On The Trail Of Delusion

[Fred Litwin]

Yes.

[Louis Earl]

Not defending Garrison but hearsay is common in grand jury testimony.  The rules of evidence do not apply to grand juries because they are not adversarial proceedings. 

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Not defending Garrison but hearsay is common in grand jury testimony.  The rules of evidence do not apply to grand juries because they are not adversarial proceedings.

True, but if you read the GJ testimonies you'll see (in my opinion) that Garrison abused this rule. He didn't really question witnesses as much as try to guide or direct them.  As in this bizarre exchange with Marina:

Q. Juror: "Marina, did the Secret Service say to you, Marina, it is better for you not to see Ruth Paine anymore because its not good for you, she might be saying things fo the CIA that might be detrimental to you, Marina?"

Marina: "No, because she....what is CIA?"

A. "Central Intelligence Agency."

A. "Could she be member?"

Garrison: "She probably is employee."

In fact, Marina thought the CIA was a reference to the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that the Paines belonged too. She testfiied that the first time she had ever heard of the CIA was AFTER the assassination.

Her strange (very) GJ testimony is here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1203&search=CIA#relPageId=72&tab=page

[Fred Litwin]

Jim Garrison used the grand jury to terrorize people. He had the subpoena power
to get people into the grand jury room where they would not have access to a lawyer.

Then he would charge them with perjury, which is a felony.

Garrison had the power to charge with any non-capital crime with the stroke of a pen. He didn't
have to go the grand jury, he could do it by himself.

That would force people to get a lawyer, and would make it hard to get a mortgage, bank loans, etc. Then,
right before the trial, Garrison would drop the charges.

This is why people were scared of Garrison.

[Fred Litwin]

Was Kerry Thornley the Second Oswald?

Jim Garrison believed that Kerry Thornley, a Marine buddy of Oswald's, was perhaps impersonating him.

In fact, he wrote the HSCA that maybe it was Thornley in the infamous Oswald backyard photos.

You can see his memo on my blog....

Sound bizarre - wait till you see what they thought in 1968. I have part of a transcript from a discussion Garrison had with his investigators!

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blog

[Gerry Down]

In fact, he wrote the HSCA that maybe it was Thornley in the infamous Oswald backyard photos.

I don't think so. I think the backyard photos are of Oswald. How could the Dallas police have faked them so soon as to have them ready on Nov 23rd to show Oswald?

[Joe Mannix]

DPD didn't fake them, the CIA did. Had Tippit killed the patsy those photo's would've cinched his guilt and Cuba would've been invaded.