I’ve never thought LBJ behind JFK’s killing myself. I’ve long thought, if a conspiracy had to be made, that Kennedy had pissed-off far more powerful and capable elements than Texas oil men. The CIA and the American Italian Mafia being chief among them. Those people knew how to make things happen without questions being asked. That’s their business.
LBJ had lots of ties and friends from his years in Congress. Supporting the Military Industrial Complex that Ike warned of? Making sure he could be POTUS? Keeping investigations of ills past silent? I don’t know.
There is no doubt that LBJ was a sleazeball. But had JFK survived for two terms LBJ would have won on his own. That was the complexion of the country at the time.
When I hear hoofbeats...I don’t look for zebras. I just check out the horses first.