret files when he departed. , press, but the investigation and * * * David Ferrie its many outgrowths are pro- Superimposed upon this list of ceeding at deliberate speed accusations and a single con- guided by the six-footr six-inch viction by the big Louisiana DA1 district attorney of New Or- has been a growing spate of na- ley? Why was Dean Andrews leans. tional publicity, much of it in tried and convicted? And what Outwardly, the inquiry is a the form of ringing denuncia- is the premise of Garrison's James Garrison study in confusion and frustra- tions of Garrison and his probe. case for a widespread con- tion, and people — even people On his part, the DA has granted spiracy which ended with the in New Orleans — are admit- magazine interviews and has shots which murdered a presi- tedly bewildered both by lack of appeared on national television dent? Does the DA from New information and because of the to tell his side of the story. Orleans have any evidence, and, m i n d-boggling information if so, what is it? which has filtered through to Through all of that literature' This and three succeeding ar- them. and rhetoric, however, little of ticles will deal with the Garrison * * * the hard, cold facts about what Case, the attacks upon it and the In the 18 months since Jim Garrison has done and what he defenses thrown up by the man Garrison began his independent intends to do apparently has got- he has charged. investigaticn of what he con. ten through. tends was a New Orleans-based Who is Shaw? Who is Brad- (NEXT: Who is Clay Shaw?) plot to assassinate the late pres- •ident at Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, this — at least on the surface - is what has happened: Two men, 55-year-old retired New Orleans businessman Clay L. Shaw and a 49-year-old Cati- ....7.-":::.„ fornia representative of a con- servative radio evangelist, Ed- Clay Shaw gar Eugene Bradley, have been charged by Garrison with en- gaging in a conspiracy here to kill President Kennedy. A hip-talking lawyer and one. time assistant district attorney from adjoining Jefferson Par- ish, Dean A. Andrews Jr., has been accused of perjury, tried and sentenced to 18 months be- cause a jury decided he lied. about a mysterious telephone Lee Oswald voice which Andrews identified for the Warren Commission as Clay Bertrand. * * * A young would-be Leaclizr and music graduate, Layton Patrick Martens, also has been charged with perjury. And sot as Kerry Thornley, a Tampa, F a., author Dean Andrews who was a close buddy of Lee Harvey Oswald in the U.S. Ma- rines and the man who told the Warren Commission 1 that Os. wald was a Marxist. Neither has been tried. Two television newsmen, Wal- ter Sheridan of NBC (who was chief investigator, for the Seqate Rackets Committee when 'en. Robert F. Kennedy was its lead- ing counsel), and Richard L. Townley of NBC have.,been ac- cused by the New Orleans DA of