Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spadeful by spadeful, diggers flung earth up from the grave of Henry Marshall, the Texas-based U.S. Department of Agriculture official who first started investigating the Billie Sol Estes scandal. Marshall had been declared a suicide, despite evidence that made suicide all but incredible. Now, with the Estes case bursting all over the horizon, he was being exhumed for an autopsy by a five-expert team headed by Houston Pathologist Joseph A. Jachimczyk. The team's finding: "From the reasonable medical probabilities, it was homicide." This was perhaps the understatement of the year. Marshall, 51, was the Agriculture official...
...Good Investment." Besides the Agriculture men, one other Administration official has lost his job because of ties to Billie Sol: Assistant Secretary of Labor Jerry Holleman, former president of the Texas
...Ralph, Morris and Jacobs have all departed from the Agriculture Department since the Neiman-Marcus revelations. Morris proved to have other links with Billie Sol. His wife had been on Billie Sol's payroll as "Washington columnist" for the paper in Pecos, and in Estes' files were some very friendly letters that Morris had written...
Jacobs denied that Billie Sol bought any clothing for him. The only gifts he ever accepted from Estes, he said, were two rides in Estes' private plane, several meals, a box of cigars and a 5-lb. bag of pecans. Yes, Billie Sol did go into Neiman-Marcus with him, Jacobs admitted, but "I had my own money." Jacobs resigned his post anyway. Maybe he knew it would be hard for people to believe that a $6,500-a-year Government official would be carrying around $1,433.20 in cash to spend for clothing...
...hardly was it gone when another hunk of Estes debris fell on Holleman: evidence that he had accepted a check for $1,000 from Billie Sol. Holleman admitted that he took the money-and his explanation was a telling commentary on life in official Washington. Holleman said that he needed the $1,000 to help meet his "living expenses." His $20,000-a-year salary, he said, was inadequate to meet the social demands that his position placed upon him. Holleman said the $1,000 gift was "personal," and had "no connection with any of Mr. Estes' interests...