Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. | Barr McClellan

Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. | Barr McClellan | Motive and means

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	Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. Barr McClellan Hannover House, 2003 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Inside details of assassination plot from former LBJ attorney.

Interesting and compelling analysis...

The author opens with a detailed biography of Lyndon Johnson that removes the veneer of 'presidentiality' from Johnson and shows him as a greedy, fearful, mean man with an all-consuming need for power. McClellan then builds his case against Johnson by describing events earlier in Johnson's life in which foul acts were performed for a momentary advantage. Quite a bit of detail is provided about the stuffing of the ballot box which allowed Johnson to win his seat in the US Senate in 1948 and also about the murder of the USDA inspector, Henry Marshall, who was on the trail of fraud being perpetrated on the Department of Agriculture. The original investigation found that Marshall had committed suicide...with five bullets in his body delivered by a close Johnson associate, Mac Wallace. Another murder victim was Doug Kinser who was threatening to bring scandal to Johnson. Mac Wallace was then convicted of killing Kinser but, thanks to Johnson's power over the Texas legal system, was sentenced to 5 years in prison and given a suspended sentence.

It is Wallace that the author alleges was one of the trigger men in the sniper's nest along with Oswald. As proof, the author matches a fingerprint found on a box in the sniper's nest with one of Wallace's earlier fingerprints obtained for the Kinser murder to place Wallace on the 6th floor of the School Book Depository. The author provides a lot of other interesting information such as pointing out that it was Johnson who arranged for Kennedy to visit Texas on November 22, 1963 and that Johnson had given a copy of the Secret Service plans for protecting the president to the conspirators.

McClellan also claims that there was a third trigger man on the grassy knoll who he does not identify and he claims that the conspirators wore suits and used fake Secret Service badges to identify themselves to police and escape the scene after the shooting. There is some credibility to this as many of the shooting eye witnesses and police officers reported encountering secret service agents in Dealey Plaza after the shooting and yet the Warren Commission established that not a single secret service agent was present in Dealey Plaza other than those riding on vehicles. One of the weaker parts of the book is where McClellan claims that the entire conspiracy was the work of a crooked Johnson lawyer named Ed Clark. It seems much more likely that the conspiracy was large enough that the lawyer Clark was working closely with other a handful of rogue agents from the CIA and the secret service and that the final conspiracy was a 'team' effort.

This is an interesting book that fleshes out a lot of missing pieces of the assassination puzzle and makes some of the earlier stuff attributed to Johnson, such as his phone call to the Parkland Hospital ER seeking a dying confession from Oswald, much more believable.

After reading this book, you will never again look the same way at the famous photo of Johnson getting a wink from Congressman Albert Thomas on board Air Force One after being sworn in as the president following Kennedy's killing.

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Motive and means

I've read quite a few books on the JFK assassination. This one makes the most sense to me. The book doesn't go into a lot of technical detail like the ballistics, Zapruder Film, witnesses, medical evidence, etc. I think that trying to "prove" who carried out the assassination using physical evidence is problematic at this point in time, because so much of it has been altered, stolen, or just disappeared. Several researchers even say that the Zapruder film has been altered. The only evidence the author uses is a fingerprint found on the 6th floor of the TBD that doesn't match Oswald's. A fingerprint expert does match the print to someone named Mac Wallace. You will have to read the book to find out who Mac Wallace was. Most of the book deals with LBJ from his early days up to the assassination. The author describes how LBJ uses power and political contacts to pull off the crime of the century. This may be the last book on the JFK assasination you will need to read.

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Before Committing Murder, First Get A Lawyer!

I hope that being the son-in-law of Page Keeton (expert on Torts law and U of Texas Law School Dean) lends credibility to this tome of LBJ's involvement with the men and actions surrounding JFK's death. It's interesting that so many lawyers would be involved, but who better to help cover the tracks of the conspirators? If I had not seen the History Channel's The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Guilty Men, I might have gotten lost in the myriad of names and dates. I wanted the Audible version but the reviews said the written book was better as the author (not a professional reader) read his own work. Recommended for conspiracy theorists and JFK buffs.

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