White House aide's father alleges LBJ arranged John Kennedy's murder [View All]

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Elisabeth Bumiller NYT

In the firmament of American political families, the McClellans of Austin are not in the constellation of Kennedys and Bushes. But like both of those dynasties at points in their histories, the McClellans now have political power in multiple generations, a family member in the White House and a relative they would like to sweep under the carpet. ---

The book is to be released on Sept. 30 by Hannover House, a tiny publisher based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Eric Parkinson of Hannover House said that Barr McClellan's book would have a large first printing - 100,000 copies - and that he expected it to be one of the big sellers of the year.

The book asserts that Johnson plotted the killing of Kennedy through Edward Clark, now dead, who was for a half-century one of the most powerful political figures in Texas as well as Johnson's personal lawyer. Barr McClellan, in an interview last week, said that he had worked in Clark's firm but had parted company with him in 1978 over business gone sour. ---

Barr McClellan added that his book would offer photographs, letters and fingerprints to back up his claim. Johnson had a clear motive, he said, in that he faced being dropped from the ticket. ---