15: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 3)

How do you make a case when you have no real case to make? It’s a question that all conspiracy theorists face. Jim Garrison faced it in March 1967, when he opted to stage a public pre-trial hearing in the Clay Shaw case. Garrison would now have to produce some evidence, fast, to show why he believed that Shaw had conspired in the murder of President Kennedy. So how did Garrison make his case? By injecting witnesses with truth serum and hypnotizing them. By offering bribes and issuing threats of violence. By springing convicts from prison in exchange for lurid anti-Shaw testimony. “He’s an unmitigated liar and a psychopathic paranoid,” said one of Garrison’s former aides, after quitting from his investigation in disgust. And the Jolly Green Giant was just getting warmed up …

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