Thank you for the info....even when it happened, when I was 15, I thought LBJ did it because he seemed to be the WINNER TAKES ALL when JFK was murdered.
Can you imagine if what we know now was known in late 1963, early 1964? Consider the headlines below:
JFK ORDERED CIA TO USE MAFIA IN ASSASSINATION PLOTS AGAINST CASTRO
FIDEL SPEECH IN HAVANNA WARNED OF RETALIATION FOR MURDER PLOTS AGAINST HIM
ON DAY OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, CUBAN OFFICIAL MET WITH CIA TO PLOT CASTRO DEATH
FBI AGENTS IMPROPERLY DESTROYED THREATENING NOTE FROM OSWALD
KENNEDY INVOLVED IN COUP PLOT AGAINST DIEM, KNEW DEATH LIKELY
RECORDS OF MYSTERIOUS OSWALD TRIP TO MEXICO CITY KEPT FROM CIA FILES
POSSIBLE OSWALD "DOUBLE" IN MEXICO CITY HINTS AT CONSPIRACY
CUBAN EXILE CLAIMS THAT HE SAW OSWALD WITH SENIOR CIA AGENT IN DALLAS
JOHNSON MISTRESS CLAIMS THAT LBJ TOLD HER IN EARLY NOVEMBER THAT HE WOULD SOON BE PRESIDENT
ZAPRUDER FILM INDICATES THAT JFK MAY HAVE BEEN SHOT FROM FRONT
JFK AFFAIRS WITH MAFIA WOMEN AND MARILYN MONROE BROUGHT POTENTIAL FOR BLACKMAIL
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SHOCKED AT KENNEDY AFFAIRS AND ASSOCIATES
JOHNSON POLITICAL CAREER BUILT ON ELECTION FRAUD, PUBLIC CORRUPTION
DEATHS OF AG INVESTIGATOR AND JFK SPARED JOHNSON FROM PROSECUTION IN BILLIE SOL ESTES CASE
LBJ DECLINED SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION IN MONTHS PRIOR TO DALLAS
LAWYER FOR JOHNSON CLAIMS ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST KENNEDY
FINGERPRINT OF KILLER LINKED TO LBJ FOUND AT DALLAS SNIPER'S NEST
FBI HEAD HOOVER DESPISED KENNEDY AND IS LONG TIME FRIEND, NEIGHBOR, AND ALLY OF JOHNSON
DOCTORS DISAGREE OVER LOCATION AND NATURE OF JFK HEAD WOUNDS
FBI COACHED WARREN COMMISSION WITNESSES, URGING THAT DISCREPANCIES WITH LONE ASSASSIN ACCOUNT BE LEFT OUT TO SPARE KENNEDY FAMILY
KENNEDY AUTOPSY, MEDICAL RECORDS SHOW HEALTH POOR, THAT HE SUFFERED FROM ADRENAL FAILURE AND VENEREAL DISEASE
PHOTOS, OTHER EVIDENCE FROM DALLAS AND JFK AUTOPSY MISSING
TOP FORENSIC EXPERTS DISAGEE OVER AUTOPSY CONCLUSIONS
The cumulative effect of such disclosures in the first few months after the assassination would have utterly upended the American government. The public would have demanded a thorough investigation with all the evidence on the table.
Even if cleared of the JFK assassination, honest and effective scrutiny of Johnson would have put him out of office and into prison, sending the country into shock and political turmoil similar to what we experienced due to Watergate. If Johnson was shown to have killed Kennedy, the effects would have been far worse, wrecking the reputation and confidence of the US in the midst of the Cold War.
If Johnson did set the JFK assassination into motion, he and his conspirators would have been uniquely placed to create and exploit various true and false trails leading to the CIA, Cuba, and the Mafia. Those agencies would then have covered up to protect themselves and desperately clutched to the lone assassin official account. Even the Kennedy family and loyalists would be complicit for the sake of JFK's memory, which is still extraordinarily valuable for them and the Democratic party.
Did Johnson kill Kennedy? The claim is more substantial than most people are willing to accept. Every time I try to reject it, I keep coming back to that fingerprint in the sniper's nest and the way that so many loose ends make sense if Johnson was responsible. Or maybe Oswald did act alone, with everything else just the undigested flotsam of history.