Dean Andrews

From The Kennedy Assassination Resource

Dean Adams Andrews

Dean Andrews was a New Orleans based attorney whose clients included New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. He also had business links with David Ferrie.

Shortly after the assassination of Kennedy, Andrews was asked to defend Oswald by New Orleans businessman Clay Bertrand (alias Clay Shaw).

When questioned by the Commission counsel, Andrews said that Oswald had previously consulted him about getting his discharge from the Marine Corps altered to an honourable one.

He also said that the FBI tried to persuade him that Clay Bertrand was a figment of his imagination, and did not exist. He testified that the FBI agents pressured him persistently, adding "You can tell when the steam is on. They are on you like the plague. They never leave. They are like cancer. Eternal." Eventually their persistence wore him down and he told them to write whatever they wanted in their report and close the file on him. They wrote that Andrews had accepted that Bertrand did not exist, even though Andrews swore he had made no such statement and had seen Bertrand about six weeks before appearing before counsel. At another time he said that to reveal the truth about Bertrand would endanger his life.