Clay LaVergne Shaw was an American businessman, military officer, and part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service of the CIA. Shaw is best known for being the only person brought to trial for in
Clay Shaw portrait
Shaw in 1951, on his Brazilian immigration card
On Friday, November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in
Clay Shaw
…contact of the Domestic Contact Service (DCS) of the CIA. Shaw is best known for being the only person brought to trial for involvement in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, due to an investigation led by Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of New Orleans. The jury ultimately acquitted Shaw after less than an hour's…
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie in the presidential limousine minutes before the assassination in Dallas
Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962
Lee Harvey Oswald (center) and others distributing pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963.
A photograph of Oswald posing with his rifle, a holstered pistol, and communist and socialist literature