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It is not surprising to me to here about his admiration for the freedom of wolves. Clyde was fascinated by wolves. He had a pet wolf that traveled with him. His children were grown. The most interesting story he related was one about a killing. He said that the killing was one that L.B.J. had ordered. According to Sol, it was one of 17 killings that he knew of that Lyndon ordered. Clyde had said that "... it might stir up too much controversy to talk about more than one killing at a time." Especially considering who it was that had ordered the killings.
As you remember, in order not to embarrass anyone, we will leave Lyndon anonymous in this work. Hence forth I will try to remember to refer to Lyndon by his initials only. You remember us talking about Lyndon on a previous chapter? As you recall we were going to protect this person's identity since he was dead and couldn't defend himself, so at the most, I will just reiterate that he was an American President and that his initials were L.B.J. That should protect his identity.
I have included a copy of a letter that Clyde and Sol had me to write out. It recalled the details of the incident. They were trying to reconstruct a correct recollection of the event to make a press release to the A.P. wire service. Sol is very anti-press. This might have something to do with the adverse articles he has seen with his name in them. The press has never been too kind to Sol and he wanted to be sure that the following information was released without distortion. It should, if possible, be released through some source friendly to his cause. We thought we had found this source when we contacted a small farmers' publication here in Austin.
Considering the content of the material, it is not at all a mystery why the FARMER'S FRIEND had second thoughts. At first they were warm to the idea, but when Clyde actually gave them, verbally, the information that I am including in the letter, they backed out. They did so at the last minute. The information that I am about to relate to you was just too hot to handle. They feared the repercussion from those still powerful in L.B.J.'s old political machine. Lyndon is dead now, but the ill-got fortune he amassed lives on. This is not to mention his heirs. I feel that they should be aware of where their money came from. They may already know. The letter Clyde dictated to me went like this: _
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I, Clyde Foust, hid and listened to a conversation. This conversation took place on at Billie Sol Estes' guest house. This house was located in Pecos, Texas. This is concerning the killing of Henry Marshall. This conversation took place sometime in the summer of 1961. It involved the following people, Cliff Carter, Malcolm Wallace, and Billie Sol Estes. At the time I heard the conversation that relates as follows, I also taped what I was hearing. The tape has since disappeared.
Later I made a trip to Santa Fe to see Anthony Taylor. (Lady Birds Brother) He was running a place called The Old Mexico Shop. Clyde went there to tell Tony that Billie Sol didn't want anything to do with Wallace and Cater. Sol said that it was Lyndon's problem. He didn't want anything to do with it.
Tony was mad. He said that we were trying to blackmail the President. We where just trying to get a message to Lydon, We knew that Tony couldget through to Lady Bird. Billie Sol had a moral conviction about killing and didn't want to be involved in anything like this. Billie Sol believed that Lyndon was so stubborn that the only person who he would listen to was Lady Bird though, at the time, he was talking directly to Lyndon through Cliff Carter. Sol couldn't relate to Carter very well about this matter. (This was because Cliff was as guilty as Wallace was) Sol said that he didn't know where the killings would quit and didn't want to be any part of it. Clyde Foust May 5th, 1987
___________________________________________________________ Clyde never signed this letter that he had me to compose for him. It's purpose wasn't to provide a document of proof as to which he had so stated. It was to try to organize his thoughts and recollections on paper before he made a press release. This was to be done through a little publication that goes primarily to farmers and is based here in Austin. At this time I won't name that publication. This was because the results of that release resulted in obvious fear of repercussion on their part, and they never followed up with the article that they agreed to write.
A recording was made of the phone call interview between Clyde and the editor of that small publication. I hope that this recording still exists. I gave this information to Texas Monthly in 1989 and they failed to interview Clyde. I wanted this information to be verified and published by them. They wrote a large article but, somehow forgot to include this information.
Clyde died shortly afterwards. I have always's wondered about the circumstance of his death. I have never heard how Clyde died. I think it was Sol that told me. As I may have mentioned, in another chapter of this book, a computer disk copy of this manuscript was stolen out of the trunk box of my motorcycle. These disks have the same information on them as the one that I am typing on and you are now reading now. What it didn't say was as important as what it did say. I am sorry that someone knew Clyde's name before this book went to the press. I felt that Clyde would have much safer after this book was published. Nether he nor I felt safe at the moment of this writing.
My paranoid friends have urged me to publish this as fiction, but I refuse. I have hidden in the woods too long. It is time for me to come forward with what I know, and what I believe. To the people who have urged me to mask the truth by calling it fiction, I say thanks. Everybody needs love, even an old paranoid hobo.
AGENT DECRIES ESTES TESTIMONY WICHITA FALLS TIMES, DATED 4-1-84 ESTES' LBJ CLAIM REPORTED IT IS NICE TO SEE THAT LYNDON HAD SOME FRIENDS THAT WOULD BE UPSET AT THE TRUTH COMING OUT, ISN'T IT. SPEAKS WELL OF THE MAN, DON'T YOU THINK? AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN DATED FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1984 THE JUDGE WAS UPSET THE DALLAS TIMES HERALD WAS NICE TO LYNDON IN THE MARCH 24, ARTICLE OF 1984. TITLED MORE BILLIE SOL FERTILIZER? ON THE 21ST OF MARCH OF 1984 THIS ARTICLE WAS IN THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE MAN SHOT 5 TIMES