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merry christmas — 5 years ago(March 27, 2021 04:33 PM)
At the same time, Estes was buying cotton allotments from farmers in the Old Confederacy and transferring these allotments to his lands in West Texas … which wasn’t much good, as cotton land went, but price supports were so inflated that an allotment (in effect, a license to grow cotton) was like a license to print money. Anyway, there was an Ag Department man in Texas named Marshall, and he refused to approve these cotton transfers. Marshall ended up dead on his ranch: he’d been poisoned with carbon monoxide, beat over the head, and gut-shot five times (with his own bolt-action .22 rifle). Still, taxpayers might never have known. Henry Marshall’s death was ruled a suicide. After that, Estes’s cotton assignments went through.
Any stories about that incident. Estes is Billie Sol Estes. He was a friend of Lyndon Johnson, who was vice-president at the time. 1961 I think. -
MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(March 27, 2021 08:56 PM)
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MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(March 27, 2021 09:14 PM)
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