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

[James H. Fetzer]

Peter,

Since you are among the only relatively open minds here, I have to ask: Have you read LBJ: MASTERMIND OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION? TEXAS IN THE MORNING? A TEXAS LEGEND? BLOOD, MONEY & POWER? "The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt"? Jack Ruby's remarks after his arrest? Because I see no evidence you have. And why is it that those who knew him "up close and personal" understand it but those on this forum do not? I would expect this kind of response from newbies, not from those on the DPF. If you don't look for evidence, you certainly aren't going to find any.

Jim

And the <em>eminence grise</em> behind it all ... plus the anti-Roosevelt coup, the Lincoln plot, the murders of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchi and Julius Caesar ... Mastermind Lyndon Baines Johnson.

There is no doubt that LBJ played a vital role in the cover up, as he knew or was told he had to [they had him by the proverbial gonads on several scandals!]; however, I see little evidence he played any role in setting the plot rolling or in setting it up. He might have had some foreknowledge from the real planners just some days or weeks before the events. His job, as I see it, was AFTER - starting immediately after - with his being sworn in when he didn't even have to be; reversing the Kennedy NSAM on Vietnam indecently and immediately after the murder - and setting much of the above ground cover-up in progress. But even in that role, he was the front man for those who had planned the murder and the cover up in the shadows. When LBJ chose not to run again, it was made to seem as if the anti-Vietnam protests had brought him down. I think not. He felt he had failed to contain the protesters and protests and those that had most to benefit from that [and all] war might well take him out, as they had JFK.....so he got the hell out of the firing range. He was just a pawn and player.....not the mastermind.