KENNEDY DEATH
New Orleans Trial (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, March 14. The New Orleans District Attorney, Mr J. Garrison will today produce a mystery witness in Court to try to back up his claim of a plot behind President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. The only arrest in the fivemonth investigation, Mr Clay Shaw, aged 54, a white-haired pillar of the New Orleans business world, also appears before the three judges. The key witness is a confidential informant on whom Mr Garrison has staked his case, his reputation and his political career. Sceptical Washington will be watching the Courtroom closely. Only last week-end the At-torney-General, Mr Ramsay Clark said the Federal Government had found nothing that indicated any evidence of a conspiracy. Mr Shaw’s- lawyers tried yesterday to have the preliminary hearing presided over by a single judge, arguing that a three-judge panel was unusual in a State court and violated their client’s constitutional rights.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 13
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