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...trigger, and poked the muzzle doubtfully into his belly. With that vivid gesture, Investigations Subcommittee Chairman McClellan last week voiced his conviction that the death, in June 1961, of Henry Marshall-a Texas cotton-program specialist for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service whose jurisdiction included Billie Sol Estes' cotton dealings-was murder. Said the Senator sternly: "I don't think it takes many deductions to reach the irrevocable conclusion that no man committed suicide with a weapon like this. He would have had to place the gun in an awkward position, pull the trigger and then work...
...last week's hearings Marshall, who has been ruled a suicide by Texas authorities, was very much in evidence. Testimony showed that he several times had warned Agriculture Department officials that Billie Sol's wholesale cotton allotment transfers might be illegal. Why had officials been so slow to act on his warning? No answer was forthcoming. First. W. Lewis David. Marshall's onetime boss in Texas, told the committee he had approved Estes' operations-with Marshall's reluctant consent-under a Washington directive that such dealings were to be okayed if the applicant merely certified...
While the hearings headed deeper into the mystery. El Paso U.S. District Court Judge Robert Ewing Thomason at week's end listened to eight minutes of legal wrangling, swiftly decided that Billie Sol Estes was obviously bankrupt. He ordered foreclosure notices tacked up on everything Billie Sol owns except for the lavish Estes home in Pecos. That same day Billie Sol himself sailed into court, serenely pleaded innocent to a multimillion-dollar federal fraud charge; moments later, his three co-defendants admitted their guilt...
...department. South Dakota's crusty Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring it out on the record and don't give it to a favored newsman." Freeman shrugged off the complaint: "There...
...suspended them, bringing to twelve the number of Agriculture employees he has let go or reprimanded because of links with Estes. All along, Freeman has insisted that doing business with Estes has not cost the Government a dollar. That somewhat misses the point. The real tragedy of the Billie Sol Estes affair is that he was able to corrupt so many Agriculture Department employees. The two suspended Oklahomans were small potatoes, but the potato digging is not nearly over yet. And ol' Billie Sol himself is yet to be heard from...