Recently someone found the 1964 Value Line Investment Survey and confirm that in November of 1963 (exact day not specified), two of Dallas, TX's most prominent citizens, close friends of Lyndon Johnson, D.H. Byrd (and his wife) James Ling bought through the Alpha Omega Corporation investment vehicle 132,000 shares of LTV stock at approximately $16 per share. By 1967, in the middle of the Vietnam War, LTV stock (it was a defense contractor that made airplanes) rose to as high a whopping $169 per share.
It is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that D.H. Byrd (and his wife) and James Ling ("Dallas merger king") made a very large purchase of 132,000 shares of LTV (Ling-Temco-Vaught) either just before the JFK assassination or just after the JFK assassination. These stock buys into a defense contractor stock occurred at a time that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said to brace for cuts in the defense industry and the business press was likewise writing bearish articles on the prospects for defense stocks as the year 1963 was coming to a close. Newsweek on October 7, 1963 published an article "What Can Industry Do As Pentagon Cuts Back?" By August 2, 1965 Newsweek published an article called "War's Widening Ripples" and wrote about "the shock waves from the escalated war in Vietnam were spreading through U.S. business last week."
Below are some select pages from 1963 and 1964 of the Value Line Investment Survey regarding LTV stock.
Below, on April 24, 1964, Value Line announced that a few weeks before the Johnson Administration had award LTV (owned by LBJ's pals D.H. Byrd and James Ling) a major contract to build the A-7A (VAL) light attack aircraft. Valueline estimated that this contract could add over a billion dollars in revenue to LTV. LTV in April of 1964 was trading at $17 per share. In November of 1963, either just before or just after the JFK assassination, D.H. Byrd, his wife and well known Dallas investor merger kingpin James Ling made a large 132,000 share buy into LTV stock.
D.H. Byrd could fly his airplane to LBJ’s ranch anytime he wanted
to, even if President LBJ told him not to land - Darrell Royal story from his
son Mack Royal
Mack Royal is the son of legendary University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal (UT head coach 1957-1976; 2 national championships). Darrell Royal was personal friends with Lyndon Johnson, Clint Murchison, D.H. Byrd and a slew of other upper crust Texas power elite who were in the Lyndon Johnson inner circle. is son Mack Royal knew the children of the power elite of Texas. In fact he knew them and their families quite well.
Mack
Royal also used to work at the LBJ Library and he has a sharp interest in the
JFK assassination. Mack Royal also told me he was there when the LBJ Library
was taking steps to "slow Robert Caro down." They literally had
meetings about this and that late Robert Hardesty was one of the ringleaders in
this effort to subvert Caro and other researchers into LBJ: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/us/politics/robert-l-hardesty-speechwriter-for-johnson-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
Coach Royal and his wife were at the
LBJ one time when Johnson was president. They remember D.H. Byrd flying his
plane to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ telling them not to land because he was busy and
had company, and D.H. Byrd over-riding the president of the USA and landing his
plane anyhow.
I guess that one little anecdote tells
you a lot about the relationship of Lyndon Johnson and D.H. Byrd.
Here
are some excerpts from Mack Royal's book, which is a fascinating collection of
his emails to friends.
MACK ROYAL:
I knew D. Harold Byrd..flew on his DC3
(orange and white with a snorting "Bevo" on the tail) and heard this
story about him during that time.. My parents were at the LBJ ranch with
Lyndon when D. Harold Byrd radioed the ranch and said he was landing. Lyndon
told him NOT to land and Byrd replied, "I'm landing." which he did.
Royal, Mack (2010-06-08). Fourteen
Years on Fnord-L (Kindle Locations 8906-8911). Bozo Texino Press. Kindle
Edition.
This
link tells about D. Harold Byrd owning the Texas School Book Depository
Building. I knew old D. Harold Byrd. I ate supper at his house and flew on his
plane. Later I met partners of Murchison. One of them became my
"uncle" Bedford. Later I met the Murchisons. Coke-Anne Murchison is
totally gorgeous, by the way. These folks were thick with LBJ. These
folks are my folks. I met LBJ too, and drove his car, swam in his pool, visited
the White House and got a tour of the FBI. I have a nodding acquaintance with
Admiral Inman. So do you suppose I picked up a thing or two along the
way? Duh.
[Royal,
Mack (2010-06-08). Fourteen Years on Fnord-L (Kindle Locations 9120-9130). Bozo
Texino Press. Kindle Edition.]
More about D. Harold Byrd. His cousins
were Senator Harry Flood Byrd and Admiral Byrd of Antarctica fame. He started a
company called Temco which later became part of Ling Temco Vaught, which got a
juicy contract out of the Viet Nam war. (TFX fighter plane) He was a
conservative Dallas oil man who helped start the Civil Air Patrol. He took the
"sniper's window" out of his building (Texas School Book Depository)
after the assassination and hung it in his house! One of the panes had been
replaced. By the way, Mac Wallace's prints were all over that room called the
sniper's nest on the sixth floor. Billy Sol Estes said some stuff about Mac
Wallace if you wanna look it up.
