His father was William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., a traveling salesman, who died in a car accident three months prior to the birth of his son.
Interesting circumstances, similar to an incident involving a certain Northeast Senator.
Maybe it's just a coincidence?
Poor Bill was in the Army in Europe until 4 or 5 month's before B.J.'s birth, he was also married at the time of his demise to a woman in Texas, with whom he already had several children. (All of whom have apparently done some hard time.)
There is some evidence that Blythe had already died in a car wreck when B.J.'s Uncle Ray, a powerful local fixer, used him to make an ex-post facto honest woman of Virginia, B.J.'s mom.
As to whom the real father of our first Black President might actually be, there are several non-Blythe candidates. The best is an old fellow in Louisiana who was Virginia's 'boyfriend' when she was down there studying nursing at the right timespan before the blesséd event.
Bill Clinton is truly Christ-like in that the exact nature of his paternity and his relation to us is always a rewarding subject for discussion among wise men.