LBJ had already had several enemies murdered by the time he was VP. If I remember correctly, his preferred hitman / fixer was Billy Sol Estes.
***his preferred hitman / fixer was Billy Sol Estes.***
O-o-h! I remember him from all the scandals in Texas in 1961- 62! Read about them in the Carlsbad Current Argus and El Paso Times back then.
Anyone remember 1964 when a cop in Texas stopped a speeder and it turned out to be LBJ and his secretary?
Billy Sol Estes was LBJ’s business associate from his Senate days in fleecing the federal government of illicit cotton subsidies. Billie Sol, who spent time in federal prison, testified before a Texas grand jury in 1985 that LBJ had ordered the murder of at least eight men, the eighth being John F. Kennedy. Maybe he was lying but I doubt it - why would he at the end of his life when he had nothing to gain and nothing to lose.
I think it was Malcolm (Mac) Wallace, who assassinated federal agent Henry Marshall.