Lifton on DiEugenio on JFK offering the Vice Presidential nomination to LBJ . . .

[James H. Fetzer]

Since LBJ as president was the only one who could possibly guarantee that no one would be prosecuted for the assassination of JFK--where his pivotal role has been confirmed by Jack Ruby, Madeleine Duncan Brown, Billie Sol Estes, Barr McClellan, and E. Howard Hunt, not to mention copious circumstantial evidence--those who are doing the most to undermine the truth about JFK are not those who finger Lyndon for his role as "mastermind" but those who are willing to trash and abuse those who are doing the most to expose it. I find the insinuation of Keith Millea and (of course) Albert Doyle perfect examples of those who are willing to beg the question by taking for granted that the evidence is wrong and extend their irresponsible behavior by smearing a brilliant book that, I am willing to bet, probability neither of them has even read. If James Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE, explained how JFK had antagonized the most powerful forces in this country, as he had, then Phil Nelson, LBJ: THE MASTERMIND OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION, explains what they did about it. Only someone of the warped character and consuming ambition of Lyndon Johnson, who was in the ideal position to make it happen (with a little help from his friend, J. Edgar), would have allowed this to happen. And I find it disgraceful that members of the DEEP POLITICS FORM are continuing to undermine our best-founded knowledge and understanding of what actually happened to JFK! I am not going to stand in silence while the less competent impugn the more and the more gullible trash the less.

Further: We are at war with the killers of JFK, and it is my Constitutionally protected contention that Nelson is their witting agent.

With respect to the call for neutrality on this subject I wanted to add that after pondering why major researchers would deliberately skew LBJ as the "Mastermind" of the Kennedy Assassination it dawned on me that the reason was more simply explained than I considered. A book with a title claiming LBJ to be an accomplice used as a useful inside tool but wasn't the actual plotter would not be as good a sell as one claiming he was the organizing "Mastermind". Knowing the Assassination conspiracy has unfolded in layers of limited hang-out fall-guys like the mob, Castro, exiles, right-wingers, etc those claiming LBJ was the mastermind are simply exploiting the maximum sell value of boosting the claim as it would have been anyway in the next offering of limited hang-out. Somewhat dishonest but functional in drawing maximum attention to a valid member or layer of the actual conspiracy that had been previously shielded from exposure by the need to protect the honor of a US office. Myself I find it somewhat distasteful because it creates a carnival-like aspect to the Assassination landscape were researchers are trying to draw readers into their particular conspiracy theory sideshow. While patrons will learn real things in the Lyndon Baines wax museum they won't be clued or necessarily inspired to investigate the off-limits tents and their contents.



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