Cruising for conspirators : how a New Orleans DA prosecuted the Kennedy assassination as a sex crime / Alecia P. Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Alecia P., 1966- author.

Series:

Boundless South

The boundless South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shaw, Clay.

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

Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974.

Trials (Conspiracy)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century.

Trials (Conspiracy).

Trials (Assassination)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century.

Trials (Assassination).

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

Kennedy, John F.

Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992.

Garrison, Jim.

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

Gay people.

Conspiracy theories--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century.

Conspiracy theories.

Assassination.

Gay people--Legal status, laws, etc.

History.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

History.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469662732

1469662736

OCLC:

1240263959