Madeleine Duncan Brown (July 5, 1925 – June 22, 2002) was a Texas woman who claimed she had been the mistress of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for more than two decades. She went public with the claim years after Johnson's death, a relationship that was considered "an open secret" in Texas. She also claimed that her son, Steven Mark Brown, was fathered by Johnson. Steven Mark Brown was born December 27, 1950, and died September 28, 1990.
She claimed that the night before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Johnson said: "After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again".[1] Brown also claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald with Jack Ruby in the latter's Carousel Club prior to the assassination. In addition, Brown said that on New Years Eve 1963 LBJ confirmed the conspiracy to kill Kennedy, insisting that "the CIA and the oil people of Texas" had been responsible.
Brown said that the plan to kill the President had its origins in the 1960 Democratic Convention, at which John F. Kennedy was nominated presidential candidate with Johnson as his running mate, where H.L. Hunt, an American oil tycoon, and Lyndon Johnson hatched the assassination plot.
When they met in California Joe Kennedy, John Kennedy's father, and H.L. Hunt met three days prior to the election - they finally cut a deal according to John Currington (an aide to H.L. Hunt) and H.L. finally agreed that Lyndon would go as the vice president... this came from the horse's mouth way back in 1960 - when H.L. came back to Dallas I was walking... with him... and he made the remark, 'We may have lost a battle but we're going to win a war,' and then the day of the assassination he said 'Well, we won the war'.[2]
Madeleine Brown died on June 22, 2002. Social Security Records show the spelling of her name as Madeline F. Brown, and that she died in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.