20-02-2012, 09:47 PM
thanks for replies though i have always wondered what was behind that famous wink by congressman albert thomas to LBJ seen in the photo on air force one ...i have read the mccllellan book but i just dont totally buy it ..
Adele Edisen Wrote:Gordon Gray Wrote:[quote=Edwin Ortiz]I am just reading the book Treachery in Dallas by W Brown and i ran into a funny line ...mr brown is describing LBJ just after the shooting in dealey plaza and the sentence goes..."To return to love field, He (LBJ) had Mrs Johnson put in another car , either to protect her from assassins who might still be lurking, or as a decoy to draw them out.".........Now that is a FUnny line ..i cant stop laughing ...is mr brown saying that LBJ was a lousy husband ...i mean just because a man cheats doesnt mean he wants his wife assassinated does it ...
Quote:I think there is a lot of evidence that Johnson was terrified that day that he would also be a target. IIRC, one source mentioned him being seen cowering in the lavatory of Airforce One, prior to the swearing in.
Gordon, I think your appraisal is basically correct. Johnson understood the attack as being against the democratic administration, and as Vice-President he was part of the Kennedy administration. I think he was sobbing in the lavatory because he had tried to keep Kennedy from being sent to Dallas. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson had been savagely attacked in Dallas just weeks before when delivering a speech there, and Johnson and his wife also had been hit and spit upon when walking through the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel by extremist right-wing zealots in 1960 during the presidential election campaigns.
Later, Johnson also asked J. Edgar Hoover if he had also been shot at. We know from an oral history statement by Cartha DeLoach, a high-level FBI agent, that Lyndon Johnson asked that FBI Agent Orrin Bartlett travel with him on Air Force 1as a bodyguard because he did not trust the Secret Service. Orrin Bartlett had been a Special Liaison Agent acting as liaison between the FBI, the Secret Service, and the White House before and after the John Kennedy assassination. He was the FBI agent who interviewed me, along with Secret Service Agent John W. Rice, in the Federal Building in New Orleans on Sunday, November 24, 1963 , and who called FBI Headquarters and the Baltimore Field Office, telling them to pick up Jose A. Rivera for interrogation. My four-hour interview by Dr. Jim Fetzer is on his web site: http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com. Scroll back to February 16, 2011 and click on my name, Adele Edisen, to listen.
Adele
