Robert Morrow

So was Jollyon West inducing Jack Ruby to indict Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination? There sure were a lot of other people who did that as well in real time, indict LBJ. And btw, LBJ did control his own commission because he picked the members. And his first 3 picks were 1) Allen Dulles 2) John McCloy and 3) Gen. Lauris Narstad (who was ultimately not picked, but it is important to know LBJ wanted a right wing Air Force general who had fought with JFK over the control of nuclear weapons). Lauris Norstad: Lauris Norstad - Wikipedia Sean Fetter is right about one thing: one needs to look more towards the role of the AIR FORCE in the JFK assassination than merely the CIA. With LBJ at the peak of the pyramid.

Journalist Alfed Steinberg: Lyndon Johnson was so concerned about the Kennedys dropping him from the 1964 Democratic ticket that he developed severe stomach pains QUOTE A midwestern Senator who travelled with Johnson on a fall fundraising affair for Senator Thomas Dodd remarked to his colleagues that Johnson had remarked lugubriously during their New England visit that “I am going to be out for a second term. Jack has another man in mind for Vice President.” So concerned was Johnson over what he believed would be his political doom that he developed severe stomach pains. UNQUOTE [Alfred Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy, p. 589] Lyndon Johnson told Robert Novak in summer 1962 that the Kennedys were losing the cold war against the Soviet Union, losing to conservatives in Congress and that Robert Kennedy was planning to dump him off the 1964 Democratic ticket. Robert Novak later married Geraldine, a secretary to LBJ Notice how Johnson is telling Novak in the summer of 1962 how the Kennedy Administration was "losing" the cold war to the Russians. This is before the fall, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. I imagine Johnson was using these same arguments with the generals, the Texas oil men and the military intelligence in the lead up to the JFK assassination. Robert Novak: QUOTE "After a Texas-style cookout, LBJ reclined, nearly prone, by the swimming pool. It was just the two of us drinking Scotch, and he spoke with a candor he never bestowed on me before or after. He felt the Kennedy administration was in serious trouble, losing the cold war to the Soviet Union and losing the legislative war to conservatives in Congress. He said that he had done everything the Kennedys had wanted, including foreign missions that only guaranteed him bad publicity. He was repaid with insults and humiliation, especially from the attorney general. Johnson was sure Bobby Kennedy was plotting to dump him in 1964. "But I'm going to fool them," he said. "I'm going to pack it in after the term ends and go home to Texas." That would have been a huge scoop, but I knew Johnson was just blowing off steam. As for going back to Texas, the political environment there was hardly more congenial for LBJ than it was in Washington. Johnson's protege, John B. Connally, had just won the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas, which still all but guaranteed election in Texas. As secretary of the Navy, Connally had been the highest Kennedy administration official bearing the LBJ brand. But campaigning for governor, Connally removed the brand. With JFK and LBJ both unpopular in Texas, Connally ran against the administration he had just left, and won. Talking about Big John in that summer evening in 1962 led Johnson into self-pity. "John has turned my picture to the wall," LBJ told me. "You know I would never turn his picture to the wall." QUOTE [Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness, pp. 90-91] Lyndon Johnson told Liz and Leslie Carpenter in the fall of 1963 that he was get off the 1964 Democratic ticket before the Kennedys could kick him off of it. Liz Carpenter was a longtime LBJ partisan who became Lady Bird’s press secretary in the White House (LBJ’s “right hand man” Bobby Baker had resigned as Secretary of the Senate on 10/7/63) QUOTE But denying any intent to dump Johnson was good politics. There is no doubt that if scandal sank the vice president, not a tear would have been shed in the White House. More important, Johnson believed the Kennedys wanted him off the ticket. Shortly after the Baker scandal broke, Johnson had dinner with friends, including Liz and Leslie Carpenter. Johnson's car took the couple home and Johnson rode with them. "Park in the driveway and let's talk a few minutes," Johnson said. "I think I'm going to announce that I'm not going to run again for vice president so that I can get off that ticket before they try to knock me off. What I would like to do is go back to Texas and be president of Southwest Texas State Teachers College." UNQUOTE [Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, p. 414, Leslie Carpenter oral history]

E. Howard Hunt was not nuts but he is not entirely reliable either. Cord Meyer was someone who was extremely jealous of JFK being president and also JFK having sex with his former wife Mary Meyer. Read Barbara Leamer's book on Jackie Kennedy and you will see her write about how jealous Cord Meyer was of JFK. Cord Meyer thought HE should be president. Jack Ruby also wrote a letter from prison indicting LBJ for the JFK assassination. E. Howard Hunt indicted Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination. Saint John Hunt wanted to get the truth from E. Howard Hunt but Hunt's then current wife was extremely hostile to any type of JFK truth telling. Saint John Hunt had to videotape his father when his stepmother was not around. I am not saying I believe everything Hunt said, but he was right about one thing: LBJ was involved up to his eyeballs in the JFK assassination.

