Texas attorney Barr McClellan put the case against LBJ pretty strongly in his 2003 book, "Blood, Money & Power." McClellan was one of LBJ's personal lawyers, but his book did not get wide notice in the mainstream media at the time -- when his son, Scott McClellan was serving as White House Press Secretary for President Bush.
"Blood, Money &
Power" Did Not Appear on 2003 Bestseller Lists
The New York Times referred to McClellan's book dismissively in early 2004: "It is the most serious of public accusations, but it is so serious that serious people dismiss it as nuts. "
The only reason the Times brought it up then was that Barr McClellan had repeated his accusation on a History Channel program about the Kennedy assassination, "The Guilty Men." The Times was reporting on serious, and eventually effective pushback against the program by "Bill Moyers and other powerful men who worked for President Johnson," as the Times put it.
Early in May 2013, the same charge against LBJ was lodged by Roger Stone, in early publicity for his book, "The Man Who Killed Kennedy -- The Case Against LBJ," due out in the fall. The publisher, Skyhorse Publishing in Manhattan, begins its description of the book this way:
"Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of great ambition and enormous greed, both of
which, in 1963, would threaten to destroy him. In the end, President Johnson
would use power from his personal connections in Texas and from the underworld
and from the government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even
greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United
States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President John F.
Kennedy on November 22, 1963."
Skyhorse started publishing in 2006. In 2011, the company issued a paperback edition of Barr McClellan's "Blood, Money & Power. Skyhorse has some 2,000 titles in print, including "Guns Across the Border" (about Operation Fast and Furious), "Hit List" by Richard Belzer (about mysterious deaths of JFK assassination witnesses), "Shooter's Bible," and "Big Breasts & Wide Hips" (a novel).
Roger Stone Hinted at
Running for Governor of Florida as a Libertarian
As described on Huffington Post, "Roger Stone is a legendary American Republican political consultant who has played a key role in the election of Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. Long a an outspoken libertarian Republican Stone stunned the political world when he announced he would leave the GOP over it's lurch to the far-right on social issues and join the Libertarian Party. The Libertarians will be on the ballot in all 50 states."
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