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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ML/NJ

[Paco]

Kennedy? Assassination? Huh? All I can tell you is don't order the scotch...I knew there was a reason I was a beer guy...

[WinOne4TheGipper]

How many people does it take to kill a man?

[all the best]

The Texas Connection by Craig I. Zirbel. Warner Books published the paperback edition. New York Times best seller. In any other country LBJ would have been prime suspect. But here he was allowed to take control of the aftermath. Never had any interest in JFK assassination or alternative theories then happened to pick up this book. Very interesting. Quite plausible. LBJ was a thorough scoundrel.

[Tribune7]

LBJ was always my number one suspect in any conspiracy theory.

[Southack]

"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."

Connolly and LBJ were at war with each other. Calling them friends is like saying one gave the other a Mafioso kiss of death.

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Wasn't Dan Rather a reporter down in Daly Plaza that day also?

He was had been the news director for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, and his work reporting on Hurricane Carla from the Galveston Seawall got him a job as a CBS News correspondent in 1962.

Covering JFK's trip to Dallas, where the president was to deliver a lunchtime speech at the Dallas Trade Mart building- so what would he have been doing standing around Dealey Plaza [Dealey plaza's in Dallas, Daly Plaza is in Chicago] where he claimed to have been, in the area of the triple overpass? But years later, photos of that area surfaced showing those there ducking from the sound of gunfire. And he was nowhere to be seen.

While covering the effects of JFK's assination in Dallas, he reported that schoolchildren in the Dallas school system had applauded when they were notified of the president's death, when in fact the thrust of the announcement was that school was to be dismissed early. This story infuriated local journalists at CBS affiliate KRLD-TV, who temporarily threw the CBS News staff out of their workspace.

Additional: in his news reports *from the scene* Rather described Kennedy's head as snapping forward when hit, a claim he repeated in print in his autobiography The Camera Never Blinks.

Until the Zapruder film, which it couldn't have been anticipated would ever exist or be released, became available for public viewing, the American public had only Rather's word as to what happened.

And now they know better. Or should.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I've seen the Zapruder film. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kennedy's head was hit from the back, causing it to go forward a bit before inertia slammed it back.

[N. Theknow]

I have seen films of the motorcade with Johnson in the car right behind Kennedy.

I never saw him go for a gun.

But I did see Johnson staring at Kennedy the entire route until they turned into Dealy Plaza and then look up towards the Texas School Book Depository building right before the shots.

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And yet, 43 years later, no evidence exists that LBJ had any hand in it and all evidence points to a lone nut (who, if he were alive today, would be a member in good standing at DU) firing three shots from the sixth floor of the depository.

And who remains unconvicted of any crime, and innocent until proven guilty during a fair trial in a court of law.

Would he have joined DU if told to by those who directed at least some of his activities. You betcha. Just as the former Marine did in fact try to hook up with right-wing Cubano revolutionaries left over from the Eisenhower administration.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

The difference, of course, is that there are really a lot fewer nuts among us.

[Bommer]

You are so wrong on many levels but don't have time to debate them. Continue to sleep peacefully with your view of the situation. Johnson did it with many friends in place in Dallas. The CIA head's brother was Major of Dallas.

Thats not correct. The Mayor of Dallas from 1961-1964 was Earle Cabell. His brother was Charles Cabell, who was deputy CIA director until he was forced to resign in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He was gone in 1961; months after JFK was inaugurated, and not "head of the CIA"

Have you ever been to Dealey Plaza in person?

I have since I live 20 miles away. Very small and not likely to have happened in my opinion.

Kennedy was also shot from the front.

No. The side of his head on his right was blow off. A front shot would have blown his forehead off. The mistake (and its an easy one to make) is that when you shoot something from behind, it fall forward. Thats not the case. Inertia from the bullet rips though the target, but the mass does not necessarily follow. History channel did a very good re-enactment showing that an object hit will fly backwards.

Ruby carried the rifles used down to a waiting car past the train tracks.

Never proven

Ruby conveniently was able to kill Oswald.

I'll give you that, but that would confirm that this was more of a mob hit than the CIA

It's called a coverup and many who knew where killed later

Some did die mysterious deaths, but most that did were connected in one way or another with the mob, but not necessarily all of them. The closest withness to the assassination Malcolm Summers died 2 years ago of old age.

You should read Posners book. Posner did do a fantastic job of proving that Oswald was the lone gunman and even proved that the shot of the magic bullet could have happened and with the jump seat that Connally was in in the limo (of which I also have seen in person at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn) perfectly lines up the shot. Not to mention that the bullet hit mostly soft tissue. He did this by lining up the bullet wounds on JFK's and Connellys shirts with the reaction on the Zepruder film.

Now I do beleve that this was a hit, but remember that the CIA couldn't even kill Castro! The only one that was able to pull this off was the Mafia and they had more than enough motive and means to do it....and to quiet those involved!

[Radix]

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

Such as Gerald Ford?

The entire story stinks, and has stunk for decades now.

Part of me is not surprised at all that so many people have lost faith in this country after that ridiculous white wash concerning the murder of a President of the United States.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Damn it, don't try to use facts to counter conspiracy theori... Wait a minute, you're one of them aren't you?:)

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Repeat after me:

There is no conspiracy.

Every recent assassination has been done by a lone nut job.

There is no conspiracy.

Repeat as needed until you feel better.

[Palladin]

I have always wondered about all these McClellans who are among the power elite of DC. Are they all descended from the Civil War General?

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[cripplecreek]

I didn't say I believed it. Only that I thought it was the most plausable theory.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

So, Oswald's innocent until proven guilty in court, but that same courtesy isn't afforded the man who became president of the United States? Do you know how nutty that is?

[Palladin]

LOL! LBJ was also a prophet.