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Myra Bronstein wrote on Facebook on January 14, 2016: JFK was Dropping LBJ From the Re-election Ticket VP LBJ Chose Presidency Over Prison "President Kennedy’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln wrote in her 1968 book “Kennedy and Johnson” that November 19, 1963 had been “one of the most pleasant days” she could remember in the White House. Kennedy’s schedule was light and he had spent long stretches of time in the rocking chair in her office, speaking pensively as he rocked. ... “You know, if I am re-elected in ’64,” he said. “I am going to spend more and more time making government service an honorable career,” adding, “I am going to advocate changing some of the outmoded rules and regulations in Congress, such as the seniority rule. To do this I will need as a running mate in sixty-four a man who believes as I do.” As if thinking out loud, he continued, “. . . it is too early to make an announcement about another running mate—that will perhaps wait until the convention.” “Who is your choice of a running mate?” Lincoln asked. Looking straight ahead and without hesitating he replied, “At this time I am thinking about Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina. But it will not be Lyndon.” Even worse for LBJ, he would likely have ended up in prison if he hadn't ascended to the oval office. LBJ knew those were his options: oval office or prison. He was corrupt and murderous. (He reportedly had his own hit man named Mac Wallace.) He was being investigated by the Senate on November 22, 1963--the day JFK was murdered. On 22nd November, 1963, a friend of Baker’s, Don B. Reynolds told B. Everett Jordan and his Senate Rules Committee that Johnson had demanded that he provided kickbacks in return for this business. This included a $585 Magnavox stereo. Reynolds also had to pay for $1,200 worth of advertising on KTBC, Johnson’s television station in Austin. Reynolds had paperwork for this transaction including a delivery note that indicated the stereo had been sent to the home of Johnson. Don B. Reynolds also told of seeing a suitcase full of money which Baker described as a “$100,000 payoff to Johnson for his role in securing the Fort Worth TFX contract”. His testimony came to an end when news arrived that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. The LBJ scandal was huge news, in fact it was on the November 1963 cover of Life magazine entitled "The Bobby Baker Bombshell." But there was bigger news on November 22, 1963--President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, LBJ's stomping grounds, after LBJ and his crony Albert Thomas begged him to come to Dallas. Albert Thomas is the man LBJ is seeing winking with on Air Force 1 immediately after his abrupt swearing in as president--beside a blood-soaked Jackie Kennedy--on November 22, 1963. After LBJ was sworn in as President the Senate investigation of him ceased. The TIMING of the assassination was dictated largely by LBJ's need to avoid prison. Joseph McBride commented: Kenneth O'Donnell was going to be fired that Monday back in DC for corruption. He played a key role in planning the motorcade route, which violated Secret Service regulations. I go into his role in my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE: MY SEARCH FOR THE KILLERS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT. Charles Vergados commented: Another thing:Kenny was part of Bobby's campaign staff in 1968. I don't think Bobby would have trusted him if there were any doubts. I went to visit Kenny at his offices in the Park St Building in Park Sq.,Boston about two years before his death. His sister Justine was his secretary. Behind his desk was the famous staff photo taken outside the Oval Office.I only spent about 20 minutes. He seemed like a broken man. Joseph McBridge commented: See what I write in my book. I was surprised when I put all the evidence together. I hadn't expected it, although I had sensed there was something wrong about O'Donnell and Dallas. Every plot needs an inside man (or more than one). He was the one on the president's staff.

There is a lot more in the Education Forum that just the JFK Assassination topic. Scroll down to view other topics in the “Controversial Issues in History” section. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/

http://www.watergate.com/Woodward-Haig-Connection/Woodward-Haig-Connection.aspx

TWO NEW BOOKS TAKE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO NIXON'S DOWNFALL By Daniel Ruth, Times Columnist Tampa Bay Times Wednesday, January 13, 2016 http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-two-new-books-take-different-approaches-to-nixons-downfall/2261104

http://www.watergate.com/Military-Spy-Ring/Military-Spy-Ring.aspx

There is one that has existed for a long time but seldom has postings on it. Had I started this posting on that of Robert Kennedy, it would have passed unnoticed. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showforum=221

Gary is a new member of the forum.

