11-09-2009, 06:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2009, 03:01 AM by Adele Edisen.)
Mark said:
Mark,
Your guess is that LBJ took away control of the Dallas arrangements from the DNC, suggesting that he had something to do with the assassination of President Kennedy. Is this a correct interpretation of what you meant?
If it is, then it does not make any sense since LBJ and his aides tried to convince John Kennedy and his trip planners to avoid going to Dallas.
I don't think many people have bothered to read The Thirty-First of March by Horace Busby, LBJ's speechwriter and confidant. In Chapter 12 (pages 138-150) of the book he describes how concerned and worried LBJ and others in his entourage were about the visit to Dallas, a place where Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson were accosted and spat upon during their trip to Dallas during the 1960 campaign, and where Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had just recently been attacked by right-wing extremists. It seems that the Kennedy people were anxious to have the President be in an open-car motorcade on the streets of Dallas, the city which had not supported him in the 1960 campaign, and their position gained supremacy over the advice of the Vice-President and his group of advisers who were concerned for the President's safety in Dallas.
Adele
Quote:Who bore responsibilty for deeming Dallas 'non-political' and thus surrendering control of all arrangemnts to an elite group of wealthy businessmen--instead of the DNC--is an important question. My guess is LBJ.
Mark,
Your guess is that LBJ took away control of the Dallas arrangements from the DNC, suggesting that he had something to do with the assassination of President Kennedy. Is this a correct interpretation of what you meant?
If it is, then it does not make any sense since LBJ and his aides tried to convince John Kennedy and his trip planners to avoid going to Dallas.
I don't think many people have bothered to read The Thirty-First of March by Horace Busby, LBJ's speechwriter and confidant. In Chapter 12 (pages 138-150) of the book he describes how concerned and worried LBJ and others in his entourage were about the visit to Dallas, a place where Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson were accosted and spat upon during their trip to Dallas during the 1960 campaign, and where Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had just recently been attacked by right-wing extremists. It seems that the Kennedy people were anxious to have the President be in an open-car motorcade on the streets of Dallas, the city which had not supported him in the 1960 campaign, and their position gained supremacy over the advice of the Vice-President and his group of advisers who were concerned for the President's safety in Dallas.
Adele