LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests

[James H. Fetzer]

From what you have told me already, Charles, it appears as though this book was created to distract
attention from or obfuscate Phil Nelson's completely brilliant book, as I am sure Charles can appreciate.

I'm about a third of the way through Farrell. And for what it's worth, I've read just about everything he's publilshed.

Farrell's ultimate concerns are other than those of all but the tiniest percentage of JFK assassination scholars. What you're going to get from this book is a grand tour of those concerns.

To summarize without having finished the book would be unfair. I can make two preliminary judgements, however:

1. Nothing new whatsoever yet in terms of evidence.

2. Farrell's title is significantly misleading.

Again with the caveat that, while I've spot-checked the entire volume, I've seriously read/reviewed no more than a third of it, it seems to me that the title was chosen more for cynical marketing purposes than for any textual contention that LBJ was the assassination's prime mover.

Farrell will turn off most of us. To follow his reasoning, you must accept his theories regarding everything from ancient extraterrestrial cosmic warfare, to alchemical and "magical" roots and practices within global political structures, to the existence of advanced saucer-shaped craft of Nazi design and development.

And even if your mind is so open that you'll hang in there with Farrell as his JFK analysis unfolds -- in fact, even if you accept in principle the second and third theories as indicated above -- you may find his perspective on deep political subtleties of the sort we focus upon to be other than fine.

This book also is highly derivative in terms of its accounts of Masonic "designs" detectable within the JFK plot. Some of us are old enough to remember a pamphlet-sized publication which made the rounds in the '70s which argued these points. I own it and will try to locate it as discussion of this book continues.

Until then:

Jim, you mean that we could have saved ourselves all kinds of blood, sweat, and tears simply by agreeing from the git-go that "Lyndon was the pivotal player without whom [the assassination] would not have occurred as it actually did occur"?

NOW you tell me?!

I swear to God, Fetzer ... We're gonna have dinner and about five bottles of wine and finally get to the bottom of this!!!

Until then, let me be clear on the nature of our agreement: I conclude that, absent LBJ's willing if relatively limited participation in the plot -- which is to say, absent the criminal cooperation of JFK's Texas-born successor -- the conspiracy to kill JFK as we know it would have evolved in a manner quite distinct from what actually took place.

LBJ's importance to the cover-up may be understood via appreciation of this example: Others, as Jim D. et al correctly note, set up and ran the WC. LBJ's conspiratorial function was to use the "powers" of the presidency to facilitate (hence his Facilitator role in the conspiracy) the hijacking of all federal investigations other than the wholly controlled WC and -- MOST IMPORTANTLY -- lend the imprimatur of the Father State to the "final" verdict.

I write again: TO LEND THE IMPRIMATUR OF THE FATHER STATE TO THE "FINAL" VERDICT.