08-01-2011, 01:26 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:You are welcome Charles. Over at Spartacus I just kind of felt that MB was distorting things knowing that people like Colby would eat it up.
Pertaining to the Nelson book, Green pointed out over there that Nelson has LBJ in just about complete charge of everything. This includes a Liftonesque version of the autopsy--hijacking and alteration--and complete control of the cover up after.
To me, this is about as bad a solipsistic view of things as John Hankey in JFK 2.
The idea that someone like LBJ, who had no training in intelligence work, could control something like the JFK plot which, as Jim Garrison once said, "Makes Dr. No and Goldfinger look like auditor's reports", is just unfounded. It simply could not happen.
Barr McCllelan's book, which is another source that Nelson uses, is so simple minded in this regard, that its almost risible.
Agreed that LBJ was hardly intelligent enough to have been a mastermind of anything. However, he was strategically placed, so at his word things were done or not done that have affected everything.
When it came to the limo, LBJ actually gave an order to Vaughn Ferguson of the Ford Motor Co, who was responsible for the limo, to clean it up and have it ready for him to use at the funeral on Monday. So Ferguson dutifully did his best to try to wash it out. The carpeting in the rear area was a disaster, so there was no possibility that the limo could have been used until that was replaced. But the effect was to make sure that the limo was stripped clean of evidence as soon as the FBI/SS released it late Saturday afternoon.