08-04-2017, 08:37 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Garrison is lucky he wasn't killed. But like Mark Lane he was too far out in the spotlight...
Funny you should say that.
In my files, before I sent them to Bill Davy, I had some of the Justice Department documents on Garrison's arrest. When they went to his house to clamp on the cuffs, one of the marshals wrote something like: defendant said he thought he would be shot not arrested.
But as you note, he had too high of a profile for them to do that. So they instead tried to send him to prison instead as the last ignominy.
Recall, Helms gave the Garrison Group directives on what to do before, during, and AFTER the Shaw trial. IMO, this was not just about Garrison, but it was to send a message to any other DA: look what we did to one of the most popular politicians in this state. Don't get any ideas about investigating the JFK case. It will happen to you.
And look at what happened to Richard Sprague in 1977.