[Royal,
Mack (2010-06-08). Fourteen Years on Fnord-L (Kindle Locations 9153-9165). Bozo
Texino Press. Kindle Edition]
D.H. Byrd,
James Ling - heavy insider buying into LTV in November, 1963 either just
before or just after the JFK assassination
http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2010/11/peter-dale-scott-dallas-copa-2010.html
Go to footnote #49
49. In early November 1963, Byrd and his investment partner, James Ling, made a significant insider purchase of stock in their defense industry investment, LTV. Although required by SEC rules to report this insider purchase, they delayed doing so until well after Kennedy’s assassination. Then in January LTV received the first major LBJ defense contract from the Pentagon – for a fighter plane designed for Vietnam. Cf. Joan Mellen, “The Kennedy Assassination and the Current Political Moment,” Part II, http://www.joanmellen.net/truth-2.html .
DH Byrd was so close to LBJ they might as well have been Siamese twins. And he is Col. DH Byrd Air Force friends with Gen Curtis Lemay who called the Kennedys' "cockroaches" in his LBJ oral history. Air Force Gen. Edward Lansdale running the show at Dealey Plaza - joint CIA/military intelligence operation.
The heavy insider buying was based on DEAD KENNEDY coming up soon with LBJ INSIDE WHITE HOUSE.
And who did LBJ tell Madeleine who did it on the night of 12/31/63 at Austin’s Driskill Hotel? The fat cats in Dallas and “fucking renegade intelligence bastards” in the direct words of Lyndon Johnson.
Anyone who tells you the JFK assassination is not solved stick this in their face.
LBJ-DALLAS OIL/MILITARY CONTRACTORS/CIA/MILITARY INTELLIGENCE murdered JFK.
I should note that DH Byrd employed LBJ's alleged personal hit man Malcolm Wallace and the DH Byrd owned the Texas School Book Depository. And that DH Byrd could land his plane on LBJ's ranch anytime he wanted to.
Why was D.H. Byrd making huge insider buys into LTV stock around the time of the JFK assassination at a time Newsweek and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were telling everyone that huge defense cuts were coming?
Fletcher Prouty vs Edward Epstein (kennedysandking.com)
Jim DiEugenio:
QUOTE
Fletcher Prouty also wrote about the transformation that took place after Kennedy’s death. For instance, concerning the war in Indochina and how that fed the war machine. And conversely how that would not have happened if JFK had lived. Reader James Finn has clipped two valuable stories from the MSM that illustrate the point Fletcher was making, namely that Kennedy’s withdrawal plan was already impacting the war economy. And the second story shows how his death turned that deceleration around in a hurry. Predictably, it appears that Epstein was wrong about that and Colonel Prouty was correct. One more posthumous feather in Fletcher’s cap. And thanks to Mr. Finn.
UNQUOTE
D.
Harold Byrd Is Dead; A Texas Philanthropist - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
QUOTE
D. Harold Byrd, a philanthropist who made his fortune in Texas
oilfields and helped finance the exploration of Antarctica, has died. He was 86
years old.
Mr. Byrd, who was also a co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol and a
geologist, died Sunday at his home after a short illness.
The philanthropist, as a cousin and close friend of Adm. Richard E.
Byrd, financed some of the Antarctic explorer's ventures in the 1920's and
1930's. An Antarctic range, the Harold Byrd Mountains, was named for him.
Mr. Byrd used his oil profits to build a financial empire that
included recreational facilities, manufacturing, real estate, commercial and
industrial ventures and farming and ranching enterprises.
UNQUOTE
“Merger King” James Ling kept a bust of Lyndon Johnson in his Dallas office. Both James Ling and D.H. Byrd were very close to Lyndon Johnson. They bought 132,000 shares of LTV stock in the time either just before or just after the JFK assassination in November, 1963
[“Conglamerateur Extraordinaire: James J. Ling: With LTV a Memory, He’s taking his Act to the Oil Patch,” Leslie Wayne, NYT, July 12, 1981]
QUOTE
Nonetheless, he talks about the LTV episode as ''the front nine.'' His attention is now focused on ''the back nine.'' ''I didn't get a chance to finish it,'' he said, while seated in an office that featured a bust of Lyndon Johnson and newspaper clips about Mr. Ling on the walls in the outer hallway.
UNQUOTE
James Ling lived a lavish lifestyle in his in estate in Dallas’s Gaywood area
[“Boldface Dallas: Today’s super rich dwarf the city’s gilded age by comparison,” Dallas Morning News, 1-12-2013]
QUOTE
It wasn’t always this
way. In early 1970s Dallas, opulence was at its most rarefied in the orbit of
Troy Post and his pal and sometime partner, Jim Ling. Post was an insurance
financier who owned 80 percent of Braniff Airways, all of National Car Rental and
a jet-set resort in Acapulco, Tres Vidas en la Playa. Ling built one of the
great conglomerates, Ling-Temco-Vought, known simply as LTV.
Post's massive Park
Lane estate, his audacious business deals and his financial reverses were all
the stuff of newspaper headlines. The lavishness of Ling's estate on Gaywood attracted so much media
coverage that it became a target for the infamous jewel thief known as the King
of Diamonds, who raided Dallas' oligarchs for a decade and never got caught.
