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

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This might seem like another "conspiracy" book, but this
author has a unique perspective in that he worked in the
Dallas law firm that represented LBJ for many years, so
he is able to unveil the sad truth about that President
unlike other writers.
He entered the firm about the time LBJ's political career
was ending, but as the senior partner came to trust him,
and as he worked directly with the second-senior partner,
he came to learn many, many secrets about how LBJ operated
and how he achieved his political position.
This writer does, indeed, know where the bodies are buried,
and he names the names of judges, prosecutors and business
leaders who took bribes to cover up LBJ problems and crimes,
as well as who illegally advanced his career. From the
well-known stolen Senate election of 1948, where he tells
exactly who crept in at night to add names to a precinct's
polling book so the votes counted wouldn't exceed the possible
number of voters, on through the murder of a man who might
have exposed some unsavory facts about LBJ's sister, to the
most famous murder in modern times, that of President Kennedy.
LBJ's character is shown perfectly for what he was; the
lowest of sleazy politicians, who stopped at literally nothing
to advance his own fortunres and career.
Even in the matter of the murder of a man who ran around with
LBJ's sister, and who threatened to expose her personal habits,
LBJ wasn't worried about his sister at all, but how the bad
publicity might reflect on him and his ambitions.
As to the Kennedy murder, many theories abound, but this author
supplies significant details of interest. Basically, he says
that Oswald was, in fact, set up as a patsy, as Oswald claimed
immediately after he was apprehended by the Dallas PD, and he
relates the activities of the man recruited by LBJ's lawyer
to eliminate JFK, and the other 2 men who were at the scene
of the JFK murder and who participated.
This book would have benefited from a little better editing.
For example, the author names the man who was recruited to
shoot JFK, and gives many details of his history and movements,
and he then, early on, suggests he knows the name of the other
shooter of a fatal bullet, but that he can't quite name him
right now, and he is waiting on a little further proof. But that it will be forthcoming. Then, unhappily, later in the
book, the author plainly says the identity of the other shooter,
the man on the grassy knoll, will never be known. So, which is
it?
But he still has so many details, anyone interested in that
chapter in our history will want to read what he has to say.
And the writer tries a little too hard to distance himself from
any possible wrongdoing with his frequent claims of attorney-client privilege. He even reports that his partners learned
details of serious crimes in advance, but that they, and later
he, were prevented from revealing any of those facts by virtue
of that legal privilege. Baloney. Attorney ethics do not
allow a lawyer who learns facts of a crime in advance to keep
quiet and cover up the crime. Such action makes the lawyer part
of a criminal conspiracy or, at least, an accessory before the
fact.
Now some attorneys do, in fact, cover up crimes, but that is
now ethically permitted, and the attorney-client privilege does
not apply to protect either the attorney or the client.
It is hard to believe an attorney would make such assertion, but
the writer seems to be trying to distance himself from any
possible charge of wrongdoing.
But this is still interesting reading, and it is definitely a
"must" for anyone curious about what happened to JFK and why.
Such interested people will have to read this first-hand
account of the facts of the conspiracy.

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.

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.

Anyone questioning the veracity of Barr McClellan's information would be fully convinced after watching the embarassing job of back-peddaling that Jack Valenti and other powerful Johnson administration millionaires forced upon the History Channel in a rebuttal of November's broadcast of "the Guilty Men" documentary (based in part on some of the evidence in McClellan's insightful book). Three dubious "historians" were paid to rebut the evidence in McClellan's book and the History Channel documentary... but instead of dissecting any of McClellan's 68 exhibits of courtroom quality evidence, they chose instead to attack his character through complete falsehoods about McClellan's past. They glossed over McClellan's 14 years as a member of the Clark Law Firm (handling all of the legal, personal and professional business transactions for L.B.J.), and blatantly lied about the circumstances surrounding McClellan's departure from the firm and their attempts to discredit him with accusations (...)(which were fully dismissed and characterized as harrassing abuses of power by the Clark-Texas-Power mob). Now the Texas / Johnson apologists have pressured the History Channel to present a one-hour "discussion" about the facts presented in McClellan's book and the "Guilty Men" documentary. So why didn't they discuss the evidence? Could it be that it's easier to attack the messenger than disprove the obvious message? I've been ashamed of Johnson and his organized mob for decades... now I'm ashamed that the History Channel would succumb to the bullying of rich and powerful old men, all of whom made millions on the back of Johnson, and on the blood of our soldiers killed in Vietnam. Kudos to McClellan for not being intimidated by this old-generation of corrupt Texas politicians.

There are many weaknesses in this work, but I reccommend it for anyone interested in a primer on LBJ's corrupt and criminal record. McClellan makes it sound as if LBJ and his inner circle pulled of the assassination of JFK virtually on their own. Give me a break. LBJ was part of something bigger, much bigger, whether after the fact or as an active participant. Unfortunately, this book provides no additional information either way.

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.

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.

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 places 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 founders of the Council on Foreign Relations 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. After all, he and Clark and Wallace, like Oswald, are all dead. And as a lawyer he 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.

This guy really doesn't like LBJ. He is also a lawyer and writes like one: 1. the book could have been at least 1/3 shorter with an editor who actually edited, and 2. he is writing to persuade to his viewpoint. All that being said, the book is a compilation of really nasty suspicions, the basis for the suspicions in Texas history and politics and LBJ's history and politics, and a few facts consistent with those nasty suspicions. As a theory, it hangs together well.

This guy really doesn't like LBJ. He is also a lawyer and writes like one: 1. the book could have been at least 1/3 shorter with an editor who actually edited, and 2. he is writing to persuade to his viewpoint. All that being said, the book is a compilation of really nasty suspicions, the basis for the suspicions in Texas history and politics and LBJ's history and politics, and a few facts consistent with those nasty suspicions. As a theory, it hangs together well.