Billie Sol Estes

Billie Sol Estes (* January 10, 1925 in Clyde, Texas, † May 14 2013 in Granbury, Texas) was an American businessman and banker who was close friends with the late U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960. He applies some researchers as a key figure in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Life

Estes was born on 10 January 1925 as a child of John and Lillian Estes on a farm near Clyde, Texas. He was one of six children of the couple.

Around 1955, he was already one of the largest distributors of liquid ammonia fertilizer and supported by the way the Democratic Party with generous donations. He also indicated on several occasions to have bribed individual politicians. In the late 1950s he began in a big way with mortgage fraud, which in 1962 finally revealed. The charges against him became one of the largest corruption scandals in the U.S., and Estes was sentenced to 24 years in prison. His sentence was later annulled by the Supreme Court of the United States and Estes 1971 paroled. The journalist Oscar Griffin, Jr., who had uncovered the scandal, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his research in 1963.

Eight years later, Estes came again for another fraudulent offense in court and had to spend time in prison four years. In November 1983, he was dismissed.

Estes ' Notes on Kennedy assassination

On August 9 In 1984 Estes ' lawyer Douglas Caddy sent a letter to Stephen S. Trott by the Justice Department of the United States. In it, he accused Lyndon B. Johnson to have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A key role it depend Malcolm Wallace, a friend of Johnson, who was one of the assassins. At the same time Estes offered to provide detailed information on seven other unsolved murders from the environment of Johnson available when this immunity would be granted to him, especially since he had been directly involved in any of these crimes. The deal did not materialize, as Trott in his reply dated September 13, insisted that the FBI Estes really imagine him all the known information about these murders are available and none are lower, which can be used against him.

In May 1998, however, was the forensic A. Nathan Darby announced at a press conference in Dallas that a yet unidentified fingerprint in the Texas School Book Depository from Wallace came from. He had been assured there shortly after the November 22, 1963 by the Warren Commission and could be attributed by Darby, the longtime director of the forensic department of police of Austin, Wallace 1998. On April 15, 1998 Darby's report by E. Harold Hoffmeister, another expert for fingerprints confirmed. Thus the accusations voiced by Estes appeared - at least in the core - quite believable.

In his published in the November 2013 book about the Kennedy assassination is also the political adviser Roger Stone relied on conversations with Estes and Johnson complained to posthumously with the murder of Kennedy. It is also the first book in which an author called from the " inner circle of power " and a close friend of several U.S. Presidents to act as conspiracy.