Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl: The Making of a First Amendment Milestone

James Savage (Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre UK)

Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Louisiana
Country
Published
18 May 2010
Pages
150
ISBN
9781887366953

Jim Garrison’s Bourbon Street Brawl: The Making of a First Amendment Milestone

James Savage (Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre UK)

Years before his inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison first captured the spotlight in late 1962, when he launched a series of raids on French Quarter strip clubs and bars. Even more extraordinary than the vice raids themselves was Garrison’s verbal feud with Orleans Parish’s criminal court judges, whom he accused of restricting funds for his raids due to their ties to organized crime. Convicted of defaming the jurists, Garrison took his crusade from the back booths of Bourbon Street bars to the marbled confines of the United States Supreme Court. In 1964 a unanimous court ruled that an individual’s freedom to criticize elected judges and other public officials was not only protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, but that it was ‘the essence of self-government.’ Jim Garrison’s Bourbon Street Brawl is the first full-length examination of this fundamental legal precedent –Cover, p. 4.

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