Malcom Wallace
 Malcom Wallace    (assassin) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1921 |
| Died | January 7, 1971 (Age 49) |
Found guilty of "murder with malice aforethought" for which he was given a suspended sentence. He appears to have worked as LBJ's personal assassin since that time. | |
Mac Wallace was born in October or November 1921, the son of a farmer. In 1939 he joined the U.S. Marines. After completing basic training Wallace he served on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The following year he fell from a ladder and badly injured his back, after which he was medically discharged and he returned to Dallas in Septmeber 1940.[1]
Mark Gorton states that Mac Wallace was LBJ's "personal hit man" and "had been killing people for a decade to keep LBJ’s crimes from being exposed"[2].
Murder conviction
On October 22, 1951, Wallace killed professional golfer John Douglas Kinser, who was having an affair with LBJ's sister (with whom Wallace himself had earlier been involved. He was defended by LBJ's lawyer, John Cofer, pleading guilty on a charge of first degree murder. The jury found him guilty of "murder with malice aforethought". One juror argued for life imprisonment while the other eleven were for the death penalty. Judge Charles O. Betts, however, overruled the jury, giving Wallace a five-year sentence, suspended, so he was immediately freed. Bill Adlaer of the Texas Observer, reports that several of the jury members telephoned Kinser's family to apologize, explaining that they agreed to the sentence only after threats were made against their families.[3][1][4]
Later Employment
Five months after his conviction, in 1952, Wallace was employed by Temco, Inc. of Garland, where he worked until a month after LBJ was sworn in as vice president. In February 1961 he was transferred to the Anaheim, California offices of LTV,[5] which required a background check by the US Navy. Notwithstanding his murder conviction, in 1961 Ling-Temco-Vought got him a security clearance, raising suspicions of involvement by LBJ.[3] He worked with LTV as an administrator for 15 years.
Death
The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that Wallace was killed about 7:35 p.m. Thursday, January 7, 1971, when his car ran off the road 3.5 miles south of Pittsburg, Texas on U.S. 271.
References
- ↑ a b http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKwallaceM.htm
- ↑ Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State by Mark Gorton
- ↑ a b http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler3.html
- ↑ Bill Adler, The Killing of Henry Marshall, The Texas Observer (7th November, 1986)
- ↑ Wilson, Texas Unsolved Mysteries, p. 115
