Garrison Sued For Damages

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 15

Garrison Sued For Damages

(N. Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, April 19. A $lOO,OOO damage suit was filed yesterday against the District Attorney, Mr Jim Garrison, by a lawyer cited for perjury by the Grand July hearing evidence in Mr Garrison’s investigation into a plot to kill President Kennedy.

The lawyer, Mr Dean Andrews, a former assistant district attorney in suburban Jefferson Parish, accused Mr Garrison of trying to force him into making false statements before the grand jury. Mr Andrews testified before

the Warren Commission that after President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, he was contacted by a man named Clay Bertrand, who asked him to represent Lee Harvey Oswald. In his suit, Mr Andrews said Mr Garrison wanted him to say that Clay Bertrand was an alias for Mr Clay Shaw, whom Mr Garrison has named as one of the principals—along with Oswald and Mr David Ferrie—in the alleged plot Mr Andrews said that Mr Garrison sought to link Bertrand and Shaw, in spite of his having told Mr Garrison that he could not positively identify Shaw as the man he knew as Bertrand. He also claimed that Mr Garrison tried to pressure him into identifying a Mexi-can-American, Julian Buznedo, as the man who had visited his office along with Oswald in connexion with a disorderly conduct charge.