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Title: Blood, Money & Power: How L. B. J. Killed J. F. K. by Barr McClellan ISBN: 0-9637846-2-5 Publisher: Hanover House (D.D.) Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (62 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: depends on pre-book perspective
Comment: Years ago after reading several claims to reveal the truth books and Stone's movie, this reviewer vowed to avoid all Kennedy assassination fantasies. However, being a sensationalist-seeking ugly American, the subtitle "HOW L. B. J. KILLED J. F. K." hooked me and so with recently seeing a great History Channel piece on what happened at the Grassy Knoll, I ventured back into the land of Camelot.
Barr McClellan makes a case that paranoid power monger LBJ, fearing removal from the 64 reelection and benefiting from his boss' death, arranged the JFK assassination through a close friend lawyer Ed Clark. The problem with the conclusion is that the evidence at best is vague and unsubstantiated. The key supporting physical evidence is a smudged partial fingerprint that might belong to an LBJ associate (but also might not). The remaining arguments build around motive, water cool rumors and enigmatic "codes" that Mr. McClellan heard while working at Mr. Clark's law firm. Accepting the author's word still fails (at least to this reviewer) to produce any solid evidence that would hold up in a first degree murder trial or even a wrongful death civil suit.
Well written and intriguing, the case that "L.B.J. killed J.F.K." seems stretched though quite entertaining in more of a disjointed novel manner especially the highlighted conspiracy sessions. The bottom line is that if a reader already believes in the Texas chain saw killing of JFK to place LBJ in the White House, they will elatedly devour every line of this book's supposition. Those with doubts will skeptically point out that this is another rush to judgment without substance.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Politics as Usual
Comment: It's easy to say "politics as usual" after reading this book
on the life nad politics of LBJ, but, believe it or not, this
one will give you a glimpse of politics you wish you had never
seen.
LBJ has to have been the most sleazy man to ever hold the office
of President of the US, and his records almost is beyond belief.
But this author gives most of the names and dates, with all
the connections, that show LJB was involved in a lifetime of crime, including bribery, extortion, influence-peddling of the
worst kind, womanizing of the lowest kind, and then, worst of
all, complicity in the murder of JFK.
The writer has good credentials for his knowledge, since he worked for the Dallas law firm that represented LBJ's personal
interests, and the senior partner for that firm served as LJB's
personal bagman, as well as being the one who usually delivered the payments as well as the ultimatiums. He went into that firm
as a young guy after the JFK murder, but he was there for years,
and he recounts how he learned the truth over a period of years,
as the 2 senior men decided they could trust him to be quiet and
keep the secrets.
The author is rather self-serving in his denial of any duty to
report crimes at the time, as he learned about them, and he
rather akwardly tries to use the legal profession's canons of
ethics as an excuse. He repeatedly asserts that the "lawyer-client privilege" kept him from repeating any of this information, but he even relates examples where crimes were planned in advance, with the help of these lawyers, and he still
tries to say that privilege protected everyone. That is simply
not true, and we have to wonder in surprise at his assertions,
when the law is very clear that such privilege would not allow
lawyers to conspire to commit crimes with immpunity.
But it is an interesting story and one which should be read by
every voter in the country.
As to the main claim that LBJ participated in the murder of JFK,
the writer even gives the name of the shooter who fired one of
the fatal bullets (now dead of course), and he repeats the oft-heard claim that Oswald was a patsy.
The book could have been better edited, because in one section,
he claims he knows who the other shooter was but says he has to
await the development of further proof before actually naming
him publicly. But in a later section, he says the exact identify of the other shooter will never be known.
But he gives details of where the 2 shooters of fatal bullets
were stationed and the order of firing, etc., and he further
explains their ability to escape by pointing out that LBJ's
help allowed them to have false Secret Service credentials. He
also explains that the plan was for Oswald to be caught on the
spot and shot and killed in a shoot-out with police, but that Oswald slipped away too quickly, to be apprehended a little later in a theater.
He explains that Oswald fired 2 bullets at JFK, but that both
missed their target, while the 2 real shooters both connected.
Also pointed out by him is that 3 men (the 2 shooters and a look-out) were supplied with the false Secret Service credentials, but that only Oswald was not included in that part
of the plan.
You don't have to be a "conspiracy" buff to find his details
interesting, so it is very worthwhile reading. And even if
the reader can't quite believe Vice-Pres. Johnson conspired to
kill a sitting President, the full details of LBJ's life of
thuggery and law-breaking are very believeable, with, as stated,
considerable detail. From stealing the Senate election of 1948
(and he names the man who illegally filled in the voters' registration lists of a particular Texas precinct so the total
votes allegedly cast wouldn't exceed the number of registered
voters) to the murder of a man who would have embarrassed LBJ
with public revelations of the sister of LBJ, this list of
crimes and wrong-doing goes beyond even what even the most cynical of us would have believed.
As said, every voter should read this list of crimes and political excesses.
Rating: 4
Summary: Important-needs more corroboration
Comment: After reading some 80 books on the Assassination of JFK,& accepting that there was some type of conspiracy, the most important thing to know is-who was behind it? I believe there was some rogue- off the shelf conspiracy between Cuban Exiles, mafia, & ultra right wing types in the New Orleans-Dallas underground,plus possible renegades from florida that were associated with the failed bay of pigs invasion and there's much to support this, however after reading this book you will find that the owner of the Texas Schoolbook Depository was a good friend of LBJ at the time of the Assassination and he had huge investments in the Miltary Industrial Complex. This man Mac Wallace, a cold blooded killer worked for a subsidiary of the owner of the TSBD, & can be traced directly to Lyndon Johnson when LBj's lawyers got him out of a first degree murder conviction in 1951. This man Wallace, allegedly left a fingerprint in the sniper's nest and this print has been corroborated as Author McLellan relates by interpol in the back of the book.Several things the Author does not mention, or just briefly, that makes me now believe Johnson was right in the thick of it at the highest levels is this(besides the several scandals swirling around LBJ-Billie Sol Estes- and Bobby Baker at the time of the Assassination & the very important point made by Barr McLellan is that the business problems by any one of thenm including powerful Oilmen were all linked by a long history of shady goings on) Hoover and LBJ hated Kennedy- they were neighbors in Wahington for 18 years! The only way the Assassnation could be pulled off is with their connivance. Hoover immediately is pushing the lone nut story before any investigation had begun, also, as we've seen the crime scene was under control of LBJ and friends, as well as the whole Texas trip, the nightspot where members of the Secret Service were drinking the night before was also frequented by LBJ and his friends, the admiral who appears to have controlled the Autopsy-President Kennedy's physician Dr. Burkley stayed on with LBJ and is at the black heart of this whole case in regards to many disappearing Autopsy Photos,disappearing brain, skull fragments, that have vanished, tissue slides, so you can't say this about anyone else or any agency, Only LBJ had all these connections, the power to make the unthinkable happen. McLellan opens the door on Johnson, but doesn't quite slam it.Hopefully, there will be some type of follow up.
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