Madeleine Brown was a businesswoman
who worked for Glenn Advertising. Later she claimed she had an affair
with Lyndon
B. Johnson.
In 1988 she told Jack
Anderson that:
"In the fall of 1963 I was in the Carousel Club with other advertising
people and Jack Ruby was saying that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in
the club and he had been bragging that he had been bragging that he
had taken a shot at Major General Edwin Walker".
On 24th February, 1992,
Brown gave an interview on the television show, A
Current Affair. Brown claimed that on the 21st November,
1963, she was at the home of Clint Murchison.
Others at the meeting included J.
Edgar Hoover,
Clyde Tolson, John
J. McCloy, Richard
Nixon, Harvey Bright and Haroldson
L. Hunt. At the end of the evening Lyndon
B. Johnson
arrived: "Tension filled
the room upon his arrival. The group immediately went behind closed
doors. A short time later Lyndon, anxious and red-faced, re-appeared.
I knew how secretly Lyndon operated. Therefore I said nothing... not
even that I was happy to see him. Squeezing my hand so hard, it felt
crushed from the pressure, he spoke with a grating whisper, a quiet
growl, into my ear, not a love message, but one I'll always remember:
"After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me
again - that's no threat - that's a promise."
Brown claimed that Lyndon
B. Johnson
was the father of her son,
Steven Mark Brown. Barr
McClellan later
confirmed that Madeleine Brown received regular payments from Johnson
via his Brazos-Tenth, his money-laundering corporation.
In 1987 Steven Mark Brown
filed a lawsuit against the estate of his father. This was unsuccessful
and in 1990 he died of cancer.
Brown published her autobiography,
Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine
Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1997. In the
book she claimed
that Johnson was involved in the assassination of John
F. Kennedy.
Madeleine Brown died on
June 22, 2002.
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(1)
Madeleine Brown,
interviewed on the television programme, A Current Affair
(24th
February, 1992)
On Thursday
night, Nov. 21, 1963, the last evening prior to Camelot's demise,
I attended a social at Clint Murchison's home. It was my understanding
that the event was scheduled as a tribute honoring his long time
friend, J. Edgar Hoover (whom Murchison had first met decades earlier
through President William Howard Taft), and his companion, Clyde
Tolson. Val Imm, the society editor for the now-defunct Dallas Times
Herald, unwittingly documented one of the most significant gatherings
in American history. The impressive guest
list included John McCloy, Richard Nixon, George Brown, R. L. Thornton,
H. L. Hunt and a host of others from the 8F group. The jovial party
was just breaking up when Lyndon made an unscheduled visit. I was
the most surprised by his appearance since Jesse had not mentioned
anything about Lyndon's coming to Clint's. With Lyndon's hectic
schedule, I never dreamed he could attend the big party. After all,
he had arrived in Dallas on Tuesday to attend the Pepsi-Cola convention.
Tension filled the room upon his arrival. The group immediately
went behind closed doors. A short time later Lyndon, anxious and
red-faced, reappeared I knew how secretly Lyndon operated. Therefore
I said nothing... not even that I was happy to see him. Squeezing
my hand so hard, it felt crushed from the pressure, he spoke with
a grating whisper, a quiet growl, into my ear, not a love message,
but one I'll always remember: "After tomorrow those goddamn
Kennedys will never embarrass me again - that's no threat - that's
a promise."
(2)
Jim
Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy (1990)
Madeleine
Brown, reported to be Johnson’s mistress for twenty years,
has publicly stated that Johnson had foreknowledge of the assassination.
But did Johnson really have enough power to initiate the assassination
and force literally dozens of government officials and agents
to lie and cover up that fact? Probably not.
(3)
Barr
McClellan, Blood Money
and Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. (2003)
Madeleine Brown was one of Johnson's lovers during his Senate
career and later. She had a son by Johnson and was paid through
Brazos-Tenth, the money-laundering corporation.
(4)
Madeleine Brown, Texas
in the Morning (1998)
Just
a few weeks later (after the assassination) I mentioned to him
that people in Dallas were saying he himself had something to
do with it. He became really violent, really ugly, and said
it was American Intelligence and oil that were behind it. Then
he left the room and slammed the door It scared me.
