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.”
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You are suggesting LBJ was a also part of an over-arching conspiracy to kill JFK? What is your evidence?
Of course LBJ benefitted from JFK’s assassination, he was the VP!!
And JFK and LBJ didn’t like each other. So what? A lot of presidents and VP’s throughout history did not have a good relationshiops.
Do Trump and Pence have a good relationship?
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Trump and Pence seem to have a good relationship. But if anything happened to Trump, Pence would benefit benefit the most. Would that mean Pence was part of a conspiracy?
LBJ did not stage a coup, that is pure unsubstantiated paranoid nonsense.
Anybody can suspect anyone about anything, that’s a far cry from correctly interpreted and corroborated evidence. Sounds to me like Roger Stone is just another tin foil hat.
I’m frankly surprised how much evidence-free paranoia is going on here at FR right now.
Oliver Stone’s movie was the most ridiculous work of paranoid fiction masquerading as history—ever. Oliver Stone is nuts, and his silly movie has been greatly discredited since it came out.
It’s a great movie for people who like mysteries and thrillers, but Stone’s movie is largely fiction.
So I guess you didn't read the book, or even the reviews at Amazon.
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There was a link in my post. I guess you didn't click it.
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It’s already been 50 years. So far LBJ has been correct.
What new information—credible verified evidence correctly interpreted by professional forensic experts—does Roger Stone have? What makes him more of an expert than Gerald Posner and Vincent Bugliosi?
So the claims that LBJ hated JFK and vice versa, and the claims that LBJ had inconvenient persons dispatched (sorta like Billy Clinton after him) was just piles of trash to you?
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I guess you have to read the book to find out instead of dismissing it out of hand. I have quite a few books about the JFK assassination. This, along with a book about Dorothy Killgallen, are the only ones I've thought useful. I do have Posner's book but all I remember was that it sort of echoed the Warren Commission. (Am I remembering this correctly?)
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Posner and Bugliosi reached the same conclusions as the Warren Commission.
There was no sinister overarching conspiracy. There never was and never will be any credible evidence analyzed and corroborated by professional experts proving that Oswald was part of a larger conspiracy. Ditto with Ruby’s role.
Posner genuinelytried to uncover evidence of a large conspiracy, but he never found any. In his book he debunked and disproved every conspiracy wonk claim, and Bugliosi did the same. There was no second shooter, shots from a “grassy knoll”, no magic bullet, no nefarious suspicious behavior by anyone handling JFK’s body, etc. etc.
When Posner first began research for his book, he believed that there was a JFK assassination conspiracy, and the Mafia was behind it. Except there were no facts nor evidence proving this.
Conspiracy buffs have nothing but suspicions, unproven allegations, anecdotal uncorroborated heresay and extremely amateur sleuth skills. They will never let go of this JFK conspiracy nonsense, they are too invested in conclusions they made a long time ago.
If you think the Warren Commission stuff was legit, I suggest you're not playing with a full deck; or you're part of the problem.
Thank G-d for Trump.
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There was a link in my post. I guess you didn't click it.
ML/NJ So, Roger Stone can write crap too.
When I first saw Dealey Plaza for myself I knew all the conspiracy theories were bunk. I stood on the sidewalk and felt like I could have reached out and touched that window where Oswald fired the rifle. No hidden gunman from a grassy knoll. It was all bunk and only Oswald killed President Kennedy.
Occam's razor; the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is. If you have to write a whole book about it, you have proven the opposite of your stated case.
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And a large conspiracy would have required hundreds and hundreds (maybe even thousands) to participate and then keep evrything quiet.
I guess you didn't read the book either. Go look at the review at Amazon.
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