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

[Charles Drago]

No, you are not in deep water. You have simply misunderstood the conception of Lyndon as "mastermind". If you read the exchanges on this and related threads, you will see that you are in good company, because even some of the more astute members of this forum have displayed similar or very comparable cognitive difficulty.

"Cognitive difficulty" my ass! Anyone with reasonable skills in both the use and meaning of words in the English language and in deep political analysis will understand that there is ZERO justification for using the word "mastermind" to describe the Facilitator role played by LBJ in the JFK assassination. There can be two AND ONLY TWO explanations for such usage: ignorance or hostile intent. Period.

As James Douglass explains in JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE, Jack had antagonized some of the most powerful special interest groups in this country, including the CIA, the Joint Chiefs, the Eastern banking establishment, the Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, and even the Joint Chiefs, all of whom, for different reasons, wanted him out.

This sentence represents rhetorical trickery -- yet another attempt to dignify Nelson's perfidy by positively comparing it to the brilliant work of Douglass. The only other reason to do this -- and I'm not yet ready to accuse Jim Fetzer of this intent -- is to wittingly support the elevation of LBJ to the role of assassination Sponsor, a hostile act designed and executed by some to protect the true Sponsors of the murder.

LBJ was the one player who was connected with all of these disparate interests. He had forced his way onto the ticket in order to ascend to the nation's highest office. You really want to read LBJ: MASTERMIND OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION to grasp the profound ambition and ruthless character of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Without doing some serious study of the background and the players, including reading books by Madeleine Duncan Brown, Billy Sol Estes, Barr McClelland, and "The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt", you are unlikely to piece this together.

Jim Fetzer bases his defense of the Nelson disinformation on the death bed bleating of E. Howard Hunt, a non-repentant CIA master propagandist who was up to his ass in JFK assassination guilt and, absent compelling evidence to the contrary that neither Fetzer nor anyone else can produce, played his role to the bitter end. Game, set, and match. But if you need more, know that Madeleine Duncan Brown is so flawed a "witness" to anything but her own delusions that she makes Hunt seem like a font of Holy Writ. And Billy Sol Estes is a life-long criminal whose "confessions" are slightly less believable than that of Hunt.

Some of those here, I believe, have attacked the Phil without reading his book.

Fetzer here is referring to me. I have assured him that I have read the Nelson book, and in a past exchange I went to the trouble of demonstrating same. Yet cornered by his own absurd embrace of Nelson, Fetzer has no choice but to call me a liar -- even though he does not have the backbone to write it directly.

[LBJ] schmoozed with the Secret Service, he undermined JFK's policies, he worked his connections with political leaders in Dallas, including Earle Cabell, the Mayor, who was the brother of Charles, whom JFK had removed from the CIA. He sent his chief assistant, Cliff Carter, to Dallas to make sure all the arrangements were in place.

Ahh, the evil genius mastermind sends his closest aid to the capital city of his own state to facilitate murder -- the execution of the man who the world would immediately understand stood between him and ultimate power (except, of course, that the presidency then as now was a ceremonial office subject to the whims of greater forces -- a rule to which JFK was the exception).

Jack Ruby, one of the few conspirators who appears to have had a conscience, remarked that, if someone else had been the vice president, such as Adlai Stevenson, this would never have happened. Because he would become the new president, LBJ would be able to control the investigation and insure no one was punished.

The psycho-babble about Ruby notwithstanding, none of this justifies a "mastermind" qualification for LBJ, who was ordered to facilitate the cover-up or face his own Texas ride.

I think it is very difficult to get a grip on this aspect of the case because some here have created a straw man by exaggerating the role that Lyndon would have had to play to justify that description. I invite you to listen to a two-hour interview with Phil Nelson on "The Real Deal", http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com to learn a lot more.

There is nothing difficult here for anyone who reads and speaks English. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a puppet whose strings were pulled by the assassinations' true Sponsors. And yes, by all means listen to the Fetzer/Nelson group grope ... er, love fest ... and be amazed. A word to the wide: Stock up on Dramamine.