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SHAW, CLAY

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SHAW, CLAY
(d. 1974) New Orleans businessman and alleged acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald from Oswald's involvement in Fair Play for Cuba. District Attorney Jim Garrison charged Clay with conspiracy in Kennedy's assassination, proving Clay was a CIA operative, but ultimately lost the case after ruining Clay financially. Exceptionally rare and fine association signed book Plot or Politics? The Garrison Case & Its Cast, by Rosemary James & Jack Wardlaw, Pelican Publishing, New Orleans, 1967, a probable first edition. Inscribed by Shaw on the half-title page: "For Tom - To bring him up to date on the air-conditioned nightmare - Affectionately Clay Sept. 1967". The book, written by two journalists, offers a fairly unbiased background and account of the ongoing trial, and has a valuable biographical appendix of the trial's principal players. Very good.