Episode 153 The Garrison Investigation Part 3 Garrison In His Own Words

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 153 is the third in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw. This episode gives Garrison the floor in 1967, recorded at a lecture attended by a supportive audience. He outlines his view (as the facts appeared to him at that moment) of what happened in the assassination. Few venues (including the 30 minute NBC rebuttal, which you also will hear...

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Bhophaar
0:03.0	Bhophaar
0:05.0	Bhophaar
0:07.0	Bhaar Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:31.4	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:33.1	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:49.3	The Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.
0:53.6	Today's episode is episode 153. Really, what we should have called this series of episodes is the trial of Jim Garrison,
1:00.7	and not the Jim Garrison investigation or the Clay Shaw trial. At every turn, Garrison's integrity is on trial here.
1:10.2	Forget about whether Clay Shaw was innocent or not.
1:14.1	The historical lookback has created a wave of emotion around what Garrison tried to do,
1:19.6	and there is almost no one close to it that does not have a highly charged opinion of it.
1:26.9	Either you are in or you are out.
1:30.6	Few have a middle of the road view of Jim Garrison and his investigation in the trial of Clay Shaw.
1:37.2	So it seems like a question of hero or hack, as I have said. What is the answer? Which one? Which one was Garrison? Well, in truth,
1:50.5	it's just really not that simple. It's a shame that the circumstances come to this,
1:57.0	but that is where we are at this moment anyway, a hypersensitive division in the historical record
2:03.8	of those that chronicle the assassination. The Clayshaw trial itself was such a mess that it exposed
2:11.0	Garrison's personal and professional weaknesses. It ignited fury from many corners to exploit those very weaknesses, and it lay bare
2:21.0	the egotistical elements that arrive in the room alongside almost every significant man or woman
2:27.6	that has ever walked the earth, making the exercise of parsing the facts in the garrison
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