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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’46 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’28 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’23 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’2 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Jackie doesn’t flinch (and other JFK bits and pieces) There are lots of bits of film on YouTube about the Kennedy assassination and I’ve looked at many. Recently I clicked on one made by one George Jettison, which opens with him – a large bearded figure – talking to […]

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[PDF file]: […] Bridge 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 […]

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[…] seemed to have spotted that Robert Caro had omitted a large chunk of material about Billie Sol Estes and other Texas shenanigans from his celebrated biography of LBJ. Since then JFK researcher Robert Morrow sent out a link to a video of him asking Robert Caro at a recent public meeting why he had […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] seemed to have spotted that Robert Caro had omitted a large chunk of material about Billie Sol Estes and other Texas shenanigans from his celebrated biography of LBJ. Since then JFK researcher Robert Morrow sent out a link to a video of him asking Robert Caro at a recent public meeting why he had […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Watergate story didn’t appear to interest Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they pressed ahead with their investigation of the Watergate burglary itself. LBJ knew In office between 1963 and 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the first US president who routinely tape-recorded his meetings and telephone conversations. One tape from […]

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[PDF file]: […] A recipe for disaster, that was. JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow. 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 […]

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