According to Wikipedia
Clay Lavergne Shaw (March 17, 1913 - August
14, 1974) was a successful businessman in New Orleans, Louisiana.
After World War II, Shaw helped to start
the International Trade Mart which facilitated the sales of
both domestic and imported goods. He was also known locally
for his efforts to preserve buildings in New Orleans' historic
French Quarter.
District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested Shaw in 1967. He
believed that Clay Shaw was the same person as a mysterious
man named "Clay Bertrand" who is referred to in
the report of the Warren Commission. A lawyer named Dean Adam
Andrews, Jr. testified that Bertrand had asked for him to
defend Lee Harvey Oswald in court. Andrews described Bertrand
as a bisexual man who had previously brought gay clients to
him. Shaw was a gay man, and indeed this is one of the reasons
Garrison later cited as evidence of the two Clays being one
in the same.
There were definitely problems with this conclusion. For
example, Andrews had given different descriptions of Bertrand
to investigators, at first saying that he was over six feet
tall, then saying that he was 5'8". When Garrison's investigation
team asked years later, Andrews said flat out that Bertrand
was not Shaw but in fact a client of his named Eugene Davis.
During the trial, Garrison called a man named Perry Russo
as a witness. He testified that he had seen Shaw with both
Oswald and David Ferrie and had heard them plot to kill the
president. Shaw was found not guilty.
(Clay Shaw's Arrest)
Garrison wrote a book on his investigation called On the
Trail of the Assassins. When director Oliver Stone later adapted
Garrison's book into the film JFK, Shaw's character was played
by Tommy Lee Jones.
Shaw died in 1974 at age 61 of lung cancer.
We know there is
more to his life
We are interested in hearing from anyone
who knew Clay Shaw directly, or who knew about him through
someone else.
We are also interested in reviewing and collecting any documents
by and about him, including correspondence to and from him,
records of employment, military or other government service,
and anything written by or about him.
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Please contact
Donald (Don) H. Carpenter at:
DHCCPA@aol.com
or at
P.O. Box 111538
Nashville, TN 37222-1538
615-231-6464
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