Barr McClellan

Oliver Barr McClellan (born December 12, 1939 in Cuero , Texas ) is an American entrepreneur , lawyer and author of the bestselling Blood, Money & Power about the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy .

Life

Barr McClellan lived in Maracaibo , Venezuela , from 1944 to 1951 , where he learned Spanish . In 1946 he survived a plane crash in Mexico City . He graduated from Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1957 and then studied at the University of Texas at Austin , where he received several literary awards and graduated with honors. As a college student, he was an active supporter of Senator John F. Kennedy's running for president. After his admission to the bar, he worked from 1964 for the administration of Kennedy's successor Lyndon B. Johnson . He was initially an attorney and secretary for the National Labor Relations Board , and soon afterwards he became an attorney for a commissioner for the Federal Power Commission.

In 1966, McClellan joined the Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius and Winters law firm in Austin. At that time, the company included partners Edward A. Clark (1906–1992), who was American ambassador to Australia from 1965 to 1968 , Sam Winters, Don Thomas, Martin Harris and Frank Denius. The firm was closely associated with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Texas Democratic Party . McClellan's work included advising on political strategy, campaign contributions, media issues, and labor disputes. He was an official lobbyist for several major energy companies in Texas. He was also the presenter of the TV series The Law and You .

In 1972 McClellan became a full partner of the firm, but quit after a dispute with Clark and Leon Jaworski and founded his own firm in 1977.

His wife is Texas politician Carole Keeton Strayhorn , and his sons are Scott McClellan , former White House press secretary , and Mark McClellan, director of Medicare for the George W. Bush administration . Two other sons, Dudley McClellan and Bradley McClellan, are attorneys in Austin, Texas.

McClellan and his current wife, Cecile, live in Gulfport , Mississippi . The McClellans are also business consultants with offices in New York City .

Assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy

In 2003, McClellan published the book Blood, Money & Power , which sold well and was also translated into Japanese.

The book is based on statements of the entrepreneur Billie Sol Estes , who was close friends with the later US President Lyndon B. Johnson around 1960 . Estes had already notified the United States Department of Justice in 1984 that Johnson was involved in eight unsolved murders, including the murder of Kennedy. At the same time he named Malcolm Wallace , a confidante of Johnson, as one of the assassins. In addition, according to McClellan's account, McClellan's former boss Edward A. Clark was also involved in planning the assassination attempt. As McClellan further claims, the Kennedy assassination was funded by oil billionaires Clint Murchison and Haroldson Hunt . McClellan says Clark received $ 6 million, including a $ 2 million bonus. McClellan also goes extensively into the possible motives of Johnson, whom he portrays as the beneficiary and man behind the Kennedy murder.

The Warren Commission had indeed found fingerprints of Malcom Wallace at the crime scene, the fifth floor of the school book depot , from where Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963 , but these could only be attributed later.

In 2003 the History Channel aired a program based on McClellan's theses. As a result, former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, as well as some former Johnson employees, protested sharply against the allegations. After a review of McClellan's information, the broadcaster stated on April 2, 2004 that all allegations that Johnson was involved in the Kennedy murder were insubstantial and apologized to his widow for the broadcast. Historian Stanley Kutler described the book as “a parody of the theories and assumptions about the assassination; it is certainly a story as a joke that the living allow themselves at the expense of the dead ”.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vincent Bugliosi : Reclaiming History. The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. WW Norton, New York 2007, p. 925.
2. ^ "A parody of assassination theories and beliefs; surely, this is history as a joke the living play on the dead ". Stanley I. Kutler: Why the History Channel Had to Apologize for the Documentary that Blamed LBJ for JFK's Murder on the History News Network website , accessed December 4, 2013

Books

• Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK , Hannover House, 2003, ISBN 0-9637846-2-5
• Made in the USA: Global Greed, Bad Tax Laws and The Exportation of America's Future , Hannover House, 2010, ISBN 978-0963784681