Jim Garrison was born four and a half years after President John Kennedy and thirteen hundred miles away. But as a quirk of fate would have it, they became intertwined through the President’s assassination.
Garrison became quite a cause célèbre after the JFK assassination because of his speculation that the Warren Commission was wrong. He asserted from his pulpit as the district attorney of New Orleans that Oswald did was not just not the lone gunmen he did not even fire the gun that killed Kennedy.
An FBI operative Garrison posited that the other agency, the CIA, then headed by George H.W. Bush, covered up the actual story. Thirty years later, but before he died, director Oliver Stone took up Garrison’s theory and made a very long movie 1on it; Kevin Costner starred. The New York Times review, equally long, but important for understanding Garrison’s meglo-mania, is below.2
The Garrison Map of Events
He was born Earling Caruthers Garrison in Dennison, Iowa on November 20th, 1921. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother moved to the Big Easy where Jim went to grew up and went to school. He was a registered Democrat. I do not know how he got the nickname Jim.
With no earth to hold him
Looking just at the quadratures, the most striking thing about Jim Garrison, splay, is that he has no planets in the three earth signs: Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn and, of course no oppositions (key for a splay).
Earth quadratures give a person a strong and perceptive decision-making process; Capricorn is the executive of the horoscope, with Taurus being the planner and Virgo the doer.
Absent here, the lack of earth suggests that he was neither the most practical or industrious of men, but with five planets in the water trio he was compassionate and sensitive—more like a Don Quixote fighting windmills than a stolid Pancho Villa.
His Uranus is in the Fourth House , the same as President Kennedy, at 06 Pisces, making him very concerned with end-of-life matters .
WIth no earth and a grand trine, it is water that binds him. Trine his Pluto in Cancer in the Eighth and then trine again his Ascendant at 07 Scorpio, this Grand Water Trine,. Garrison was obsessed with his emotions.
Water signs operate on the deepest the most unconscious level, and these feelings probably swelled within him, forming a mission (Neptune at the Midheaven) that he felt honor bound to pursue.
Yet his chart is askew. He is not all honour and noble-minded, as his demeanour suggests. Garrison has a lot of planets in the last quadrant of his chart, suggesting he had many things to hide himself, and used the trial to escape those questions.
His Uranus in Pisces is square his Venus and Mercury suggesting unusual amours and sexual leanings, maybe his attack on Clay Shaw was a way to make himself seem above reproach and muddy the waters. It is hard to say, though that square composition suggests that.
New Orleans in the 1960’s was a wild and libertine place then as it is now, (our header shot shows New Orleans in 1963) and Clay Shaw being homosexual in that town, was not the same as if he was in Boston or Chattanooga.
Garrison grew up in New Orleans and that is perhaps why the FBI 3choose him for the prosecution; he was a local.
Garrison’s chart tells us, with the Moon in the Eleventh House, that he loved the attention of the trial. It conjunct Saturn suggests he did not act totally on his own, but had some guidance and help.
At six foot six, he was definitely an imposing figure that had to galvanize spectator and large people have booming voices that carry well as well. Jupiter and Saturn conjunct in Garrison’s chart create a Line of Motivation (Jones re-termed the Line from book to book) and it seems the D. A. felt compelled to make his actions matter and establish himself as moral character, probably another reason for both the job in New Orleans and the Bureau. 4
Others who have this aspect are Emperor Hirohito of Japan and Walt Disney though only Hirohito has it in a different house–the Twelfth.
The D.A. lost his bid in re-election to Harry Connick, sr., father of the crooner, who himself was accused of judicial overreach.
Garrison died on October 21, 1992 in New Orleans of heart failure. He was seventy years old. He left behind his wife, Elizabeth, and five children.
Postscript
Johnny Carson devoted an entire “Tonight” show to interview Mr. Garrison, whose nickname was the “Jolly Green Giant.” They talked about his accusations of a guerrilla band of mysterious figures on the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the possibility of shots from a sewer, photographic analysis and the involvement of the Dallas police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, C.I.A., Secret Service and Texas oil millionaires. Somehow along the way the conversation, of course, dovetailed into the Clay Shaw trial and how it involved strange characters.
One key witness died under mysterious circumstances. Others refused to repeat on the stand the statements that Mr. Garrison’s investigators had attributed to them. One witness, a psychologist, testified that he had regularly fingerprinted his daughter to make sure a spy had not taken her place.
Several students of the Kennedy assassination said that even though Mr. Garrison’s was seriously flawed, he served as a positive force in focusing attention on the inadequacies of the Warren Commission and pressing for the release of many still-confidential documents . ======= from his obit.
- Oliver Stone’s movie clocks in at 3 hours and minutes. There is no intermission. ↩︎
- Here is the New York Times review on the Oliver Stone movie, JFK.
In a review by John P. Mackenzie for the New York Times in 1991.. They wrote:
To showcase his personal theories about the murder of John F. Kennedy, a self-promoter named Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney in 1967, concocted conspiracy charges against a retired local businessman named Clay Shaw. Mr. Garrison alleged that the crime in Dallas had been hatched in New Orleans by Mr. Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and another man.
Two years later a jury, after a monthlong trial and a closing oration from Mr. Garrison, took only 50 minutes to acquit. The jurors concluded that, whatever doubts they might have had about the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and Mr. Garrison had utterly failed to link Mr. Shaw to any crime.
A day later the unchastened D.A. filed a perjury case, charging Mr. Shaw with lying when he denied meeting with or knowing his alleged co-conspirators.
A Federal judge took the rare step of finding “bad faith” on Mr. Garrison’s part and enjoined the second prosecution.
Mr. Shaw died in 1974, thus ending his own suit charging a malicious Garrison prosecution and gross violation of his constitutional rights. Shaw had a strong case of fabricated evidence, perjured testimony and abuse of power against Garrison, but that was never shown in the Stone movie.
In fact Mr. Garrison’s sins were worse than that: He had appropriated another human being to make a self-serving political statement.
Mr. Stone is as careless with the truth as is his hero. He depicts the prosecutor’s fabrications as actual events and adds fabrications of his own. Like the D.A., Mr. Stone is indifferent to the rights of the accused and cynical in denying Clay Shaw his humanity. The movie is ostensibly dedicated to truth; instead, it revives a malicious prosecution and, like the prosecutor, uses Clay Shaw to promote a theory of grand conspiracy. Allegations of conspiratorial meetings with Mr. Oswald and others, which would have convicted Mr. Shaw if the jury had believed them, are portrayed on the screen as actually happening. The movie also depicts as true a policeman’s contention that Mr. Shaw, after his arrest, admitted using the alias “Clay Bertrand.”
Mr. Stone glosses quickly over the jury’s ringing “not guilty,” strikes up triumphal music and ends the film with a written epilogue. It says that in 1979 Richard Helms, then Director of Central Intelligence at the time of the Shaw prosecution, admitted that contrary to the defendant’s testimony, Mr. Shaw had “worked for” the C.I.A. But Mr. Shaw was a C.I.A. “contact,” like many businessmen and academics who are sometimes debriefed when returning from abroad.
Lee Harvey Oswald is accurately quoted as contending that he was a “patsy” in the Kennedy, a victim of a frame-up. Prosecutors and historians will long debate whether he was indeed the fall guy arrested to divert attention from a monstrous global conspiracy. ↩︎ - This link is now forbidden. ↩︎
- Patricia Lambert wrote a book on the trial after the Stone movie called, “False Witness
The Real Story of Jim Garrison’s Investigation and Oliver Stone’s JFK.” ↩︎
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