from the "Memphis dreaming" post on the Sports board...
SouthavenTiger
PostPosted: 03 Apr 2006 07:08 am Post subject: Reply with quote
James Earl Ray was a patsy just like Oswald. Hoover had both Kenedy and King killed. The Warren Commission learned that Oswald was not the real killer thus sealed the evidence for 100 years.
Here's a tidbit I'll throw out for the conspiracy theorists:
I practiced law in New Orleans a number of years, and got pretty familiar with the legal cliques, gossip, in's and out's, and so on.
For a few years I'd known one attorney whose family owned property in the Quarter--a barroom, maybe some other stuff. A great guy.
We were on opposing sides of a case that was being argued in the state court of appeal. After argument, we went out to lunch, and he started chatting about the Clay Shaw trial which Jim Garrison prosecuted back in 1968 or so. The charges were "conspiracy to murder the president". The charges were so weak that Shaw (who btw was president of the New Orleans trade mart) was released on $10,000 bail. No, I wasn't a New Orleans lawyer back then, I'm not that old. lol
Anyway, my fellow attorney was co-counsel in defending Shaw. After a 90 day trial, the jury came back in 90 minutes with Not Guilty.
As everyone knows, in the early 60's, Lee Harvey Oswald was living in New Orleans and part of some pro-Castro group.
Now here's the kicker--Oswald was arrested in about 1962 for "illegally distributing literature" on Canal St. Anyway, he goes to night court in the Quarter, and who ends up representing him? Yep . . . . . . . my friend who subsequently represented Clay Shaw.
cotton1991 Wrote:Here's a tidbit I'll throw out for the conspiracy theorists:
I practiced law in New Orleans a number of years, and got pretty familiar with the legal cliques, gossip, in's and out's, and so on.
For a few years I'd known one attorney whose family owned property in the Quarter--a barroom, maybe some other stuff. A great guy.
We were on opposing sides of a case that was being argued in the state court of appeal. After argument, we went out to lunch, and he started chatting about the Clay Shaw trial which Jim Garrison prosecuted back in 1968 or so. The charges were "conspiracy to murder the president". The charges were so weak that Shaw (who btw was president of the New Orleans trade mart) was released on $10,000 bail. No, I wasn't a New Orleans lawyer back then, I'm not that old. lol
Anyway, my fellow attorney was co-counsel in defending Shaw. After a 90 day trial, the jury came back in 90 minutes with Not Guilty.
As everyone knows, in the early 60's, Lee Harvey Oswald was living in New Orleans and part of some pro-Castro group.
Now here's the kicker--Oswald was arrested in about 1962 for "illegally distributing literature" on Canal St. Anyway, he goes to night court in the Quarter, and who ends up representing him? Yep . . . . . . . my friend who subsequently represented Clay Shaw.
Court-appointed counsel? (your friend)?
Quote:Court-appointed counsel? (your friend)?
For Oswald, yes. Obviously, the Judge was in on the conspiracy as well. lol
For Shaw, no, he was well-paid.