[Veritas_est]

I'm not sure yet what I think actually did happen, but I have NEVER believed the Warren Commission report.

[raisincane]

I watched History Channel with documentary featuring Oswald's mistress. She claims Oswald was there, by his own ommission to her the day before, to shot the killer. Her story was compelling, but who knows?

[_Jim]

I have NEVER believed the Warren Commission report

.. much less READ IT I'll bet ...

GOOD JOB!

[ggekko]

The book "The Texas Connection" demolishes all the rival assination theries (the Mob, the CIA, the Cubans, the Viet Namese, the Pentagon) and directly and overwhelmingly indicts Lyndon Johnson as the mastermind behind a Texas-centered assination conspiracy.

In a murder investigation the key question is always "Who benefits?" Figuring out the motive almost always identifies the killer or killers. In late 1962 and 1963 Lyndon Johnson was facing political oblivion and almost certainly prison time for his central role in the burgeoning Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals. The Kennedy brothers were giving Senate investigators damaging information about the Bobby Baker scandal as part of a none too subtle effort to remove Johnson from the 1964 Presidential ticket.

After Kennedy's death and Johnson's accession to the Presidency he gained control of the Justice and Agricultural departments and the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes investigations were summarily shut down. Lyndon Johnson alone benefitted uniquely from Kennedy's death.

"The Texas Connection" exhaustively chronicles this aspect of the assination and Lyndon Johnson's amazing career of vote fraud, influence peddling, corruption by which the Johnson family had amassed a substantial fortune.

LBJ was one one the most corrupt and dissolute men in the history of American public life. His career is the key to understanding what happened in Dallas in 1964.