Andrews Charges Garrison with Perjury Attorney Dean Andrews Jr., Tainly Do
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irIONDA S NEW ORLEANS AFFIDAVITS FILED BY SHAW CASE FIGURE Andrews Charges Garrison with Perjury Attorney Dean Andrews Jr., tainly do. leged perjury revolves around time it had become apparent to a key figure in the conspiracy Andrews: Did you make any this exchange where Andrews most of the staff in this area trial of Clay L. Shaw, today reply? cross-examined Garrison who was. filed an affidavit in Criminal that it District Court charging District Garrison: I'm quite sure I was on the stand. IN HIS affidavit, Andrews al- Atty. Jim Garrison with two said, 'positively not' because Andrews: Did you at any time leges Garrison perjured him- self because one of his assistant counts of perjury. nothing was further from my prior to my entering the Grand Andrews charged that Garri- mind at the time. Jury room, March 16, 1967, con- DAs, Richard Burnes, testified son committed perjury while on Andrews alleges in his affi- ve or give the impression to that Garrison expressed an the stand during the perjury davit that Garrison had in any of your assistants that I opinion on Andrews' truthful- trial of Andrews in August, mind prosecuting Andrews all was lying in my testimony be- ness on either March 15 or 1967. Andrews was convicted on the time and perjured himself fore the Warren Commission? March 16, 1967. three counts of perjuring him- by indicating otherwise. Garrison: No. That would not Burnes also testified that sub- self before the Orleans Parish TILE SECOND count of al- be necessary. I think by that sequent to March 15 or 16 that Grand Jury and was sentenced to 18 months in jail on each count. Andrews is out on bond while his case is being appealed. In a highly unusual action, Andrews appeared in the court STATES-ITEM of Judge Thomas M. Brahney Jr. today "in proper person," Garrison expressed the view a legal technicality which per- that Andrews had made "in- mitted him to levy charges consistent statements." against the district attorney. The affidavit says Garrison should not be able to pass on THE CASE was assigned to the merit of Andrew's perjury Judge Brahney who will set a cases because the DA is per- date for a hearing. sonally involved in the case... In his affidavit, Andrews ask- ed that Garrison be forced to recuse himself so that he can- not dismiss the charges against Andrews. Andrews captured interna- tional attention when he claimed that after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a man he knew as Clay Bertrand called him and asked him to defend Lee Harvey Oswald, ac- cused slayer of the president. GARRISON claimed t h a t Shaw was in fact Bertrand, but a 12-man jury March 1 acquit- ed Shaw of conspiracy charges levied by the DA. In Shaw's trial, Andrews tes- tified that he lied about Bert- call me asking you whether or rand and everything that he not you were going to put the told the Warren Commission, hat on me because I had heard hundreds of pages of testimony, a rumble on the vine that I'd was made up. get the hat put on me. In his affidavit today, An- Garrison: Yes. I recall that drews said Garrison lied on the phrase. stand while being cross-exam- JUDGE FRANK SHEA, who ined by Andrews. presided at the perjury trial, asked the hip-talking Andrews ANDREWS claims that Garri- to explain more clearly what son committed perjury during be meant. this exchange by the two: Andrews: "That I was to be Andrews Do you re- indicted for perjury but the way I told it is the way I said it." Garrison: Yes Yes. I cer .