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Lion In The Night is a new collection of short stories from Dr. Jack Armstrong. With original illustrations by Lena Rodriguez Gillett. #LionInTheNight





Murder Most Foul: Sandy Shapiro And The Fact Pattern of Captured Counsel In The Assassinations Of The 1960s By M.C. Armstrong I interviewed Barr McClellan, Lyndon Johnson’s lawyer, in June of 2024. McClellan, who indicts Johnson as a participant in the plot to kill JFK, has appeared on the History Channel and @cspan to talk about his law firm’s role in the plot to kill Kennedy. McClellan situates that firm (Clark, Thomas, and Winters), at the center of the conspiracy. At the end of our two-hour conversation, McClellan revealed to me an important new disclosure in the case, a name that I had never encountered in the literature of the JFK assassination: Sander “Sandy” Shapiro. “The big one, I guess, was Sandy Shapiro,” McClellan told me. “When he [Shapiro] said, well, we can’t let Barr know about these things.” Who was Sandy Shapiro and why was Shapiro the “big one?” Sandy Shapiro worked at Clark, Thomas, and Winters, a firm that would later become known as Clark, Thomas, Winters, and Shapiro. Shapiro was the first tax attorney in the history of Austin, Texas, and he worked not only for the firm that represented Lyndon Johnson, but also the firm that defended Joe Tonahill. Shapiro defended Tonahill. Who was Joe Tonahill? Tonahill was a three-hundred-pound wrestler whose father-in-law was a Texas congressman responsible for blocking the legislation of a young JFK in the 1950s. Tonahill was also Jack Ruby’s defense attorney in Ruby’s trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Tonahill, who himself believed the JFK assassination was a function of conspiracy (and was the man who arranged for the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen to meet with Ruby just before both Ruby and Kilgallen died premature deaths), died in 2001. However, before his death, Tonahill told journalist Seth Kantor that “Ruby could have been used” and that he believed the Dallas “police had to be in on it” in reference to the murder of Oswald. Sandy Shapiro, who died on February 12, 2024, just months before my conversation with McClellan, defended Tonahill in a July 1970 tax fraud case (United States of America vs. Tonahill) that was first launched in 1962, the year before the JFK assassination, which raises two questions: How did Lyndon Johnson’s firm come to defend this compromised man who represented Oswald’s killer, and does this instance of compromised counsel represent a fact pattern in the history of the assassinations of the 1960s? The surest way to control an investigation is to control the investigators, i.e. the lawyers. Barr McClellan doesn’t have all the answers when it comes to questions about LBJ, the CIA, and Israel, but a pattern emerges when one studies the lawyers in the case. A fact-pattern appears when one engages the insider accounts and the primary documents that map the story of the JFK assassination and the killings that followed, namely those of JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. Specifically, the account of John Curington, attorney for H.L. Hunt, is quite illuminating. According to Curington, the defense teams of James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King, Jr.’s alleged assassin) and Sirhan Sirhan (Robert F. Kennedy’s ostensible killer) demonstrate a pattern of compromise and capture during this exigent moment in American history, a pattern that ties the killings to the social network of Lyndon Johnson. Like Percy Foreman defending Ray and Grant Cooper defending Sirhan, Tonahill’s defense of Ruby was notoriously shoddy and corrupt. Curington sees the hand of Hunt in this pattern of captured counsel, and Hunt was one of President Johnson’s closest allies. “At Mr. Hunt’s instruction,” Curington wrote of the time shortly after the King assassination, “I traveled to call on Percy Foreman with a briefcase and laid it on the desk in front of him. ‘I have one hundred and twenty-five thousand reasons why James Earl Ray should plead guilty to killing Martin Luther King,’ I said.” Curington, who in his memoir leaves out the fact that Foreman also briefly defended Jack Ruby (alongside Tonahill and Melvin Belli), describes H.L. Hunt commanding him—Curington—to locate another intermediary (Mark Deering) to make a similar payoff “four to six weeks after the assassination” of RFK in California. Was Hunt, the richest man in America in 1963 and the largest supporter for the John Birch Society and the fascist paramilitary force known as The Minutemen, also the paymaster for the defense of Jack Ruby and Joe Tonahill? Was Hunt a key proxy for Lyndon Johnson in his efforts to defeat his political opponents if, by defeat, one means murder? Listen to the voice of Jack Ruby from the Warren Report: “I don’t think I will get a fair representation with my counsel, Joe Tonahill. I don’t think so. I would like to request that I go to Washington and take all the tests that I have to take. It is very important.” Jack Ruby, who repeatedly pinned the JFK assassination on Lyndon Johnson in both letters and on video, is begging Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren to transport him to Washington, D.C. so he—Ruby—can take a lie detector test and tell the truth far away from the threats native to Lyndon Johnson’s home state, Texas. Ruby’s pleas, however, fell on deaf ears. The assassin of JFK’s ostensible killer never traveled to D.C. Ruby died in 1967, right after getting his initial conviction overturned on appeal, but in a 1966 letter, Ruby wrote, “there is only one kind of people that would do such a thing, that would have to be the nazi’s[sic], and that is who is in power in this country right now.” In 1966, the president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson was a good friend of neo-Nazi paymaster H.L. Hunt. They were such good friends that Hunt shared Johnson’s box at the 1960 Democratic National Convention where Johnson was defeated in his bid for the presidency by John F. Kennedy. The binary mind has a hard time reckoning with the notion of a neo-Nazi Democrat who passes civil rights legislation and loathes his own party more than “the opposition,” or the idea that one who is hired to defend a defendant might be working against that very individual for a larger entity. More research is needed in this area of Ruby, his compromised defense, and LBJ’s neo-Nazi social network as it branches out into the latter half of the 1960s. But in a JFK story and Cold War history where artificial division, suppression, and binary thinking has been the modus operandi for years, Sandy Shapiro’s story reveals yet another connection between the world of Lyndon Johnson and the world of the JFK assassination conspiracy. Sandy Shapiro served a unique function as counsel for Joe Tonahill. While working for the legal team of Lyndon Johnson at a moment in history when Barr McClellan was still at the firm and President Johnson was still alive, Shapiro defended Tonahill and, by doing so, Shapiro gained access to Tonahill’s thoughts and records, the primary documents that mapped his life. Like McClellan himself, Shapiro entered into a relationship of attorney-client privilege that, generally, seals the lips of counsel until the concerned parties go to the grave. Sandy Shapiro, Grant Cooper, Percy Foreman, Jack Ruby, Joe Tonahill, James Earl Ray, Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lyndon Johnson have now all gone to the grave. But Barr McClellan lives. @FourDiedTrying @RepLuna @RogerJStoneJr @TheOliverStone @jeffersonmorley @TruthSerum2016 @TuckerCarlson @Lionessinus @_JessConnell @SolvingJfk @JFKChokeholds @Andria816 @CovertActionMag @joerogan @timfattig @mona2thebeach @TSBD1963 #JFK







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