05-11-2009, 10:22 AM
I had read Craig I. Zirbel, The Texas Connection, and found its continuing cui bono compelling if not convincing.
This side of Barr McClelland, I see Johnson as part of a handful of accessories, primarily Dulles and Angleton, secondarily Hoover and Johnson, and in tertiary function, the mechanics of the Families, and the Betrayed of the Brigade.
As an aside, I did read Ultimate Sacrifice on advice of a friend, realizing it is an insidious weapon to make the reader comatose with pedantic repetition. I could no more read its sequel Legacy of Redundancy, than Stephen King's crew could make the horror-clown its Facebook friend.
As Armstrong put it, Oswald was a creation of CIA, not FBI, Johnson, Cubans, Mafia, oilmen.
I did find a fascinating bio of Mac Wallace at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwallaceM.htm and who can forget the suicide of Henry Wallace--surely better than Lily Safra's second husband who, being of faint heart, only shot himself twice.
I was dimly aware that a fingerprint had been found on a TSBD box, but didn't know Walt Brown was going to publicize research on it.
I find the Atlantic homage not convincing as the takeaway from Johnson is one who took what he wanted.
He signed NSAM 273 Tuesday, November 26, 1963, yet within two years he would boot the Joint Chiefs requesting permission to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong (see "The Day It Became The Longest War").
A friend from the financial industry of the time cites 1) Eliot Janeway's Summer 63 "dangerous Kennedy" tour; and, 2) Brown & Root's regular receipt of "a check for a billion dollars each week".
So, it was good business, but please let's not irritate the Chinese; Nixon and Kissinger will be there soon enough, hats in hand.
And finally, the colonel who spoke of the drug convoy which was ordered escorted from VC territory--and this week, a grunt of the era remarked, "That happened all the time."
This side of Barr McClelland, I see Johnson as part of a handful of accessories, primarily Dulles and Angleton, secondarily Hoover and Johnson, and in tertiary function, the mechanics of the Families, and the Betrayed of the Brigade.
As an aside, I did read Ultimate Sacrifice on advice of a friend, realizing it is an insidious weapon to make the reader comatose with pedantic repetition. I could no more read its sequel Legacy of Redundancy, than Stephen King's crew could make the horror-clown its Facebook friend.
As Armstrong put it, Oswald was a creation of CIA, not FBI, Johnson, Cubans, Mafia, oilmen.
I did find a fascinating bio of Mac Wallace at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwallaceM.htm and who can forget the suicide of Henry Wallace--surely better than Lily Safra's second husband who, being of faint heart, only shot himself twice.
I was dimly aware that a fingerprint had been found on a TSBD box, but didn't know Walt Brown was going to publicize research on it.
I find the Atlantic homage not convincing as the takeaway from Johnson is one who took what he wanted.
He signed NSAM 273 Tuesday, November 26, 1963, yet within two years he would boot the Joint Chiefs requesting permission to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong (see "The Day It Became The Longest War").
A friend from the financial industry of the time cites 1) Eliot Janeway's Summer 63 "dangerous Kennedy" tour; and, 2) Brown & Root's regular receipt of "a check for a billion dollars each week".
So, it was good business, but please let's not irritate the Chinese; Nixon and Kissinger will be there soon enough, hats in hand.
And finally, the colonel who spoke of the drug convoy which was ordered escorted from VC territory--and this week, a grunt of the era remarked, "That happened all the time."