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literature being carefully constructed, as if this were an established fact. Also, Ferrie
allegedly died of a suicide shortly after Garrison’s investigation became public, but Stone
included footage of conspirators forcing pills down Ferrie’s throat while the DA
speculated about whether the victim was murdered. Before his death which occurred just
as news broke of Garrison’s probe, a frightened and hyperactive Ferrie tells Garrison that
he would be a dead man if he testified about the assassination. He says “Shaw’s an
‘untouchable,’ man—highest clearance. Shaw, Oswald, the Cubans – all [CIA].” 694
Other witnesses testified of the links among the conspirators. Garrison questions
his jive-talking friend, attorney Dean Andrews, about his Warren Commission testimony
that Oswald visited him in the company of “a few Cubano swishes” about getting his
undesirable Marine Corps discharge upgraded. 695 Andrews also claimed that a man
named Clay Bertrand contacted him about representing Oswald after the assassination.
Andrews denies that he knows who Bertrand really is, but Stone shows a scene with
Andrews meeting with Clay Shaw to show that the attorney is lying. In the scene,
Andrews angrily resists giving information to Garrison, saying “The government’s gonna
jump all over your head, Jimbo, and go ‘cock-a-doodledoo!” 696 Another witness – an
imprisoned homosexual gigolo called Willie O’Keefe– tells Garrison that he was a
homosexual escort for Clay Bertrand, and that he overheard a discussion with Bertrand,
Ferrie, and Oswald about assassinating the President. Ferrie declares “We need to have
three mechanics [assassins] at three different locations. An office building with a high-
694 Sklar and Stone, 91.
695 Sklar and Stone, 74.
696 Sklar and Stone, 65.
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