Gary Shaw was formerly co-director with Larry N. Howard of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas. He has written several books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was co-author with Larry R. Harris of Cover-Up: The Government Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy (1976).

Shaw, now a self-employed architect in Cleburne, Texas, he is also co-author with Charles Crenshaw of Trauma Room One (2001).