Jim Garrison famous quotes

04-22-2025

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
-- Jim Garrison

#Peace #War #Names
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
-- Jim Garrison

#Interesting #Six #Messages
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
-- Jim Garrison

#Heart #Agency #People
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
-- Jim Garrison

#Defense #Satisfaction #Sides
In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men
-- Jim Garrison

#Gun #Men #Agency
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state
-- Jim Garrison

#Country #Book #Rights
I'm not in the business of harassing anybody
-- Jim Garrison
I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
-- Jim Garrison

#Truthful #Testimony
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
-- Jim Garrison

#Morning #Sleep #Night
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
-- Jim Garrison

#Thinking #Agency #Long
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
-- Jim Garrison

#Trying #Campaigns #Waste
It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
-- Jim Garrison

#Important #Jack Kennedy
I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.
-- Jim Garrison

#Fashion #Giving #Interviews
Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.
-- Jim Garrison

#Communication #Civilization #Government
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
-- Jim Garrison

#Ignorance #November #Grounded
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
-- Jim Garrison

#Country #Travel #Lying
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
-- Jim Garrison

#New Orleans #Citizens #John Kennedy

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