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Guy Banister

Guy Banister
Photo of Banister from the House Select Committee on Assassinations
Born
William Guy Banister

March 7, 1901
DiedJune 6, 1964(1964-06-06) (aged 63)
EducationLouisiana State University
Occupation(s)Federal Bureau of Investigation
Private investigator
Known forAllegations made by Jim Garrison during his investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination

William Guy Banister (March 7, 1901 – June 6, 1964) was an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, and a private investigator. After his death, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison alleged that he had been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was an avid anti-communist, alleged member of the Minutemen, the John Birch Society, Louisiana Committee on Un-American Activities, and alleged publisher of the Louisiana Intelligence Digest which maintained that the civil rights movement was part of an international communist conspiracy and was treasonous.

He also supported anti-Castro groups in the New Orleans area: "Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front"; "Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean"; "Friends of Democratic Cuba".[1] According to the New Orleans States-Item newspaper, Banister "participated in every anti-Communist South and Central American revolution that came along, acting as a key liaison man for the U.S. government-sponsored anti-Communist activities in Latin America."[2]

Early life and law enforcement career

Banister was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the oldest of seven children. He later became a Freemason and a Shriner. After studying at the Louisiana State University, he joined the Monroe Police Department.[3][4] In 1934, Banister joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was present at the killing of John Dillinger. Originally based in Indianapolis, he later moved to New York City where he was involved in the investigation of the American Communist Party. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was impressed by Banister's work and, in 1938, he was promoted to run the FBI unit in Butte, Montana. In December 1944, Banister was charged with investigating a fatal Fu-Go balloon bomb near Kalispell, Montana.[5] During the 1947 flying disc craze, Banister investigated a hoaxed saucer in Twin Falls.[6]

He also served in Oklahoma City, Minneapolis and Chicago. In Chicago, he was the Special Agent in Charge for the FBI.[4] He retired from the FBI in 1954. Banister moved to Louisiana and, in January 1955, became Assistant Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, where he was given the task of investigating organized crime and corruption within the police force. It later emerged that he was also involved in looking at the role that left-wing political activists were playing in the struggle for civil rights in New Orleans.[7] On the campuses of Tulane University and Louisiana State University, he ran a network of informants collecting information on "communist" activities. He submitted reports on his findings to the FBI through contacts.[8] In December 1955, Banister publicly revealed 91 members of the police who were involved in graft, after a list was found at the home of an illegal lottery operator.[9]

In March 1957, NOPD Superintendent Provosty Dayries suspended Banister after witnesses reported he had drawn his revolver while threatening a bartender at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.[10][11] Banister denied the allegations, and the bartender described the incident as an "unprovoked attack".[12] Later in March, Banister appeared before the state's Joint Legislative Segregation Committee where he told investigators that he had "documentary proof of clear and specific communist directions to promote friction between the races". He also told of investigating the first Japanese fire balloon to land in the US.[13] Banister's suspension ended in June of that year; however, Dayries dismissed Banister from the force for "open defiance" after he refused to be reassigned as the department's chief of planning.[14][15] In supporting Dayries' decision, New Orleans' mayor Chep Morrison said that there was "no other course that one could sensibly follow".[15]

Private investigation, Cuba, Oswald, Marcello

After leaving the New Orleans Police Department, Banister established his own private detective agency, Guy Banister Associates, Inc. at 434 Balter Building.[16] In June 1960, Banister moved his office to 531 Lafayette Street on the ground floor of the Newman Building.[16] Around the corner but located in the same building, with a different entrance, was the address 544 Camp Street, which would later be found stamped on Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets distributed by Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.[17] The Newman Building housed militant anti-Castro groups, including the Cuban Revolutionary Council (October 1961 to February 1962), as well as Sergio Arcacha Smith's Crusade to Free Cuba Committee.[18]

A 1959 Guy Banister Associates Yellow Pages advertisement, New Orleans Telephone Directory
1959 Guy Banister Associates, Inc. Yellow Pages advertisement, New Orleans Telephone Directory.

Banister was implicated in a 1961 raid on a munitions depot in Houma, Louisiana, in which "various weapons, grenades and ammunition were stolen ... which were reportedly seen stacked in Banister's back room by several witnesses."[8] The New Orleans States-Item newspaper reported an allegation that Banister served as a munitions supplier for the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and continued to deal weapons from his office until 1963.[19]

In 1962, Banister allegedly dispatched an associate, Maurice Brooks Gatlin — legal counsel of Banister's "Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean" — to Paris to deliver a suitcase containing $200,000 for the French OAS. In 1963, Banister and anti-Castro activist David Ferrie began working for a lawyer named G. Wray Gill and his client, New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. This involved attempts to block Marcello's deportation to Guatemala.[8][20] In early 1962, Banister assisted David Ferrie in a dispute with Eastern Airlines regarding charges brought against Ferrie by the airline and New Orleans police of "crimes against nature and extortion."[8] During this period, Ferrie was frequently seen at Banister's office.[21] Banister served as a character witness for Ferrie at his airline pilot's grievance board hearing in the summer of 1963.[21][8]

JFK assassination and trial of Clay Shaw

On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Banister and one of his investigators, Jack Martin, were drinking together at the Katzenjammer Bar, located next door to 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. On their return to Banister's office, the two men got into a dispute. Banister believed that Martin had stolen some files and drew his .357 Magnum revolver, striking Martin with it several times. Martin was badly injured and treated at Charity Hospital. When questioned about the incident in December 1977 by investigators for the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Martin said that in the heat of the argument just prior to the pistol-whipping he had said to Banister: "What are you going to do — kill me like you all did Kennedy?"[22]

