Official website of Author and Temple University Professor Joan Mellen. Her twenty-five books, most recently "Sherlock Being Catfished," "Blood in the Water," "A Farewell To Justice," "Our Man In Haiti" and "The Great Game in Cuba," exploring the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in the planning and cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.
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The Tejana
Humberto Sori Marin and Alberto Fernandez
Alberto Fernandez on his wedding day
Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., President of King Ranch
Dashiell Hammett
George de Mohrenschildt, in death
Dr. François Duvalier (Papa Doc)
CIA agents headed for Jacqueline Lancelot’s Le Picardie restaurant even before they checked in at the American embassy.
Joseph F. Dryer, Jr and Aubelin Jolicoeur at the Hotel Oloffson
The Tejana, Lawrence Laborde, the American captain.
Jacqueline Lancelot’s restaurant, Le Picardie, where intelligence operatives gathered
Malcolm Everett Wallace as a University of Texas student
Philippe de Vosjoli
Allen Dulles, John McCone and President John F. Kennedy
Dulles, Kennedy, McCone
President Kennedy viewing the troups
Humberto Sori Marin is at the right with fellow members of Unidad Revolucionaria
Alberto Fowler and his wife leaving Cuba: “Jim, I didn’t kill him, but I wish I had…”
Mrs. Anne Dischler in 2000: “appalled at and ashamed” that her work was mentioned as any part of what Lambert had written. (photo by Joan Mellen)
Far from being a mere asset for the Domestic Contact Service, Clay Shaw was a CIA operative. His records resided with Counter Intelligence.
Clinton courthouse where Clay Shaw was seen with Lee Harvey Oswald, according to former Baton Rouge resident FBI agent, Elmer Litchfield. (photo by Joan Mellen)
Corrie Collins with his father, Emmett: 2001. “Bother me, not him.” (photo by Joan Mellen)
Garrison’s first suspect, David Ferrie, CIA contract pilot who flew to Dallas during the week prior to the assassination.
In the 1950s, David Ferrie (second from left) commanded a squadron in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, of which Lee Harvey Oswald (far right, rear) was a member.
Dr. Silva, Director of the East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson. Photo credit: Joan Mellen
The East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson where Oswald applied for a job in the late summer of 1963.
Francis Fruge: “Why was his name erased?” Fruge said. Im
Jim Garrison with President Lyndon Baines Johnson: LBJ was 6’3 3/4″ tall, Garrison 6’6″. At the last moment, as the photograph was about to be taken, Johnson stepped forward so as not to appear shorter than Garrison.
Henry Earl Palmer, Registrar of Voters, East Feliciana Parish, during the summer of 1963.
Robert F. Kennedy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and President F. John Kennedy. Hoover sent an order to all his Special Agents in Charge: “Give Garrison nothing!”
President John F. Kennedy speaking at the American University, June 1963. “Those CIA bastards. I’m going to get those bastards if it’s the last thing I ever do.”
John F. Kennedy has been called “the last President to believe he could take power.” A “prisoner” of his agents, as his aide Richard Goodwin put it, the CIA taking revenge by concealing vital information, he was forced to demand, “who’s giving Keating this stuff?”
Jim Garrison, District Attorney for New Orleans, LA. Attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Advertisement for Jim Garrison’s 1965 re-election campaign for district attorney: cartoon art by Jim Garrison.
Jim Garrison lecturing on the Kennedy assassination for PANO, the policeman’s union.
Jim Garrison at the Tulane School of Law, Class of 1949: “I’ll take the class renegade and I bet I can get him elected student body president.”
Judge John R. Rarick in 1961: “Why don’t you tell Jim Garrison about this? Rarick told Rogers.
Witness Lea McGehee at his Jackson barbershop, C. 1963: “Oswald was here.”
Lee Oswald in New Orleans 1963, acting as Secretary of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Government documents reveal that the FBI and CIA actively worked with a number of journalists who “covered” the Garrison investigation, including reporters with Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as a government operative ostensibly employed by NBC television.
Lee Oswald booking photo in Dallas, November 22, 1963. Garrison concluded that Oswald’s “not with anybody who’s not with the CIA.”
Perry Raymond Russo, Garrison’s chief witness at State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw. A new witness confirms the testimony of Garrison’s chief trial witness Perry Russo, showing that Russo saw Oswald at Ferrie’s apartment, as Russo testified.
The Warren Commission failed to find a motive for Oswald or any plot to kill President Kennedy. Garrison believed “they didn’t talk to anyone who was involved”…
Warren de Brueys in 2000: “I believe they knew each other very, very well,” Peña said of Oswald and de Brueys. (photo by Joan Mellen)
Thomas Edward Beckham as Mark Evans: “I wish I could have told him.”
Jim Garrison’s grave at the cemetary in Metairie, Louisiana. (photo by Joan Mellen)