In looking for some touchstone to which I can relate all the disorders and miseries of the day…assassinations, student riots, strikes, Viet Nam etc…I have concluded that man is sick of the civilization we have built and is determined to destroy it. And yet, for some masochistic reason, I did. I had resolved that I would not subject myself to the orgy of guilt and grief which I knew would pour from the tube. The Robert Kennedy assassination left me wrung out and so drained as to be incapable of feeling much of anything. Hoffman will receive yet another Academy nomination for his work therein… I am pleased to read in one of the local columns, that a private showing of MIDNIGHT COWBOY was greeted by cheers. My lawyers feel we are now in very good position, and, since they are given to facile optimism, I am much encouraged and in good spirits… But cautiously optimistic I am, now that the Federal cavalry has ridden up to deal with the hostiles. After being beat over the head for sixteen months, one's optimism must be cautious. "The main thing blooming on Dauphine Street these days are my hopes. Kennedy, younger brother of the man Shaw was accused of conspiring to murder the Vietnam War youth protest movements and even the United Artists vehicle "Midnight Cowboy" which would be generally released a little over a year later, in late May 1969. In the middle of this legal process, Shaw wrote to a friend named Jim in Key West about his ongoing prosecution the recent assassination of Robert F. The charges hinged around a September 1963 dinner party in which Shaw, accompanied by someone who looked like Oswald, discussed shooting President Kennedy. An alleged acquittance of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963), Shaw also had connections to the Central Intelligence Agency and anti-Fidel Castro activists. On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison formally charged Clay Shaw of conspiring to murder 35th U.S. 8.5" x 11." Provenance: From the collection of Ron Hoskins, assassinologist. Expected paper folds, isolated stains, and a rusted paper clip impression at upper left. Shaw has made handwritten typographical edits throughout. On "Clay Shaw / 1313 Dauphine Street / New Orleans, Louisiana" letterhead.
Written in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 20, 1968.
Kennedy, as "Clay" on the second page at center. Clay Shaw, Accused of Conspiring to Assassinate JFK, Superb Letter Re: Criminal Charges & the Assassination of RFKĢpp typed letter signed by Clay Shaw (1913-1974), the only person accused and acquitted of conspiracy charges to assassinate President John F.
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