[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.

[aristeides]

I just thought my brother's report was worth posting. You may be right that mere snobbishness explains Washingtonians' opinion at the time. I don't know.

What I think is clear is that, whatever JFK's faults may have been, LBJ was a far worse president.

[Ditter]

LBJ WAS subhuman, read both of Caro's book on him, & you'll see. You will also see that LBJ had Kennedy killed. He had to, it was the only way he would ever become president, & he HAD to be president.