A retired businessman and former director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans, he was suspected by D.A.
Jim Garrison of planning
John F. Kennedy's assassination.
But Clay Shaw was found not guilty by the jury on March 1st, 1969, after more than two years' investigation.
Later,
Richard Helms admitted under oath that Clay Shaw had been working for the CIA -what
Jim Garrison and his team had been unable to prove during his trial.