New Evidence in JFK Assassination Compels LBJ Attorney Barr McClellan To Demand Release of Documents

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[Ditter]

I'll be 99 when they release the records. I think I'll hang around for the excitement.

[DeFault User]

Funny you should recall that he spotlighted deer. He did so much worse.

I had heard and read so much of his crooked dealings, but somehow the fact that the lack of ethics and the ruthlessness even extended to hunting stuck in my head. You would think that even the worst of us would have some redeeming qualities.

Two stories I heard from people who knew him:

One was from a fellow who needed a government favor. He approached John Connaly, who told him that only LBJ could help. Connaly caled Johnson. The guy said Connaly cursed Lyndon with such as "Listen you GD SOB, blah, blah." After Lyndon complied with the request, the guy asked Connaly why he talked to the POTUS that way. Connaly told him that was the only kind of language that Lyndon understood.

Another story from a college student who attended a seminar chaired by LBJ when he was VP (1961). Lyndon told the students that what the US needed was a good war to get the economy going. That tells you where he was coming from.

[Ditter]

Spotlighting deer was a very popular activity until the gamewardens figured out that if they patroled at night the lights were easy to spot. It is fun to go out at night & look at the deer but if you are caught with a gun in your truck. Uh Oh!

I have read 2 of the 3 books by Robert Caro on LBJ, Means of Ascent & Paths to Power. Talk about thorough. Caro must have used a proctoscope. I have Master of the Senate but I haven't started it yet. These are BIG books, they take commitment. LOL

It was during the reading of these books that the *light* came on. Johnson did it!

[marajade]

And Arlen Specter. US Senator from PA

[Timesink]

I believe the RINO Senator from Penn, (Magic Bullet A Specter) considers himself alive.

I was just referring to the actual "sitting members" of the Commission: Warren himself, Ford and the other five guys. There were a couple dozen lawyers and staffers, of which Specter was one, that worked for those seven.

I suppose in the end it's sort of a technicality, since Specter likely knows everything that the top seven did. But if we include all of them, I'm not sure how many of them are still alive.

[SerpentDove]

Arlen Spectre was on the Warren Commission.

[willyboyishere]

I agree with you 100% that the Marseille connection, as it was exhaustively covered on THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY, is the most plausible, at least as far as the actual assassins are concerned--the actual triggermen having no particular ax to grind politically one way or another with anyone,and merely fulfilling a professional contract as killers who do what they're good at. The main researcher cited in that segment, whose name I remember to be Steve Revell, I haven't been able to find any other info on. And yes, you are absolutely right in highlighting the fact that the coverup was in full swing virtually from the beginning, a fact that cannot be overemphasized, since it points out that the conspiracy to kill Kennedy and the conspiracy to cover up what would be evidence are not necessarily two separate phenomena with the latter undertaken strictly, say, to cover the ass of an embarrassed FBI, which failed to "protect the President".

[willyboyishere]

Arlen Specter contends that his theory was developed using nothing more than the clumsy drawings of Kennedy's head and neck area that he was provided with, that he had no access to photos,etc. Which begs the question, anyway, that all the "official" photos were equally doctored and falsified, so he wouldn't have been at any advantage with those either.
He included the disclaimer that different conclusions could be reached with a better or more complete photographic record of the President's wounds.

[Destro]

Did you see the episode THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY where they caught on a wire tap thos Miami guy linked to organized crime telling an under cover cop that there was a plan to kill Kennedy with a high powered rifle from an office building? Taped weeks before Dallas?

[I_dmc]

small correction. back wound, book depository. throat wound, grassy knoll. head wound, storm drain, using rounds loaded with fuliminate of mecury (or some other similar compound).

[willyboyishere]

Yeah, those were two right-wingers of the early 60's variety, Joseph Milteer, and someone with the surname
Somerset, I think. Not enough was done with this piece of
info on TMWKK, I thought, no follow-up, no interrogation of Milteer as to just where and how he(who seemed to be the one privy to the rumor-mill) was exposed to this info. But TMWKK just scratched the surface; there are hundreds for individuals who figure into the assassination in interesting ways. I was disappointed that I couldn;t get more info on Steve Revell, the researcher who did all the work on Christian David, and the Marseilles hitmen he claims are the ones who were the triggermen. That to me was the most plausible scenario as to who "actually" did the "wet work" on Kennedy.

[shootergrassyknoll]

If you haven't read Barr McClellan's book, do so. His book is the only book I've read that links all the people in Texas that you've read about in other books. LBJ had no knowledge of the assassination, per say, he was the reason JFK was assassinated. Edward Clark was LBJ's Lawyer and protector! Clark was a powerful man in Texas, Owned allot of politicians, judges etc. Thats why it had to take place in Texas, so he could handle any damage control after the assassination. There was only three people who knew about the JFK assassination in advance, Edward Clark, Mac Wallace and the man named Sonny, the last two were assassins and they knew only shortly before the act. Oswald was recruited as a pasty, he was involved but was to be shot to death in a shoot out with the cops, that didn't happen. The book makes the most sense of anything I've read, read and you be the judge, believe me, it beats the Warren report!

[Quix]

i DON'T consider 40 years "early."

[Quix]

At least your fossilized skepticism wears

consistently

on you.

[Quix]

I agree.

I think Shrillery et al may be among the few who are/have been worse.

[Quix]

Ahhhhh,

but to watch instead of complain would go

against

some

people's . . . . . . . . GENETICS.


. . . . at least against their deeply ingrained personality traits.

[Quix]

FOR ABSOLUTELY SURE.

[sinkspur]

You're that goofy "biblical codes" guy, aren't you?

Did you see the guy find the same kinds of stuff you do in Moby Dick? He was quite convincing....at shooting down the biblical codes nonsense.

[Quix]

As I watched LBJ being sworn in on live TV aboard AirForce 1, I had a deep, intense feeling in my gut that he was centrally responsible, at least seriously complicit in the crime.

I still feel that way.

[Quix]

I think there was one good thing about his administration--he declined to run for a second term.