| Series |
The boundless South
Boundless South. ^A1427923
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| Contents |
Murder in the Gaslight Lounge: Jim Garrison, Pershing Gervais, and Weaponized Homophobia -- You Know Them by Sight Mostly: Assassination, Conspiracy, and Homosexuality -- The Commission Has Investigated Rumors That Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald Were Both Homosexuals: Sexuality and Conspiracy in the Warren Report -- Those Areas of My Private Life I Would Like to Keep Private: The Outing of Clay Shaw -- Confessions of a Guilty Bystander: Hiding Homosexuality in Plain Sight -- Dr. Jekyll -- or Mr. Hyde -- or Both?: State v. Clay L. Shaw, 1969 -- Death Delights to Serve the Living: Reconsidering the Legal Legacy of Clay L. Shaw. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Trials, litigation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2021007906 |
| ISBN | 9781469662732 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469662736 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
