RICHARD ANGELICO CITATION TOSSED OUT September 26, 1996

Associated Press writer, Alan Sayre

New Orleans. A contempt citation against a television reporter who aired the names of grand jury 
witnesses during a 1960's investigation into President Kennedy's assassination was thrown out 
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1996. In a one-paragraph decision, the state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal said 
Louisiana's grand jury secrecy law did not apply to WDSU-TV reporter Richard Angelico.

On Feb. 22, Angelico was given a three-month suspended jail term and fined $100 by Criminal District 
Judge Frank Marullo. Earlier in February, Marullo sentenced Gary Raymond, a former district attorney's 
investigator, to six months in jail for giving the secret grand jury transcripts to Angelico in the summer of 
1995.

The transcripts were tied to former District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of Kennedy's killing, 
which was fictionalized by Oliver STone in the 1992 movie "JFK." Raymond testified he kept the records 
for more then 20 years after current District Attorney Harry Connick ordered their destruction in 1974. 
Connick brought the contempt charges against Angelico and Raymond.

Raymond said he contacted Angelico after Connick told the federal Assassination Records Review Board 
last June in New Orleans that the records had disappeared during the Garrison administration. Assistant 
District Attorney Camille Burns said the boaard was told that, if the grand jury records still existed, they 
would not be turned over. The records were later mailed to the commission by Angelico. The commission 
has refused to return them to Connick.

"We thought that we were correct all along. How could someone who came into the original JFK 
transcripts do anything but publish them in light of Mr. Connick's testimony before the commission in 
which he blambed others for their disappearance," Angelico said Wednesday.

The district attorney's office said Connick was not available for comment.

Angelico's attorneys argued that the secrecy law applies only to members of a grand jury, those present at 
a grand jury meeting and persons with "confidential access" to grand jury information. The appeal also 
said Angelico's free-press rights were violated by the contempt citation. The 4th Circuit did not address 
that issue. Raymond's appeal has not been acted on by the 4th Circuit.

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