False Witness : The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK

This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Headline news internationally for almost three years in the late 1960s, the whole investigation was eventually uncovered as a fraud and a set-up. Then, in 1990, Oliver Stone's movie JFK was released starring Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, hero and patriot -- and all the lies that enthralled the world in this case were told again. Exploring the assassination of President Kennedy, the conspiracy theory, the Warren Report, and District Attorney Jim Garrison, the author follows the tale "from its beginning in a New Orleans hospital room; to the halls of justice, where it should have ended; to its present-day incarnations on video and in the JFK Collection at the National Archives."--Jacket Tells the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and of Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who manufactured the case against him

This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.