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Jan 30, 2023 · He did not give up his mission for elected office, however, and began eyeing the office of district attorney. The New York Times reports that Garrison blamed the rising crime rates in the city on Mayor Victor Schiro and the incumbent district attorney.
District attorney. In the years prior to winning office as New Orleans District Attorney in 1961, Garrison worked for the New Orleans law firm of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles from 1954 to 1958, before he first became an assistant district attorney.
Jan 19, 2023 · Though Garrison conducted his own defense and was acquitted, he was forced to scramble to put together a reelection campaign for his fourth term as district attorney, which he lost. “They got me,” he told the Associated Press in 1989.
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Oct 22, 1992 · Jim Garrison, the single-minded district attorney whose theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy produced a bizarre trial and inspired a successful film, died Wednesday in New Orleans.
Aug 27, 2018 · First, as a district attorney, Garrison had the power to bring a case for conspiracy into a court of law. He had begun that process by arresting and then charging Clay Shaw with conspiracy.
Nov 21, 2013 · He eventually lost his job as district attorney - after beating a federal indictment on charges he was taking bribes to protect pinball gambling - but won election as a judge on the appeals...
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In 1954 Garrison returned to New Orleans where he became assistant district attorney. In 1961, Garrison was elected as the city's district attorney. He developed a good reputation and in his first two years he never lost a case.