Note: I do not know if this Drew Pearson expose of Lyndon Johnson actually ran in the Sunday papers of 11/24/1963. I think this was immediately spiked over the weekend of 11-24 to 11-24 after LBJ became president. While LBJ was president, Drew Pearson become of the LBJ's leading media sychophants and LBJ would manipulate Pearson by pretending that he might appoint him as Secretary of State. This is the kind of column on LBJ that was about to coming spewing out in the national media just a few days after the JFK assassination. The key point is: the Kennedys were fomenting LBJ national media exposes such as the one below. Drew Pearson – Merry-Go-Round, Release Saturday Nov. 23, 1963 The Lead topic was Lyndon Johnson’s ties to the highly controversial TFX Contract which went to LBJ’s buddy Henry Crown of General Dynamics. The general counsel of General Dynamics Albert E. Jenner was named as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and he focused on the biography of Oswald, somehow missing that Oswald was a CIA operative and FBI informant. https://web.archive.org/web/20140913035336/http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/bitstream/2041/50074/b18f08-1123xdisplay.pdf - using the Internet Wayback Machine FROM BELL-MCCLURE SYNDICATE DREW PEARSON MERRY-GO-ROUND, RELEASE SAT,, NOV, 23, 1963 JACK ANDERSON ON WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND (COPYRIGHT, 1963, BY BELLIMCCLURE SYNDICATE) JACK ANDERSON SAYS: LYNDON JOHNSON LURKS IN BACKGROUND OF TFX CONTRACT; BOBBY BAKER KNOWS WHERE A LOT OF TFX SKELETONS ARE BURIED; SEN, MCCLELLAN MAY DIG DEEPER, (EDITOR'S NOTE: WHILE DREW PEARSON IS IN TEXAS, THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND IS WRITTEN BY HIS ASSOCIATE,JACK ANDERSON,! WASHINGTON--IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHETHER SEN, JOHN MCCLELLAN, D-ARK,, REALLY T R I E S T O FIND OUT HOW MUCH BOBBY BAKER KNOWS ABOUT THE TFX CONTROVERSY, THE STERN SENATE INVESTIGATIONS CHAIRMAN HAS PROMISED TO LOOK INTO PUBLISHED REPORTS THAT BAKER THREATENED TO EXPOSE SOME TFX SKULDUGGERY IF HIS OWN GET-RICH-QUICK ACTIVITIES ARE SCRUTINIZED TOO CLOSELY, MCCLELLAN'S INVESTIGATORS WILL HAVE QUITE A TRAIL TO FOLLOW. BUT IF THEY FOLLOW IT CAREFULLY IT WILL TAKE THEM THROUGH THE QUORUM CLUB, WHICH BOBBY FOUNDED, AND LEAD THEM IN THE DIRECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON LONG BEFORE THE TFX CONTRACT WAS AWARDED TO GENERAL DYNAMICS, THE LOBBYISTS AND CONTRACTORS HAD BEGUN PULLING AND TUGGING ON EVERY POSSIBWE POLITICAL STRING TO LAND THIS BIGGEST MILITARY CONTRACT OF THE KENNEDY A D M I N I S T R A T I O N $59 600~000~000~ GENERAL DYNAMICS' BOARD CHAIRMAN, HENRY CROWN, SLIPPED AROUND WASHINGTON BUTTONHOLING POLITICIANS HE KNEW ONE WAS LYNDON JOHNSON, CROWN, WHO CONTRIBUTED MONEY TO EISENHOWER AND NIXON IN 1952 AND 1956 WHEN THEY WERE CERTAIN TO WIN, HEDGED HIS POLITICAL BETS IN 1960 BY PUTTING MONEY ON BOTH SIDES, HE ALSO TOOK PAINS TO PUT $1,000 BEHIND LBJ'S CAMPAIGN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAD FRIENDS AT GENERAL DYNAMICS' FTe WORTH PLANT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO HAVE THE CONTRACT GO TO TEXAS, (MORE) M G R - RELEASE SAT,gNOV,23d-PAGE 2: MEANWHILE, JACK RETTALIATA, VICE PRESIDENT OF GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT, A CO-CONTRACTOR WITH GD, FOR MEN OF INFLUENCE, QUORUM CLUB AND RFTTALIATA PICKED UP THE TAB FOR AT LEAST ONE PRIVATE DRINKING PARTY AT THE Q CLUB ON SEPT, 26, 1962, THIS WAS TWO MONTHS WAS ALSO SLAPPING BACKS AND BUYING DRINKS SOME OF THE PARTIES TOOK PLACE AT BOBBY'S BEFORE THE TFX CONTRACT WAS SIGNED, --MILITARY OVERRULED IT WAS A JOINT PROPOSAL FROM GENERAL DYNAMICS AND GRUMMAN AGREEING TO WORK TOGETHER ON THE TFX FIGHTER PLANE THAT FINALLY WON THE CONTRACT, IN AWARDLAG IT, THE PENTAGONP S CI1!.ILIAN CHIfFS OVERRU!XD THE MILITARY REVIEW BOAIiDS WIITCI! HAD UN~NIMOI~SLY RECOMMENDED BOEING JOHNSON'S BACKSTAGE ROLE IN THE DECISION ISN'T KNOWN, EXCEPT THAT HE ONCE SPOKE TO SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE