[evolved_rage]

It was Johnson ... Ladybird Johnson.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Does this mean we get to see more JFK specials on C-Span and PBS?

[aimhigh]

I've always thought Johnson set him up.

[boris]

I have believed it was LBJ since the 1970s.

I saw a documentary which quoted LBJ's mistress (at the time) who stated that he told her--two weeks before the assassination--"Those Kennedies will never s**t on me again," or words to that effect.

--Boris

[ntnychik]

I've been out. Did Dan Rather breathlessly devote his program to charts and graphs proving Gerald Posner (Case Closed) is right? With the 40th anniv. coming, we can expect more books, and Dan's breathless special.

[_Jim]

Well .. of COURSE Johnson was behind this whole thing ... BUT that was never exposed in Oliver Stone's movie JFK so I don't believe it ...

</sarcasm>

[mombonn]

It wouldn't surprise me if lbj was involved. I remember theories floating at the time that sounded plausible to me.

[LandofLincoln]

Let us try to list all of those that might have been involved in the hit ... FBI, CIA, Castro, Russians, Corsican mob, Mossad, Chicago mob, New Orleans mob, Teamsters, LBJ, Nixon, Bush (PHEW!)

Let's do this the easy way. Let's figure out who was NOT involved ... every Irish Catholic woman in America.

Get the point!

[Fledermaus]

I believe it.

Johnson was a ruthless and power mad politician with a psycho ego. He routinely crushed and ruined his opponents in business, politics and law.

He should be dug up and hung.

[Servant of the Nine]

This is preposterous. LBJ was ruthless enough to do whatever he thought best, but he wasn't stupid enough to point at himself by doing it in Texas. He would have had it done if he was gonna do it on the East or West Coast.

This twits sons are either going to have to explicitly disavow their father or resign from office, cause there is gonna be a shitstorm over this.

So9

[ladyinred]

Interesting, I will read the book just like I have read all of the others and see what he has to say. I have heard rumors about LBJ over the years, and know that he was a pretty dirty politican, and that is about all I know about him.

[doug from upland]

This is why no DemocRAT would ever have Hillary as VP on his ticket.

[BluH2o]

I'm old enough to remember JFK's assassination in Dallas ... it was a watershed event for "baby boomers" not unlike Pearl Harbor for our parents. LBJ was not involved in any way shape or form in Kennedy's assassination ... this is pure bunk!

[joesnuffy]

Yep it was Kennedy's Johnson that did him in

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Years ago I heard Johnson backed the Canadian Prime Minister against the wall for his opposition to US involvement in Vietnam. If that story was true, it shows LBJ could get violent, and he did hate the Kennedy's, but I'm still not totally convinced of this. I think it was Castro or the Russians.

[Taft in '52]

I have a bizarre and outlandish hypothesis: Oswald pulled the trigger and acted alone.

[lawdude]

I have believed this to be the case since Walter announced Kennedy had died!

[The KG9 Kid]

Almost every JFK conspiracy theory is built upon one single critical foundation: Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot President Kennedy.

Some people just won't believe that a US Marine qualified as a Marksman could possibly make two hits in several seconds on a human target from less than 100 paces. The Mannlicher-Carcano is actually a decent shooting rifle, and Oswald was basically a competent rifleman.

I've never seen convincing evidence that leads me to believe that Oswald was incapable of making those shots. It's the only thing about the Kennedy Assassination that I'm sure about.

[FReepaholic]

There was another book written years ago with this same premise.

Remember the photo of LBJ being sworn in on the plane with Jackie Kennedy next to him? Well, the author included another photo taken seconds after that one...shows LBJ turning to a man behind him and both were beaming with looks of triumph! Jackie still in shock beside him.

I wish I could remember the title.

[yarddog]

I recall an interview with a Mafia boss many years ago when he mentioned that whenever there is a murder you first look to who gained from it.

That would indicate Johnson, and I think he was capable of anything. Still I don't really think he did it. I think it was Oswald with maybe an accomplice. I always wondered if they had Oswald set up as a patsy and were probably surprised that he in fact did make a hit, alhtough probably someone else also did so.