[aristeides]

My brother, who worked in Washington at the time, tells me that in 1963-4 all of in-the-know Washington privately believed LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

[Timesink]

My brother, who worked in Washington at the time, tells me that in 1963-4 all of in-the-know Washington privately believed LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

Yeah, but they were also all patrician Kennedy butt-kissers that almost literally considered LBJ to be subhuman because he was from Texas.

[Theodore R.]

Jack Valenti says that LBJ had him sit in the bedroom while LBJ and Lady Bird slept for several weeks after November 22, 1963 Why? Because LBJ was afraid that an assassin would come after him; therefore, LBJ wanted the protection of his friend Valenti, whom he implicitly trusted. Valenti could be making this up, but I always thought Jack was among the more fair-minded liberals, if there is such a thing as a "fair-minded" liberal. There is about as much evidence that LBJ was behind the death of JFK as there is that George Corley Wallace ordered the shooting of MLK, Jr.