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A central figure in the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was Guy Banister. Banister had a colorful past as he was both a former special agent for the FBI in their Chicago field office and the deputy superintendent of the New Orleans police.
Garrison stated in his book, On The Trail Of The Assassins, that he knew Banister fairly well and had lunch with him every so often when he was with the police department. Garrison said that Banister always dressed immaculately, and this is important to remember as it could have been the man seen with Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) in Clinton, Louisiana, and other places. Because the description is “white hair and immaculately dressed” researchers assume the person is Clay Shaw, but some of the sightings (or all of them) could have been Banister instead.
On the day of the assassination, Martin was in the company of Guy Banister at the Katzenjammer Bar. According to Garrison, Banister wasn’t known to be a heavy drinker but on this day he had a good bit to drink. (On The Trail Of The Assassins [OTTOTA], pp. 4-5 [hardcover edition])
Something occurred between Martin and Banister when they returned to Banister’s office as a heated argument started. Martin mentioned that he had not forgotten “certain unusual things that had been happening at the office during the summer.” The comment caused Banister to whip out his .357 Magnum and begin to hit him on the head with it. (Ibid., p. 5)
This beating with a heavy pistol, a .357 Magnum, quickly caused Martin to become a bloody mess and he was taken to the hospital. This incident left Martin very angry and he began talking to a friend about David Ferrie. Martin believed that Ferrie was a getaway pilot for men involved in the assassination.
Another important way that Banister ties into the JFK assassination saga is through his office. Banister ran a private detective agency (Guy Banister Associates, Inc. Investigators) at 531 Lafayette Street in New Orleans. Garrison stated upon visiting the building he realized that both the 531 entrance and the more famous 544 Camp Street addresses both led to Banister’s office.
Of course, this has been attacked by defenders of the Warren Commission (WC) as they say that this isn’t correct. What else can they do since LHO passed out Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) leaflets on August 9, 1963, that bore the 544 Camp Street address on them? According to Jack Martin, a private detective and Banister associate, Banister was furious with LHO for doing this as he feared that it would lead to his office. Why would he think this if the WC defenders are correct?
Needless to say, the WC defenders deny that Banister and LHO knew each other. What else can they do? There are a number of witnesses that said they saw Banister and LHO together. We have seen one of these witnesses before in this series – Jack Martin. Another witness was Delphine Roberts. She was Banister’s secretary and mistress.
This subject was covered in the book Let Justice Be Done by William Davy as he followed up on the investigation conducted by Jim Garrison. Here is what he wrote about this topic.
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Delphine Roberts, Banister’s longtime secretary, mistress and confidante, revealed to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and later to British journalist, Anthony Summers, that Oswald walked into Banister’s office sometime in 1963. He was given a form to fill out as one of Banister’s "agents." (21) After Oswald filled out the form, he met with Banister behind closed doors. According to Roberts, "Oswald came back a number of times. He seemed to be on familiar terms with Banister and with the office. As I understood it, he had use of an office on the second floor, above the main office where we worked...Roberts’ daughter, also named Delphine, told Summers that she and a photographer friend also saw Oswald at Banister’s on occasion. (23) Further corroboration of Oswald’s second floor offices comes from former Banister associate Bill Nitschke. In a 1967 interview with a New Orleans States Item reporter, Nitschke revealed that sometime before the Kennedy assassination, he visited Banister’s office and the second-floor anterooms. Nitschke recalled seeing crudely lettered placards that he believed had something to do with Castro. He told the States Item that "it didn’t make any sense to me how Guy got tied up to those signs." (24)
Dan Campbell, an ex-Marine that worked for Banister infiltrating left-wing groups on college campuses confirmed the gunrunning, recalling that "Banister was a bagman for the CIA and was running guns to Alpha 66 in Miami." (26) …The Banister menagerie he added "were the worst kind of fanatics." (29) Campbell also remembered one day when he was in Banister’s office and a young man came in and used the phone. "I knew he was a Marine from his bearing and speech pattern the minute he walked into 544 Camp Street," he recalled. (30) The next time he saw this young man was when his picture was on television as the accused assassin of President Kennedy. Interestingly, Campbell also recalled seeing Oswald’s buddy from his Marine Corps days, Kerry Thornley, pop in and out of Banister’s office. (31) Strangely enough on the day Kennedy was shot Thornley was with Allen Campbell, Dan’s brother. (32) Allen, like his brother, also worked for Banister. On one of the days Oswald was handing out his leaflets, Allen remembered Delphine Roberts returning to the office and complaining to Banister that "that young man is passing out pro-Castro leaflets in the street." (33) Allen recalled Banister’s reaction was calm, "Don’t worry about him. He’s a nervous fellow, he’s confused. He’s with us, he’s associated with the office." (34) (William Davy, Let Justice Be Done, Chapter Four)
(21) Interview with Delphine Roberts, August 27,1978, HSCA document #011196 and Summers, Conspiracy, p. 324.
