Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace - by Joan Mellen

[Tom Bowden]

I do not intend to address the points made in Joan's speech in this forum. I have discussed it with Joan and we have agreed to meet after William Reymond and my book is released this fall (Killing JFK). I would offer the following comments. Our original "JFK, the last witness" was published in five languages but not in English. In it, we told the Billie Sol Estes story. In our discussions with BSE, we soon discovered that he was not telling us the truth and we turned to investigating his story. We also produced a video for French Television, which was later shown in other countries and the Japanese version was actually put on the internet. It was shown daily in the Conspiracy Museum. I would summarize by making the following points. 1) Jay Harrison's files were used extensively and Jay was interviewed on the video. 2) Nathan Darby was interviewed extensively and his interview was on the video. 3) Most of BSE's allegations about the deaths surrounding his operation were not true. 4) His relationship to LBJ was not as represented by BSE but more than the Johnson family will admit. Note: We were given access to BSE's business and personal files, which occupied an entire house outside of Abilene Texas. We located correspondence between him, Johnson and Cliff Carter. I still have the pertinent files. 5) We located and published the transcript of the Grand Jury Testimony of BSE and Clint Peoples. Clint Peoples had a deep interest in both the Marshall and Kennedy murders. His testimony is more important than BSE.

With regard to the murders, most of them were suicides. I even discussed with the District Attorney the possibility of BSE or his Brother being at the Marshall murder. He was not interested in pursuing the case any further. I had the same discussion with BSE's daughter, Pam.

The autobiography issued by BSE was the english draft of the Published book, which BSE modified to include his version of both the Marshall and Kennedy Assassination We now know how he obtained the assassination stories. Killing JFK details the true role of Malcolm Wallace in the Kennedy Assassination. He did not fire any shots on that day. He did not meet Oswald in New Orleans. In all of our investigation, we have yet to find any facts, which show that Johnson knew about the assassination before it happened. There are many reason for him to have been but no concrete facts.