Posted on 02/06/2012 5:40:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal. The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband’s successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.
She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald – long claimed to have been a lone assassin – merely part of a much larger conspiracy.
Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state’s governor and senator, completed Mr Kennedy’s term and went on to be elected president in his own right. The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
The then Mrs Kennedy, who went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had ordered that they should not be released until 50 years after her death, with some reports suggesting she feared that her revelations might make her family targets for revenge...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That is true about Oswald and the family...I just got up and I meant to say he made a family out of moving to Russia.
The point stands he was a Communist and a mental case.
And he did murder, or participated in the murder of, JFK.
When was LBJ governor of Texas?
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Hey, c’mon, don’t get all technical on us now. /s
He was never Governor of Texas...he was a Senator from Texas, period.
I think Kennedy, a north easterner, was looking for southern votes when he pick LBJ for VP, it couldn’t be because he liked him.
I read all 3 volumes of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ. I never had an opinion one way or the other about whether LBJ had Kennedy killed or not. But somewhere during the reading of those books a light came on that told me he was responsible. Caro doesn’t say that but he shows you how desperate LBJ was to be president and how he knew he would never get there unless................ JFK died in office.
Lyndon B. Johnson conspiracy
In 2003, researcher Barr McClellan published the book, Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.. McClellan claims that Lyndon Johnson, motivated by the fear of being dropped from the Kennedy ticket in 1964 and the need to cover up various scandals, masterminded Kennedy's assassination with the help of his friend attorney Edwardo Clark. The book suggests that a smudged partial fingerprint from the sniper's nest likely belonged to Johnson's associate Malcolm "Mac" Wallace, and that Mac Wallace was therefore the assassin. The book further claims that the killing of Kennedy was paid for by oil magnates including Clint Murchison and H. L. Hunt . McClellan's book subsequently became the subject of an episode of Nigel Turner's ongoing documentary television series, The Men Who Killed Kennedy . The episode, entitled "The Guilty Men", drew angry condemnation from the Johnson family, President Johnson's former aides, and ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter following its airing on The History Channel . The History Channel assembled a committee of historians who concluded the accusations in the documentary were without merit; the History Channel apologized to the Johnson family and agreed not to air the series in the future.
Madeleine D. Brown, who was an alleged mistress of Johnson, has also implicated him in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. In 1997, Brown alleged that Johnson, along with H. L. Hunt, had begun planning Kennedy's demise as early as 1960. Brown claimed that by its fruition in 1963 the conspiracy involved dozens of persons including the leadership of the FBI and the Mafia as well as well-known politicians and journalists. In the documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy , Brown and a former employee of Clint Murchison both placed J. Edgar Hoover and Johnson at a dinner at Murchison's mansion shortly before the assassination. Brown claimed in the documentary that Johnson told her after the party that the Kennedys "will never embarrass me again". Similar suspicions are voiced by a number of LBJ associates, including Brown, in their own words in the 2006 documentary Evidence of Revision. Jackie Onassis, Kennedy's wife, also believed that LBJ was involved in the murder of her husband.
Johnson was also accused of complicity in the assassination by former CIA agent and Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt.
Again, the article says Jackie blamed LBJ and “a cabal of Texas tycoons”.
The city of Dallas has been blamed.
The state of Texas in which Dallas exists has been blamed.
I lived through it as a native born Texan and I followed the media and all the comments and articles and tv punditry.
What Jackie purportedly says tracks exactly with how the Kennedys and the Eastern Elites thought and felt.
Likewise I know a ton about LBJ and could never stand the man.
That does not prove him or Lady Bird to be murderers of JFK.
The TV generation just loves conspiracy theories.
Like this is something new. This was the belief among my teenage friends on the day Kennedy was shot. It was pretty common knowledge even then that LBJ was a $h!tbag and not above having his adversaries removed; permanently.
I agree, when it happened I was a young fellow more interested in partying than with politics but I long ago was struck by how those who tell the story present James Earl Ray as a bumbling, small time criminal who could barely tie his own shoes but somehow he morphs into someone who is able to set up this assassination and carry it off, then becomes stupid enough to drop the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it and changes yet again into a genius able to elude the law for months after escaping to a foreign country and living there with no visible means of support. It all sounds like fantasy. I find Ray’s story more credible than the government’s, after all I never knew Ray so I don’t know whether he was a habitual liar but I know damned well our government lies to us every day.
Based on your excerpted material, appears to me a headline could just as easily read,
“J Edgar Hoover a co-conspirator in Kennedy Murder”
But we don’t see that, do we?
Much more convenient to ballyhoo that it was “Texans” that did it.
To the extent that Lee Oswald was a resident at the time, I will admit that Texas resident Oswald murdered, or participated in the murder of, JFK.
This article is dated 8/2011
If anything, the intern’s claim of an affair is confirmed by Jackie’s comments
I think you are correct. Jackie was dumb as a stump. Caroline is the same way. The fruit does not fall far from the tree.
Jack married Jackie to give the family the air of respectability. She was from old blue blood money from Newport , RI. Remember the Kennedy’s were prohibition Boston Irish gansters, not that much different than Whitey Buldger.
But more significantly, Oswald was a Communist mental case.
She was almost certainly his KGB “minder” or else they would never have been allowed to repatriate to the United States together.
Oswald beat Marina on a regular basis. When she didn't "mind" him, Oswald would beat the hell out of her. Had she really been KGB, she likely would have killed Oswald the first time he lifted a hand against her.
I think Jackie was just covering her own shapely derriere. She had JFK offed because she was tired of the whore dog’s cheatin’ ways.
And good riddance!
Oswald never had a trial, I consider it an open question still as to whether he killed JFK. At the time of the killing I was an electronics technician on a Navy communications base in Iceland. The rumors about LBJ were flying through there right from the first hour after it happened. LBJ also had a mistress who says that he knew what was going to happen before it actually happened. I don’t know what happened but I certainly don’t consider the government’s version to be unquestionable.
If Oswald did in fact kill JFK from that third floor window the United States Secret Service did some amazingly sloppy work to allow it to happen.
Just the fact that LBJ came from TX is a blight on the state.
I was 10 and didn’t like the way LBJ looked during the swearing in.
“How come he’s not sad?”
“Why does he look like its just another day at the office?”
Yes, that has always seemed obvious to me. Glad to encounter another person who shares my perception.
Ignorant and determined to stay that way.....good for you.
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