In 1969, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison prosecuted Clay Shaw for allegedly conspiring to kill President John F. Kennedy. Shaw, a gay man, was the only person ever put on trial in connection with JFK’s assassination.
Garrison initially believed JFK’s murder was a sadistic “thrill killing” plotted by Lee Harvey Oswald, Shaw, and David Ferrie, who was also gay. Garrison espoused that theory after investigators founds whips, chains, and leather regalia inside Shaw’s residence.