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Summary: Book says more about author's paranoia than anything else
Review: Looking for an examination of physical evidence within this book? Save your time. Most of this book is devoted to an examination of "code words" that the author overheard, and intuitive conclusions the author has made despite the absence of any concrete evidence. Under ordinary circumstances, a person who was convinced that everyone around him was speaking in a secret code would be a prime candidate for a competency hearing, but apparently not in this case.Aside from the secret code babble, McClellan gives the reader revelations about what an unscrupulous power-monger LBJ was. Well gee, that sure is news to me...I always thought LBJ was pure as the driven snow. Good grief, if being unscrupulous qualifies one for being the force behind political assassinations, then virtually everyone working on Capitol Hill in 1963 would have to be considered as a suspect. Even more hilarious is McClellan's subscribing to the Camelot myth, the notion that JFK somehow represented all that was good & pure in US politics. Give me a break. This book is ridiculous on so many different levels that it is truly amazing at times. As theories go, the rationale behind this one takes absurdity to its extreme. For example, if one is going to argue the notion that the person (or persons) who benefitted the most from the JFK assassination had to be the person (or persons) behind it, why not look at the Kennedys themselves? After all, the assassination transformed JFK from a mediocre and probably one-term president into a dazzling leader of unfulfilled promised, cut down in his prime. Getting shot in many ways was the best career move JFK ever made, and certainly the Kennedy family has milked the Camelot mythos for all it is worth. Using McClellan's methodology, this should qualify the Kennedys as prime suspects! We ought to be sending a squad of investigators to Hyannisport immediately. One can make one of two conclusions about the author: he is either truly delusional and paranoid, or is cynically exploiting the whole conspiracy cottage industry to make a quick buck by floating the most outrageous theory he can cook up. Since he is preaching to the choir anyway, I am inclined to believe the second conclusion.
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Summary: A Unique Perspective on an Unspeakable Crime
Review: Of all the books that have been written about the assassination of JFK, only one has been able to go beyond mere speculation with regard to LBJ's involvement in the crime. Barr McClellan's access to critical evidence makes him amply qualified to share a unique perspective into one of the darkest conspiracies of the twentieth century. Truly a page-turner, McClellan's BLOOD, MONEY AND POWER reads like a novel as the author takes the reader through every detail of the unspeakable crime. He also provides background information on the main characters which, to me, makes them three-dimensional and helps to establish motive for their actions. It is an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: No Texan should stand by LBJ
Review: I have read a few magazine articles on the assasination of JFK but never considered the conspiracy theories much. None ever rang true for long. However, this book sheds new light on the motives and deconstructs the myth of LBJ. Finally a book that really puts it out there. At least it is pointing in the right direction. It is closer to the truth than any documentary or movie that has been made up to this point. LBJ was ABSOLUTELY, and without a doubt the man behind the death of JFK. It is an exciting and enlightening view on a very sad moment in our history, one for which we are STILL paying for and will continue to pay for. It was the end of America. The book sheds light on the motives.Barr McClellan is one of the few who does have the fortunate insight and knowledge to write this book and I am damn glad he did. The state of Texas, Austin, TX specifically continues to glorify and admire LBJ and the Johnson family. I think every Texan should read this book. If they have any sort of a conscience, they will no longer be able to bring themselves to praise this man even in the smallest thought but see him for the sleazy politician he really was. Based on this book alone, based on the theory that it offers, what it does expose is a cowardly man and no Texan should stand by LBJ.
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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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