Posted on 10/28/2017 6:28:17 PM PDT by bkopto
...this memo from William A. Branigan, an FBI agent who later rose to become chief of the Bureau’s counterintelligence division before he retired in 1976. Branigan’s investigative work was important; he was instrumental in investigations that led to the espionage convictions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Col. Rudolph Abel and Kaarlo Tuomi, as well as working the JFK assassination. In the memo below, Branigan is passing on information to William C. Sullivan, who at the time was the head of the FBI’s domestic intelligence division.
The information being passed along counts more as rumor than anything else, though perhaps with an added flavor of credibility given that the source claiming then-president Lyndon Baines Johnson, who ascended to the White House after the Kennedy assassination, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan might well have been in a position to know.
That Johnson would have been a member of the Klan wouldn’t be much of a surprise, frankly. As a member of the Senate he had fought vigorously against civil rights legislation favored by President Eisenhower and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and early in his political career Johnson was guilty of all kinds of statements in support of the Jim Crow reality in the South.
And when Johnson was trying to pass the Great Society package, there is a famous (infamous?) story which had him telling a Southern governor riding with him on Air Force One that by passing of the civil rights and welfare bills he was pushing, “I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehayride.com ...
LBJ was a special kind of Klanner known as a TX Democrat. It was the thing at the time and done with a wink and a nod. I had uncles of that vintage and persuasion.
Are you referring to a hollywood movie? That should speak for itself.
Yes. I read that in a book years ago and can't forget the title. LBJ said it to some member of Congress who he was trying to persuade to support the Civil Rights bill.
Doesn't mean he was or was not in the KKK though. Based on his character he was certainly capable of being in an organization like that but we don't have definitive proof other than an allegation.
I knew Billie Sol Estes as a young boy. He was a close man to LBJ back in the sixties. His daughter went to school with me in Pecos, Texas and I was in his house occasionally as a playmate of his daughter. She loved a big birthday party. Oddly, the parties were not extravagant but very ordinary.
Some 47 years later I meet him again due to my job in the medical profession. We talked a bit about old times back in Pecos. He did not remember me but did remember my granddad who was a farmer as was Billie Sol among Billie Sol's other business enterprises. He was most pleased when I mentioned his daughter and going to his house as a friend.
He actually tried to hire my granddad to work for him. My granddad was a wise man and did not take the offer. My granddad said, "there is something about that (deleted phrase) that I just do not like."
We talked about the JFK assassination. He assured me that LBJ was involved in it. At his age and position in life he had no reason to lie. He absolutely believed what he said.
Perhaps this was the ramblings of an old man or perhaps the truth. I have no idea.
He was a gentleman with all interactions I had with him in my youth and as an adult many years later. He was actually a very charming man even in his old age. He passed a few years ago. I wonder what secrets he took to his grave.
His daughters were very loving and caring persons to Billie Sol in his waning years.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he was a KKK... those democrats were all racist.
I read that book carefully and came away completely convinced that it was a random walk through piles of trash, none of which had any real evidentiary value. And, raised in Texas, I wanted the thesis of LBJ involvement to be true.
Southern Democrats in that period should be assumed to be KKK until proven otherwise. Assuming they aren’t is the real “tin foil hat”.
The Democrats changed that to, "I've lost the South".
In the south pacific IIRC.It was weak.
You are thinking of oliver stone,not Roger.One is a director of a movie the other a book.
Agreed...
Hoover signed on...
Dallas and the Mob
Couldn’t have been happier.
The perfect dolt for a patsy...
Oswald.
All these recent released papers bolster This theory.
Yes
LBJ orchestrated the Assassination
Of
JFK.
It says as much in the last sentence of the excerpted article.
Lenny Bruce had a brilliant routine where LBJ’s handlers were coaching on how to use the word “negro” instead of the ‘other ‘ N-word... and Lyndon is having a hard time of it...
“Was Lyndon Johnson A Klansman?”
All democrats are Klansman.
Lyndon Johnson was a democrat.
Therefore, Lyndon Johnson was a Klansman.
Those on the distribution list were the top leaders of the FBI, some as Division chiefs.
I once knew and briefed William Sullivan on communist penetration and control of the organized anti-Vietnam movement.
DeLoach and Tolson were Hoover’s top aides. Didn’t know the others but recognize some names.
LBJ was also mentioned as having been part of a politically corrupt fundraising operation in Texas which involved a major construction company down there. I think any investigation or even idea of an investigation of LBJ was quickly buried, about 6 feet deep. That’s how powerful LBJ was.
LBJ was the ONLY one who benefitted by JFK’s death!
Yep, the web in general mostly shows 200s, a couple 100s, and 1 50. You are correct.
Yesterday’ paper had a brief story about Woody Harrelson playing LBJ in an upcoming movie about his life and presidency.
Wonder if Hollywood will suppress this info to protect the movie’s bottom line?
That’s just not true. The MOB, Israel, Brown and Root, were among the many who benefited by JFK’s untimely demise.
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