Newly Released JFK Files: LBJ was in the Texas KKK (Vanity)

Vanity/ National Archives ^

[dfwgator]

Democrats have played black citizens for fools for years and years and years and years...

As Malcolm the Tenth would have put it.... Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what He does....

[Blue House Sue]

“He’s a dem, so there will be no consequences.”

I think you are wrong.

With this revelation, there is no way that LBJ wins the presidency in 2020.

[Blue House Sue]

“Ned Touchtone”

That sounds like a legit name.

[BeadCounter]

The Klan as the “Invisible Empire” at times, was like a fraternal organization, Harry Truman once paid membership fees into the Klan. One never hears about that though most concede it is true. I don’t think things will change much per LBJ’s legacy. Oh, change the library name or whatever, won’t happen.

[Savage Rider]

Johnson was in the KKK says an anonymous source who says that Ned Touchstone said. At least twice removed hearsay. I guess there was a deep state even in 1963.

[BeadCounter]

Klan actually had a desk at democratic conventions until about 1964. I think LBJ also, basically played some ploy against Goldwater, calling him basically, a racist.

[Blue House Sue]

“Johnson was in the KKK says an anonymous source who says that Ned Touchstone said. At least twice removed hearsay. I guess there was a deep state even in 1963.”

Not just third hand hearsay but third hand hearsay from a dead guy with a fake name.

[South Dakota]

I brought that up in a debate with a progressive.

She told me that Byrd recanted and everything was ok.
She then went on to tell me that the repubs were racist because they accepted the dixiecrats into the party

[GraceG]

BOOM!

[TallahasseeConservative]

Just like this misguided belief that General Forrest was a “founder” of the Klan. On the plaque on the building where the Klan was founded in Pulaski, TN. Forrest’s name appears nowhere.

[GraceG]

[DugwayDuke]

Magnum44 wrote: “Have to rename Johnson Space Center while they are at it.”

How does the Shirley Jackson Lee Space Flight and Mars Exploration Center work for you?

[elcid1970]

I’d go with the Shirley Temple Space Flight and Mars Exploration Center. She never hurt anyone.

Anyone but Landslide Lyndon.

[Freedom4US]

When I took Basic Training in the Army one fellow from down yonder there in the sticks tried to convince me the Klan wasn’t nearly as horrible as I’d been led to believe up in Yankee land, that it was sort of like the Rotary or Elks Club, something like that. Hm.

[txnativegop]

YAWN!

[Lopeover]

So LBJ was a Klan member?

[Kickass Conservative]

LBJ’s Great Society did more damage to the Black Community that the KKK could ever dream of doing.

[Wallace T.]

I am more than a little skeptical of any claims that LBJ was ever in the Ku Klux Klan. Klan influence in the Lone Star State declined after 1924, when Felix D. Robertson, a member of the Dallas Klan, was defeated for the governorship in 1924 by Ma (Miriam Amanda) Ferguson. Johnson graduated from high school in that year, and spent the next two years in California. By 1928, Klan membership in Texas had declined to around 2,500, and most prominent supporters had abandoned the organization. Johnson entered the political sphere in 1931, working for Congressman Richard Kleberg. Klan membership would not have benefited him in the 1930s, especially as his native Hill Country had a large German-American population, which was Unionist during the Civil War and had little affiliation with the KKK, which was nativist to the core. The Texas KKK was strongest in the 1920s in cities like Dallas, where it was more anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant than anti-black, similar to the appeal in cities like Denver and Indianapolis. Additionally, Texas did not experience the Klan revival that occurred in the Southeast in the post-World War II era.

It is quite unlikely that Lyndon Johnson, who really had no ideology other than his own ambition, ever became a Klansman.

[sleddogs]

http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Ned_Touchstone

[PapaBear3625]

Could you please post a link to the actual document in the National Archives, rather than to an image whose authenticity we cannot confirm.