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Oswald is still the triggerman, or at least a triggerman, in Barr McClellan's account, having been recruited by one Malcolm Wallace based on Marxist sympathies. Wallace's fingerprint is supposedly the single mysterious unidentified fingerprint at the sniper's nest in the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Wallace has at least one incontestable link to LBJ. He was convicted but got a surprisingly light sentence for murdering LBJ's estranged former brother in law, who knew damaging information about LBJ and the family and was feared to be talkative. According to McClellan, Johnson later placed Wallace on the payroll of a defense contractor he was allied with, using Wallace for dirty tasks that included murder. McClellan briefly met Wallace as part of a corrupt bit of legal work on fraudulent oil leases that was is said to have been a payoff for the assassination.

It is a wild story, lacking corroboration of any sort on many points, but sufficiently detailed and referring to public records so that it would be vulnerable to refutation if it were pure invention. There have been about a half dozen books and articles that accuse Johnson of killing Kennedy, but McClellan worked as an attorney for LBJ, knows inside details about his corruption, and has the fingerprint identification of Malcolm Wallace.

A while back, I spent years digging up and feeding the press details of a major political scandal. On one crucial series of stories, the reporter was fiercely challenged by the targets on every detail, but suddenly, after one especially damaging article, they just stopped talking about the facts except to issue blanket denials. Why?

The reporter surmised that he knew enough facts that the targets could not discuss the facts without making things worse for themselves. You probably have had similar experiences in disagreements with other people. Although Barr McClellan has been reviled and attacked and his book attacked, I have not seen any review that evaluates the details of his claims, and I have never seen the fingerprint identification refuted.

With that said, I am not sold on the LBJ-did-it theory. Oswald may have been a lone nut assassin, but there is too many loose ends and too much doubt and controversy to think that the matter is settled.