Johnson was a psycho who killed JFK to stay out of jail.
Johnson was a psycho who killed JFK to stay out of jail.
He had another excellent motive: to become president.
Okay, I’ll make clear that I have absolutely no love for LBJ. I thought his “Great Society” program was a mistake that had lasting rammifications and will take quite a long time to undo. I thought his mishandling of Vietnam was also very bad (not to mention him not only ignoring his chief of staff, but also proceeding to curse them out), and he had a whole lot of character flaws that made him unfit for duty. Heck, he may have committed various murders as well. And quite frankly, him dithering when that traitor Walter Cronkite lied on the air to the American public about the results of the Tet Offensive was just inexcusable (and for the record, I only view JFK as being slightly better than him, if only because he DID attempt to commit to Vietnam).
HOWEVER, despite my very low opinion of LBJ, to the extent that I think that he should never have been president, I have a lot of doubts about him being responsible for the JFK assassination. For one thing, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the DIE agent that defected during the Carter administration, made it pretty clear that the KGB and Khrushchev in particular had involvement in the assassination, and in fact, they even created the propaganda that claimed LBJ was responsible. It’s called Operation Dragon. You can read up more in the following links:
*https://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2013/11/20/the-new-proof-of-the-kgbs-hand-in-jfks-assassination/
*https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/11/20/11-facts-that-destroy-jfk-conspiracy-theories-part-one/
*https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/11/20/11-facts-that-destroy-jfk-conspiracy-theories-part-two/
*https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/11/20/11-facts-that-destroy-jfk-conspiracy-theories-part-three/
*https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/4/6/11-reasons-to-reject-jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/
*http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-the-communists-killed-kennedy/
And bear in mind, I have absolutely no love for LBJ, so don’t think I’m defending him from accusations of being responsible for JFK’s assassination because I’m a fan of him.