[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] election. The launch of Radio London had, though, been planned prior to polling day. It is not clear why Birch and Radio London needed the approval of LBJ to carry out a private commercial activity outside UK territorial waters. Birch was previously an accounts manager at J Walter Thompson, a leading advertising agency that […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] 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. […]
[…] ‘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]: […] apartheid, Rosenhead is going to be taught how to think correctly about anti-semitism. All this quasi-legal activity expelling people for not toeing the line, has Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 70 or 71 On whom see or . 72 or 73 25 cost the Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour line on anti-semitism actually is these days, the business of expelling Jewish members who won’t toe that line John Booth spotted this. 41 Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 42 or 43 14 continues. The latest such victim is Jonathan Rosenhead, emeritus Professor of […]
[PDF file]: […] vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 11 following year. After Kennedy’s death, Harry brought Time and Life magazines into the LBJ camp. This was partly out of pragmatism (the Luces still had personal connections to the new president), and partly because Johnson seemed likely to reinvigorate the […]
