Hating LBJ is fun & easy, as he was a world class jerk.
I hope Robert A. Caro lives long enough to complete his fourth & final book of his LBJ biographical series, because that will chronicle Johnson’s presidential years which were not a pretty sight.
But fifty years afterward I am done with conspiracy theories. Fact is, JFK was assassinated by a lone nutcase with enough marksmanship skill to fire accurately at a slow moving convertible.
Now.....LBJ couldn’t believe his own luck when the Presidency literally fell into his lap. Got it. But organize the killing of a sitting President while vice president yourself? That’s a stretch.
Jackie was interviewed only months after the murder of her husband, which she witnessed herself. She must have been frantically grasping for anything, anything that would have brought some sense to this horrific event.
Being told that the Secret Service failed to stop an isolated gunman in a warehouse window wouldn’t have helped.
Yes it is. Which is one reason why I still enjoy doing it even today.
I don't pretend to know what happened. Clearly, Kennedy was offed. Many people wanted him gone, and at least one took action to achieve that goal.
However, I'm also about done with the conspiracy theories. I once saw a documentary about this incident, and one of the commentators said words to the effect that it is incredibly difficult for a lot of people to look at JFK - young, strong, vibrant, handsome, President of the United States, etc., and believe that a total loser like Oswald could fell this mighty oak all by his lonesome. You know, denial ain't just a river in Egypt - there IS some psychological need for a BIG reason why a worshipped figure (worshipped by the deluded, then and now) can be cut down in the prime of life. Somehow or other, there's a fear that having a loser murder him diminishes the hero image that many had of him. Me, I don't think so. Kennedy was what he was - a man who, at a young age, became President. Of course he looked vibrant and strong (esp. compared to 70 year old Ike), and he had this great-looking wife, and played football and had these cute kids, etc., etc. That didn't make him immune to a bullet or 2, any more than any young, strong soldier on a battlefield is immune to the same. He did some good and wise things, and also some bad and stupid things - like everyone else. As I said, he was a man, just a man, with the same vulnerabilities as the rest of us.
I have never forgotten that comment, and the simple truth is that the easiest explanation of an event is usually the correct one. Not always, but you'd have to prove that.
LBJ didn’t even seek a second elected term as President. Doesn’t sound like the kind of guy who wants it so bad he’d kill for it.
I think she was trying to figure out which of her husband’s
“enemies” was responsible in these tapes, recorded in January 1964.
Jackie’s comments about Martin Luther King are in here, too.
She speaks of MLK as a ‘phony’ who was arranging ‘orgies’.
The Kennedy Administration (Attorney General Robert Kennedy) authorized the FBI spying to begin after the Birmingham protests and the spread of racial protests across the country in the spring and summer of 1963.
The Dems were afraid of white backlash in 1964 hurting JFK’s chances of re-election. The results of the FBI spying were obviously passed to President Kennedy based on Jackie’s comments.
They sent an audio “sex tape’ to Dr. King early in 1964 (the election year) in what I believe was not some personal crusade by the FBI-J. Edgar Hoover, but a Democrat Party political operation to tamp down the civil rights protests in the election year.....
2 JFK conspiracy theorists die and go to Heaven.
They get to meet God and so they ask him; What really happened to John F. Kennedy? What is the Mob? The Russians, LBJ?”
God smiled and said; “It was Lee Harvey Oswald in the Book Depository.”
The one conspiracist said to the other; “See? I told you this goes higher than God!”
Thank you for at least one voice of sanity amidst the nonsense. There is no evidence-zip, zero, nada-that anyone other than that loser Oswald was involved.