The Orleans Parish Grand Jury transcripts consist of testimony taken during
1967, 1968, and early 1969, as part of the Garrison investigation into the murder of
President John F. Kennedy. These transcripts were ordered destroyed in the early 1970s
by Garrison's successor as District Attorney, Harry Connick.
But the man who was supposed to destroy them, Gary Raymond, instead hid them in a
garage for over two decades. Then in 1995, Raymond arranged for journalist Richard Angelico
to pass these grand jury transcripts on to the Assassination Records Review Board.
Connick, still the DA, convicted both men of contempt of court, and demanded that the
ARRB return the transcripts.
The ARRB, meanwhile, was still seeking records (5 drawers of files) of Garrison investigation
files held by Connick. The ARRB won its battle with Connick, and both the grand jury
transcripts presented here and the investigation files are now part of the JFK Collection
at the National Archives. The AARC is also in possession of a good deal of this material.