E'JGENE ZUCKERT ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE CONTRACT, BUT INSIDE THE PENTAGON, THE TFX BECAME KNOWN IRONICALLY AS THE LBJ, THIS MAY BE UNFAIR TO THE VICE PRESIDENT, THIS MUCH IS KNOWN: --GRUMMAN'S RETTALIATA FURNISHED THE VICE PRESIDENT WITH A "DEMONSTRATION PLANE" FOR AT LEAST ONE FREE FLIGHT TO TEXAS, HAS FLOWN FREQUENTLY IN GRUMMAN GULFSTREAM EXECUTIVE PLANES9 BUT JOHNSON RETTALIATA INSISTED TO THIS COLUMN THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE WITH AN AIR CHARTER SERVICE, --RETTALIATA WAS IN FREQUENT TOUCH WITH VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S OFFICE, SPECIFICALLY WITH HIS ASSISTANT WALTER JENKINS, WHO CLAIMED TO THIS COLUMN THAT RETTALIATA'S VISITS AND PHONE CALLS HAD DEALT WITH THE GULFSTREAM AIRPLANE, NOT THE TFX CONTRACT, --MATTY MATTHEWS, CHIEF MONEY RAISER FOR THE SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, FORMERLY WAS ON GRUMMAN'S PAYROLL, MATTHEWS WAS I GRUMMAN THAT HE AT THE QUORUM LEADING DEMOCRATS THE PLANE WAS NOT ONLY CLOSE TO BOBBY BAKER, BUT SO IN LOVE WIT MOUNTED A PICTURE OF THE GULFSTREAM ABOVE THE BAR CLUB, HE ALSO ARRANGED FOR THE GULFSTREAM TO FLY AROUND THE COUNTRY, BUT SWORE TO THIS COLUMN THAT ALWAYS PROPERLY CHARTERED, --RETTALIATA ALSO WAS IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH DICK OCCUPIES THE MOST SECRET OFFICE AT TKE DEMOCRATIC MAGUIRE WHO NATIONAL COMMITTEE AND ARRANGES GOVERNMENT FAVORS FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTORS, MAGUIRE'S MAIL AND PHONE CALLS ARE CAREFULLY SCREENED BY TRUSTED AIDES, (MORE ) M G R RELEASE SAT,, NOV, 23 0.. PAGE 3: --A REPORTED $50,000 WORTH OF TICKETS ALLEGEDLY WERE PURCHASED BY GRUMMAN OFFICIALS AND THEIR FRIENDS FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S $I,000-A0 PLATE DINNER LAST JANUARY, THIS TOOK PLACE TWO MONTHS AFTER THE AWARD OF THE TFX CONTRACT. RETTALIATA DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE DINNER CONTRIBUTIONS, BUT A LETTER SIGNED BY HIM HAS NOW COME TO LIGHT URGING GRUMMAN SUBCONTRACTORS TO BUY ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NASSAU COUNTY DEMOCRATS' JOURNAL. THIS WAS DISTRIBUTED AT A LOCAL $1OO=APLATE DINNER. NO DOUBT BOBBY BAKER COULD TELL SENATE SLEUTHS EVEN MORE ABOUT THE TFX DEAL, --EXPENSIVE PAPER COMMITTEE-- OHIO'S VETERAN CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL FEIGHAN QUIETLY COLLECTED ENOUGH PROXIES FROM HIS COLLEAGUES RECENTLY TO ELECT HIMSELF CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY, WHICH PREVIOUSLY HAD EXISTED ONLY ON PAPER. IT WAS SO ETHEREAL THAT IT TURNED ITS $20,000 APPROPRIATION BACK TO THE TREASURY EACH YEAR. AS CHAIRMAN, FEIGHAN QUICKLY FOUND A USE FOR THE $20,000* KE APPOINTED HIS ASSISTANT, EDWARD O'CONNOR, AS STAFF DIRECTOR AND TRIPLED HIS SALARY FROM $532.43 USE STAMPS, STATIONERY, AND MISCELLANEOUS, TO $1,573075 PER MONTH. THIS WILL UP NEARLY $19,000 OF THE APPROPRIATION, LEAVING ANOTHER $1,000 FOR SINCE THE COMMITTEE HAS NO OFFICES, O'CONNOR REMAINS IN FEIGHAN'S OFFICE DOING THE SAME WORK HE USED TO DO BUT COLLECTING THREE TIMES MORE MONEY, O'CONNOR INSISTED TO THIS COLUMN, HOWEVER, THAT HE IS DEVOTING HIMSELF TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY (CAP IN> MATTERS AND THAT HE HOPES TO WHEEDLE MORE MONEY OUT OF CONGRESS TO REACTIVATE THE COMMITTEE 0 (END M G R, SAT., NOV, 23, 1963)

Newsweek’s Ben Bradlee, a close friend of JFK: Newsweek on 11-22-63 had already physically printed an article on the Bobby Baker scandal and its connections to LBJ: QUOTE Ben Bradlee was in the lobby of the National Press Building when he heard the news that John F. Kennedy had been shot. He returned to his office in Newsweek: "Colleagues were crowded around the ticker, dazed, watching the deadly bursts of unbelievable, wrenching news, worsening every few seconds... And then, so suddenly, he was dead. Life changed, forever, in the middle of a nice day, at the end of a good week, in a wonderful year of what looked like an extraordinary decade of promise. It would take months before we