Posted on 11/23/2013 7:29:40 AM PST by WXRGina
"After tomorrow those godd-n Kennedys will never embarrass me again. That's not a threat. That's a promise." – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
Did LBJ have JFK killed?
This question has endured ever since that fateful day of 50 years ago – Nov. 22, 1963. Former Nixon White House adviser and self-proclaimed "GOP hit man" Roger Stone makes this central argument in his new book, "The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ." Stone's very interesting narrative isn't another "conspiracy theory" book to add to the already voluminous number of fantastical JFK assassination claims. Roger tells Reason Magazine Editor, Nick Gillespie, "The whole term 'conspiracy theorists' is a pejorative that the mainstream media uses to denigrate anyone who questions the government's version on virtually anything. ... I'm not talking conspiracy, I'm talking facts."
In an interview with Abby Martin, who asks Stone, "What's the strongest piece of evidence that implicates LBJ in Kennedy's murder?", Stone replies, "Probably the fingerprint of LBJ's personal hit man named, Malcom 'Mac' Wallace that is found on a cardboard box on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. It's the only print other than the prints of Lee Harvey Oswald that I believe were planted there, so that is probably your strongest piece of evidence."
Secondarily, Johnson's mistress of 21 years, Madeleine Duncan Brown, who bore him an illegitimate child, said Lyndon Johnson told her on the eve of the assassination, "After tomorrow those godd-mn Kennedys will never embarrass me again. That's not a threat. That's a promise."
"And then lastly I think when the presidential motorcade pulled into Dealey Plaza in Dallas when Vice President Johnson's car made the 120 degree turn on Elm St. into Dealey Plaza, Lyndon Johnson, before the first shot was fired was on the floor of his car; he hits the deck. There's photographic evidence that proves this. So I would say that before, during and after the assassination Lyndon Johnson's actions betray the fact that he is in fact the man yoking the conspiracy, or in this case the plot that includes the CIA, organized crime and Big Texas Oil," Stone contends.
When asked about how his book is different from all of the other books claiming various JFK assassination conspiracy theories? Stone's answer recounted his professional relationship over many years as a trusted adviser to President Richard Nixon, who confessed to Stone "that the Warren Commission was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Stone again: "Nixon never flatly said who was responsible for Kennedy's death, but he would say both he and Johnson wanted to be president; the only difference, Nixon said was he refused to kill for the job."
Stone admits to additional firsthand confirmations that indeed LBJ killed JFK from such colorful characters as: Ambassador John Davis Lodge, who was the brother of Henry Cabot Lodge, JFK's ambassador to Vietnam; Attorney General John Mitchell; Tony Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family in New York; New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, who all plotted together with the CIA and LBJ to assassinate JFK.
Stone, in his book on LBJ, chronicles voluminous amounts of damning evidence that points to LBJ as behind the JFK assassination, including Dallas being LBJ's territory, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas media were under his control, LBJ's close friend (D.H. Byrd) owned the Texas book depository building, LBJ's personal assassin on many other hits (Malcolm Wallace) was seen on the sixth floor of the book depository building that day while 75-90 seconds after the assassination, Oswald was seen by several eyewitnesses including the building superintendent and a Dallas police officer not on the sixth floor, but sitting alone in the second-floor cafeteria drinking a Coke and apparently oblivious to the fact that JFK's assassination had just occurred less than two minutes earlier.
Stone further argues that Texas Gov. John Connally insisted that LBJ's cronies dictated the route of the presidential motorcade instead of JFK's advance team. This conflict caused a huge argument between JFK and LBJ, as witnessed by Jackie Kennedy, because JFK insisted on having Gov. John Connally, a loyal LBJ crony, ride in his limousine – while LBJ wanted his political foe, Sen. Ralph Yarborough, to ride with JFK (thereby killing two birds with one stone).
The trap was completely set when the presidential motorcade route was published in all the Dallas newspapers. As history dictated, JFK convinced LBJ to allow John Connally to ride in his limo, and Connally was shot along with JFK, although he survived. Yarborough, riding with a frustrated LBJ, was never harmed.
There is no physical evidence of Oswald being on the sixth floor of the Texas book depository building that day. The palm print the FBI found on the murder weapon was taken from Oswald and planted on the rifle while Oswald's body lay in the morgue after he was killed by Jack Ruby. The Dallas coroner recalled, after the FBI left, finding black fingerprint ink on the hands Oswald's corpse, which obviously wasn't there before the FBI arrived.
"Immediately after the assassination of JFK," according to Stone, "LBJ spread the knowingly false story that the Russian government had killed Kennedy. He told Earl Warren, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was reluctant to chair the Warren Commission. He was only persuaded because Johnson convinced him that the Russians had killed Kennedy and, if the truth got out, then it would precipitate World War III. This was a lie that Johnson told over and over. There's no truth to it. We now know that when Kennedy was killed, Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev wept. Also, Fidel Castro who was with an American when he got the news, kept repeating "Oh no!" and "This is very bad news." "I do not think that the Russian state was in any way involved in the assassination," says Stone. "I think Johnson lied about this."
