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1 online resource. |
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The boundless South
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Boundless South.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1. Murder in the Gaslight Lounge: Jim Garrison, Pershing Gervais, and Weaponized Homophobia -- 2. You Know Them by Sight Mostly: Assassination, Conspiracy, and Homosexuality -- 3. The Commission Has Investigated Rumors That Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald Were Both Homosexuals: Sexuality and Conspiracy in the Warren Report -- 4. Those Areas of My Private Life I Would Like to Keep Private: The Outing of Clay Shaw |
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5. Confessions of a Guilty Bystander: Hiding Homosexuality in Plain Sight -- 6. Dr. Jekyll-or Mr. Hyde-or Both?: State v. Clay L. Shaw, 1969 -- 7. Death Delights to Serve the Living: Reconsidering the Legal Legacy of Clay L. Shaw -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- z -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
"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. |
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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974. |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. |
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Assassination. |
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Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992.
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Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992. |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination. |
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Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992. |
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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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Trials (Conspiracy) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Trials (Conspiracy) |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Trials (Assassination) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Trials (Assassination) |
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Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Gays. |
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Louisiana. |
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Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Conspiracy theories -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Conspiracy theories. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Homosexuals. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781469662732 1469662736 (DLC) 2021007906 (OCoLC)1240263959 |
| ISBN |
9781469662756 (electronic book) |
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1469662752 (electronic book) |
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9781469662749 (electronic book) |
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1469662744 (electronic book) |
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9781469662732 |
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1469662736 |
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