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Clay Shaw. Born on March 17, 1913, Shaw attended schools in New Orleans and graduated in 1928. He enlisted with the United States Army and on being promoted to the rank of Major, was awarded with decorations by France, Belgium and the United States, before being discharged in 1946. Shaw was instrumental in organizing and managing the ...
Insurance salesman. Perry Raymond Russo (May 14, 1941 – August 16, 1995) [1] [2] was an American insurance salesman who became the key witness for the prosecution in the trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans in 1969. Russo claimed that in September 1963, he witnessed businessman and civic leader Clay Shaw conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and ...
Many of Clay Shaw's closest friends have been interviewed over the years; none of them ever met David Ferrie. The granddaddy of all alleged Shaw-Ferrie witnesses has to be Edward Whalen. According to Whalen, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie personally tried to hire him to assassinate Jim Garrison-- with Perry Raymond Russo as an eyewitness. (Garrison ...
On March 1, 1967, New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw was arrested for conspiracy in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The arrest followed an investigation by the office of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and the murder of prime suspect David Ferrie. Nearly two years later, the case went to trial (see the Orleans Parish Grand ...
Shaw was tried in 1969 for conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The State of Louisiana v. Clay Shaw was the only trial ever held in connection with the assassination. The case was initiated by Jim Garrison. After a six-week trial, the jury acquitted Clay Shaw after forty-five minutes of deliberation on March 1, 1969.
Sep 11, 2013 · “Clay cherished his time in the U.S. Congress representing the people of South Florida,” said his wife Emilie Shaw in a statement. “He was a devoted family man setting a fine example for our ...
Clay Shaw. Clay Shaw was a businessman in New Orleans. He joined the U.S. Army and took part in the fighting in Europe. He served as an aide to General Charles Thrasher and by the time he retired in 1946 he had reached the rank of major general. He played an important role in the restoration of historic New Orleans sites and in 1962 he ...
