KENNEDY DEATH
Informant’s Admission (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, March 15. Perry Russo, the “confidential informant” in District Attorney Jim Garrison’s probe of the assassination of President Kennedy, told a television interviewer he had never heard of Lee Harvey Oswald until he was linked with the assassination. A New Orleans television station broadcast an interview last night that it made with Russo shortly after the death of Mr David Ferrie two weeks ago. Mr Garrison described Mr Ferrie as a central figure in the assassination probe. Russo, a 25-year-old insurance salesman now living in Baton Rouge, told a threejudge State Court earlier yesterday that he heard Oswald, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie plotting to assassinate President Kennedy. He was giving evidence against Shaw, who is charged with conspiring to kill the President He also told the Court that he was present when Shaw, Oswald and Ferrie discussed their plans in Ferrie’s New Orleans flat in September, 1963, about two months before President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 17
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