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In reply to the discussion: Interview with blacklisted comedian, Mort Sahl, 1968 quotes and warnings after JFK's death. [View all]Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)15. The Case Against LBJ
http://meria.net/2013/11/meria-with-roger-stone-the-man-who-killed-kennedy-the-case-against-lbj/
Mac Wallace was LBJ's personal assassin. Wallace's fingerprints were found at the Book Depository shooting site.
Mac Wallace was LBJ's personal assassin. Wallace's fingerprints were found at the Book Depository shooting site.
According to Barr McClellan, the author of Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK:
Kinser asked Josefa (LBJ's sister) if she could arrange for her brother to loan him some money. Johnson interpreted this as a blackmail threat (Josefa had told Kinser about some of her brother's corrupt activities).
On 22nd October, 1951, Mac Wallace went to Kinser's miniature golf course. After finding Kinser in his golf shop, he shot him several times before escaping in his station wagon. A customer at the golf course had heard the shooting and managed to make a note of Wallace's license plate. The local police force was able to use this information to arrest Wallace.
Wallace was charged with murder but was released on bail after Edward Clark arranged for two of Johnson's financial supporters, M. E. Ruby and Bill Carroll, to post bonds on behalf of the defendant. Johnson's attorney, John Cofer, also agreed to represent Wallace.
On 1st February, 1952, Wallace resigned from his government job in order to distance himself from Lyndon B. Johnson. His trial began seventeen days later. Wallace did not testify. Cofer admitted his client's guilt but claimed it was an act of revenge as Kinser had been sleeping with Wallace's wife.
The jury found Wallace guilty of" murder with malice afore-thought". Eleven of the jurors were for the death penalty. The twelfth argued for life imprisonment. Judge Charles O. Betts overruled the jury and announced a sentence of five years imprisonment. He suspended the sentence and Wallace was immediately freed.
According to Bill Adler of The Texas Observer, several of the jurors telephoned John Kinser's parents to apologize for agreeing to a "suspended sentence, but said they did so only because threats had been made against their families."
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Interview with blacklisted comedian, Mort Sahl, 1968 quotes and warnings after JFK's death. [View all]
mother earth
Nov 2013
OP
Mort was a very sharp and biting wit, he was on TV often during my childhood and I remember his
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#12
Wallace's wife as well as Johnson's sister were enamored of Kinser (to put it politely)
Samantha
Dec 2013
#56
you read and write for a living but can't tell the diff between "your" and "you're"? nt
grasswire
Dec 2013
#37
Figured you for a friend of zappaman. Apart from slurs, you also don't add or know much.
Octafish
Dec 2013
#63
Thank you, CanSocDem! Dr. Grover Proctor does an excellent job filling in the blanks...
Octafish
Dec 2013
#66
I find it interesting all you have in this debate is personal attack and innuendo.
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#24
You should look into the actual facts of the JFK assassination as earnestly as you have my DU sn.
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#27
Why was he black listed in a country that claims to grant all Americans the right to speak their
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#28
So you're FOR censorship? I'm for the exact opposite, MORE speech. Those who support censorship
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#32
So....Elia Kazan and Bud Schulberg were in on the JFK assassination too?!
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#43
I'm for night club owners who support the Constitution of the US and who are not influenced by
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#55
Yeah, I'm sure the night club owners were in on the JFK assassination too.
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#57
Well, if you can even insinuate that 60s club owners were part of the JFK conspiracy...
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#70
Thank you so much, I definitely agreee with you that this was an honorable man.
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#74