JFK Plot Case Seen World Journal Tribune, New York, Monday, April 24, 1967 Weakened
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JFK Plot Case Seen World Journal Tribune, New York, Monday, April 24, 1967 Weakened world with an announcement By JERRY COHEN that he had "solved" the as- "World Journal Tribune Special sassination. On March 1 he LOS ANGELES, April 24 — arrested Shaw. Later that Jim Garrison, New Orleans week, he gave the documents district attorney supplied a na- to Phelan in Las Vegas. tional magazine writer with Each of the documents is a study in contradictions. documents which tend to dis- The first is a report to Gar- credit his controversial inves- rison from a 31-year-old as- tigation of President Kennedy's sistant. Andrew J. Sciambra, assassination. who was assigned to question Russo. The three-hour in- The documents, records of statements taken from star Absent from the 3,500-word witness Perry Russo, also ap- document, which Phelan de- pear to undo Garrison's oase scribes as "a minutely detailed against Clay Shaw, a New memorandura," was any men- Orleans civic leader, whom tion of an "assassination plot" Russo testified as having known —the very crux of the Gar- as "Clay Bertrand." rison investigation. Largely on the basis of And as Phelan notes in the ups testimony, Shaw, re- Saturday Evening Post: red" director of the New Or- "It made no reference to the leans National Trade Mart, was party at Ferrie's apartment, where Russo later said the plot indicted last month on charges was discussed. of conspiring to assassinate the "There was no positive iden- President. t if icatio n of Lee Harvey Russo, 25, an insurance sales- Oswald as "Leon" OsWald (the man, testified at a hearing pre- name by which Russo said he ceding the indictment, that he knew one of Ferrie's various overheard Shaw, Lee Harvey roommates whom he described Oswald and the late David W as a "typical beatnik" with Ferrie plot the assassination al "dirty blonde hair and a husky a party in Ferrie's apartment beard.") in September 1963. "Most striking of all, when From the documents given shown a, picture of Clay Shaw, by Garrison to James Phelan. Russo said nothing whatever, a Saturday tTrlin7 as according to the memorandum, writer, the stories Russo told about having known him as from the witness stand and Clay Bertrand. during hypnosis differed vastly "The memo specifically said from the first one he told Gar- Russo had seen Shaw only rison's investigators. twice — once when President What motivated Garrison to Kennedy spoke in New Orleans slip Phelan the documents only and once in a car with Ferrie. Garrison knows—and he isn't There was no mention what- saying. ever of Shaw's even knowing "I think he simply never Oswald." read them," Phelan said. His The latter el'azhes sharply article on the Garrison in- with Russo's sworn testimony vestigation appears in the May that he overheard Shaw and 6 edition of the magazine which Oswald plotting head-to-head '- goes on newsstands tomorrow. with Ferrie at the party—an "If Perry Russo is the key event unmentioned. in the witness against Clay Shaw, it memo. is not a matter of his being acquitted — he should never even go to trial," Phelan told this writer. Ferrie died Feb. 22. Two days later, Garrions astounded the .