Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 266, and we are getting to the end of the Kinsar murder.

It's time for the trial of Mack Wallace.

So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 266 of JFK, The Enduring Secret. Mack Wallace's trial for the murder of Doug Kinzer lasted 11 days.

It took place in Travis County in Austin, Texas, and it began on February 18, 1952.

When the trial commenced, there were three attorneys seated right next to the defendant,

John Koffer, Polk Shelton, and John Koffer's son, Hume Koffer.

To this day, there is no real explanation of how a man like John Koffer, a highly celebrated Austin attorney who would have

tumbled into this case. And who was Mack Wallace anyway at the time? Sure, attorneys take cases

for lots of reasons. Could it have just been happenstance? Well, perhaps Wallace's father was a

relatively well-off individual, and that might have had

something to do with it. But many think differently here.

Koffer, even at this early moment in time, was already in a fairly established client relationship

with Lyndon Johnson. He had represented him in the 1948 election fraud case. And if you were a betting man,

you would be betting that this trial had something way more at stake for Lyndon Johnson.

His sister, Josepha, knew too much. And yet, that really wasn't the problem. The problem was

that she talked about it.

She knew inside details of things that had gone on in the 1948 Senate election,

the election that her brother Lyndon had stolen.

And she knew it from the inside out.

She was even involved in the campaign itself.

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