(22) Summers, Conspiracy, p.324.
(23) Ibid., p. 325.
(24) Hoke May’s interview of Bill Nitschke, May 11, 1967, from Hoke May’s files.
(26) James DiEugenio’s interview with Dan Campbell, September 3, 1994.
(29) Ibid.
(30) Ibid.
(31) Ibid.
(32) DiEugenio interview with Allen Campbell, September 6, 1994.
(33) Summers, Conspiracy, p. 324.
(34) Ibid.
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It seems pretty clear that LHO was at Banister’s office a number of times. Banister’s ties to the intelligence community also suggests that LHO could have been doing work for them as well. The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) talked with William Gaudet about this topic and he told them this.
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Gaudet noted that on one occasion he observed Oswald speaking to Guy Banister on a street corner. (HSCAR, p. 219, note 27)
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A Canadian television documentary called the Fifth Estate featured an interview with Gaudet by researcher Peter Dale Scott. In the interview Gaudet said the following.
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Gaudet told Scott that he did indeed observe Oswald though he never spoke to him, that he did not think Oswald capable of the assassination, that he thought Oswald was being manipulated by anti-Castro Cubans and others, and that Oswald had gotten in over his head and was a fall guy.
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Banister had connections to many key people in this case as well – Gordon Novel, David Ferrie and Kerry Thornley. He had connections to the intelligence world and the anti-Castro groups as he was one of the incorporators of the Friends of Democratic Cuba. This is the groups several men claimed to be representing when they showed up at Bolton Ford on January 20, 1961. Is this just a coincidence?
Another thing that is NOT mentioned by anyone from what I have seen very much, and is not discussed, is the fact that Banister had been the assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, where he was given the task of investigating organized crime and corruption within the police force. This would have given him ample opportunity to bump into Carlos Marcello and his criminal network.
This means Banister is a key man in this saga as he had contact with the Marcello criminal syndicate, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Gordon Novel, Kerry Thornley and LHO (who had an uncle who worked for the Marcello syndicate). And of course Ferrie did “investigative” work for Marcello.
Banister’s main contribution to the LHO saga was his “sheep dipping” of him. He was made to look like a pro-Communist person when there is no evidence showing that he was a communist. He had him handout FPCC pamphlets when the FPCC had absolutely no presence in New Orleans at all. What purpose could this have served beyond setting LHO up with a false narrative?
The story says that many went along with the cover-up to avoid World War III, but this is false. What was accomplished by painting LHO communist was to prevent the Soviet Union from challenging the false official narrative. Who was better equipped to smell a conspiracy than the Kremlin? But, they were at a serious disadvantage in the nuclear area and we know that the U.S. military was not afraid to use this option, thus, the Russians were bullied into silence and submission. Keep in mind that it was known that JFK and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were forming a cooperative partnership and Khrushchev had to be forced to not act following the assassination.
This is why LHO was painted a communist when it would have made more sense to paint him as a right-wing extremist in the deep south. This was Banister’s job. His sudden death on June 6, 1964, prevented a lot of Investigation into him as his files were seized immediately by members of the intelligence community. We wouldn’t even know as much as we do without Garrison’s investigation.
