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"New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967 set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution even undertaken in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Most accounts debate whether a New Orleans-based assassination conspiracy existed. In Cruising for Conspirators, historian Alecia Long shifts to the focus to sexuality, revealing how long-held beliefs about the criminal culpability of homosexuals provided the raw materials for Garrison's investigation and Shaw's selection as a suspect. Her research demonstrates conclusively that the Garrison investigation was birthed in a preoccupation with homosexuality and its relationship to criminality more generally. In turn, the conspiratorial terroir the DA cultivated in New Orleans served as a subterranean root system that fed the popular belief in a conspiracy and shaped the works of subsequent authors"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Dramatis Personae
• Introduction
• 1. Murder in the Gaslight Lounge: Jim Garrison, Pershing Gervais, and Weaponized Homophobia
• 2. You Know Them by Sight Mostly: Assassination, Conspiracy, and Homosexuality
• 3. The Commission Has Investigated Rumors That Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald Were Both Homosexuals: Sexuality and Conspiracy in the Warren Report
• 4. Those Areas of My Private Life I Would Like to Keep Private: The Outing of Clay Shaw
• 5. Confessions of a Guilty Bystander: Hiding Homosexuality in Plain Sight
• 6. Dr. Jekyll-or Mr. Hyde-or Both?: State v. Clay L. Shaw, 1969
• 7. Death Delights to Serve the Living: Reconsidering the Legal Legacy of Clay L. Shaw
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes

• Bibliography
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Y
• z
• Back Cover

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Author/Creator:

Long, Alecia P., 1966- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cruising for conspirators: how a New Orleans DA prosecuted the Kennedy assassination as a sex crime [by Long, A.P.]

Related Series:

Boundless South

Subjects:

Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 — Trials, litigation, etc.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Assassination

Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992

Trials (Conspiracy) — Louisiana — New Orleans — History — 20th century

Trials (Assassination) — Louisiana — New Orleans — History — 20th century

Gay people — Legal status, laws, etc. — Louisiana — New Orleans

Conspiracy theories — Louisiana — New Orleans — History — 20th century

Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

1900-1999

Trials (Conspiracy)

Trials (Assassination)

Gays — Legal status, laws, etc.

Gays

Conspiracy theories

Assassination

Louisiana — New Orleans

Genres:

History

Trials, litigation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KF224.S45 L66 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781469662756 (electronic bk.)
1469662752 (electronic bk.)
9781469662749 (electronic bk.)
1469662744 (electronic bk.)
9781469662732 [Invalid]
1469662736 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1268256622