Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Garrison turned to the subject of "Clem Bertrand." In a brief note in the Warren Commission exhibits, a "Clay Bertrand" was named as the man who phoned an attorney on the day after the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. Was Bertrand in the court room? Garrison asked Russo. Without a word, the witness strode melodramatically to Clay Shaw and held his right hand above Shaw's head. Shaw did not look...
...defense began questioning him. Russo said that in September 1963 he heard a plot to kill Kennedy revealed during a late-night party at the New Orleans apartment of David Ferric, the ex-airline pilot who died last month. Also present were two men whom Russo knew as "Clem Bertrand" and "Leon Oswald...
Want to Bet? What did it all have to do with the assassination? Garrison contended that Shaw, who claims that he is innocent, used the alias of Clay Bertrand, a name that had been introduced into the Warren Commission report by Louisiana Attorney Dean Andrews Jr. Andrews, who frequently defends accused homosexuals, said "Bertrand" called him on the afternoon of the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. While the FBI says that Andrews admitted he made the whole thing up, he insists that the story is true-but he does not say that Shaw and "Bertrand" are the same...
...Search. Clearly something had fallen on Hanoi, but it was far from clear what that something was. While critics of U.S. bombing, from U Thant to the Vatican to Bertrand Russell, hastened to accuse the U.S. of escalating the war, Washington mumbled and fumbled until it was too late to erase the initial impact of the shrill reports...
...slowly catching on abroad. But perhaps the most valuable commodity that the U.S. has given to the rest of the world is the basic American spirit that has made possible its affluence and style of living and that blends its material possessions into a unified pattern of existence. Bertrand Russell summed up the American outlook as: "Man is lord of the earth: what he wants, he can get by energy and intelligence." By its example, the U.S. showed the world that things could be done, that dreams could be embodied in action, that a better life could be achieved with...