[…] 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 […]
[…] 15 16 17 5 he quotes newspaper articles. Considering he wrote it in 1965/6, it is a very striking run through all the then available information about LBJ and his corruption – Billy Sol Estes, Bobby Baker etc – and what little was then known about the murders surrounding the Estes events. There are […]
[…] 15 16 17 5 he quotes newspaper articles. Considering he wrote it in 1965/6, it is a very striking run through all the then available information about LBJ and his corruption – Billy Sol Estes, Bobby Baker etc – and what little was then known about the murders surrounding the Estes events. There are […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Kincora, Blunt and……JFK? Because it is difficult to distinguish the shit from the shinola among the allegations and rumours, thus far I have avoided trying to make sense of the Kincora scandal’s place in the Elm House-Savile-paedos-in-high-places thicket. However one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express […]
[…] 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.’65 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]
[…] 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.4 Bolden is now very old. With that caveat, this is still a significant detail in the […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
