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People (11)

  • Carlos Marcello Carlos Marcello was the boss of the New Orleans crime family who was identified by the HSCA as having both the motive and means to arrange President Kennedy's assassination - he had threatened Kennedy according to FBI informants, was deported to Guatemala by Robert Kennedy in 1961, returned illegally, and was eventually convicted on racketeering charges in the FBI's BRILAB sting in 1981.
  • Clay Shaw New Orleans businessman and Trade Mart founder, arrested by Jim Garrison in 1967 for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination and acquitted in 1969, who reported to the CIA's Domestic Contact Service from 1948 to 1956.
  • David Ferrie David Ferrie was a New Orleans pilot, CIA-connected operative, and Civil Air Patrol instructor whose unit included a young Lee Harvey Oswald in the mid-1950s, who worked with Guy Banister's anti-Castro network and as an investigator for Carlos Marcello's defense team, and who died on February 22, 1967 of a berry aneurysm two days after Jim Garrison announced he was under investigation.
  • Edward Wegmann New Orleans lawyer who with his brother William defended Clay Shaw against Jim Garrison, engaged Wackenhut and other firms of former federal agents, and sought guidance from the Justice Department on the CIA.
  • Guy Banister Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans at 531 Lafayette Street - the same building whose 544 Camp Street entrance was stamped on Lee Harvey Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in summer 1963, a coincidence that placed him at the intersection of Oswald's activities and the city's anti-Castro intelligence networks.
  • Jim Garrison Jim Garrison was the New Orleans District Attorney who launched the only criminal prosecution related to the Kennedy assassination, arresting businessman Clay Shaw in 1967 on conspiracy charges, losing the case in 1969 after what he argued was active CIA obstruction, and becoming the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK.
  • Joseph Oster New Orleans private detective who left Guy Banister's agency to manage the local office of Southern Research, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines, and went to Ferrie's apartment with the district attorney's men on November 22, 1963.
  • Raymond Woodall Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man who organized New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137 with Richard Halvorsen in 1974; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977.
  • Richard Halvorsen Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man and New Orleans volunteer probation officer who organized Boy Scout Troop 137 in 1974 with Raymond Woodall; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977.
  • William Gurvich New Orleans private detective who joined Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation in December 1966, resigned in June 1967 calling it a fraudulent, criminal act, and took two boxes of its files to Clay Shaw's lawyers.
  • William Walter FBI New Orleans night clerk who said a November 17, 1963 teletype warned of an attempt on Kennedy in Dallas and that the office kept an informant file on Oswald, claims the House committee rejected.

Organizations (3)

  • Southern Research Company Shreveport detective firm whose New Orleans office, run by a former associate of Guy Banister, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines in 1963, and which the House assassinations committee in 1978 called the former name of Wackenhut.
  • Troop 137 New Orleans Boy Scout troop organized in 1974 by Richard Halvorsen and Raymond Woodall, raided in September 1976; nineteen men were charged, among them millionaire clients from Massachusetts and California.
  • Truth or Consequences (New Orleans) Private fund formed by three New Orleans businessmen in February 1967 to pay for Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation, whose money a federal court found came in on Shaw's arrest and stopped on his acquittal.