24-10-2013, 03:30 AM
David Josephs Wrote:On the very afternoon of the assassination, Curry, Fritz, Wade and Alexander are told NOT to proceed under the assumption of a Communist Conspiracy... NOT to proceed with anything about Cubans... and to focus on Oswald as the lone suspect. To DENY reports that the FBI interviewed Oswald in the weeks prior.... and all this by those in LBJ's administration
If LBJ was in on it, then one has to conclude the SPONSORS were not interested in CUBA at all. Nor were they interested in WWIII with Russia. Issues in Africa, SE Asia, Oil and the Fed seem TO ME more in line with the desires at the SPONSOR level... while the lower levels appear to be doing it out of much more altruistic motivation.
And until it ACTUALLY HAPPENS... (Tampa, Chicago) it just remained plans and talk....
WHEN it does happen in LBJ's back yard... the "gold ole LBJ persona" kicks in and he begins taking advantage of the situation immediately.
Prior to ratification of the 25th Amendment, the rules of succession to the
Presidency were Constitutionally vague. The Constitution did not specify whether
the Vice President would become President or Acting President if the President
were to die, resign, be removed from office or become disabled.
So technically and legally(?) there was no defined POTUS from 1pm until 2:15 or so when LBJ is sworn in...
Was LBJ concerned over a military coup? He certainly did nothing (nor did the rest of the government other than the supposed bombers sent to Cuba and recalled) to prepare the nation and military for the follow-thru of what would have been seen as a "communist" anything.... Was there even air protection accompanying AF-1 back to DC? Any planes escorting the returning cabinet plane?
I think it very possible that LBJ's desire to be President - and his being surrounded by minions who appear to be able to do ANYTHING to help their man Lyndon - Fred Korth, Cliff Carter et al most potentially would have been involved in the facilitation and mechanic levels....
but do you or anyone else believe that LBJ had the power to order/coerce LeMay, Anderson, Galloway, Burkley, Kenney, etc to do what they did at Bethesda?
There is little or no motivation for participating in the medical cover-up other than the fear that JFK was a traitor and communist... so,
WHY would these military men, who wanted more than anything to go after Cuba and Russia, AGREE (or be leveraged) to assist in making the evidence conclude only shots from behind
and from the 6th floor high and to the right behind the victim (his has to be the only autopsy EVER that explains the process of the killing as opposed to the actualy physical evidence).
I have to disagree and feel that like so many others, LBJ was leveraged into silence and cooperation via a number of very vulnerable spots in his armor... and reminded via the brazen and public display...
that if he didn't play along, it could happen to him as well.
LBJ may - most likely - have been aware... but that was not his style... he was all about backrooms, cheating and secrets... and I simply do not blieve he would allow Jackie to be in harm's way, or even close to it.
Nope, LBJ played his part in what I believe was indeed a military coup, aided by the Secret Service and covered-up by plan via the FBI/SS/CIA who become the first and biggest line of defense...
I think the SPONSORS planned to lay this at the feet of the FBI/CIA so that "WE the People" would feel a sense of success when we uncovered all this great dirt.
State, ONI, Mil Int, INS and Immigration files are the hardest to get and contain the most contrived files when some finally are released.
Think about how history changes if the Chicago attempt succeeded... would we be having the same LBJ concerns in IL as we do in TX ??
I have always mostly dismissed LBJ pre-knowledge because he would have to be one crazy MF to ride in the motorcade knowing that there was going to be a crossfire. It makes no sense.
I think Johnson would have been somewhat suspect even if the assassination had happened in another city after all he was the direct beneficiary.
Re: no protection for Air Force One - I just re-listened to the Air Traffic Control recordings and was struck by the fact that no one, not the pilot, not the people in the Situation Room, not the military, said anything about protecting AF1, the White House or anyone/anything else. Their biggest concerns seemed to be whether the cabinet members who had turned around should go to Dallas from Hawaii or back to DC and near the end of the AF1's flight the confusion of how the casket was going to get to either Bethesda or Walter Reed and which of those hospitals they were taking it to. Very curious indeed.