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Summary: LBJ finally revealed
Review: All Texans know that LBJ stole the 1948 US Senate election from Coke Stevenson by stuffing the ballot box. All Texans also know about how LBJ went into office a poor man and came out a rich man. What we didn't know was just how corrupt a man he was, until reading this book. His ego was bigger than Texas, and he just had to be president. All that was standing in his way was John and Robert Kennedy. Add in the fact that Billy Sol Estes was going to jail and was going to take LBJ with him (Bobby Kennedy, the AG of the US, would see to that), and it is not hard to believe that LBJ would consider murder to achieve his goals. This book spells out in detail for everyone how and why he did it. It is must reading for anybody interested in how and why JFK was cut down in broad daylight in LBJ's home state. Highly recommend this book, if for no other reason than to learn how attorney/client privelege with a corrupt lawyer, Ed Clark, led to so many people being disillusioned with their government. Most critics of this book pooh-pooh the allegations, but they didn't work for LBJ's law firm like Barr McClellan did. They didn't help negotiate the final payoff for the assassination like Barr McClellan did. They didn't talk to the mastermind behind the assassination (Ed Clark) like Barr McClellan did. It is beyond me why Mr. McClellan would make these allegations regarding Mr. Clark if they weren't true. The author's son is now the White House spokesman for President Bush, so the family has always been close to the White House power structure.
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Summary: Important-needs more corroboration
Review: 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.
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Summary: Republican propaganda?
Review: Barr McClellan, a lawyer for Texas oil companies and the father of George W. Bush's White House press secretary, strips the JFK assassination of any political motive and reduces it to the personal motives of one Democrat. LBJ, says McClellan, killed JFK because he was greedy for power and was afraid of having his corruption exposed. Period. There is no mention of JFK's decision to bring the troops home from Vietnam, "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces," get rid of the oil depletion tax credit, or end segregation--all the reasons for which the far right wing despised him. That far right wing is now in power and openly asserts its hatred for "liberal senators from Massachusetts." I do believe Johnson played a role in the cover-up (though not necessarily in the assassination itself), but for political, not personal, motives. This book talks a lot about Texas oil men, yet never once mentions George H. W. Bush--how is that possible? Finally, McClellan says Oswald was one of the shooters, which any reputable assassination researcher knows is not true. Oswald could not have fired a rifle that day because he had no gunpower residue on his cheek when he was tested for it.
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Summary: For All Americans--Thank You--a Wonderful Book
Review: Blood, Money & Power tells of a tortured path to power of LBJ, a man whom nothing--not cheating, not stealing, not murder--was apparently beyond his pernicious self. The author, an insider, must be commended for bringing forth the loose ends and tying them together. The conspiracy theorists may be disappointed that the answer was so simple and that so many rabbit trails were followed.
The chronological events in this book are extremely damaging to LBJ, who at times did not even appear to hide his arrogance and criminal activities.
But the fingerprint of LBJ's personal henchman, Mac Wallace, brings it all back to LBJ's doorstep.
We must not forget such evil, and we must all be vigilant to prevent such from ever happening again.
Please read this book--and don't ever forsake the truth.
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Summary: LBJ, BILLIE SOL ESTES, BOBBY BAKER, & JFK
Review: THE BOOK TIES TOGETHER NUMBEROUS LOOSE ENDS, THE BILLIE SOL ESTES SWINDEL, "THE ENRON OF THE 1960"s", HIS PARTNER WAS LBJ.
EVERY ACCOUNTANT STUDIED THIS CASE IN COLLEGE IN THE LATE 60'S AND 70'S, BILLIE SOL ESTES WENT TO PRISON AND LBJ BECAME PRESIDENT. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS IT CLEARLY. BILLIE SOL ESTES LBJ'S BUSINESS PARTNER,HE NOW LIVES IN FRANCE,IS TELLING THE SAME STORY. THE MARSHALL MURDER TRYING TO STOP THE BILLIE SOL ESTES INVESTAGATION IN TEXAS,A FEDERAL AGENT, OF WHICH IN 1987
LBJ IS NOW CHARGED WITH THE KILLING. A MUST READ BOOK.
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Summary: Enough evidence to convict any ordinary citizen
Review: The only thing that would have made this book better in my opinion is if it had been limited to events surrounding the assasination that the author knew for sure happened, rather than the addition of speculation, or in the author's words, "faction". However, this would have made the book a small portion of its total length. Read it as a brief work on modern Texas political history rather than a facts-only review of the assasination and it will be a five-star book. With that said, the book points out undeniable and easily documented facts that can point to no other person at the top of the assasination plot except Lyndon Johnson. The facts, with photos, provided in this book that would make me vote guilty as a juror:
1) A fingerprint in the sniper's nest of the book depository was matched to Mac Wallace. He was there.
2) Mac Wallace killed a boyfriend of Johnson's sister, Josefa Johnson, on October 22, 1951. McClellan says it was to silence the man from revealing a scandal about Josefa. The evidence was overwhelming and 11 of 12 jurors recommended the death penalty. Wallace's attorney, however, was employed by the Clark law firm. McClellan points out that Ed Clark was so powerful and intimidating in Texas legal circles that all he had to do was pick up the phone and call a judge. The judge in Wallace's case overruled the jury's recommendation for the death penalty and sentenced Wallace to five years' prison with a suspended sentence. Wallace was freed after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
3) McClellan was one of four principal members in the law firm that handled all of Johnson's legal matters, coming into it in the years following the assasination. Two of the other principal members of the firm told him in private, at different times, that the firm had orchestrated the assasination of Kennedy on behalf of Johnson.
4) This author is absolutely credible. He is a high-profile, intelligent attorney, and the father of the current White House press secretary, Scott McClellan.
In short, if Mac Wallace was at an important event, it involved Lyndon Johnson and the Clark law firm, and he was there. A 14-point matching fingerprint would convict you or me wouldn't it? Is it so far-fetched that the "heir to the throne" will murder the king? It has happened many times throughout history. When people dismiss the idea as preposterous that a former president would be guilty of murdering another president, I'm reminded of Winston Churchill's famous quote: "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on." Great book. Distill it down to the facts and you will have no hesitation in answering the question, "Who was our WORST president?"
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Summary: Fascinating - yes; factual - dunno
Review: 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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Summary: Interesting ,yes, believable?
Review: This story is plausible, if you read Robert Caro's excellent bio LBJ was capable of doing it. But there's not much proof, lots of circumstantial evidence. What makes me suspicious is that Barr's son Scott is Dubya's press secretary. I wonder what he has to say about all this? What ulterior motives does Mr McClellan have?
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