(5)
Gary
Mack published an account of Madeleine Brown's story on
14th May, 1997.
Madeleine
has claimed over the years that she attended a party at Clint
Murchison’s house the night before the assassination and
LBJ, Hoover and Nixon were there. The party story, without LBJ,
first came from Penn Jones in Forgive My Grief. In that
version, the un-credited source was a black chauffeur whom Jones
didn’t identify, and the explanation Jones gave was that
it was the last chance to decide whether or not to kill JFK.
Of course, Hoover used only top FBI agents for transportation
and in the FBI of 1963, none were black. Actually, there is
no confirmation for a party at Murchison’s. I asked Peter
O’Donnell because Madeleine claimed he was there, too.
Peter said there was no party. Madeleine even said there was
a story about it in the Dallas Times Herald some months later
(which makes no sense), but she had not been able to find it.
Val Imm (Society Editor of the Dallas Times Herald) told Bob
Porter (of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza staff) recently
she had no memory of such an event and even looked through her
notes - in vain.
Could
LBJ have been at a Murchison party? No. LBJ was seen and photographed
in the Houston Coliseum with JFK at a dinner and speech. They
flew out around 10pm and arrived at Carswell (Air Force Base
in northwest Fort Worth) at 11:07 Thursday night. Their motorcade
to the Hotel Texas arrived about 11:50 and LBJ was again photographed.
He stayed in the Will Rogers suite on the 13th floor and Manchester
(William Manchester - author of The Death of a President) says
he was up late. Could Nixon have been at Murchison’s party?
No. Tony Zoppi (Entertainment Editor of The Dallas Morning News)
and Don Safran (Entertainment Editor of the Dallas Times Herald)
saw Nixon at the Empire Room at the Statler-Hilton. He walked
in with Joan Crawford (Movie actress). Robert Clary (of Hogan’s
Heroes fame) stopped his show to point them out, saying “.
. . either you like him or you don’t.” Zoppi thought
that was in poor taste, but Safran said Nixon laughed. Zoppi’s
deadline was 11pm, so he stayed until 10:30 or 10:45 and Nixon
was still there.
(6)
Publicity blurb
for Madeleine Brown's book, Texas in the Morning (1998)
Madeleine
Brown bore President Lyndon Johnson's son, Steven Mark Brown.
She and the young Senator, later President, maintained an
affair for 21 years through the period he was in the White
House. These were historic times when war, disorder and international
turmoil rent the world. Brown describes in riveting detail
these events passing through the lives of ordinary people,
and those who had to deal with crisis after crisis. In the
midst of all the tumult was the private life and love of a
woman and her children with no father. It is, to put it mildly,
a great story.
But
this is a poignant tale, one of live and an illegitimate son
whom Johnson could not publicly acknowledge. Above all it
is a romantic and erotic love story, the story of a young
girl fallen in love with a man who was determined to be President.
Madeleine Brown, a young advertising executive, got to know
everyone who was anyone in Dallas, and became convinced that
they conspired, along with her lover, to kill President Kennedy
and go to war in Vietnam. Brown tells it like it is and does
not mince words. This is a bawdy, lusty, and honest book and
those who are in haste to sit in judgement should stay away.
Perhaps there has never been a book like this to reach print
and the public - an erotic and romantic love story of a President
and his mistress. Its truth is that we are all human and all
alike in our needs and failings.
This
book sings. It has some of the greatest historical writing
in American literature. The long description, by someone who
lived in Dallas at the time, of the 24 hours before President
Kennedy came to Dallas, his assassination and the immediate
aftermath beats Jim Bishop by a mile. The tragedy and pathos
in this story, along with love and joy and great achievement,
add up to an extraordinary book of great power. After all,
President Johnson, for all his faults and for the possibility
that he in some way participated in various murders including
that of President Kennedy, had an amazing string of achievements
in his presidency that no other president might have duplicated.
In a sense, he carried through Kennedy's program where Kennedy
might have had no chance to do so at all. But soon Johnson's
achievements in his own "Great Society" program
turned to bitter fruit, the joy of life and success soured,
and he died a bitter and tormented man. The horror of 22 November
1963 and the Vietnam war was forever to haunt him.
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