would begin to understand how, but the inevitability of wrenching change was plain as tears." Kennedy had died on a Friday. Bradlee claims that the journal's main article about the Bobby Baker scandal and its links with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had already been printed: "Fridays are the beginning of the end of a week in the life of a news magazine. The covers have long since been printed, waiting for the rest of the book. All the features - the back of the book-have been edited and typeset. The leads of the news sections are being written, edited, rewritten, and rewritten again. The printed cover of the impending scandal involving Bobby Baker, LBJ's protégé, was scrapped. The entire magazine went out the window and we began all over again." QUOTE http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbradleeB.htm Drew Pearson was going to drop a Bunker Buster Bomb column on Lyndon Johnson on Sunday, November 24th with a focus on LBJ’s ties to Bobby Baker and also LBJ’s involvement with the TFX fighter jet scandal Drew Pearson’s column by 1969 was syndicated in over 600 papers with a readership of 60 million people. Pearson also had a weekly radio show “Washington-Merry-Go-Round” that was nationally syndicated. Just before the JFK assassination Pearson was going to drop a bunker buster bomb column on LBJ that would have exploded in Sunday papers on doorsteps all over the East Coast by 7AM Eastern time, or within 43 hours of the JFK assassination. Information on Drew Pearson: http://www.library.american.edu/pearson/biography.html QUOTE “On the afternoon of Thursday, November 21, less than twenty-four hours before the assassination, Pearson met with Bobby Baker in Washington. It was their first face-to-face conversation, and the Senate-aide-turned-lobbyist had dirt to share. “Bobby confirmed the fact that the president had been mixed up with a lot of women,” Pearson wrote in his personal diary. One of Kennedy’s women- a prominent aide to Jacqueline Kennedy- “had her bed wired for sound by her landlady when Jack was sleeping with her,” the columnist wrote. Johnson was in Pearson’s crosshairs in the Baker story. That very Sunday- November 24- Pearson’s column was due to target the vice president over his financial ties to the lobbyist. In his diary, Pearson wrote that it would be “quite a devastating story” involving Johnson, Baker, and possible corruption in a $7 billion fighter-jet contract handed to General Dynamics, a Texas firm.” UNQUOTE [Philip Shenon, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of The Kennedy Assassination, pp. 43-44]

The Kennedys were working a two-track program to not merely drop Lyndon Johnson from the 1964 Democratic ticket, but to permanently politically destroy Lyndon Johnson. LBJ knew all about this was was highly agitated and upset about this. This was all coming to a head in November, 1963. The sources below are LBJ aides Horace Busby, George Reedy, John Connally along with Burkett van Kirk, James Wagenvoord and the National Review's Phil Brennan. Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's secretary of 12 years, also said Johnson was going to be dropped. Publicly in fall of 1963, John Kennedy said he was going to keep LBJ on the ticket. JFK said this at the same time Robert Kennedy was orchestrating the "Destroy LBJ" program. After Evelyn Lincoln's book came out in the 1960s, aides to Robert Kennedy denied that JFK was going to drop Johnson. The Kennedys were spreading this lie because they thought it served the political interests of RFK. The reason Jackie Kennedy sued William Manchester was that she and other Kennedy aides had said so many negative things about LBJ that she thought it might be politically embarrassing to Robert Kennedy as well. Robert Kennedy, in his oral history, I think he denied that Johnson was going to be dropped. RFK then referenced that there were media stories that were appearing about Lyndon Johnson in the fall of 1963. Sly Robert Kennedy makes a point of not telling the reader that