1987 Phil Donahue Video Interview with Madeleine
Brown and LBJ’s son Steven Mark Brown
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1482862/?q=madeleine%20brown
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC
station in Fort Worth, Texas
LBJ said
it was "Texas oil and those fucking renegade intelligence bastards in
Washington" [Texas in the Morning, Madeleine Brown, p.189]
from Robert
Morrow political researcher Austin, TX
512-306-1510
Madeleine Duncan Brown was a
mistress of Lyndon Johnson for 21 years and had a son with him named Steven
Mark Brown in 1950. Madeleine mixed with the Texas elite and had many trysts
with Lyndon Johnson over the years , including one at the Driskill Hotel in
Austin, TX, on New Year's Eve 12/31/63.
Late in the
evening of 12/31/63, just 6 weeks after the JFK assassination, Madeleine
asked Lyndon Johnson:
"Lyndon,
you know that a lot of people believe you had something to do with President
Kennedy's assassination."
He shot up out of bed and began pacing and
waving his arms screaming like a madman. I was scared!
"That's bullshit, Madeleine
Brown!" he yelled. "Don't tell me you believe that crap!"
"Of course not." I answered
meekly, trying to cool his temper.
"It was Texas oil
and those fucking renegade intelligence bastards in Washington." [said
Lyndon Johnson, the new president.] [Texas in the Morning, p. 189]
[LBJ told this to Madeleine in the late
night of 12/31/63 in the Driskill Hotel, Austin, TX in room #434 which is now
known as the Governor’s Suite and rents for $500-600/night in 2018. LBJ kept
this room on retainer for business and as a place to tryst with his mistresses.
LBJ and Madeleine spent New Year’s Eve ‘63 together here.
(Another
separate Room is #254 -today it is known as the "Blue Room" or “LBJ
Suite” or the "Presidential room"
and rents for $700-1,000/night as a Presidential suite at the Driskill; located
on the Mezzanine Level.)
Madeleine
Brown died on June 22, 2002.
LBJ kept room #434
permanently reserved at the Driskill Hotel. It is now known as the “Governor’s
Room” and it is located on the 4th floor of the Driskill, middle
room, facing 6th street to the South https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/discovering-lbjs-austin/
“Discovering LBJ’s Austin”
by Madelyn Herzog for Texas Monthly,
May 6, 2013
QUOTE
The Johnsons—whose marriage was enduring, if
not as idyllic as their courtship—stayed in the Driskill Hotel many times. Room
434, a fourth-floor suite with a balcony overlooking Sixth Street, was
permanently reserved for the president. In November 1948, 1960, and 1964, the
Johnsons gathered with friends and supporters in the hotel’s Jim Hogg Parlor to
watch the election returns come in.
UNQUOTE
What Lyndon Johnson did not
tell his mistress was that Texas big oil (think H.L. Hunt and Clint Murchison,
Sr) and the CIA had killed John Kennedy on behalf of Lyndon Johnson. LBJ either
organized the plot to kill JFK or he knew about it in advance and agreed to
cover the murder up. LBJ in the fall of 1963 was like a cornered animal. He was
about to be dropped from the presidential ticket in 1964 by JFK.
Also, LBJ could very well have been indicted in the Bobby Baker scandal
that was breaking at that time in fall, 1963.
I believe that Lyndon Johnson was at the
heart and center of the murder of John F. Kennedy. LBJ had a lot of help, too,
from the CIA, Texas oil barons, the Mafia, anti-Casto Cubans and high officials
in the military and government, including J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI who was LBJ's
next door neighbor in Washington, DC for 19 years as well as a close personal
friend.
Madeleine Duncan Brown is
confirmed in saying Lyndon Johnson was at the Driskill Hotel, Austin, TX New
Year’s Eve 12/31/63
Sam Johnson's Boy by Alfred Steinberg, has LBJ at
Driskell Hotel 12/31/63, p.652:
"On New Year's Eve [12-31-63], with his first Presidential vacation
almost over, Johnson paid a surprise visit to the drinking party Washington reporters
away from home were holding at the Driskell Hotel in Austin. He had done
handsomely for certain reporters during the vacation, and they were excited to
see him now."
Here is another account of LBJ at the Driskell Hotel on 12/31/63: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lucey/how-former-us-presidents_b_405850.html
Bill Lucy writing in the Huffington Post, 12-9-09
"Lyndon Johnson usually liked to sneak away to his ranch in
Texas for the Christmas holidays, including New Year's Eve and prepare his State
of the Union address.
On
New Year's Eve 1964, LBJ left Lady Bird at the ranch to watch a movie, while he
engaged in some party hopping; first by attending a private reception at the
University of Texas in Austin; later he headed to a private club, the "40
Acres" not far from the college campus. After about an hour there-he
dashed off to the home of Frank Irwin, former Chairman of the Board of Regents
of the University of Texas and a close friend of the president, before heading
to the Driskill Hotel for a New Year's Eve bash attended by the White House
press corps."
