JFK: What we know now that we didn't know then

[James H. Fetzer]

The difference, Albert, is that Lyndon forced himself on the ticket so that he could accede to the presidency by assassination. That was the plan.

Lyndon was not photogenic and, in the age of television, would have had a hard time reaching the top. He forced his way onto the ticket, later explaining that he was "a gambling man" and had discovered one in four occupants of the office did not live to the end of their terms. LBJ was ANYTHING BUT a "gambling man" who only acted on certainties.

I don't think it is honest to the facts to suggest Johnson, a corrupted Texas politician, was capable of penetrating the White House to the degree implied. The obvious thing here is you can't just force yourself onto a ticket without the assistance of the greater powers that were manipulating things at the time. I think we know who those greater powers were. Johnson "forcing" himself onto the ticket is no different than a woefully underqualified recent Texas Republican with even greater entrenched deep corruption ending up in charge. The way these statements grind against the more than obvious greater established realities involved should be obvious without explanation to any veteran Kennedy Assassination researcher. These are rogue twists right at the gate of the argument. Common sense and reality won't let any Assassination researcher allow himself to be so crudely forced through the wrong door. Johnson was obviously aided into the Vice Presidency by the same powers who aided him in the Assassination. He was put in there as a hedge against a Nixon loss in 1960. The only thing Johnson was gambling over was that his rogue criminal past would be concealed by those same powers that placed him into office.

I did learn something however. It is possible Johnson quit in 1968 because CIA wanted a new chief in their next move against the next threat to them - RFK. Nixon then served the same purpose Johnson did against JFK. If you have a finer tuned ear to the Assassination, this move right here tells you who was the mastermind. Any credible researcher should jump when Nelson blithely suggests Johnson thought up the plan and "CIA went along". That right there should make any credible researcher howl because any fool would realize a hack Texas politician doesn't get the world's most notorious machiavellian intelligence institution to go along with his impulses. I would no more suggest that than attend a serious JFK symposium with a toilet seat around my neck at the podium. Johnson represented the gut constituency of CIA power. However the thinking head that manipulated that constituency came from different precincts. The head is the mastermind not the gut.


Why we still allow CIA to exist I don't know. We're a democracy. We can vote those fascist bastards out of existence if we want.