09-06-2011, 11:05 AM
I see that we've been having, shall we say, spirited discussions on this subject since I've last posted. Let's get back on point, shall we?
1. LBJ did not under any circumstances plan the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He didn't have the know-how to pull it off, and he certainly didn't have the pull within the Eastern Establishment to cover it up. As has been pointed out in the book The Assassinations, ARRB documents clearly show that Johnson was against the idea of the Warren Commission, and had to be prodded into it by Eugene Rostow, Joe Alsop, and possibly Nick Katzenbach to do it. And why, if he had actually planned the assassination, would he put himself directly in the line of fire? Suffice to say, Johnson didn't have the pull necessary to do this. Let's stay on topic, guys.
1. LBJ did not under any circumstances plan the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He didn't have the know-how to pull it off, and he certainly didn't have the pull within the Eastern Establishment to cover it up. As has been pointed out in the book The Assassinations, ARRB documents clearly show that Johnson was against the idea of the Warren Commission, and had to be prodded into it by Eugene Rostow, Joe Alsop, and possibly Nick Katzenbach to do it. And why, if he had actually planned the assassination, would he put himself directly in the line of fire? Suffice to say, Johnson didn't have the pull necessary to do this. Let's stay on topic, guys.
"Logic is all there is, and all there is must be logical."
"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs
"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs