Madeleine Brown's Son was not Lyndon Johnson's Son

[Adele Edisen]

In a case like this, that is a very hard standard to support. Because its so politically charged.

The problem with Brown has always been the lack of any tangible evidence to support her claims. And this now pretty much wrecks her attempt to use her son as proof. Are there any pictures of her son? Who does he look like? Ragsdale or LBJ? I mean if he looked a lot like Johnson, one would think she would have placed his photo on the cover of her book.

The other thing is her lack of any real corroboration. This is why I try and stay away from people like this, and Judy Baker.

I agree. Morrow hung himself out to dry with this one.

That's what happens when you don't do due diligence. You leave yourself open for the likes of human fungus like Dave Perry.

Jim, I haven't seen anyone checking out Dave Perry's references, and I'm not geographically in a position to do it. Wouldn't that have been the easiest thing for someone in Dallas and Bastrop County to do?

Perry has a picture of a young Steven with his mother at a party on his web site. I have seen pictures of an older Steven online on the past, and did think he looked a bit like Lyndon. I even considered the possibility that maybe Lyndon's brother, San Houston Johnson, could have been the possible father of Steven. Lyndon's brother looked very much like him and sometimes posed as his double when needed. But that was just my own supposing, and I have no evidence to use for backing that idea, so scratch that idea.

Incidentally, I first met Madeleine Brown in November, 1991, at the first ASK meeting. Dr. Jerry Rose, who had published my article, written under a pseudonym, in the November 1991 issue of THE THIRD DECADE, introduced me to her. He was the only person I knew there besides Mary Ferrell who had invited me there, so he was helping me meet some people. However, while we were still some distance away from her, he made mention of what he thought about her. I won't repeat it here, but I do recall that when she and I shook hands, Madeleine turned her face away from me, as if she was ashamed of herself (?). Her handshake was weak and limpid, and neither of us had much to say. I felt sorry for her; she seemed so lonely. I didn't know she had recently lost her son. All I knew was what Dr. Rose told me, that she was LBJ's mistrress, but I knew nothing else of her story then, only years later did I learn more about it from Mary Ferrell, and from online forums once I had a computer and figured out how to use it.

Adele