In January 1963, when the king entered a second-story balcony window and
boosted the family gems while Ling and his wife watched TV downstairs, the
heist made the front page of The Dallas Morning News. By 1970, financial reversals
forced the Lings out of the house, and H.L. Hunt's sports-minded son, Lamar
Hunt, moved in.
The delicious Post/Ling-style ostentation seemed
colossal,
but even when adjusted for inflation, the money in play does not measure up to
the present scale of affluence.
UNQUOTE
1986 NYT obituary on D.H. Byrd described him as a “Texas Philanthropist” with no mention of his close friendship with LBJ or that he owned the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the JFK assassination or that he and James Ling bought 132,000 shares of LTV stock either just before of just after the JFK assassination in November, 1963 (at a time when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the business press were talking about cuts in defense spending)
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/16/obituaries/d-harold-byrd-is-dead-a-texas-philanthropist.html
QUOTE
D. Harold Byrd, a philanthropist who made his fortune in Texas
oilfields and helped finance the exploration of Antarctica, has died. He was 86
years old.
Mr. Byrd, who was also a co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol and a
geologist, died Sunday at his home after a short illness.
The philanthropist, as a cousin and close friend of Adm. Richard E.
Byrd, financed some of the Antarctic explorer's ventures in the 1920's and
1930's. An Antarctic range, the Harold Byrd Mountains, was named for him.
Mr. Byrd used his oil profits to build a financial empire that
included recreational facilities, manufacturing, real estate, commercial and
industrial ventures and farming and ranching enterprises.
He and a small group of civilians founded the Civil Air Patrol in
1941 in Washington.
He also was co-founder and director of Dallas-area aircraft
companies, including the Temco Aircraft Corporation. In 1957, he organized and
became board chairman of the Space Corporation, which manufactured propulsion
and ground test equipment for jet engines and aerospace ground support
equipment.
Survivers include his wife, Mavis, and two sons.
UNQUOTE
D.H. Byrd was a national security insider bigtime and close personal friend of General Doolittle. Doolitte said in Byrd’s obituary in the Dallas Times Herald that “we were substantial friends from the early days of aviation.”
Doolittle Report, 1954 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Report,_1954
Very important Education Forum thread on D.H. Byrd:
David Harold Byrd - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum (ipbhost.com)
Jim Garrison fingers “Military-Industrial Complex” and it’s “Aerospace Wing” that were behind the JFK assassination.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/jimloon1.htm
Jim Garrison to Ramparts’ Warren Hinckle on November 5,
1968,
The
caller was in no mood to inquire about the weather. "This is urgent,"
Jim Garrison said. "Can you take this in your mailroom? They'd never think
to tap the mailroom extension."
. . . Garrison began
talking when I picked up the mailroom extension: "This is risky, but I
have little choice. It is imperative that I get this information to you now.
Important new evidence has surfaced. Those Texas oilmen do not appear to be involved in President Kennedy's
murder in the way we first thought. It was the Military-Industrial Complex that
put up the money for the assassination -- but as far as we can tell, the
conspiracy was limited to the aerospace wing. I've got the names of
three companies and their employees who were involved in setting up the
President's murder. Do you have a pencil?"
I wrote down the names of the three defense contractors
-- Garrison identified them as Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics -- and
the names of those executives in their employ whom the District Attorney said
had been instrumental in the murder of Jack Kennedy. I also logged a good
deal of information about a mysterious minister who was supposed to have
crossed the border into Mexico with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the
assassination; the man wasn't a minister at all, Garrison said, but an
executive with a major defense supplier, in clerical disguise. I knew little
about ministers crossing the Rio Grande with Oswald -- but after several years
of fielding the dizzying details of the Kennedy assassination, I had learned to
leave closed Pandora's boxes lie; I didn't ask.
I said that I had
everything down, and Garrison said a hurried goodbye: "It's poor security
procedure to use the phone, but the situation warrants the risk. Get this
information to Bill Turner. He'll know what to do about the minister. I wanted
you to have this, in case something happens . . . ." (Hinckle, If
You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade, 198-9)
Peter Dale
Scott (age 95) on 2/4/2024 told Robert Morrow that he found out the information
of the Byrd/Ling stock buys from Value Line Magazine, sometime in the 1964 year
According to his calculations Bird and Ling invested $2,500,000 and bought 132,000 shares of LTV. That comes out to $18.94 per share. (In reality after looking up Value Line 1963/1964, I estimate that the 132,000 shares were purchased on the open market around $16 per share.)
It is a fact that by mid 1967 shares of LTV traded as high as $169/share (as reported by the NYT). At that stock peak, the Bird/Ling investment would be worth $22,308,000 in 1967.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
$22,308,000 in 1967 would be like $207,268,036 in 2024 dollars.
Peter Dale Scott explicitly told me that he thought then (and probably now) that D.H. Byrd and James Ling had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination.
I agree and will go further - I think that DH Byrd and LBJ were both involved up to their eyeballs in the JFK assassination.
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