For more information on Jack Martin see this:
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1265/garrison-chronicles-jack-martin
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A central figure in the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was Guy Banister. Banister had a colorful past as he was both a former special agent for the FBI in their Chicago field office and the deputy superintendent of the New Orleans police.
Garrison stated in his book, On The Trail Of The Assassins, that he knew Banister fairly well and had lunch with him every so often when he was with the police department. Garrison said that Banister always dressed immaculately, and this is important to remember as it could have been the man seen with Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) in Clinton, Louisiana, and other places. Because the description is “white hair and immaculately dressed” researchers assume the person is Clay Shaw, but some of the sightings (or all of them) could have been Banister instead.
On the day of the assassination, Martin was in the company of Guy Banister at the Katzenjammer Bar. According to Garrison, Banister wasn’t known to be a heavy drinker but on this day he had a good bit to drink. (On The Trail Of The Assassins [OTTOTA], pp. 4-5 [hardcover edition])
Something occurred between Martin and Banister when they returned to Banister’s office as a heated argument started. Martin mentioned that he had not forgotten “certain unusual things that had been happening at the office during the summer.” The comment caused Banister to whip out his .357 Magnum and begin to hit him on the head with it. (Ibid., p. 5)
This beating with a heavy pistol, a .357 Magnum, quickly caused Martin to become a bloody mess and he was taken to the hospital. This incident left Martin very angry and he began talking to a friend about David Ferrie. Martin believed that Ferrie was a getaway pilot for men involved in the assassination.
Another important way that Banister ties into the JFK assassination saga is through his office. Banister ran a private detective agency (Guy Banister Associates, Inc. Investigators) at 531 Lafayette Street in New Orleans. Garrison stated upon visiting the building he realized that both the 531 entrance and the more famous 544 Camp Street addresses both led to Banister’s office.
Of course, this has been attacked by defenders of the Warren Commission (WC) as they say that this isn’t correct. What else can they do since LHO passed out Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) leaflets on August 9, 1963, that bore the 544 Camp Street address on them? According to Jack Martin, a private detective and Banister associate, Banister was furious with LHO for doing this as he feared that it would lead to his office. Why would he think this if the WC defenders are correct?
Needless to say, the WC defenders deny that Banister and LHO knew each other. What else can they do? There are a number of witnesses that said they saw Banister and LHO together. We have seen one of these witnesses before in this series – Jack Martin. Another witness was Delphine Roberts. She was Banister’s secretary and mistress.
This subject was covered in the book Let Justice Be Done by William Davy as he followed up on the investigation conducted by Jim Garrison. Here is what he wrote about this topic.
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Oswald and 544 Camp Street
Delphine Roberts, Banister’s longtime secretary, mistress and confidante, revealed to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and later to British journalist, Anthony Summers, that Oswald walked into Banister’s office sometime in 1963. He was given a form to fill out as one of Banister’s "agents." (21) After Oswald filled out the form, he met with Banister behind closed doors. According to Roberts, "Oswald came back a number of times. He seemed to be on familiar terms with Banister and with the office. As I understood it, he had use of an office on the second floor, above the main office where we worked...Roberts’ daughter, also named Delphine, told Summers that she and a photographer friend also saw Oswald at Banister’s on occasion. (23) Further corroboration of Oswald’s second floor offices comes from former Banister associate Bill Nitschke. In a 1967 interview with a New Orleans States Item reporter, Nitschke revealed that sometime before the Kennedy assassination, he visited Banister’s office and the second-floor anterooms. Nitschke recalled seeing crudely lettered placards that he believed had something to do with Castro. He told the States Item that "it didn’t make any sense to me how Guy got tied up to those signs." (24)
Dan Campbell, an ex-Marine that worked for Banister infiltrating left-wing groups on college campuses confirmed the gunrunning, recalling that "Banister was a bagman for the CIA and was running guns to Alpha 66 in Miami." (26) …The Banister menagerie he added "were the worst kind of fanatics." (29) Campbell also remembered one day when he was in Banister’s office and a young man came in and used the phone. "I knew he was a Marine from his bearing and speech pattern the minute he walked into 544 Camp Street," he recalled. (30) The next time he saw this young man was when his picture was on television as the accused assassin of President Kennedy. Interestingly, Campbell also recalled seeing Oswald’s buddy from his Marine Corps days, Kerry Thornley, pop in and out of Banister’s office. (31) Strangely enough on the day Kennedy was shot Thornley was with Allen Campbell, Dan’s brother. (32) Allen, like his brother, also worked for Banister. On one of the days Oswald was handing out his leaflets, Allen remembered Delphine Roberts returning to the office and complaining to Banister that "that young man is passing out pro-Castro leaflets in the street." (33) Allen recalled Banister’s reaction was calm, "Don’t worry about him. He’s a nervous fellow, he’s confused. He’s with us, he’s associated with the office." (34) (William Davy, Let Justice Be Done, Chapter Four)
(21) Interview with Delphine Roberts, August 27,1978, HSCA document #011196 and Summers, Conspiracy, p. 324.
