Clay Shaw and Ruth Branigan

Even with the publication of my biography of Clay Shaw, Man of a Million Fragments: The True Story of Clay Shaw, there remain a few unresolved questions. Clay Shaw was the only person ever prosecuted for alleged involvement in the JFK assassination.

One involves Ruth Branigan, who in the 1960s was in the Department of Merchandising at Old Dominion College (now Old Dominion University) in Norfolk, Virginia. I believe that she might have been a faculty member, but am not certain of that.

Although I spent some time on an attempt to flesh out the relationship, as I did with all of Shaw's friends and acquaintances, I never figured out how she and Clay Shaw knew each other, when they first met, or the extent of their friendship (she was obviously supportive of him after his acquittal).

If anyone knew or knows of this Ruth Branigan, please contact me by telephone, letter, or e-mail.

Man of a Million Fragments: The True Story of Clay Shaw, had a nice 2015

Man of a Million Fragments: The True Story of Clay Shaw, a biography of the only man ever prosecuted for alleged involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy, has just finished a nice 2015. It was the first full year that a print edition has been available, and had good sales, buiding on the first two years when only the e-book was available.

It garnered some notable reviews, generally split along conspiracy (or the lack thereof) theory lines of thought. Any book on the assassination is bound to have that split, with two large hostile camps already in place for decades, so this was to be expected.

And, of course, it has had to find its audience, always challenging in this day when readers are bombarded with material from all sides and in all forms. But it is steadily working its way around the horn, so to speak.

Here's to an even better 2016!