Jim Garrison: His Life and Times, The Early Years, is a biography
of the former District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana
from his 1922 birth in Iowa and service in World War II - he was
among those assigned to Dachau Concentration Camp the day after
its liberation - to his years confronting the corrupt politics of
Louisiana.
In 1997, Joan Mellen started to work on the story of former Orleans
Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison's life. That biography turned
into the story of Garrison's investigation of the assassination of
President John Kennedy, and then into a new investigation of the
assassination itself in her book, "A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison,
JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed
History," published in 2005.