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Dean Andrews Jr.
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Warren Commission testimony
On November 25, 1963, Andrews informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that three days earlier (on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy) he received a telephone call from a Clay Bertrand who asked him whether he would be willing to represent Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin.Commission Exhibit No. 1931, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 23, p. 726.Commission Exhibit No. 3094, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 26, pp. 704-705. Andrews subsequently repeated his claim regarding the phone call in testimony before the Warren Commission in July 1964.Testimony of Dean Andrews, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 11, pp. 331-334. Andrews described Bertrand as a "swinging cat" (what Andrews defined as a bisexual) who occasionally guaranteed fees for some of Andrews' homosexual clients.Testimony of Dean Andrews, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 11, p. 335.Two weeks after the assassination, the FBI reported that Andrews had admitted that Bertrand was a "figment of his imagination". The FBI report stated that Andrews had been hospitalized at the time with pneumonia and was under heavy sedation.WEB,weblink FBI Files - Shaw/Allen FOIA Cases: Dean Adams Andrews, Part 1, Mary Ferrell Foundation, 16â19, 87â89, May 9, 2012, However, Andrews would later deny the FBI report, claiming that he had never suggested that Bertrand might not be real.Testimony of Dean Andrews, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 11, p. 334.A Secret Service report issued in December 1963, two weeks after the assassination of President Kennedy, stated that Andrews said that Lee Harvey Oswald had visited Andrews' office on approximately three occasions in June and July 1963, seeking legal advice from Andrews concerning his citizenship status, his wife's status and his undesirable discharge from the Marine Corps. Andrews described his encounters with Oswald in testimony before the Warren Commission in July 1964.Testimony of Dean Andrews, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 11, pp. 326-331.Trial of Clay Shaw
In the spring of 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison â who over the course of several months had been investigating the assassination of President Kennedy â asserted that Clay Bertrand was actually New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw. Garrison alleged that Shaw used the alias Clay Bertrand among New Orleans' gay society.James Phelan, Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels, pp. 150-51. ({{ISBN|0-394-48196-8}})Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 85-86. {{ISBN|0-941781-02-X}} Garrison further believed that Shaw and a group of right-wing activists, including David Ferrie and Guy Banister, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Kennedy assassination.Jim Garrison Interview {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022181453weblink |date=October 22, 2019 }}, Playboy magazine, Eric Norden, October 1967.Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 12-13, 43, 176-178, 277, 293. {{ISBN|0-941781-02-X}} Garrison arrested Shaw on March 1, 1967.NEWS, New Orleans Civic Leader Accused. Quizzed for Five Hour's About Conspiracy in Assassination,weblink The New York Times, March 2, 1967, April 12, 2010, Nicholas C, Chriss, October 26, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121026093106weblink">weblink dead, NEWS, 'Mystery Man' Revealed In Probe,weblink AP, Ellensburg Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington, March 3, 1967, 1, May 9, 2012, Shaw was booked on conspiracy to commit murder, but denied that he had ever used the name Clay Bertrand. Shaw was eventually acquitted of the charges.Andrews contradicted his testimony before the Warren Commission when, after appearing before the Orleans Parish grand jury, he stated in an interview on June 28, 1967 that Bertrand was not Shaw but was Eugene Davis, his friend and client.NEWS, Attorney Claims Shaw 'Never Was' Bertrand,weblink AP, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, June 29, 1967, 12-A, May 9, 2012, Davis denied in an affidavit that he was Bertrand or the person who suggested that Andrews go to Dallas to help Oswald.NEWS, Garrison Turns Guns On Critics,weblink UPI, Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina, July 9, 1967, 4A, May 9, 2012, Andrews was subsequently convicted on three counts of perjury for lying to the grand jury on August 14, 1967.NEWS, Three Perjury Counts: Jury Convicts Dean Andrews,weblink AP, Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona, August 14, 1967, 3, May 9, 2012, On February 25, 1969, Andrews testified during the trial of Clay Shaw that the name "Clay Bertrand was a figment of [his] imagination" and that he had been "carrying on a farce" in order to prevent "bring[ing] a lot of heat and trouble to someone who didn't deserve it."NEWS, Witness For Shaw Says He Made Up Clay Bertrand,weblink UPI, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 26, 1969, 8-A, May 9, 2012,Portrayals
Andrews was portrayed by John Candy in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK.References
{{reflist}}External links
- Reitzes, Dave (October 31, 2001). "Dean Andrews and 'Clay Bertrand'". The JFK 100.
- {{Find a Grave|12572|accessdate=January 29, 2014}}
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