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that he believed David Ferrie was the head of Oswald’s Civil Air Patrol Unit. This would
connect Oswald at an early age with a man who later was active in the anti-Castro
movement and Guy Bannister’s detective agency. Warren Commission counsel did not
ask further questions about Ferrie’s relationship with Oswald. Weisberg also quoted at
length the testimony of New Orleans defense attorney Dean Andrews, who claimed a
man named Clay Bertrand, active in the city’s homosexual milieu, contacted him shortly
after the assassination to request that he represent Oswald. Weisberg and Garrison would
claim that Clay Bertrand was an alias of Clay Shaw. Andrews also testified that Oswald
had come into his office months earlier to discuss getting his undesirable discharge from
the Marines changed. Andrews said he was accompanied by several Latino homosexuals.
The Warren Commission dismissed Andrews’ testimony and the unexplained
relationships between Oswald, the mysterious Clay Bertrand, and the Latinos.
The homosexual underworld of New Orleans featured in the conspiracy theories
of Weisberg and Garrison. This would also be portrayed controversially in Oliver
Stone’s movie JFK, which was based on Garrison’s prosecution of Shaw. For his part,
Weisberg stated that the supposed homosexuality of Shaw and Ferrie was not relevant to
a politically-motivated assassination. He scolded the Warren Commission for fishing for
information linking Oswald to homosexuality. However, Weisberg cataloged all the
bondage paraphernalia seized from Shaw’s house after his arrest. The only reason would
be to cast aspersions on Shaw’s character. Weisberg prudishly declaimed that “It is
nauseating and revolting that all the combinations and permutations of the extravagant
and imaginative perversions of these tortured and sick men must be part of the accounting
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