it was in fact Robert Kennedy himself who was fomenting these negative national stories about Lyndon Johnson!! Of course, both Robert Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson as a top perp in the JFK assassination as did Evelyn Lincoln. LBJ top aide Horace Busby implies strongly that Lyndon Johnson was acutely aware by Nov. 4, 1963 that the Kennedys had sent a SWAT team of over **FORTY** national reporters to Texas to utterly destroy him https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/lyndon-johnson-was-acutely-aware-by-nov.html I wonder how LBJ would have reacted? Burkett van Kirk (GOP Senate Rules Committee counsel) and James Wagenvoord (Life Magazine assistant editor) prove the Kennedys were out to destroy LBJ in November of 1963 http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/senate-counsel-burkett-van-kirk-and.html George Reedy (1982): Lyndon Johnson was OBSESSED with the idea that RFK was out to destroy him w/ Bobby Baker scandal in fall 1963 (which he was) http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scary-mental-instabilities-of.html National Review’s Phil Brennan knew in real time all about the Kennedys’ ongoing plan to destroy LBJ with the media in fall of 1963: https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Some-Relevant-Facts-About/2003/11/18/id/677423/ Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination By Phil Brennan for NewsMax on Nov 18, 2003 ["Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination," Phil Brennan, NewsMax, 11-18-2003] http://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Some-Relevant-Facts-About/2003/11/18/id/677423/ Also: http://home.earthlink.net/~sixthfloor/brennen.htm Phil Brennan Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003 There's an explosive new book that lays out a very detailed - and persuasive - case for the probability that the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I say persuasive because the author, Barr McClellan, was one of LBJ's top lawyers, and he provides a lot of information hitherto unknown to the general public - much more of which he says is buried in secret documents long withheld from the American people. "The American public has waited forty years to hear the truth about the JFK assassination," McClellan says. "For government agencies to withhold critical evidence and not cooperate with the [1998 investigation conducted by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB)] is a form of obstruction of justice. Under the requirements of the Freedom of InformationAct, the public should be granted access to these documents." According to McClellan and Doug Horne, a former ARRB investigator, hundreds of relevant documents were withheld from the 1998 investigation into the JFK assassination. They believe that these materials are now in the possession of the National Archives, relocated from sealed files previously controlled by the CIA and FBI. McClellan also asked for a formal review of the evidence in his book, "Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.," which establishes a direct connection between LBJ and an individual involved with the assassination and cover-up. "At this time we need to see what else is missing and what else would be helpful to presenting the entire truth," McClellan continued. "The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Department of Justice could make the request of the National Archives and should do so." Now, in normal circumstance I would tend to view this latest explanation of who was behind the killing of JFK as exactly that - just another theory among dozens. But the circumstances are not normal. Poll after poll establishes that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the official verdict of the Warren Commission is simply not borne out by what little is known publicly about the case. McClellan's new book adds to those facts and names a second suspect he says was a longtime assassin for Lyndon Johnson, whom he portrays as ... well, as being homicidal whenever