And
what do you think Lyndon Johnson do AFTER he partied with the White House press
corps, probably in the bar of the Driskell Hotel ... he headed upstairs to
the Mezzanine level to his reserved room #434 and into the arms of (one of) his
beloved mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown, father of his son Steven. And it was
THAT NIGHT that LBJ told Madeleine that "It was
Texas oil and those fucking renegade intelligence bastards in
Washington" that murdered John Kennedy. [LBJ at late night
12/31/63 or early morning 1/1/64]
Madeleine
Duncan Brown may not be right on every detail in her book and story, but I think
she is 100% correct on the big items such as LBJ saying:
"It
was evident that the tone of fury in his voice from last night had not
dissipated. I had barely eked out the words, “About last night…” when his rage
virtually went ballistic. His snarling voice jolted me as never before—“That son-of-a-bitch crazy Yarborough and
that goddamn fucking Irish mafia bastard, Kennedy, will never embarrass me
again!” [quoted on the morning of 11/22/63]
President Lyndon Johnson’s schedule
12/31/63:
LBJ
kept a daily diary which can be viewed on the LBJ library website. Looking up
12/31/63 the following is noted:
8:10 Depart LBJ Ranch via... chopper with Don Thomas, Sandy Shapiro, General
Clifton
Gerry Whittington, VM, MF To Austin
Forty Acres Club
Frank Erwin's residence
White House Press [This was the party being held at the
Driskill on 12/31/63]
Headliners Club
12:10 To LBJ via Chopper w/ A.W. Moursund, Gerry
W., General Clifton, VM, MF
JFK Researcher Ed Tatro reunited Madeleine Brown with Allan Witwer,
the manager of the Del Charro
Tatro says that when they met in Massachusetts, after decades of
not seeing each other, Madeleine and Mr. Witwer smiled, rushed to each other
and greeted themselves like old friends. This is confirmation that Lyndon
Johnson used to take Madeleine Brown to vacation with him at Clint Murchison's
Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, CA in the 1950's.
1987 Phil Donahue Video Interview with Madeleine
Brown and LBJ’s son Steven Brown
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1482862/?q=madeleine%20brown
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC
station in Fort Worth, Texas
Jim Marrs on Madeleine Brown, email to Robert
Morrow 4-17-15
Howdy Robert,
My number is correct but my email has
changed. It is _________.
As for Madeleine Brown, I am convinced
she was who she claimed to be. When I first learned of Madeleine, I checked
with some of my old friends who were reporters at the newspaper who had covered
LBJ back in the 1950s and 60s. They confirmed that it was a well-known secret
that Madeleine and Johnson were carrying on. But, just like JFK and
Marilyn/Judith Exner, no one wrote about it at the time. I met her son Steven
prior to his mysterious disappearance and I had no problem in believing he was
the son of LBJ, as he was gangly with big ears and hands. One sure proof of
this was the fact that Steven suffered from a rare blood disease, the same one
that afflicted LBJ's grandmother and is passed through heredity. I also saw the
letters from LBJ's lawyers to Madeleine following Johnson's death in which they
assure her that the financial support would continue after his death.
Apparently, Lady Bird learned of this and put a stop to it because suddenly the
financial support ended and this is when Madeleine went public with her claims.
I also distinctly recall when Madeleine called me frantic about the disappearance
of Steven from Parkland Hospital. This went on for a few months before he was
located in Bethesda Naval Hospital in D.C. (??) He was transferred back to
Parkland but died within just a few weeks. I have to say that toward the end of
her life, Madeleine may have had a tendency to elaborate and even misrepresent
some of the details of her story. But on the whole, I feel she was telling the
truth.
Best regards,
Jim
Madeleine Duncan Brown was interviewed
in the National Examiner of Feb. 6, 1990 about Lyndon Johnson’s incriminating
comments regarding the JFK assassination
https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=48753&relPageId=9&search=Madeleine_Brown
Madeleine Brown is quoted as saying “Those goddamn Kennedys
won’t embarrass me again after today. That’s not a threat, that’s a promise!”
Madeleine Brown is also quoted as saying after she mentioned to him that Americans
were suspecting him on a role in the sordid affair of the murder of JFK and
upon hearing this Lyndon Johnson slammed his fist into his hand and said “It
was ordered by American oilmen and the CIA.” Then LBJ told her “You’ve SEEN
nothing, HEARD nothing, and you DON’T REPEAT anything!”
This was reported by G.J. Rowell in “The JFK Assassination
File: Did You Know,” (The Third Decade, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 7)
Some Very Nice comments on the Passing of Madeleine Brown in the
Dealey Plaza Echo, Volume 6, #2, July 2002 by Ian Griggs
https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16248&relPageId=15&search=Madeleine
Ian Griggs has a picture of Madeleine Brown from June, 1994
at the exclusive Top o’ The Cliff Club on West Jefferson Blvd. LBJ purchased a
life membership for her there in the late 1960’s.
Greg Jaynes tribute to Madeleine Brown, “Madeleine Brown was
a sweet lady. I’m sad she passed away. More important than her book and her LBJ
stories was Madeleine as a person. She was a classic old days Oak Cliff girl.
She was always gracious. She had a beautiful personality.”
Madeleine Brown died in the morning of June 22, 2002 at St. Paul’s
Hospital in Dallas. She was 76 years old.
Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Volume
8, Issue 2 (2002) has very nice tributes
to Madeleine Brown from both Mark Taylor, a teacher at Olathe High School, and
Jim Fetzer
Madeleine Brown (July 5, 1925 – June 22, 2002)
https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=4275&search=Madeleine#relPageId=6&tab=page
I remember seeing and videotaping the interview with Madeleine and Steven Brown. He died around age 40 in 1989 under odd circumstances.
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