False Witness (33 page)
Authors: Patricia Lambert
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Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassinâ
Charged with disturbing the peace after a dispute with anti-Castro Cubans.
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Clay Shawâ
“The feeling of being a stunned animal, which marked the first part of the month, seems to have gone now.”
Pat Hill at General Media Communications, Inc.
James Phelan, the
Saturday Evening Post
writerâ
“Garrison was humorous, witty, literate, articulate, charismatic, affable, and mean as a rattlesnake.”
Matt Herron/Black Star
Clay Shaw and Edward F. Wegmann during the preliminary hearing.
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Andrew Sciambra, Garrison's point manâ
“I sat down on the chair and I put my brief case on top of my legs and I put the legal pad on top of the brief case, I wrote like that.”
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Perry Russo, Garrison's witnessâ
“Sciambra didn't take any notes.”
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Sketch of “Leon” Oswaldâ
Created by drawing a beard on Oswald's picture.
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Vernon Bundy, the prisonerâ
James Kruebbe: “His testimony was incredible from day one.”
Courtesy Edward O'Donnell
Edward O'Donnell, the polygraph technicianâ
“I said, âPerry, what the hell's wrong with you?' ”
Paul Eberle
Jim Garrisonâ
“People worry about the crime âsyndicate,' but the real danger is the political establishment, power massing against the individual.”
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James Alcock, Garrison's lead prosecutorâ
“I wasn't part of those fancy lunches. I wasn't a part of the inner circle.”
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Charles Spiesel, Garrison's calculated riskâ
Hypnotized by “fifty or sixty” people.
Crown Portraits, Inc.
F. Irvin Dymond, Shaw's lead trial attorneyâ
“I think Garrison was just totally unscrupulous. I don't think there's any limit to what he would have done to convict Clay Shaw.”
