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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Tom Graves on January 26, 2026, 04:11:07 AM

Title: When did Garrison start thinking Shaw organized the JFKA for the CIA?
Post by: Tom Graves on January 26, 2026, 04:11:07 AM
At what point did Jim Garrison start believing Clay Shaw had organized the JFK assassination for the CIA?

Did Guy Banister associate Jack S. Martin plant that idea in his head in 1966, or did he pick it up from a March 4, 1967, article in the Communist-owned Italian newspaper, "Paese Sera"?

Why does far-left John Simkin's Spartacus website fail to mention in its article on Martin that his real name was Edward Stewart Suggs, that he had been charged with murder in Texas in 1952, that he had been confined to a mental hospital in 1956 and diagnosed as having a “sociopathic personality disturbance -- antisocial type”, and that he had a long-standing grudge against David Ferrie?

Was it Jack S. Martin who planted the idea in Garrison's head, or did he pick it up from a Communist-owned Italian newspaper article that Joan Mellen's far-left ex-husband, Ralph Schoenman, sent to him from London?