he or his many concealed interests were threatened. Add to that the incredible inconsistencies in the FBI and Secret Service investigations, which reek with the stench of cover-up, and one can't escape the conclusion that if LBJ did nothing else in dealing with the aftermath of the assassination, he sure as hell clamped a lid on any evidence that contradicted the official finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman acting solely on his own initiative. I report all of this as a prelude to revealing what I know about the matter but have never before written about - in the beginning, because I had a wife and seven children to protect, and since, because I had no reason to revisit the matter. Let's start with this: McClellan and others before him have discussed the fact that LBJ faced some pretty awful prospects, including not only being dumped from the 1964 ticket but also spending a long, long time in the slammer as a result of his role in the rapidly expanding Bobby Baker case - something few have speculated about because the full facts were never revealed by the media, which didn't want to know, or report, the truth. Sometime in early 1963 I was approached by a young lady with whom I had worked on Nixon's 1960 campaign staff. She asked me if I would meet with her fiancé, who was in great difficulty - and in danger of being murdered. At the time I was on the staff of the House Republican Policy Committee, and one of my assignments was to keep my bosses up to date on what was going on behind the scenes in the Cold War, analyzing intelligence that came our way and otherwise engaging in a never-ending clandestine, back- alley war with the Democrat majority. I was also writing a Washington column for Bill Buckley's National Review magazine under the cover name Cato, a fact known only to the top GOP House leadership, which allowed me to do the column as long as I didn't use my byline or write it on government time. Moreover, in my Cato column I had recently broken the story about the Billie Sol Estes scandal, which involved Estes' crony, Lyndon Johnson. The young lady knew all that, and that's why she came to me. I agreed to meet with her fiancé, a South Carolinian named Ralph Hill. We met at the Market Inn, had a couple of martinis, and Hill told me his tale of woe. He had come to Washington some time before and was steered to a fellow South Carolinian, one Bobby Baker, the powerful secretary of the Senate and a very close associate of Vice President Lyndon Johnson. To make a long story short, Baker advised Hill to go into the vending machine business and promised him he'd arrange to get some major defense contractors to install the machines, which vended soft drinks, sandwiches, cigarettes and the like. There was only one catch - Baker wanted under-the-table payoffs for his part in setting up what would be a very lucrative business opportunity with tens of thousands of potential customers who worked in defense plants. True to his word, Baker got a number of defense contractors to agree to allow Hill the exclusive right to install his vending machines on their premises. It was an opportunity to print money by the barrel, and with those golden contracts in hand, Hill was able to go to the bank and borrow all the funds he needed to buy the vending machines and go into business. For a while he prospered - as did Baker. But whatever he was paying Baker was not enough to satisfy the man who, for all intents and purposes, had the Senate under his thumb. He saw that the members of the Democrat majority got whatever they wanted - money, bimbos, LBJ's help, you name it. They were all in his pocket. He could arrange multimillion-dollar contracts for the defense industry or take them away if he wanted. He was LBJ's guy and was all-powerful and a very dangerous man to have as an enemy, a fact Ralph Hill learned when Baker put the bite on him for bigger payoffs. The problem for Hill was that he had big payments to make on the loans he'd taken out to buy the equipment and set himself up in