Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace - by Joan Mellen

[Dawn Meredith]

I'm not a subscriber to the 'LBJ did it' theory. But if I assume for the sake of argument what Ms. Mellen says is true,
her argument still falls flat. She seems to maintain that if she disqualifies Mac Wallace, she has also disqualified LBJ.
I don't think one necessarily follows the other.

If you ask, cui bono? LBJ was one of many who benefited from the assassination, like Peter Lemkin points out.
But even if LBJ was a sponsor or a facilitator, he'd have to be an idiot to use Mac Wallace for the job.
There was no arm's length between them. Their relationship was too well known. The job was too big,
too complex, too intricate.

This was not a lone-gunman project. LBJ and Wallace did not have the necessary skill set.

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If there were fingerprints of Wallace on boxes at the TSBD, in all likelihood Wallace didn't even put them there there. The box could have been handled by him in another location completely, and moved to the TSBD to set up LBJ - not Wallace. The ultimate manipulators and planners of all aspects of the assassination likely added this detail to make sure they could forever control LBJ - 'play along, or we have your mechanic's fingerprints in the TSBD!' kind of polite threat.........or some minor variation, thereof. Alternatively, the prints could have been transferred from Wallace's fingers to the boxes just as they were from Oswald's hand to the rifle [after he was dead!].

Peter/ Marc: That is also what I think. And I recall Simkin thought this too, unlike what Joan said. I do believe Wallace killed many for LBJ but I don't think he shot at JFK. He may have been up there, as a spotter or something but given the way he mangled other murders, I doubt LBJ would have him up there as a shooter.