From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another.

Clay Shaw was a gay New Orleans businessman who had a passion for restoring buildings in the city's old quarter. A plaque on the city's Governor Nichols Street, placed after his death in 1974, honors ...

Even in the somber setting of a courtroom, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s spectacular investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of a trial which put New Orleans in the international spotlight. On March 1, 1969, it took a jury at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court just ...

Defendant Clay L. Shaw (left) and his attorney, Edward Wegmann, examine a copy of the Warren Report which says Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy. A preliminary hearing, in ...