Over the next few days, Martin told authorities and reporters that anti-Castro activist David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination. He claimed that Ferrie knew Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight.[23] Martin also claimed that Ferrie drove to Texas on the day of Kennedy's assassination, to serve as a getaway pilot for the assassins.[24] Witnesses interviewed by the HSCA indicate Banister was "aware of Oswald and his Fair Play for Cuba Committee before the assassination."[25]

Banister's secretary, Delphine Roberts, told author Anthony Summers that Oswald "seemed to be on familiar terms with Banister and with [Banister's] office." Roberts said, "As I understood it, he had the use of an office on the second floor, above the main office where we worked. Then, several times, Mr. Banister brought me upstairs, and in the office above I saw various writings stuck up on the wall pertaining to Cuba. There were various leaflets up there pertaining to Fair Play for Cuba.'"[26] The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated Roberts' claims and said that "the reliability of her statements could not be determined."[27]

The alleged activities of Banister, Ferrie and Oswald reached New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who, by late 1966, had become interested in the New Orleans aspects of the assassination. In December 1966, Garrison interviewed Martin about these activities. Martin claimed that Banister, Ferrie and a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles were involved in operations against Castro's Cuba that included gun running and burglarized armories.[28]

As Garrison continued his investigation, he became convinced that a group of right-wing activists, including Banister, Ferrie and Clay Shaw, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill Kennedy. Garrison would later claim that the motive for the assassination was anger over Kennedy's attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam.[29][30] Garrison also believed that Banister, Shaw, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination.[31]

Death

Banister died of coronary thrombosis on June 6, 1964.[32] Banister's files went to various people after his death.[33] Later, New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Andrew Sciambra interviewed Banister's widow. She told him that she saw some Fair Play for Cuba leaflets in Banister's office when she went there after his death.[34]

Fictional portrayals

Banister is a character in Oliver Stone's 1991 movie JFK, in which he is portrayed by Edward Asner.[35] He is also central to the plot of Don DeLillo's novel Libra. Banister appears as a character in James Ellroy's 1995 novel American Tabloid and its sequel The Cold Six Thousand. In American Tabloid, Banister organizes John Kennedy's assassination, which is based on Ward Littell's original plan. In The Cold Six Thousand, Banister is murdered by Chuck Rogers under orders from Carlos Marcello.

References

  1. ^ "XIII. 544 Camp Street and Related Events". Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives. Vol. X. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. March 1979. pp. 126–127.
  2. ^ New Orleans States-Item, May 5, 1967.
  3. ^ HSCA: Material received from files of New Orleans district attorney's office pertaining to investigation and trial of Clay Shaw, 1967-69, attachment D, section 5, regarding Guy Banister, "Biographical Sketch" (JFK Document 007271).
  4. ^ a b Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 126.
  5. ^ Coen, Ross (November 2014). Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803249660.
  6. ^ "Fort Collins Coloradoan 11 Jul 1947, page 1".
  7. ^ Malcolm X: Make It Plain / Full Documentary " Best MCee Ever" - Rap Music - Zimbio
  8. ^ a b c d e Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 127.
  9. ^ "The Daily Advertiser 30 Dec 1955, page 1".
  10. ^ "Grand Jury May Probe Banister Gun Charge; Chief Orders Suspension of Assistant". New Orleans States. March 4, 1957. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  11. ^ "Action by Dayries Suspends Banister". The Times Picayune. March 4, 1957. p. 1. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  12. ^ "Banister Suspended; Hits 'Discrepancies'". New Orleans States. March 4, 1957. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  13. ^ "The Town Talk 25 Mar 1957, page Page 6".
  14. ^ "Banister Is Where He Started". New Orleans Item. June 14, 1957. p. 32. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  15. ^ a b "Chep Back Dayries Firing of Banister; No Other Course, Says Mayor". New Orleans States. June 10, 1957. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  16. ^ a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations - Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 110.
  17. ^ Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 123.
  18. ^ Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, pp. 123–124.
  19. ^ New Orleans States-Item, April 25, 1967
  20. ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 240. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
  21. ^ a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations - Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 111.
  22. ^ Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 130.
  23. ^ FBI interview of Jack S. Martin, November 25, 1963 & November 27, 1963, Warren Commission Document No. 75, pp. 217-18, 309-11.
  24. ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations - Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, pp. 112-13.
  25. ^ Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 128.
  26. ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 229. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
  27. ^ Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume X 1979, p. 129.
  28. ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), p. 40. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
  29. ^ Jim Garrison Interview Archived October 22, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Playboy magazine, Eric Norden, October 1967.
  30. ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 12-13, 43, 176-178, 277, 293. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
  31. ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 26-27, 62, 70, 106-110, 250, 278, 289. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
  32. ^ Pope, John (November 15, 2013). "JFK assassination conspiracy: Former FBI agent Guy Banister was on fringes of investigation". The Times-Picayune. New Orleans. Archived from the original on November 20, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  33. ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 227. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
  34. ^ New Orleans District Attorney's Office, interview of Mrs. Mary Banister by Andrew Sciambra, April 29–30, 1967.
  35. ^ "Texas Monthly". December 1991.

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