11-09-2009, 08:29 AM
Mark Stapleton Wrote:Yes Adele. I firmly believe LBJ was deeply involved in the plan to murder JFK. Had JFK not been killed, LBJ would have ended up in the stripey hole---where he belonged.
He certainly did a sterling job covering up for the killers. And he hated Jack and Bobby Kennedy, that is well known.
I haven't read Busby's book, but it looks like a load of rubbish. LBJ was desperate to get Jack to Texas.
I share the perception that the timing of President Kennedy's murder was most advantageous to LBJ, too advantageous to be coincidental.
The Mark Baker affair had reached the boiling point. He had already been forced to resign. His corrupt mug was on the cover of Life magazine. And congressional hearings about him were taking place on November 22, 1963. Whatever implicated Baker (aka "Little Lyndon") would also implicate LBJ, his political sponsor. The congressional hearings ceased early in the day when the news from Dallas came out, and they were never reconvened. I doubt the LBJ would have kept his job for another week if he had not stepped over JFK's body onto Air Force One.
Not to mention the fact that the Billie Sol Estes/LBJ scandal, featuring LBJ's personal hit man Mac Wallace, was waiting in the wings. Not to mention that additional fact that Kennedy had just told his secretary Evelyn Lincoln that LBJ would not be his running mate in 1964.
No way LBJ's hands are clean in the assassination. No way.
It was either, as Mark indicated, become President of the United States or go to prison. I'm thinking LBJ saw the oval office as the better option.