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I'm not in the business of harassing anybody
Jim Garrison / Attorney
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It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Important
Jack Kennedy
Knows
Jack
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I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Convinced
Knows
Testimony
Truthful
Vernon
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I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Peace
War
Fascism
Names
National Security
Security
Afraid
Based
Name
National
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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 / Attorney
Fashion
Giving
Interviews
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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 / Attorney
Grounded
Ignorance
November
Report
Complete
Recently
Warren
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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 / Attorney
Citizens
Conspiracy
Evidence
Grand Jury
John Kennedy
Jury
New Orleans
Participation
Assassinate
Composed
Defendant
Eminent
Grand
Indicted
John
Orleans
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This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Another Man
Charge
Deal
Good Deal
Imply
Motives
Reveals
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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 / Attorney
Campaigns
Discredit
Investigation
Policy
Prove
Trying
Waste
Campaign
Respond
Negatives
Waste Time
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All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Allegations
Office
Purpose
Valuable
Valuable Time
Waste
Answering
Basis
Charges
Defensive
In Fact
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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 / Attorney
Men
Morning
Guilty
Innocent
Pleasure
Prosecuting
Sleep
Morning Myself Mirror
Derive
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In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Government
Justice
Years
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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 / Attorney
Men
Gun
Numbers
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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 / Attorney
Assassination
Cia
Interesting
Messages
Six
Weeks
Commission
Complete
Complete Mystery
Contents
Oswald
Reached
Remain
Warren
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To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Assassination
Credibility
Fire
Repetition
Smoke
Truth Believe People
Charge
Lends
Tendency
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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 / Attorney
Travel
Bags
Bribe
Country
Investigators
Lying
Witness
Apart
Assume
Ethically
Lie
Objectionable
Operate
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The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?
Jim Garrison / Attorney
Doe
Light
United States
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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 / Attorney
Communication
Civilization
World Government
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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 / Attorney
Agency
Cia
Conspiracy
Former
Heart
People
Admit
American People
Assassinate
Attempted
Beating
Stopped
Employees
Rug
Sweep
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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 / Attorney
Agency
Behalf
Cia
Former
Long
Thinking
Admitted
Employees
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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 / Attorney
Attorney
Conviction
Defense
Obtaining
Satisfaction
Sides
Client
Interests
Opposed
Received
Sympathies
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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 / Attorney
Book
Country
Law
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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 / Attorney
Individual Rights
Protection
Regard
Championing
Journals
Oppressive
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