Finally, Stone mentions "Landslide Lyndon" ascension in politics where his infamous 1948 election launching his career as a senator was obviously a stolen election in which LBJ won by only 87 votes, all in alphabetical order, in the same handwriting and they all signed in the same ink ("Box 13). Through a magnificent presentation of original sources, Stone ties LBJ to eight murders prior to the JFK assassination, not including his own sister, whom Stone's contends "he may have killed" and "is buried without an autopsy." LBJ's sister, Josefa Johnson, was murdered Christmas Day 1961 after leaving a party hosted by LBJ. "I think he's an amoral psychopath," says Roger Stone of LBJ. "I think he's crude, evil, vicious, vindictive, [a] drunk. I think that Lyndon Johnson had unique motive, means and opportunity to kill John Kennedy and I think that he participated in a plot to do so."
"How did this happen?" "Who is responsible?" and the most important question: "Who had the most to gain?" Doubtlessly, the answer to all three questions points directly to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who had motive, means and opportunity to kill JFK:
--LBJ had motive (personal, political, economic). He had political motive because of LBJ's legendary hatred of JFK, RFK and the Kennedy family, which extended back to 1937 when LBJ was a freshman Texas congressman and fanatical acolyte of FDR's New Deal programs. JFK and RFK didn't want LBJ on the first ticket and was working to get him kicked off the 1964 ticket. LBJ knew this and had to act fast;
--LBJ had means (LBJ used Texas Gov. John Connally to entice JFK to their Texas territory along with his strong connections with the Dallas Police, Dallas news media and Big Texas Oil);
--LBJ had opportunity. (LBJ controlled all aspects of the JFK assassination, before during and afterward.) The CIA hated Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. FBI head J. Edgar Hoover also hated the Kennedys and used his vast forces to cover up the JFK murder.
With JFK out of the way, LBJ would become president of the United States – a coveted position that those who knew LBJ realized he would kill to obtain by any means necessary.
Was LBJ thinking of the JFK assassination when he made this cryptic admission? "It is the melancholy law of human societies to be compelled sometimes to choose a great evil in order to ward off a greater evil." Or how about during his interview with Walter Cronkite when LBJ says, "Oswald," and he pauses, realizing that he did not want to speak that name publically to Cronkite and closes his eyes in despair, before continuing to the ultimate incriminating statement, "others that could have been involved."
Apparently, not even LBJ believed the findings of his phony, handpicked Warren Commission that "Oswald acted alone."
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! :-)
Certainly Oswald was working at the book depository.
Certainly Oswald shot Officer Tippet.
Certainly Oswald had been a marine.
Certainly Oswald had ordered a MannlicherCarcano rifle.
Certainly it was an easy shot to make 2 out of three times on a man sized target.
Kennedy was wearing a back brace, so he couldn’t lie down after the first shot.
Cui bono?
Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who’s being naive, Kay?
Was set up.
Those are three natural "bidness" partners, eh? Silly fiction.
“Johnson not only killed Kennedy but ate him as well. “
He only ate JFK’s brain.
When I was a young boy, LBJ made my skin crawl. I could never explain why. It is considered common amoung Plains and Rocky Mountain tribes that some young children are given a gift to discern evil deceivers. It was suggested by some of my tribal elders at the time that I had that gift. I do not know, but I cannot foget how LBJ made me feel.
No
Exactly.
I believe the question about the number of shooters is a diversion.
I believe that this CIA/FBI/LBJ did it thing is a diversion.
We know that there was at least one shooter, Oswald. We know that Oswald was a communist who spent almost three years in Russia and was pro Russian. We know that Oswald was a pro Castro activist. We know that Kennedy gave approval for the Bay of Pigs operation to overthrow Castro. And we also know that a likely hired thug killed Oswald.
How directly involved Castro and the KGB were with Oswald's activities and who paid Ruby to silence Oswald we'll probably never know .
Did you read the column? Johnson, of course.
This is a new book, just released this month.
Did you read the column? Johnson, of course.
The question was rhetorical.
One look at LBJ’s face at Parkland Hospital says this “ theory” is beyond laughable.
Nor am I.
J.Edgar was a good but imperfect man, a dedicated public servant from every unbiased source I have read about the man. He warned Kennedy off his high profile sexcapades with starlets and interns alike. Perhaps, not so much out of respect for Kennedy as of repect for the office and its potential for blackmail and to harm national security.
He was on the same page as JFK when those four little black girls were killed in the Birmingham church bombing just a couple of months before JFK's assassination. It was then and there that they resolved to break the KKK, a mission which Hoover had accomplished within the next decade.
His successors were so reluctant to admit this that the farce of FBI infiltration continued for several years after Hoover died until it was finally discovered that the dues of FBI infiltrators were the only thing keeping the Klan on life support.
I recently read somewhere that Caroline had released some of her mother’s writings or memoirs. In them, Jackie says that she thinks LBJ had something to do with her husbands murder and she was afraid of him. If this is true I would take what she thought seriously.
OK thanks I see that now. I have a book from years ago. I think mine was called “A Texan Looks At Lyndon”. Also I read all 3 huge volumes of Robert Caro’s biography of Johnson where he really digs deep into his evil character. LBJ did it!
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