HUNT BLAMES JFK HIT ON LBJ

the New York POST ^ | January 14, 2007 | staff

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Only the most far-out conspiracy theorists believe in scenarios like Hunt's. But in a new memoir, "American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate & Beyond," due out in April, Hunt, 88, writes: "Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to work for it himself, could have been a very tempting and logical move on Johnson's part.

"LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas and is on record as having convinced JFK to make the appearance in the first place. He further tried unsuccessfully to engineer the passengers of each vehicle, trying to get his good buddy, Gov. [John] Connolly, to ride with him instead of in JFK's car - where . . . he would have been out of danger."

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Related: Watergate Plotter and Spy E. Howard Hunt Dead at 88

[Long Island Pete]

Has this nutjob also seen Elvis?

[Toddsterpatriot]

HUNT BLAMES JFK HIT ON LBJ

I thought it was Greenspan and the Fed.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Unlike most JFK conspiracy theories, the LBJ angle actually makes sense. LBJ could sprinkle the Clintons on his cornflakes.

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Has this nutjob also seen Elvis?

I guess he was still bitter about having his wife murdered.

[ExtremeUnction]

LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas..

LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.

[cripplecreek]

I've always thought it the most plausable theory.

[Cyclopean Squid]

The Zionists and Ho Chi Minh helped.

[Michael.SF.]

Wonder is he worked as a consultant on Stone's JFK?

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Unlike most JFK conspiracy theories, the LBJ angle actually makes sense. LBJ could sprinkle the Clintons on his cornflakes.

And had the resources to keep the lid on afterward, including cherrypicking *trustworthy* members of the Warren Commission.

[GourmetDan]

""HUNT BLAMES JFK HIT ON LBJ""

"I thought it was Greenspan and the Fed."

I have a book called 'Texas Connection' that does a very good job of tying LBJ to the Kennedy assassination.

At the time Kennedy was killed my Dad said, "Well, Johnson wanted to be president awfully bad."

Move along. Nothing to see here...

[zarf]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[stm]

There is an aire of plausibility to this. Lady Bird was a controlling stockholder in Halliburton, a major defence contractor. Kennedy was considering pulling the plug on Vietnam. That would have meant lost millions for LBJ.

I am convinced LBJ did everything he knew how to prolong that war because he got richer by the day because of it.

[Michael.SF.]

LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.

It may have been her money that got him into Washington, but I am sure he paid back that investment back many times over with the money he 'earned' and received while in Washington.

[FReepaholic]

I read an excellent book that gave the reasons LBJ was behind the murder. Can't remember the title, though.

If you consider how much LBJ benefited from the murder, then you have to consider him as a suspect in some fashion.

Motive + opportunity.

[mcshot]

As do I.

[FReepaholic]

...I have a book called 'Texas Connection' that does a very good job of tying LBJ to the Kennedy assassination...

That's the book I was talking about in my other post.

[sono]

Whew! For a moment I thought he'd be blaming Bush.

[dannyboy72]

After all LBJ was the man who figured out how to keep an entire subsection of the population on the government teet...thus consigning them to serfdom forever.

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The Zionists and Ho Chi Minh helped.

The Zionists and Ho Chi Minh helped

That's your story.