As many have said: Qui Bono? Who benefits. Lyndon Johnson had the most to gain, and did gain the most from the Kennedy assassination.
On that basis alone, Johnson was a prime candidate to be investigated. As President, however, and a Democrat, he had all the levers of power to prevent any serious investigation that would come close to him.
(Lyndon Johnson had the most to gain, and did gain the most from the Kennedy assassination.)
It’s been said he ducked into the floorboard of the car he was riding in right before the first shot rang out.
Most to gain:
—LBJ—definitely
—Mob—JFK had declared war on them—dumped Carlos Marcello in the Guatemala jungle—Marcello returns and is caught on a FBI wiretap saying “get that stone out of my shoe”
—Israel—JFK was fanatically anti-proliferation—another term and eight years of Bobby and this could be a nation killer for Israel
—CIA and former CIA—long list—JFK was threatening to break them into a thousand pieces—Bay of Pigs debacle, firing of Dulles and his deputy, JFK had affair with wife of London Chief of Station and killed their marriage, James Angleton working with Israel on bomb in secret etc etc etc...
JFK had a unique ability to make very powerful enemies.
I forgot to mention J Edgar Hoover.
He and Bobby (his boss) hated each other’s guts and Hoover was using blackmail files to keep his job—but it was an unstable situation.
Hoover would have loved that kind of leverage, methinks.
I have a feeling (just a feeling) LBJ was told about the upcoming hit but did not order it. That makes him an accomplice, of course, as with all murders.
Sadly, the story I used to use for a link to LBJ was said by several people to be untrue:
LBJ was humiliated and set aside as an ignorant country bumpkin by the elite RFK and other Harvard type top drawer insiders.
LBJ was said to have told someone: “Don’t worry. As of tomorrow afternoon all my troubles about that are going to be over.” Said day before the hit. But apparently didn’t happen.
LBJ did have plans set up of what furniture and memorabilia to have movers get out quickly, including the JFK rocking chair to be put in a back hall and carted away.
There was a traveling exhibit of JFK memorabilia I saw in Fall, 1964 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. A lot of the White House stuff was on tour.
And anyone can still go to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI and see the actual death car. LBJ ordered it stripped of interior blood stained material and refurbished.
I’ve tried to feel the New Age vibes off it from a foot away but haven’t felt any. It is creepy to think about it, though.
This is Rashida Tlaib’s district, too, for another “thrill.”
Then why didn't he run again if he did this for gain?