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contradictory activities there. Garrison called Guy Bannister a “key man in the<br />

assassination,” and that he was “sheep dipping” Oswald to make him appear as a leftist.<br />

Garrison concluded the segment by stating that in some ways, ‘The greatest injustice” of<br />

the assassination is the way Oswald has been portrayed when he was completely<br />

innocent.<br />

Producer Nigel Turner added additional segments of the Men Who Killed<br />

Kennedy over the years. The last three segments aired in November, 2003 proved the<br />

most controversial by accusing Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson of being<br />

responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy. 735 One of Johnson’s personal<br />

lawyers in Texas, Barr McClellan, was the primary source for the accusation. In a<br />

segment called “The Guilty Men,” McClellan said Johnson ordered the assassination to<br />

protect himself from investigations into his criminal dealings. He said on the night of<br />

November 21, 1963, Johnson met at the home of Dallas oilman Clint Murchison to<br />

discuss the assassination plot with none other than former Vice President Richard Nixon<br />

and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The History Channel eventually retracted the program<br />

under pressure from Johnson’s widow, Lady Bird Johnson, former presidents Gerald<br />

Ford and Jimmy Carter, and former aides to Johnson. The pressure forced the channel to<br />

conduct an investigation by a panel of historians who deemed the charges to be false.<br />

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The History Channel and A&E Network no longer air or sell commercially the final<br />

episodes of The Men Who Killed Kennedy. The author obtained a pirated copy of the<br />

three episodes from the Ebay online auction website.<br />

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