Posted on 11/05/2013 5:18:16 PM PST by Pontiac
I realize that delving into the world of assassination research and a belief in a conspiracy will lead some to brand me as an extremist or a nut, but the facts I have uncovered are so compelling that I must make the case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had John Fitzgerald Kennedy murdered in Dallas to become president himself and to avert the precipitous political and legal fall that was about to beset him.
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When Lodge was in his eighties, he served vigorously as the chairman of Ronald Reagan’s campaign for President in Connecticut, a post I had recruited him for as the Northeast regional director.
Lodge had done Kennedy’s dirty work coordinating a campaign with the CIA to assassinate Catholic Vietnamese President Diem. I couldn’t resist asking John Lodge about his brother. “Did you ever ask your brother who really killed Kennedy?” I said.
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His lips spread in a tight grin. “Cabot said it was the Agency boys, some Mafiosi,” he looked me in the eye . . . “and Lyndon.”
“Did your brother know in advance?” I asked.
Lodge took a sip of his Manhattan.“He knew Kennedy wouldn’t be around to fire him. LBJ kept him at his post so he could serve his country.”
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I had also heard or read that Jackie Kennedy blamed LBJ for the killing.
I think that might have been simply from the fact that she didn’t like LBJ and thought he was a trashy boor.
Just like Gavrilo Principm but Gavrilo Princip got a second chance to change history.
Lee Harvey Oswald got lucky on his first attempt.
I was not impressed with Jackie Kennedy but I agree with her. LBJ was a trashy boor!
And I'm with you, Ditto. I've been to the TSBD and it is extremely close to the area where JFK was shot. In movies, it looks like it was an impossible, million to one chance. But it was NOT.
LHO was a total nut who tried to kill Edwin Walker, but failed, he failed at trying to gain asylum in Cuba, he failed in making it in what he thought was "paradise" in the Soviet Union, came home to the US with a Russian wife, worked at crummy jobs that he hated, and was about to lose his family.
He was a failure at everything he touched, and was going to go out in a blaze of glory.
He was truly a man with nothing left to lose, and mixing that in with his leftist politics, and the fact that the US President was going to be riding by HIS workplace was just too much to pass up.
I'll concede EVERY theory about who wanted JFK dead. But that doesn't mean they actually killed him.
Oswald actually did it. Case Closed.
My pleasure
Very good, I think you wrapped it all up nicely.
Having lived here during LBJs ascent to power, he was always at the top of my list for ordering the deed. Was LHO involved? Yes. We’re others involved? I am positive that there were more than one shooter. Too many witnesses as to a second shooter.
Former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan’s dad Barr who was a promenient Texas attorney pretty well lays out the case in: “Blood, Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK”
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Power-How-Killed/dp/161608197X
I can’t believe that I couldn’t remember the Stones and went to the Dion song.
That is quite a gap.
> no conspiracy
Proof of conspiracy is Jack Ruby’s immediate murder of Oswald.
Agreed. If it was just a lone nut, ol’ Jack wouldn’t have shut him up.
Ah, yes. Compelling new evidence ... in the form of third-hand information in an unverifiable conversation that took place at least 28 years ago.
I heard a program on KLOS one time, years ago. The claim was that the original lyrics were “who killed humanity”. During a break, in recording the song, news came over the radio that RFK had succumbed to the bullet wounds, to his head, from Sirhan. I can’t verify the truth, but supposedly Mick rewrote the lyrics, subbing “The Kennedys” for “humanity”.
Interesting twist, on an old song. Thanks.
When Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110 which called for a return of America’s currency to the gold standard, and the dismantling of the Federal Reserve System — he signed his own death warrant.
The world bankers were not going to allow some foolish rich kid to crush their power machine.
Mark
Yes it suspect and probably distorted somewhat in the retelling but not necessarily false.
While that may be the case, it is just a speculative theory, with nothing to connect it to the event other than more theory. My theory is practical, and establishes a step by step connection to a rationale of assassination—but it does not suggest who would be the assassins.
People certainly may act in cold blood out of greed or ambition, but they *will* act when faced with the existential fear of annihilation. It is a superb motivator.
The idea that an insane president may start a nuclear World War III at any moment could make anyone and everyone in the room consider reaching for their pistol to stop him.
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