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People (2)

  • Edward Wegmann New Orleans lawyer who with his brother William defended Clay Shaw against Jim Garrison, engaged Wackenhut and other firms of former federal agents, and sought guidance from the Justice Department on the CIA.
  • Joseph Oster New Orleans private detective who left Guy Banister's agency to manage the local office of Southern Research, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines, and went to Ferrie's apartment with the district attorney's men on November 22, 1963.

Organizations (1)

  • Southern Research Company Shreveport detective firm whose New Orleans office, run by a former associate of Guy Banister, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines in 1963, and which the House assassinations committee in 1978 called the former name of Wackenhut.

Places (1)

  • Shreveport, Louisiana Louisiana city where H.L. Hunt kept his second household and met his third wife, where Frania Tye Lee's suit was tried in 1978, and where the Southern Research detective firm was chartered in 1958.