Suspicion about GH Bush was always out there after it turned out that he was in Dallas the night before the JFK assassination. When asked repeatedly where he was during the assassination the following day, Bush said he couldn’t remember (I was in grade school and remember every detail of that weekend). Years later, he admitted he was in the Dallas area but left right before the time of the assassination - he was in Tyler Texas at 1:30, an hour after it which would have meant that he had to drive 100 miles an hour to get there from Dallas. Oddly, GH Bush also called the FBI to tell them to check on a staffer of his who might have been involved but wasn’t. Very strange.
Nonsense, and silly, of course the Bushes knew where they were.
“Kiwanis former Vice President of the Kiwani’s club, Aubrey Irby, recalled the speech in an interview with a conspiracy author in a book:
“I remember it was a beautiful fall day,” recalled Aubrey Irby, the former Kiwanis vice president. “George had just started to give his speech when Smitty, the head bellhop, tapped me on the shoulder to say that President Kennedy had been shot. I gave the news to the president of the club, Wendell Cherry, and he leaned over to tell George that wires from Dallas confirmed President Kennedy had been assassinated.
“George stopped his speech and told the audience what had happened. ‘In view of the President’s death,’ he said, ‘I consider it inappropriate to continue with a political speech at this time. Thank you very much for your attention.’ Then he sat down.
Finally, George Bush’s wife, Barbara Bush, wrote down the events that unfolded in her memoir before and after the news that Kennedy was shot. She wasn’t at the club speech, but she was in Tyler, Texas that day and both of them boarded a plane to go to Dallas:
I am writing this at the Beauty Parlor, and the radio says that the President has been shot. Oh Texas — my Texas — my God — let’s hope it’s not true. I am sick at heart as we all are. Yes, the story is true and the Governor also. How hateful some people are.
The night before Reagan was shot, Bush stayed at the Ft. Worth hotel where Jfk stayed before he was shot. Hmm.
Sooo....I think there is documentation that shows that GHWB spoke at a Rotary Club lunch in Tyler that day....authentic? IDK.
With regards to the “George Bush” who called the FBI, they always say that it was “another George Bush” who was a CIA guy. Not the “George Bush” we know.
I don’t know.
Bush never struck me as a ops guy. That said, he did have legit and documented combat experience in WWII.
He was also chairman of the Harris County GOP in Nov 1963. So he wouldn’t have been exactly unknown in and around Dallas. He was already a public figure (and a son of a Senator). I’m not sure he was part of the ops in broad daylight in Dallas.....
That said, the official explanations are just as lame as everything else about that day.
What do we know with (I think) certainty about Bush? That he was in some respect a CIA lifer. Mesa Petroleum was pretty obviously a CIA front, and this is after all, what Skull and Bones guys did.
With that, we know then that he lied when he told Congress in his confirmation hearings for Director that he had not done any work for the CIA. So he lied about that, almost certainly.
Which suggest he would lie about anything if it were in the interest of the intel community....