NEW: RI Writer Nominates Jim Garrison For Profile In Courage Award
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Rhode Island-based writer Charles R. Drago, who has written and lectured extensively on the political assassinations of the 1960s, has nominated former Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison for the 2013 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Garrison, who was famously portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 1993 Oliver Stone film JFK, became the only law enforcement official to secure an indictment of, and bring to trial, a suspect in the murder of President Kennedy.
Drago, who is the author of the introduction to A Certain Arrogance: The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cold War Manipulations of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence (by George Michael Evica; TrineDay, 2010), said that the late Jim Garrison “meets perfectly every established criteria for the Profile in Courage Award.”
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“When I read the award criteria on the JFK Library website, I realized that I might have been reading a concise description of Jim Garrison’s ‘acts of political courage’ and the consequences he experienced for taking them,” Drago said.
According to the award’s website, the Profile in Courage Award honors “modern-day elected officials who govern for the greater good, even when it is not in their own interest to do so.”
“The award is presented annually to a public official or officials at the federal, state or local level ... who stand up for particular ideals or principles, even when constituents or powerful interest groups pressured them to bend,” it says.
Drago noted that, given recent public statements by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that his father thought the Warren Commission, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship," the Garrison nomination could not be more timely.
The winner(s) of the 2013 Profile in Courage Award will be announced in May.
