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

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McClellan's overwrought conspiracy theory claims that Lyndon Johnson-motivated by power lust, fear of being dropped from the Kennedy ticket, and the need to cover up various scandals-masterminded Kennedy's assassination with the help of his evil "superlawyer" Ed Clark. But his evidence is meager and murky, even by the standards of Kennedy conspiracy scholarship. The main exhibit is a smudged partial fingerprint from Oswald's sniper's nest that may or may not belong to a Johnson associate, depending on which fingerprint expert you ask. Otherwise McClellan relies on what he heard during his years at Clark's law firm-e.g., a partner told him that Clark arranged the assassination-and the description of scenes in which a "a fixed stare," vague, unspoken understandings, and "code words" proved that Johnson and Clark were conspiring. Sample accusations include: "I knew Clark was admitting to the payoff for the assassination even though he never said he received a payoff for assassinating Kennedy...." The book offers many detailed accounts of conspiratorial meetings that turn out to be not fact but "faction" or "journalistic novelization"-that is, conjecture designed to distract readers from the lack of evidence. McClellan styles the assassination as the defeat of Camelot by Texas's sleazy nexus of dirty politicians, slick lawyers and oil money; the unmasking of Johnson, the personification of such back-room power politics, therefore promises a public "emotional purging" leading to the renewal of democracy. His confusingly structured, evasively argued, often nonsensical theories attest to the crime's continuing potency as a symbol of America's mythic heart of darkness. Photos.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Inside details of assassination plot from former LBJ attorney.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating - yes; factual - dunno, Jun 27 2004

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Shannon Gaw (Roswell, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. (Hardcover)

This book was a page-turner and very hard to put down. A good half or more was really an LBJ biography that offered new information not found in similar works I have read. This bio provided some very unflattering data on LBJ that - unfortunately - I really feel is more-or-less accurate. As far as the assertions that LBJ and Edward Clark had JFK assassinated, well that evidence is inconclusive. The assertions that LBJ (and Clark) committed some despicable acts are very arguable, but to advance beyond the other garden-variety conspiracy theories of Kennedy's assassination, the author needs to formulate a better case. The author readily admitted to the use of "faction" in this last chapter or so, but I feel he used that technique well before then. He includes almost 100 pages of photocopied evidence in the book's appendix, but while it may legitimately show LBJ as a dishonest, power-hungry, and pathological man, it falls far short of implicating him in JFK's assassination.

For McClellan to have presented this book as an unflattering LBJ bio and suggested possible involvement in the assassination is one thing, but for him to offer this as definitive proof, "Blood..." fails. For a look at the seamier side of LBJ, and the indictment of legal abuse of the state judicial system, it's a good read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Important-needs more corroboration, May 13 2004

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This review is from: Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. (Hardcover)

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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3.0 out of 5 stars Did the Council on Foreign Relations Encourage the Writing?, May 7 2004

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This interesting work blames the entire JFK assassination on LBJ and his chief attorney Edward Clark with Malcom "Mac" Wallace and Lee Harvey Oswald serving as the only triggermen. It places them both in the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the shooting. However, it seems obvious that if Wallace was involved at all, he may have been the "Badgeman" seen in the Moorman Polaroid photo, which would place him in the "Grassy Knoll" area instead of the depository. The face in that snapshot looks like Mac Wallace. Oswald could not have been in the infamous sixth-floor window.

The author's son, Scott McClellan, served as President George W. Bush's Press Secretary until a recent move to a more prestigious administration post. Since Bush is a member of the Order of Skull & Bones and undoubtedly beholden to the family that foundered of the Council on Foreign Relations, their followers and other secret societies, it seems likely that the author may have been encouraged by the upper echelons of the CFR to alter his book to cast blame for the assassination on Lyndon et al. After all, he, Clark and Wallace, like Oswald, are all dead. And as a lawyer Barr McClellan most assuredly knows that you can't libel the dead.

This work may well be nothing more than another attempt to coverup the real perpetrators of the coup d'Etat in America on November 22, 1963; to again mislead researchers with yet another red herring.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Did the Council on Foreign Relations Encourage the Writing?
This interesting work blames the entire JFK assassination on LBJ and his chief attorney Edward Clark with Malcom "Mac" Wallace and Lee Harvey Oswald serving as the only... Read more

Published on May 7 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Load of Paranoid Conspiracy-theorist B.S.
The review title says it all. This is mostly food for the anti-Johnson people to consume in their hateful attempts to pin the death of JFK onto a generally unpopular figure among... Read more

Published on May 1 2004