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1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The boundless South |
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Boundless South.
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| Contents |
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 terror 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 |
| Notes |
Online resource (HeinOnline, April 28, 2023) |
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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- 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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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Garrison, Jim, 1921-1992 |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 |
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Shaw, Clay, 1913-1974 |
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Trials (Conspiracy) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
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Trials (Assassination) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
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Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Conspiracy theories -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
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Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies.
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Law / Legal History.
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History / United States / 20th Century.
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Assassination
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Conspiracy theories
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Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Trials (Assassination)
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Trials (Conspiracy)
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Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
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Law.
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LGBTQ+ Interest.
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Louisiana -- New Orleans
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469662756 |
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1469662752 |
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9781469662749 |
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1469662744 |
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