Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace - by Joan Mellen

[Peter Lemkin]

I have also lost track of the argument here.

To be clear, I think the idea of LBJ as a sponsor is absurd, and that Mac Wallace was not on the 6th floor of the TSBD. There would be absolutely no need for him to be there, and no need to further implicate LBJ by the presence of a single fingerprint. If anyone can present a compelling argument to the contrary then I'm all ears.

This is still a rather sensitive subject - as some parts I know about I'm pledged not to disclose yet...and there are others who know much more than I do about this who have information they didn't want to disclose to me yet. That said, a few persons are well informed that two fully qualified fingerprint experts were both given two sets of prints BLIND - not knowing who's they were and why anyone wanted them matched - the gold standard. Both found that the fingerprints matched and it is told to me from reliable sources that one print was from a box in the TSBD and the other print was that of Wallace from one time he had been arrested. Make of that what you will. I have already said what I feel about it. Jay Harrison was central in this endeavor...and his archive would include, or once included, the details of this. Joan Mellen claims to have evidence impeaching the print expert. I have information otherwise. I have information I can't go into that Mellen may [I stress MAY] have been 'sold a bill of goods' and led astray. Joan is a friend and a researcher I respect highly. I happen to strongly question her conclusions on this, given what I know at this time [and have known for some time] - which goes a bit beyond what has been posted here, and which, again, I'm not at liberty to disclose beyond what has been. I would hope that it would be possible to have those who know more to post more about all this at some time; however, given some of the 'sensitivities' it may be a while. I think, however, that with what is already posted one can make ample initial conclusions...if not fully informed ones. No doubt, this will be another [of many] contentious bits of 'evidence' in the JFK assassination magic show.

As to your specific point of 'no need to...' I might agree...but we didn't plan this event did we, so we must work with what was planned, and what was faked to look like it was, and all the combinations and permutations of those...ad infinitum it sometimes seems.