I have no need to fill. I just believe LBJ had a track record in Texas, the most to gain, and the means to put a plan into action. He also would have had the ability to put a considerable number of degrees of separation between he and an actual hit. I also look at what he did between Nov 22, 63 and the election less than 12 months later. He diverted the country’s attention as if he were the man behind the curtain. He pushed civil rights legislation, which he believed in about as much as any dixiecrat. He put pressure on the Warren Commission through J. Edgar so as to have their findings made public before the election. He also found the big diversion - The Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Really? How many people did LBJ have murdered in Texas, killings that would have required dozens, scores or hundreds of people to commit or cover up?
The odds of keeping a secret are proportional to the number of people in on the secret, squared. The broader the conspiracy, the less plausible. All the leading JFK conspiracy theories involve hundreds of people, and most of them involve thousands.
also look at what he did between Nov 22, 63 and the election less than 12 months later. He diverted the country’s attention as if he were the man behind the curtain. He pushed civil rights legislation, which he believed in about as much as any dixiecrat.
My nostrils catch a whiff of anti-Southern prejudice there. JBJ was never a "Dixiecrat" in the formal sense, someone who joined Strom Thurmond's campaign in 1948.
LBJ took on the mantle of the martyred Kennedy, and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Johnson had the "just folks" approach to let him in the door, and then he could twist an arm. No one ever manhandled a member of Congress like LBJ did.
Kennedy made speeches. Johnson made laws. To be sure, he f'd up a great many things, from Vietnam to welfare, but in making black folks full citizens, he was the right man in the right place at the right time.