Gary Fannin is the author of the new book, “The Innocence of Oswald: 50+ Years of Lies, Deception and Deceit in the Murders of President John F. Kennedy & Officer J.D. Tippit” http://www.amazon.com/Innocence-Oswald--50-Deception-Murders-President/dp/0692532242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452649081&sr=8-1&keywords=Gary+Fannin

One of the keys to Watergate -- an eight part series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loM1uaVOXTA

Be sure to watch all three parts. The end of part I and the beginning of part 2 are chilling. This is how the CIA worked to cover-up the killing of Robert Kennedy and illustrates techniques used to cover-up the JFK assassination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FoRG5cMrfIk

https://shadowproof.com/2013/02/21/dhs-says-fbi-possibly-funded-terrorist-group/

Exclusive: JFK Death Threat Note From Nov. 1963 In Miami Revealed For 1st Time Investigative Producer Jilda Unruh Contributed To This Report November 21, 2013 11:23 PM CBS Miami http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/11/21/exclusive-jfk-death-threat-note-in-nov-1963-in-miami-revealed-for-1st-time/#.VpFxbxKn8Es.facebook

Len Colodny wrote on Facebook today: The late historian Stephen Ambrose tried to kill "Silent Coup" with a bad review of it in the New York Times. But he was later exposed as being highly unethical, and the Times had to retract the review. Below is a brief synopsis of what he did. SILENT COUP ALSO RECEIVED ROUGH TREATMENT FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, the premier showcase in the country for new books. Prof. Stephen Ambrose, of the University of New Orleans, dismissed the book as a scantily-sourced "potboiler'' which rehashed old or dubious information. What Ambrose did not tell the Times was that in 1989 he wrote Gettlin and Colodny asking for"an opportunity to look at or talk about some of your findings and conclusions." Ambrose wanted the material to weigh it when finishing the third volume of his Nixon biography, which covers the Watergate period. The authors declined, citing a contractual obligation with their own publisher, St. Martin's Press. According to Colodny. Ambrose became furious and said, "A historian like me can make or break a book like this. In an apology published July 7, the Times said that "if the editors had known of Mr.Ambrose1s letter and Mr. Colodny's response, the book would have been assigned to a different reviewer." By then, of course, the damage was done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WzOs-jTOo-Q

Ray Locker interviewed at the National Press Club Book Fair: http://www.c-span.org/video/?401732-118/interview-nixons-gamble

How the Nixon Administration Got the CIA to Distort Intelligence By Ray Locker / History News Network History News Network January 4, 2016 http://time.com/4166441/nixon-cia-distort-intelligence/ [Note the last paragraph in the article]

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=177103326

John Simkin via Spartacus Educational posted this on Facebook today: William Weyland Turner died on 26th December, 2015. I never met him but he was always helpful by email. Books by Turner include Hoover's FBI: The Men and the Myth (1970), Power on the Right (1973), The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1978), The Fish Is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro (1981) and Deadly Secrets (1992) (with Warren Hinckle). He also wrote a great autobiography, Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and Other Tails (2001). In his book he published details of wiretapping and bugging abuses by the FBI, its secret campaign against left-wing groups such as Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union and the stealth war against Cuba.

From the article: WASHINGTON — Calling for “a change in our legal culture,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary to a plea that lawyers “avoid antagonistic tactics, wasteful procedural maneuvers and teetering brinkmanship.” But critics said the report praised a development that will limit the amount of information individuals can obtain from companies and the government, frustrating their ability to prove their cases. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/us/politics/chief-justices-report-praises-limits-on-claimants-access-to-information.html [it would appear one application of the Chief Justice's viewpoint would make it further difficult to obtain information about the JFK assassination still being covered-up and withheld by the government.]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/01/after-stalins-death-ludmila-ulitskayas-the-big-green-tent/

Open to Inspection Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance. By Lewis H. Lapham http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/open-inspection [see the section of the essay dealing with the Dulles brothers]

All the Publisher's Men A suppressed book about Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham is on sale again. by Daniel Brandt From The National Reporter, Fall 1987 http://www.namebase.org/davis.html

Joan contacted me early on in her writing, over two years ago, and while I disputed her thesis that Mac Wallace was a nice guy who was merely understood by society dispite his felony conviction of murder by malice aforethought in the killling of John Kinser in 1951, I would provide any assistance to her that was requested. I welcome her forthcoming book because any light shone upon Mac Wallace at this late date for what he was will prove helpful in fleshing out what LBJ was up to in the years, months, weeks and days before he became president through the assassination of JFK.

http://www.amazon.com/Faustian-Bargains-Johnson-Wallace-Culture/dp/1620408066/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451291465&sr=1-6&keywords=faustian+bargains

Book review from Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/28/from-the-shadows-of-the-cold-war-the-rise-of-the-cia/