Book Review of Robert Caro's THE PASSAGE OF POWER

[Albert Doyle]

Evelyn Lincoln would have to be a pretty bold liar if she said Kennedy's talk to her on 19 Nov 1963 about replacing LBJ with Terry Sanford was so impressive she transcribed it immediately into her diary. That doesn't sound like a vengeful lie to me.


I thought they pretty much knew Johnson's henchmen killed Marshall to keep LBJ from a cotton subsidy looting scandal. Again you accuse me of loose research but these are things you can't be fuzzy on. Monoxide and 5 rifle shots pretty much backs what I'm saying doesn't it?


Spartacus:

On 22nd November, 1963, a friend of Baker's, Don B. Reynolds told B. Everett Jordan and his Senate Rules Committee that Johnson had demanded that he provided kickbacks in return for this business. This included a $585 Magnavox stereo. Reynolds also had to pay for $1,200 worth of advertising on KTBC, Johnson's television station in Austin. Reynolds had paperwork for this transaction including a delivery note that indicated the stereo had been sent to the home of Johnson.
Don B. Reynolds also told of seeing a suitcase full of money which Baker described as a "$100,000 payoff to Johnson for his role in securing the Fort Worth TFX contract". His testimony came to an end when news arrived that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.