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On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, and others. On January 29, 1969, Shaw was brought to trial in Orleans Parish Criminal Court on these charges. A jury took less than an hour to find Shaw not guilty. To date, it is the only trial to be brought for the assassination of President Kennedy. ==Key persons and witnesses== * Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, who believed, at various points, that the John F. Kennedy assassination had been the work of Central Intelligence Agency personnel, anti-Castro Cuban exiles,〔(Jim Garrison Interview ), ''Playboy'' magazine, Eric Norden, October 1967.〕 "a homosexual thrill killing,"〔James Phelan, ''Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels'', (Random House, 1st Edition 1982) pp. 150-151.〕〔Hugh Aynesworth, "The Garrison Goosechase", ''Dallas Times Herald'', November 21, 1982〕 and ultra right-wing activists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Those Assassination Suspects )〕 "My staff and I solved the case weeks ago," Garrison announced in February 1967. "I wouldn't say this if we didn't have evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt."〔(Jim Garrison Interview ), ''Playboy'' magazine, Eric Norden, October 1967.〕〔Milton E. Brener, The Garrison Case (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1969), p. 84.〕 * Clay Shaw, a successful businessman, playwright, pioneer of restoration in New Orleans' French Quarter, and director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. * Perry Russo, who, after David Ferrie's death, informed Garrison's office that he had known Ferrie in the early 1960s and that Ferrie had spoken about assassinating the President.〔Patricia Lambert, False Witness (New York: M. Evans and Co., 1998), p. 304 fn. 4.〕 He became Garrison's main witness when he claimed to have overheard Ferrie plotting the assassination with a white-haired man named ''Clem Bertrand'', whom he later identified in court as Clay Shaw. * David Ferrie, a former Eastern Airlines pilot and associate of Guy Banister. Ferrie drove from New Orleans to Houston on the night of the assassination with two friends, Alvin Beauboeuf and Melvin Coffey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Blackburst Archive: David Ferrie's Houston Trip: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination )〕 The trip was investigated by the New Orleans Police Department, the Houston Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Texas Rangers. These investigative units said that they were unable to develop a case against Ferrie, and Garrison initially accepted their conclusions. Three years later, Garrison became suspicious of the Warren Commission version of the assassination after a chance conversation with Louisiana Senator Russell Long.〔 Ferrie died on February 22, 1967, less than a week after news of Garrison's investigation broke in the media. Garrison later called Ferrie "one of history's most important individuals".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jim Garrison's ''Playboy'' interview )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trial of Clay Shaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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