Evaluating the Case against LBJ

[Adele Edisen]

According to Jim DiEugenio the reference appears in the First Edition on page 230:

In light of the BancroftPaine relationship, I have always found the following
quote by and about Dulles to be interesting and provocative: "Dulles joked in
private that the [JFK] conspiracy buffs would have had a field day if they had
known … he had actually been in Dallas three weeks before the murder … that
one of Mary Bancroft's childhood friends had turned out to be a landlady for
Marina Oswald … and that the landlady was a well-known leftist with distant
ties to the family of Alger Hiss." (Evica, p. 230) Dulles had a weird sense of humor:
to some, those facts are no laughing matter.

http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v6n...genio7.pdf

Phil, thank you for your reply and explanation, based on the reference in assassinationresearch.com article.

I have a problem with this because according to other information I have, LBJ presumably was not at his ranch three weeks before the assassination.

According to Horace Busby, author of THE THIRTY-FIRST OF MARCH, LBJ left Washington on November 10, 1963, twelve days before the assassination, to go to his ranch in Texas, which is not very far from San Antonio, but is a much longer distance from Dallas, to work on the only fund-raising affair of the Presidential Texas trip to encourage Democrats to attend the gala in Austin, Texas, on the evening of Friday, November 22, 1963 (which did not occur because of the tragedy that day).

Horace Busby was a speech-writer for LBJ, and his confidante, who had been with him since Johnson had been elected as Representative to the House of Representatives. He wrote two speeches for LBJ in which LBJ declined to run for the presidency, the first was in 1967 which Johnson had in his pocket, but did not deliver then, and his speech delivered on the 31st of March, 1968, just two weeks after Robert Kennedy finally announced his run for the presidency after a year or so of indecision.

Dulles may have visited Dallas three weeks before the assassination (to check out the landscape of the assassination-to-be?), but he would not have found LBJ at his ranch.

Adele

Thank you, Larry, for the date correction. 1963 is always on my mind.