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Unfortunately, while Stone’s Jim Garrison was portrayed (by Kevin Costner) as an indefatigable hero in search of truth, Stone’s Clay Shaw — played by Tommy Lee Jones — was twisted into a dark and perverted man, “an effeminate, fastidious, limp-wristed gay man who enjoyed homosexual orgies while watching films of the Hitler Youth ...
Mar 11, 2015 · Carpenter explores Shaw’s gay orientation with finesse and sensitivity, eliciting from his former associates a rarely seen side of Shaw. Unlike the portrayal by Tommy Lee Jones in Stone’s JFK , the real Shaw was discreetly “in the closet,” revealing his personal tastes to only a select few.
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Garrison said that Shaw used the alias of Clay Bertrand in New Orleans's gay society. [17] [18] During the trial, which took place in January and February 1969, Garrison called insurance salesman Perry Russo as his main witness. [19]
A memo revealed that a doctor suggested Shaw's "homosexual abnormality" as a motive. Garrison's case rested on the belief that Shaw was the elusive Clay Bertrand, a conspirator who, as it...
Key persons and witnesses [ edit] Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, who believed, at various points, that the John F. Kennedy assassination had been the work of Central Intelligence Agency personnel, anti-Castro Cuban exiles, [1] [2] "a homosexual thrill killing," [3] [4] and ultra right-wing activists. [5] ".
Oct 22, 2014 · In 1969, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison prosecuted Clay Shaw for allegedly conspiring to kill President John F. Kennedy. Shaw, a gay man, was the only person ever put on trial in connection with JFK’s assassination.
By David Deitcher. A friend of mine told me she didn’t find JFK particularly homophobic—its several gay men, after all, are not confined to the usual stereotypes. Consider how the imprisoned gay hustler Willie O’Keefe describes businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) to Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner), the New Orleans district attorney who ...
