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[Scott Kaiser]

That sentence is anything but accurate about Garrison.

After the failure of the Shaw prosecution, the local Justice Department office went to work on concocting a frame up in order to do two things: 1.) Get Garrision out of the DA's office and 2.) Place him in jail.

The objective of the first was to make sure no more JFK indictments ever came out of New Orleans. And the second was to hopefully discredit Garrison with a jail sentence. And by doing such, that would discredit the JFK critical community.

Therefore, Garrison was arrested on a frame up using Pershing Gervais as a suborned witness. They shipped him to Canada and gave him a phony job so that he could not be called back for a deposition. Meanwhile, the local attorney put together a case that featured a couple of guilty people in pinball kickbacks with JG as the third culprit. Even though there was no connection between those two and JG plus Garrison had prosecuted this racket more than any other DA before him.

The only way Garrison got out of this was that Gervais hated Canada. So he talked to a reporter from the Vancouver Sun. This helped expose the whole thing as a front. And this got into the New Orleans papers. And this is what saved Garrison from getting convicted.

In other words, did Garrison have to go to jail on a phony charge in order to disprove Carpenter's (and Tom's) bizarre thesis? I think that is the implication.

But it worked in achieving the first goal: the bad publicity got Garrison out of office and government stooge Harry Connick into the DA's office. Which was an atrocity for the citizens of New Orleans since Connick was a horrendous DA. It took years to clean up the mess he created down there.

But the local government attorney still tried to put JG in jail. They indicted him again with an even phonier charge: not paying taxes on the ill gotten gains he never got from the pinball racket he never participated in.

This ordeal essentially broke him. Once it was all over, he had about five thousand in the bank and was working as a sole practitioner in a small rented office off of the Quarter. I know this from people who visited him there to talk about the case. This was the man who, before the Kennedy case, had an almost unlimited ceiling as a politician in the state. He could have easily been governor. Which is why he said later, if he had to do it all over agin, he probably would not have. The position in life that was most important to him was the DA's job. He turned down other lucrative offers, like being a bank counsel, and having a bank charter, to stay in that office.

But Shaw and his lawyers were still not done. They filed a lawsuit against Garrison. But then Shaw died in 1974. If you can believe it, Shaw's lawyers tried to continue the lawsuit in his name. Garrison had to petition the Supreme Court of the United States to get the frivolous lawsuit thrown out. Which did not happen until 1978. Meanwhile, what was Connick doing in office? One of the things, besides putting innocent people on death row, was incinerating Garrison's files. He even wanted to incinerate the grand jury testimony! Thanks God, the guy he gave that mission to did not do it.

It took Garrison about a decade to get over what happened to him as a result of this case. And, in fact, he never really did. Because the one position he said he would give up his DA's office for was to be a senator. That was not possible after this ordeal. In other words, of the two jobs he was looking for, one was lost, the other was foreclosed on by his inquiry.

I guess this is Tom and Carpenter's idea of having no permanent setback? Well, yeah if its not you, that is kind of easy to say.

For Carpenter's hatchet job , its even easier.

Not to mention that JG also lost his family over this, but it warms my heart to know, Tom got over it. Like Posada's trial, it was a three ring circus. Clay Shaw, the whole thing in New Orleans was nothing more than [smoke & mirrors] if you think about it, Garrison allowed himself to be drawn into it. I'm sure he thought that if he could be the first to prove and expose a conspiracy, and get a conviction on Shaw, it would lead to the rest of the conspirators involved, after all, JG learned that Shaw was CIA.

It was the CIA who set up, took out, and ruined JG career after the Shaw trial. If they only knew how close JG really was, after all, they were, CIA trained.