03-01-2011, 06:05 AM
Alan Dale Wrote:Madeleine Brown seems to be one of the necessary figures among those who promote LBJ as a Murderous Mastermind. I'm slightly bewildered by that.
In 1982 Madeleine Brown spoke at the Press Club of Dallas to promote the upcoming publication of her memoir, Texas In The Morning. At that appearance she stated that Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn was complicit with LBJ in planning President Kennedy's assassination...
Sam Rayburn was a Texas democrat who died on November 16, 1961.
I think she was a fantasist.
Alan Dale, Madeleine Duncan Brown was perhaps the closest and most favorite mistress that Lyndon Johnson had for 21 years. She is not a fantasist. What she is is wrong on some things and very right on others.
Of course Sam Rayburn was dead in 1961, 2 full years before the JFK assassination.
Madeleine knew very well WHO Sam Rayburn was, he used to come over to her mother's house and eat fried chicken. Sam Rayburn may very well have had an affair with Madeleine's mother.
What we can take from that above, is how close House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson were especially in the 1950's when they were running the country hand in hand with Eisenhower.
Sam Rayburn did not kill JFK, but he sure helped Lyndon Johnson, using Hoover's info, BLACKMAIL John Kennedy on the night of July 14, 1960, to put Johnson on the 1960 Democratic ticket:
In reality John Kennedy was all set to pick Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri who was very popular in California, which had a whopping 35 electoral votes at that time. With Johnson on the ticket, Kennedy lost California by a razer close 1/2 of a percent. It is very likely that a Kennedy/Symington ticket would have WON California.
Read the Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh, p.124-129:
Close JFK friend Hy Raskin: “Johnson was not being given the slightest bit of consideration by any of the Kennedys… On the stuff I saw it was always Symington who was going to be the vice president. The Kennedy family had approved Symington.” [Hersh, p. 124]
John Kennedy to Clark Clifford on July 13, 1960: “We’ve talked it out – me, dad, Bobby – and we’ve selected Symington as the vice president.” Kennedy asked Clark Clifford to relay that message to Symington “and find out if he’d run.” …”I and Stuart went to bed believing that we had a solid, unequivocal deal with Jack.” [Hersh, p.125]
Hy Raskin: “It was obvious to them that something extraordinary had taken place, as it was to me,” Raskin wrote. “During my entire association with the Kennedys, I could not recall any situation where a decision of major significance had been reversed in such a short period of time…. Bob [Kennedy] had always been involved in every major decision; why not this one, I pondered… I slept little that night.” [Hersh, p. 125]
John Kennedy to Clark Clifford in the morning of July 14, 1960: “I must do something that I have never done before. I made a serious deal and now I have to go back on it. I have no alternative.” Symington was out and Johnson was in. Clifford recalled observing that Kennedy looked as if he’d been up all night.” [Hersh, p. 126]
John Kennedy to Hy Raskin: “You know we had never considered Lyndon, but I was left with no choice. He and Sam Rayburn made it damn clear to me that Lyndon had to be the candidate. Those bastards were trying to frame me. They threatened me with problems and I don’t need more problems. I’m going to have enough problems with Nixon.” [Hersh, p. 126]
Raskin “The substance of this revelation was so astonishing that if it had been revealed to me by another other than Jack or Bob, I would have had trouble accepting it. Why he decided to tell me was still very mysterious, but flattering nonetheless.” [Hersh, p. 126]
Here is author Anthony Summers on this blackmail:
"
During the 1960 campaign, according to Mrs. Lincoln, Kennedy discovered how vulnerable his womanizing had made him. Sexual blackmail, she said, had long been part of Lyndon Johnson's modus operandi—abetted by Edgar. "J. Edgar Hoover," Lincoln said, "gave Johnson the information about various congressmen and senators so that Johnson could go to X senator and say, `How about this little deal you have with this woman?' and so forth. That's how he kept them in line. He used his IOUs with them as what he hoped was his road to the presidency. He had this trivia to use, because he had Hoover in his corner. And he thought that the members of Congress would go out there and put him over at the Convention. But then Kennedy beat him at the Convention. And well, after that Hoover and Johnson and their group were able to push Johnson on Kennedy.
"LBJ," said Lincoln, "had been using all the information Hoover could find on Kennedy—during the campaign, even before the Convention. And Hoover was in on the pressure on Kennedy at the Convention." (Summers, Official and Confidential, p. 272)."