05-05-2011, 07:09 PM
The "he" does refer to Halberstam, and why Castro was eliminated by the Dallas assassination was because of the wounding, accidental or deliberate, of Connally.
He survived, and theatened to go after those who had apparently betrayed him. The Governor was willing to be in the vehicle along with Nellie and Jackie where the assassination took place in order to give himself an alibi, but was not willing to die silently when Richard Cain - you remember the guy who was gunned down in Rose's Restaurant in Chicago when Watergate was becoming completely out of control, and his assassin was looking for "the package" aka the Manlicker-Carcano rifle which was not test fired in preparation for the assassination.
As for how any of this fits into Jim D.'S claims, I shall look into further, and provide an answer later.
My basic view about Halberstam's book is that he was so disgusted in researching it that he just wanted to wash his hands of the whole mess when writing it. Certainly don't think that Halberstam intended to scapegoat LBJ in the conspiracy which assassinated JFK or the stoking up of the war in Vietnam, many of the details of which he was not aware of.
He survived, and theatened to go after those who had apparently betrayed him. The Governor was willing to be in the vehicle along with Nellie and Jackie where the assassination took place in order to give himself an alibi, but was not willing to die silently when Richard Cain - you remember the guy who was gunned down in Rose's Restaurant in Chicago when Watergate was becoming completely out of control, and his assassin was looking for "the package" aka the Manlicker-Carcano rifle which was not test fired in preparation for the assassination.
As for how any of this fits into Jim D.'S claims, I shall look into further, and provide an answer later.
My basic view about Halberstam's book is that he was so disgusted in researching it that he just wanted to wash his hands of the whole mess when writing it. Certainly don't think that Halberstam intended to scapegoat LBJ in the conspiracy which assassinated JFK or the stoking up of the war in Vietnam, many of the details of which he was not aware of.