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# Bundy Lying2. Sheridan's second attempt was to attack the credi-   bility of Vernon Bundy, a witness for the prosecution   who had seen Oswald and Shaw together on the New Or-   Deaas lakerront (Lake Pontchartrain). Sheridan   cooked up two "witnesses" against Bandy. NBC pre-   sented John "the Baptist" Cancler, a burglar and   Miguel Torres, also a burglar, who had been ac-   quainted with Bundy.Sheridan paid Cancler and Torres to make state-ments on the program. Cancler said that Bundy hadindicated to him that his story regarding Oswaldand Shaw was not true. Torres asserted that Bundy'stestimony was "an out-front lie". Cancler said hehad been approached by members of Garrison's staffto plant" something in Shaw's house. Torres claimedthat the had been asked (by Garrison) to testify thatShaw had made homosexual advances toward him andalso that Shaw was Bertrand.Frank McGee reported that NBC had discoveredBundy was lying during his polygraph test and Gar-rison knew it but let him testify anyway.## Cancler Sentenced to 18 YearsFollowing the TV show, Cancler was called before...the Orleans Parish grand jury and asked to repeathis accusations under oath. Cancler took the fifthamendment, refusing to reiterate his TV charges. Thejury foreman immediately took Cancler before a judge.and asked him to repeat. Cancler again took thefifth and was found guilty of contempt of court andfined $500 or one year. Apparently Sheridan hadpaid him a lot more than $500. Two weeks laterCancler was handed a third convinction and sentencedto eighteen years as a multiple offender.Miguel Torres was also brought before a grandjury and took the fifth when he was asked, "Werethe statements you made on national television onNBC in June 1967, concerning the district attorney,true?"James Alcock, Garrison's assistant district at-torney who handled the Shaw trial, said to the judge,"Torres and Cancler just tell the television andWalter Sheridan about it. When they have an oppor-tunity to do something they take the fifth amendment."## Sheridan Could Not Get Russo to "Cooperate"3. Sheridan himself appeared on screen to discuss   Perry Russo. He could never get Russo to change   his mind and cooperate, so Sheridan interpreted for   the audience what Russo had told him. He stated   that Russo told him that his testimony against Shaw   may be a combination of truth, fantasy and lies.Andrew Sciambra, Garrison's assistant districtattorney who interviewed Russo, delivered a memo toGarrison, detailing Walter Sheridan's efforts tobribe and threaten Russo. The statements made byRusso to Sciambra were very incriminating aboutSheridan. The net result of all Sheridan's effortswere that Russo stuck to his story at the trial.## Fred Leemans, "Witness"4. Sheridan's last "witness" on the show was Fred   Leemans, another bar owner (Sheridan seemed to   specialize in bar owners) and former Turkish bath   operator. Leemans said that his original statements   given to Garrison about Clay Shaw were not true and   that his psyche began to trouble him. The morality   of his actions wegan to weigh upon his mind. Perhaps   a little of Sheridan's green stuff weighed even more   heavily. At any rate he recanted his claim that Clay.   Shaw had come to the Turkish hath, that he (Leemans).   had associated the name Bertrand with Shaw, and that   on occasion he had been accompanied by a young   slightly-bearded man whom he called "Lee". Leemaกร   said on TV that Garrison had offered him $2500 for   his testimony.The New York Times telephoned Leemans followinghis appearance for an interview. He refused tospeak about his NBC hit, conceding that he had ar-ranged to give the Associated Press the exclusivestory. He said, "After all, I have to get somethingout of all of this." On hearing this line, one ofGarrison's staff smiled and said, "Ah, now that'sthe Fred Leemans we all recognize."## Bribing and Attempting to Bribe WitnessesIn addition to bribing and attempting to bribewitnesses, Sheridan also had meetings with one ofGarrison's part-time investigators, William Gur-vich. Garrison found out about the meetings anddid not give Gurvich all of the information hewanted.Jim Garrison said about Sheridan and the NBCbroadcast, "Aside from the fact that it insultedthe intelligence of every American, it was a veryclear attempt to prejudice in advance possiblejurors in the case. 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