[…] for editorial help with Lobster. *new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them expressing the thought shortly after the event. Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of […]
[…] for editorial help with Lobster. *new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them expressing the thought shortly after the event. Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of […]
[…] connected. My guess would be that Texas was a long way away from Washington in the sixties and while the East Coasters round the Kennedys knew that LBJ was a vulgarian and a boor, definitely not their kind of person – this is the Yankees versus Cowboys thesis in a sense – it just […]
[…] for editorial help with Lobster. *new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them expressing the thought shortly after the event. Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of […]
[PDF file]: Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza Robin Ramsay T he Kennedy assassination is now a vast field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable […]
[…] recently pointed out a video recording by former Kennedy-era presidential Secret Service officer Abraham Bolden. In this Bolden describes hearing a White House row between JFK and LBJ in 1961 about the then brewing Billie Sol Estes scandal.16 Bolden is now very old. With that caveat, this is still a significant detail in the […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty radical stuff, for the time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until […]
[PDF file]: […] power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to organise a temporary halt to the Vietnam War before the election. The Nixon team heard about this and set about frustrating it. Through Anna […]
[…] ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty radical stuff, for the time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until […]
[PDF file]: […] events that day in Dallas. The only member of the cast of characters definitely identified around the assassination is Jack Ruby; and while in prison Ruby identified LBJ as the man behind the shooting. Although I disagree with DiEugenio’s thesis, this is a really good book, with much new and newish material. Highly recommended. […]
