GARRISON UPDATES
Monday May 18 1998 11:07 AM EDT

Court: Kennedy files must be given to board

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal by a New Orleans prosecutor who refused to 
turn over files on the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy to a government board charged with collecting the 
records.

The high court denied an appeal by New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, who sought to quash a subpoena 
demanding the files be given to the Assassination Records Review Board.

A U.S. appeals court ruled last year that Connick had to turn over all remaining materials on the investigation and 
prosecution in the late 1960s of businessman Clay Shaw by former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison.

A local jury in 1969 found Shaw not guilty of violating Louisiana law in connection with his alleged participation in a 
conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy.

The subpoena required that Connick turn over all documents and records relating to the assassination, including handwritten 
notes, memos, drawings, photographs, tape recordings and correspondence.

The records were made available in 1978 to an investigator from a special House committee that probed the assassination. 
Connick argued that the board, created by Congress under a 1992 law, lacked the authority to compel the surrender of the 
Shaw records. But the Supreme Court turned down the appeal without any comment or dissent.

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