Did Clay Shaw mastermind a homosexual "thrill kill" assassination of JFK?

[Tom Graves]

Did closeted gay businessman Clay Shaw mastermind a homosexual "thrill kill assassination of JFK which involved Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie and Guy Banister?

That's what over-ambitious, scandal-plagued and revengeful New Orleans DA Jim Garrison thought before he read an anti-CIA / anti-Shaw article published in "Paese Sera," a Communist-owned Italian newspaper (which article was republished in a French Communist newspaper, L'Humanité, translated into English and given to him by Bertrand Russell's Far-Left secretary, Ralph Schoenman -- Joan Mellen's ex-husband -- in 1967).

We know that in his 1989 book, On the Trail of the Assassins, Garrison lied when he wrote that he hadn't been aware of the article until after the Shaw Trial was over because about three weeks after Garrison had arrested Shaw, Life Magazine's Richard Billings -- who was helping Garrison -- wrote in his journal that Garrison had a copy of the L'Humanité article:

"Story about Shaw and CIA appears in Humanite [L'Humanité], probably March 8 . . . Giant has copy datelined Rome, March 7, from La Presse Italien . . . It explains Shaw working in Rome in '58 to '60 period . . ."  (22 March 1967)