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Summary: Blows the Doors off of Corruption at the Highest Levels
Review: This book reveals the corrupt path to power of LBJ. In spite of all the attempts to conceal the truth, this book leaves little doubt, and the title says it all. What remarkable courage of the author.
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Summary: The title of the book tell's it all
Review: This book is a "must read" for people who are intrested in what happened in Dallas TX. It also shows what some people will do to protect thier intrests, greed and ego's. The killing of JFK does not need a lengthly, drawn out novel. The plot is simple; kill anyone, anywhere for any reason as long as it feeds your ego for POWER. And that the "facts" can be "lost" in several stories keeping the attention away from who was really behind the murder.
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Summary: There are connections
Review: I am a relative to Edward Clark, LBJ's attorney and I have always heard the murmurs from East Texan's that my uncle was the one that set up JFK's assassination. I always ignored it growing up. When Barr published this book, we bought it and it does show quite a few coincidences. For instance. Jack Ruby's lawyer, Joe Tonahill of Jasper, TX was the ex-brother in law to Edward Clark. Please tell me why Jack Ruby would hire someone from deep East Texas to defend him? Definitely a must read.
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Summary: Research Walt Brown
Review: If you are interested in this book take the time to read Walt Brown's November 1, 2003 recant of his recommendation found on the jacket of this book. It has some very interesting information. Since it's not fair to quote the entire statement a little bit of effort is required. This is easily found on the internet and is titled "clarification." Hint; search on Barr clarification "Walt Brown"From Brown"s clarification, "I cannot, in good conscience, castigate the Warren Commission's work, on one hand, and widely endorse a mistake-laden, "factionalized" account on the other. It would be hypocrisy, and despite my LBJ beliefs, I cannot do it." By the way, I do agree with Brown's assessment that LBJ was involved in the assassination.
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Summary: The truth will set you free!
Review: McClellan's book intrigued me for two reasons: 1) He is a lawyer willing to break the so-called sacred attorney client priviledge to reveal a henious crime. There is no justification for covering up a crime to protect your client, especially a crime that affects our whole society. 2) He is thus far the one conspiracy theorist who was closest to the crime (if you beleive him). Of course, there is one sure fired way to put an end to all the conspiracy hoopla and continuing interest in the assasination of JFK, and that is to open all the FBI and CIA files that have been closed until 2029, a fact that leads me to believe somebody's hiding something. I didn't give McClellan's book 5 stars because he inserted "faction". Chapters 17 and 18 are fake conversations between LBJ and his lawyer, Ed Clark, and LBJ and his shrink. If you don't know what the the conversation was about, then just report that they probably met. When you move away from the facts, then you just fuel the relentless attacks by the JFK conspiracy critics (remember JFK by Oliver Stone?). The fact that the book reveals LBJ to be a scumbag inspite of the sanitized versions we read in history textbooks (no wonder history is so boring!) and the fact that there appears to be links between LBJ, his lawyer Ed Clark and Mac Wallace (an alledged assasin) to the crime scene makes the book worth reading. McClellan obviously was privy to information we didn't have that has led him to conclude LBJ was somehow involved in JFK's death.
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Summary: Incredible--Blows the Doors off of the Coverup
Review: What a fantastic connection of LBJ's fanatical and homicidal grabs of power. McClellan should be commended for taking such a tough task and truly connecting the pieces of the puzzle back to a corrupt LBJ.
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Summary: Another Flake
Review: The last gasps of a drunken lawyer....intent, like Oswald and Ruby, to be "somebody." Not 10 percent of this book is accurate -- and that all comes from other's work. How can these kooks and charlatans sleep nights?
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Summary: some really dumb people out there
Review: Mr. Barr is laughing all the way to the bank. I do recommend buying the book (autographed if possible) - I have a feeling this book will never be reprinted, as Mrs. Johnson has filed suit. You can write a book like Mr. Barr, as thats what makes this country so great. However, if your book causes defamation of character and no foundation. Watch out
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Summary: Blood, Money, and Power
Review: Being a self proclaimed expert on this assassination and beleiveing that LBJ certainly knew about it prior to it taking place I eagerly anticipated this book. By and large I enjoyed it and believe that Barr took some literary liberties while writing it, which I wish he had not done. As such it is somewhat unbeleivable for there are quotes for conversations where there could not have been witnesses and therefore the conversations are his conjecture. The book is somewhat hard to follow in places and poorly written in others but he is to be commended for bravely coming forward and putting into print what others have simply whispered about. For anyone interested in the subject it is a good read and in my belief far more factual than fiction.
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Summary: depends on pre-book perspective
Review: 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
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