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But you have to remember where we are...Free Republic, where conspiracy theorists have found tons of company.

Agree ... I'm usually ready to believe the worst when it comes to democ"rat"s ... but this was in the era of "old" democrats ... when they still had a modicum of honor. The pre-Clinton era ...

Lyndon Johnson makes Barry Switzer look classy. I've always been convinced of two things in the Kennedy assassination. The first is that there were multiple people involved. The second is that the trail has been so effectively obscured that we'll never know the truth. There was not only the coverup of evidence, there was also the planting of false evidence, often by people looking to make a buck. There are the genuine nutballs and the hucksters. The flakes like Oliver Stone further muddy the trail, with half-baked "half-fact/half-fiction" docudramas. So many people have thrown out so many theories, stories and have so many "pieces of evidence" that have been digitally enhanced, faked, etc., that no one knows what is real anymore.

About Johnson, though, in his autobiography, he stated that his primary concern with the Warren Commission was to bring the investigation to a swift conclusion that the American people would accept (It's been a while since I read it, but I remember being surprised that he listed this, rather than finding the truth as his primary purpose). I also found it curious that he appointed Gerald Ford, who, according to LBJ, had played too many football games without a helmet, to the Commission.

Was LBJ involved? I have no idea. I do believe that if he wasn't he either knew who was or didn't give a d*mn who was.

I'm usually ready to believe the worst when it comes to democ"rat"s ... but this was in the era of "old" democrats ... when they still had a modicum of honor. The pre-Clinton era ...

Hate to disillusion you, but what "honor" did the Kennedys have? JFK was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe, as was his brother Robert Kennedy. And that's only one affair among many for JFK (I don't know as much about RFK). And the father, Joe Kennedy, was having an affair with Gloria Swanson. So many sordid stories, so little time.

Who was the person who came up with the "Camelot" reference to JFK? That was sheer marketing genius, as it has followed him around for decades, even to this day. You can't read an article about the Kennedys without coming across the "Camelot" reference. It puts the Kennedys in the realm of legend. Sheer brilliance, much as I despise it.