New Book [coming soon] From Joan Mellen About LBJ et al.

[Tom Scully]

More fact checking needs to be done. Nothing should be taken at face value. When I read a book, I want to be left with an impression of what was actually going on. The elephants in the room.:

Jim,
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Back to the thread topic, Clay Shaw....

Donald H Carpenter supported all of this in his book, without comment, but I came by it the hard way, independently and starting from scratch.
I think it changes things.....

The back story in its simplest form is that David Baldwin's wife, Mildred Lyons emerges as the stepdaughter of Monte Lemann, the stepsister of Stephen B. Lemann and his brother Thomas, (who is the father of Nicholas B. Lemann), the sister-in-law of Edward M. Baldwin, and the daughter-in-law of Adele Ziegler Baldwin Raworth, who was the sister of Harold J. Ziegler, father-in-law of Jim Garrison. David Gilmore Baldwin, III and his brother, attorney Edward M. Baldwin, were first cousins of Jim Garrison's wife, Leah Elizabeth Ziegler Garrison.
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(Oliver Stone spent $41 million, I spent two weeks.....)

Garrison investigation witness Perry Russo filed a lawsuit claiming defamation, against Conde Nast GQ. Nicholas B. Lemann, attributed in the court record,

UNDISPUTED FACTUAL BACKGROUND: …The GQ article was a personal memoir[1] of Lemann's recollections of growing up in New Orleans during District Attorney Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for allegedly conspiring to assassinate JFK. The 1991 movie release, JFK sparked renewed interest in the assassination as well as the prosecution itself of Clay Shaw. The film was purportedly based on Garrison's book, On the Trail of Assassins, and sympathetically portrayed Garrison.

The GQ article published by Lemann took a different slant, expressing his view that Shaw's prosecution was built on flimsy evidence and was a tremendous embarrassment to the city.[2] ….

From Donald H Carpenter's 2013 book, March 2, 1967 letter, David Baldwin to Clay Shaw.:

Garrison happens to be married to my godchild and first cousin....
(Link to supporting footnote)

….Garrison included in his six page complaint letter to the FCC chairman, published in
the June 18 Times-Picayune;

http://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docI...6&tab=page
2of2 Garrison 06/67 letter to FCC comm. Rosel H. Hyde
(Top of right side column)
…It should be added that the last described endeavor has been accomplished not by members of the station (WDSU) itself, but by an attorney closely connected with the station who has previously been known to disperse funds in the New Orleans area in behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency….

1. FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 140, pg 9
Found in: FBI JFK Assassination File (62-109060)
be will not fight extradition. Sheridan's attorney in New Orleans, Steven Lemann, who is also attorney for WDSU, the NBC affiliate here, was present in the


5. ADMIN FOLDER-O9: HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, LHO INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS VOLUME VI, pg 75
Found in: FBI - HSCA Administrative Folders
WITNESSES STATUTE. WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR TOWNLEY AND HIS ATTORNEY STEPHEN LEMANN, SAID HE AND TOWNLEY WOULD APPEAR TO POST SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Edward M. Baldwin's former law partner, Judge Malcolm V. O'Hara testified to Orlean's Parish grand jury,

http://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docI...elPageId=7

…He (Edward M. Baldwin) enumerated or spelled out his personal dislike for Jim Garrison, that he personally thought he should be destroyed, that Sheridan's so-called
mission in the City of New Orleans with this so-called documentary was to end the problem, destroy Garrison or to get him to resign….

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Unreda...cript.html
Unredacted Episode 1: Transcript of Interview with Joan Mellen

Joan Mellen is the author of A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History. This interview was conducted on 22 Feb 2006.
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Rex: Joan..... One, there's a story in the Grand Jury testimony told by three different parties involving Sheridan when he came out to do his NBC White Paper, having a meeting set up with an organized crime figure named Zachary Strate that was apparently set up by either Malcolm O'Hara, a judge who was a political enemy of Garrison's, and a lawyer named Edward Baldwin. I wonder if you might tell that story about what that meeting was all about?...

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JOAN: - when Baldwin was present, he was a CIA asset, his brother worked for the International Trade Mart and Clay Shaw, David Baldwin, and these, these are CIA people. Malcolm O'Hara is sitting there - he doesn't know what hit him - and eventually Strate did not cooperate, and he went up there, and he attacked Sheridan - of course, Sheridan had immunity - nothing anyone could say about Sheridan whether in court, affidavits signed against Sheridan, Sheridan had immunity as a National Security Agency asset, cleared for FBI work, cleared for CIA work, working for the Department of Justice -......