business, had some pretty steep overhead, and simply didn't have enough left over to boost his payments to Baker. He tried to explain that fact of life to Baker, but the secretary of the United States Senate wasn't having any. He simply repeated his demands and threatened Hill that if he didn't pay up he'd see that Hill lost all those juicy defense plant contracts. Bad went to worse, Baker made good on his threats, and Hill was facing bankruptcy. Moreover, it was made known to him that if he didn't simply fold his tent and go off without making trouble for Baker, he might meet with an unfortunate - and probably fatal - accident. But Hill was facing bankruptcy and the loss of everything he had, and he simply would not give up. He was fighting for his life. And he had the guts to hang in there. He asked me to help him. But I was completely a creature of the House side of Capitol Hill - the Senate side was foreign territory and, I hate to admit it, I didn't even have the vaguest idea of who this Bobby Baker, the Senate's imperial potentate, was. I told Hill that his only way out was to expose Baker publicly, to get the story out - once it was public, Baker could not afford to retaliate. I advised Hill to file suit against Baker, laying out all the sordid details in the complaint, and once h had served Baker, to give me the complaint papers and I'd see that the media on the Hill got their hands on copies. He did and I did - and I now found myself a potential target, not only of Baker'sbut of the media as well, but that's another story. I was able to get only two reporters to write the story - the late Clark Mohlenhoff, one of the best investigative reporters in Washington, and one other whose name I don't recall. For the most part, the Washington press corps kept the lid on the story - until the late Bob Humphrey, then the GOP Senate leadership's spokesman, an incredibly gifted strategist and a mentor, asked me to tell the story to the late Delaware Republican Sen. John Williams, a crusader for good government and a crackerjack of an investigator. Sen. Williams asked me to introduce him to Hill and I did. They got together with some Senate investigators for the GOP minority and Hill told them the whole story, including the part played by Vice President Johnson. Williams got his committee to launch an investigation and the lid came off. A few days later, the attorney general, Bobby Kennedy, called five of Washington's top reporters into his office and told them it was now open season on Lyndon Johnson. It's OK, he told them, to go after the story they were ignoring out of deference to the administration. And from that point on until the events in Dallas, Lyndon Baines Johnson's future looked as if it included a sudden end to his political career and a few years in the slammer. The Kennedys had their knives out and sharpened for him and were determined to draw his political blood - all of it. In the Senate, the investigation into the Baker case was moving quickly ahead. Even the Democrats were cooperating, thanks to the Kennedys, and an awful lot of really bad stuff was being revealed - until Nov. 22, 1963. By Nov. 23, all Democrat cooperation suddenly stopped. Lyndon would serve a term and a half in the White House instead of the slammer, the Baker investigation would peter out and Bobby Baker would serve a short sentence and go free. Dallas accomplished all of that. Sometimes I wonder: If I had not met Hill and convinced him to go public with the story, and the Bobby Baker case and Lyndon's part in it had not come out as a result, would Dallas not have happened? I don't like to think about that. And that's why I am convinced that McClellan is on to something. I hope he persists. There's an incredible amount of sordid government corruption that needs to be aired in public. As McClellan says, it's about time that the American people learned the truth about the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. And a lot more.* * * * * * Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com.

