Clay Shaw

We have all those things that are happening within the culture.

We have Garrison's failed prosecution of Clay Shaw that attracts an enormous amount of media attention initially.

And they later turn on him.

But it gets a lot of attention.

There was a cultural shift that people seemed to be really excited about, if nothing else.

And then things kind of went very, very far off the rails, as they tend to do.

yeah no absolutely i think that like and i think that maybe because there was so much hope and there was so much expectation when he is assassinated and then and then this snowball effect from the warren commission to all these things that are coming out uh about these issues with the warren commission that undercuts a lot of this faith that people had in government combined with like all these other things that are happening whether it's vietnam or kind of watergate And, you know, the church committee and Garrison's when Garrison makes the decision to prosecute, regardless of what you think about Garrison's case with Clay Shaw.

But this is the first time like a government figure is actually saying that there's big issues with the Warren Commission.

But Tommy Lee, one of the great actors, I think, of our movie-going generation from sort of that 90s on, I think that he's, you know, he's in JFK.

He plays, you know, Clay Bertram, Clay Shaw.

He

does take up the screen, though, when he's on.

They couldn't investigate their way out of a paper fucking bag.

And the reality is, all of them believe that David Ferry, along with Oswald and Clay Shaw, went to the... voter registration office in clinton louisiana in order to get uh oswald registered to vote down there this is problematic for so many fucking reasons it's it's really it's really unbelievable and so we're going to go over the documents today um covering the clinton witnesses uh i i'm not sure if this has everything and if anything's missing i will go ahead and i'll explain um what the deal is, but I'll give you a preface and a short summary just so you know what to expect as we go through this.

So, um, in October of 1963, it is alleged that Lee Harvey Oswald went to the Clinton voter registration office, uh, with a couple people, uh, two of them being David Ferry and Clay Shaw.

And so, um, This becomes important because it wasn't Oswald.

It was Kerry Thornley.

So Oswald had a couple handlers in New Orleans.

The primary handler of Oswald was Kerry Thornley.

But I do know that Oswald had contacts with Clay Shaw at some point.

That's a name that never pops up.

Sam Giancana, Meyer Lansky, David Ferry, Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw, George DeMornschild, James Robert Dolan.

Oh, James Dolan.

That's another one.

Um, so you're not gonna find a direct trail other than the obvious one to Dulles, Angleton, and all these other guys.

That all flows through Clay Shaw in New Orleans.

And that's Permindex.

That's Permindex, right.

Yeah

...

the, the... basically, the structure of this thing goes from the Mossad to Permindex to Centro Mundial Comercial, and that's your link down to New Orleans and Clay Shaw, David Ferry, half a dozen other shooters, and, uh, everyone else involved.

And then, but the, the other angle of this is that all this had to pass through Meyer Lansky, and so then you have Joe Bonanno and Mo Dallas on the board of Permindex also, right? And so Meyer Lansky did a great job of keeping himself, you know, out of the limelight.

Now, what's interesting, and this is a shot from, uh, Marksman Yearbook.

So what's interesting about this is, of course, we all know that Tommy Lee Jones would go on to play, yes, that's right, Clay Shaw in the movie JFK and star alongside Kevin Bacon.

[laughs] Okay? A lot of six degrees of Kevin Bacon going on in this episode.

Synchronicity, folks.

It is

about a trial trying to prosecute Clay Shaw in 1970.

I want to say four, five, maybe a little later.

Okay.

I think there's still more David Ferry stuff.

And we haven't even touched Clay Shaw, right? Not a single Clay Shaw fucking file.

But none of them are really coherent on Shaw, which is weird.

For the amount of stuff in the trial and all that, I mean, there should be like 10,000 pages on Shaw.

There's just not.

So anybody in the research chat, you want to start digging up stuff on Clay Shaw to send to me, I'd appreciate it.

But here we go, February 1764, subject Dave Yaris.

This memorandum contains all identical and questionable criminal references pertaining to the subject.

There were a few co-conspirators that were alleged to be involved in JFK's assassination, and one of those was a man named David Ferry.

Ferry allegedly, according to the New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, was involved in a large CIA scheme with another man named Clay Shaw, among others, to kill JFK and frame Oswald.

This DA Garrison ended up bringing charges against Shaw for conspiracy to commit murder, but the trial ended with Shaw being acquitted.

And David Ferry was involved in this story.