(22) Summers, Conspiracy, p.324.
(23) Ibid., p. 325.
(24) Hoke May’s interview of Bill Nitschke, May 11, 1967, from Hoke May’s files.
(26) James DiEugenio’s interview with Dan Campbell, September 3, 1994.
(29) Ibid.
(30) Ibid.
(31) Ibid.
(32) DiEugenio interview with Allen Campbell, September 6, 1994.
(33) Summers, Conspiracy, p. 324.
(34) Ibid.
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It seems pretty clear that LHO was at Banister’s office a number of times. Banister’s ties to the intelligence community also suggests that LHO could have been doing work for them as well. The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) talked with William Gaudet about this topic and he told them this.
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Gaudet noted that on one occasion he observed Oswald speaking to Guy Banister on a street corner. (HSCAR, p. 219, note 27)
www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0125a.htm
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A Canadian television documentary called the Fifth Estate featured an interview with Gaudet by researcher Peter Dale Scott. In the interview Gaudet said the following.
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Gaudet told Scott that he did indeed observe Oswald though he never spoke to him, that he did not think Oswald capable of the assassination, that he thought Oswald was being manipulated by anti-Castro Cubans and others, and that Oswald had gotten in over his head and was a fall guy.
Quote off
Banister had connections to many key people in this case as well – Gordon Novel, David Ferrie and Kerry Thornley. He had connections to the intelligence world and the anti-Castro groups as he was one of the incorporators of the Friends of Democratic Cuba. This is the groups several men claimed to be representing when they showed up at Bolton Ford on January 20, 1961. Is this just a coincidence?
Another thing that is NOT mentioned by anyone from what I have seen very much, and is not discussed, is the fact that Banister had been the assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, where he was given the task of investigating organized crime and corruption within the police force. This would have given him ample opportunity to bump into Carlos Marcello and his criminal network.
This means Banister is a key man in this saga as he had contact with the Marcello criminal syndicate, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Gordon Novel, Kerry Thornley and LHO (who had an uncle who worked for the Marcello syndicate). And of course Ferrie did “investigative” work for Marcello.
Banister’s main contribution to the LHO saga was his “sheep dipping” of him. He was made to look like a pro-Communist person when there is no evidence showing that he was a communist. He had him handout FPCC pamphlets when the FPCC had absolutely no presence in New Orleans at all. What purpose could this have served beyond setting LHO up with a false narrative?
The story says that many went along with the cover-up to avoid World War III, but this is false. What was accomplished by painting LHO communist was to prevent the Soviet Union from challenging the false official narrative. Who was better equipped to smell a conspiracy than the Kremlin? But, they were at a serious disadvantage in the nuclear area and we know that the U.S. military was not afraid to use this option, thus, the Russians were bullied into silence and submission. Keep in mind that it was known that JFK and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were forming a cooperative partnership and Khrushchev had to be forced to not act following the assassination.
This is why LHO was painted a communist when it would have made more sense to paint him as a right-wing extremist in the deep south. This was Banister’s job. His sudden death on June 6, 1964, prevented a lot of Investigation into him as his files were seized immediately by members of the intelligence community. We wouldn’t even know as much as we do without Garrison’s investigation.
For more information on Jack Martin see this:
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1265/garrison-chronicles-jack-martin