Episode 156 The Garrison Investigation Part 6 Overview Part 2

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

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Episode 156 is the sixth in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw. The first four episodes in this series provide commentary around the critical elements that continue to cloud our understanding of the facts surrounding Garrison, Clay Shaw and the trial. This episode along with the previous episode 155 are a two part overview ...

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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 and the Enduring Secret.
0:32.9	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:36.9	Thank you. host, Jeff Crudell.
0:58.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 156, and it's a continuation of what we started in episode 155. I don't think it requires any additional explanation, so let's just jump right back in.
1:06.3	In episode 155, we took you in a chronology all the way up through the start of the trial.
1:12.9	So now let's pivot into the trial.
1:16.1	So without further ado, let's listen to episode 156 of JFK, The Enduring Secret.
1:24.4	Thank you. The Enduring Secret.
1:47.3	Garrison would read a 15-page opening statement, taking about 45 minutes to do so in front of Judge Ed Haggerty and return for the closing arguments about 30 days later, but much of the 30 days or so of the
1:53.7	trial in between would not see Garrison in the courtroom. He purportedly was quite busy on
2:00.3	other matters at the time of the trial,
2:02.6	but perhaps he truly knew how flimsy the case was and wanted to distance himself from a certain
2:09.5	basic connection to it. The trial itself would commence on January 29th, 1969, after 14 days of jury selection, and it would last for just about a month,
2:21.7	concluding with a unanimous verdict on March 1, 1969, a verdict that took just under an hour to come to agreement on.
2:30.2	But to be fair, when talking about the process, it was decided on the second round of balloting by the jurors.
2:38.5	And the outcome?
2:40.0	They acquitted Clay Shaw.
2:42.4	The trial itself had many highlights, and not the least of which is the testimony of a tiny little man and accountant from New York named Charles I. Spiesel, who went from what
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