Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas by Joan Mellen

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[PDF file]: […] that Wallace got his security clearance over the objections of the security people. Presumably, though not demonstrably, this influence was coming from (the then) Senator Johnson. Why LBJ was doing all this for Wallace is unexplained. There is little on the Wallace-Johnson relationship: one suggestion from a journalist who was researching LBJ in the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the first to suggest – if only by implication – that while JFK’s assassination was a big deal to the rest of the world, in Texas ‘Was LBJ a “Serial Killer” Who Advanced His Career By Murdering at Least 6 Other Men Who Stood In His Way?’ at or . 1 He writes at […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this aversion, which borders on abdication.’ (p. 4) ‘orders on abdication’ is about right. To cite just one example he highlights: Robert Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ, Arthur Schlesinger’s account of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days, and Robert Dallek’s recent much praised two volume Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President,5 all […]

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.72 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.73 We […]

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[…] switched off to conceal what was happening.21 *new* On the Morrow Robert Morrow is a Texas-based researcher on the JFK assassination and, in particular, the role of LBJ in it. He has done some impressive detective work and his blog is interesting. Verbatim, here is part of his latest email on these subjects. ‘The […]

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.55 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.56 We […]

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.42 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.43 We […]

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.32 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.33 We […]

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.32 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.33 We […]

View from the bridge

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[…] memoir, Estes reported a conversation in 1971 with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace.32 What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.33 We […]

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