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William Guy Banister (March 7, 1901 – June 6, 1964) was an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, and a private investigator.
Feb 2, 2023 · You would have thought that the FBI and the CIA could have straightened out Banister's issues with the IRS and at least sent enough business his way to pay the rent.
- In Mid-April 1963
- Cross Examination
- The Mafia Angle
only seven months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in New Orleans. After staying briefly with relatives, he got a job at the Reily Coffee Company, the makers of Luzianne coffee, and he rented an apartment at 4907 Magazine St. in the city’s Uptown section. During his stay in the city in the next five m...
After two years of intense publicity and legal appeals, the trial of Clay Shaw began in January 1969. Garrison’s prosecutors produced witnesses and for the first time in a public setting, the famous Zapruder film of the assassination showing Kennedy’s head moving violently leftward and backward after being struck, convincing many courtroom observer...
Another aspect of the New Orleans connection to the assassination lays in the possible involvement of organized crime, with the Louisiana Mafia boss, Carlos Marcello, being a prime suspect. Marcello had plenty of reason to despise President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1961, acting on orders from the attorney general...
In 1934, Banister joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Originally based in Indianapolis, he later moved to New York City where he was involved in the investigation of the American Communist Party. J. Edgar Hoover was impressed by Banister's work and in 1938 he was promoted to run the FBI unit in Butte, Montana.
Aug 30, 2012 · Banister, a right-wing racist, was a CIA informant that ran a Southern anti-communist intelligence network. Banister had gone from serving as a valued FBI Special Agent in Charge to running an anti-communist intelligence network.
Nov 22, 2015 · Guy Banister, who headed the firm, was an ex-FBI agent, private investigator for Marcello, and a rabid segregationist, anti-communist, and anti-Kennedy extremist who employed informants throughout New Orleans to report on the activities of local communists, leftwing students, and liberal activists.
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Nov 25, 2013 · The New Orleans address, which Oswald stamped on “Hands Off Cuba” flyers and the Warren Commission said was Mafia errand boy and ex–FBI agent Guy Banister’s office, is a cornerstone of ...
