Nelson's LBJ Mastermind book

[Peter Presland]

As an ignorant Limey I hesitate to take issue with people whose mastery of the minutia of the JFK assassination I will never match. I like to think I do have a fairly robust hold on the big picture though and, though already referred to by Charles D, it prompts the following general - and to me overriding - observation:

I find it difficult to accept that the holder of ANY elected public office, no matter it's apparently overwhelming power in the perceptions of the masses, could be THE prime-mover - the Mastermind if you like - of such an epoch-defining deep-political event as the JFK assassination. As Charles says - the biggest, most important tool/weapon in the arsenal of the REAL prime movers - yes, but the prime mover himself? It just doesn't fit what I have leaned of the workings of the nexus of agencies and powers that define Permanent Government in most of what we fondly refer to as the "Western Democracies". The holders of elected offices have ALWAYS gone through a vetting procedure that defines how they will be used. If they read the runes aright and 'smell the coffee' then, Tony Blair-like, they will be richly rewarded; if they don't, they will be dealt with one way or another. But prime-movers / masterminds? the skill set required to sell the snake-oil cures of real power to the masses says "NEVER" - they're just too bloody lightweight.