I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.


Jim Garrison was the New Orleans District Attorney. Through initial information supplied by Jack Martin, a one time associate of Guy Bannister, he began looking into the assassination of the president. Even before this time he had conflicts with the corrupt political class in the Crescent City.

He cracked down on the vices of Bourbon St and was reprimanded by some in the judiciary. They were subsequently investigated and charged for their crimes, but invariably they were quickly acquitted.

This somewhat foreshadowed his experience as he looked into the New Orleans connection to the Dallas events, through mob connections, Cuban-exile operations, etc. He pretty much figured out what took place and who was involved. Unfortunately, as he closed in on the activities of Clay Shaw, through intimidation and fear along with the untimely demise of witnesses, his case evaporated and the trial ended in a quick acquittal.  Facilitating this failure was the infiltration of several FBI and CIA operatives into his investigation.

The people of New Orleans Parish did not see Garrison as foolish or as a failure since he was re-elected two more times. Although he pursued the truth and attempted to make it known, the efforts of what we now call the deep state, brought only frustration. He could almost join St Jude as the patron saint of lost causes. We can still thank him for bringing much of what was hidden to light.

The part of Jim Garrison was played by Kevin Costner in the JFK film. Jim Garrison played the part of Earl Warren.

On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
by Jim Garrison

On March 1, 1967, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison shocked the world by arresting local businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder the president. His alleged co-conspirator, David Ferrie, had been found dead a few days before. Garrison charged that elements of the United States government, in particular the CIA, were behind the crime. From the beginning, his probe was virulently attacked in the media and violently denounced from Washington. His office was infiltrated and sabotaged, and witnesses disappeared and died strangely. Eventually, Shaw was acquitted after the briefest of jury deliberation and the only prosecution ever brought for the murder of President Kennedy was over.

On the Trail of the Assassins—the primary source material for Oliver Stone’s hit film JFK—is Garrison’s own account of his investigations into the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy, and his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the trial that followed.

A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History
by Joan Mellen

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. Garrison interviewed various individuals involved in the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry Thornley, who at the very least was a Defense Intelligence Agency asset. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up, set in motion well before the actual events of November 22, 196

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case
by James DiEugenio

Twenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the first edition of Destiny Betrayed. In this second edition of Destiny Betrayed, he returns to familiar topics and introduces new information. What was the truth, and what were the lies? What were the inside politics of Kennedy’s America? This book is an investigative look at these questions and more. The author focuses equally on Kennedy and Garrison, providing a unique insight into the Garrison inquiry. 

DiEugenio updates all of the topics that he introduced in 1992 with the first edition of Destiny Betrayed. He has used the declassification process of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) to gain the most current and accurate information on subjects including Clay Shaw and the Garrison investigation; US-Cuban policy from 1957 to 1963; the newly exposed mistaken beliefs of the Warren Commission; Kennedy’s challenge to the Cold War consensus in 1961 and where he came up with that challenge; and more. The author primarily emphasizes the New Orleans aspects of the Kennedy murder investigation, the Garrison inquiry, and the new and secret data that strengthens Garrison’s case.

You can find more by James DeEugenio here.