Interesting guy Jack Ruby. HE BLAMED LYNDON JOHNSON FOR THE JFK ASSASSINATION - calling LBJ a "Nazi of the worst order" and said if JFK had picked Adlai Stevenson for President he never would have been assassinated. Jack Ruby: "First, you must realize that the people here want everyone to think I'm crazy...isn't it strange that Oswald...should be fortunate enough to get a job at the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building two weeks before...Only one person could have had that information, and that man was Johnson...because he was the one who was going to arrange the trip...The only one who gained by the shooting...They alone planned the killing, by they I mean Johnson and others...you may learn quite a bit about Johnson and how he has fooled everyone..." 1 QUOTE "The world has the right to hear the truth." He said newsman should search "in the high sources of our political government" to find out how Oswald got a job at the Depository on the motorcade route; said that the full story of the assassination would not come out because "unfortunately some people in high places had so much to gain by putting me in this position", and when asked to elaborate on this, said that the results of the lie detector test had not been divulged, and said that there was a "terrible conspiracy" behind Kennedy's death and he, Ruby, "happened to be a scapegoat to walk into a trap and make that possible." "...if Adlai Stevenson had been Vice President, Kennedy would still be alive today." Ruby wrote that Johnson "found me as the perfect setup for a frame. Remember they had the President killed, and now with me in the picture, they'll make it look as though Castro or the Russians had it done. Remember the only one who had all to gain was Johnson himself. Figure that out. " Jack Ruby in a jailhouse letter called Lyndon Johnson a “Nazi of the Worst Order” and implicated him in the JFK assassination UNQUOTE

In spring of 2008, either in March or April, I came across a thread here at Education Forum that indicted Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination. Dawn Meredith, a lawyer from Austin, TX, was one of the posters. I called her up for a chat and asked for the names of the top 10 JFK assassination researchers in the country. I then called them up and each one recommended about 10 books for me to read. And I have been on that path ever since. Early on I did watch the Men Who Killed Kennedy and I found the "LBJ Did It" angle extremely persuasive. The Discovery Channel "retracted" 3 episodes under heavy pressure from LBJ hacks Bill Moyers, especially Jack Valenti (who used to let his wife Mary Margaret Wiley sleep with LBJ), Lady Bird Johnson, Gerald "JFK cover up" Ford and even Jimmy Carter wrote a letter. Madeleine Brown's 11/22/63 Murchison Party was easily discredited because LBJ was down in Houston at the Albert Thomas dinner (a key lure to get JFK to Texas), but there are so many other things Madeleine Brown said about LBJ that was correct, including that he met with her at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX on 12/31/63 - that has been confirmed. Barr McClellan to this day is a personal friend of mine. He is now in his 80s and helping to take care of his wife who has medical problems. Barr McClellan knew LBJ lawyers Ed Clark and Don Thomas extremely well and both men were adamant about Ed Clark's participation in the JFK assassination. Barr McClellan in the 1960s was the golden boy, the bright young legal star of the Texas oil and gas industry. Every law firm coveted Barr McClellan whose father in law Page Keeton was the dean of the law school at the University of Texas in Austin. George W. Bush's press secretary for a time was Barr's son Scott McClellan. Barr has other bright, very successful children and he once got his former wife Carol McClellan elected as the first female mayor of Austin, TX. When I first called Barr McClellan in 2008, I feel sure my phone (or Barr's) was being tapped. We were both on landlines and weirdly the connection dropped! (Which almost never happens with landlines.) As time has gone on I keep finding more and more things that indict LBJ in the JFK assassination - the latest being the revelation that Sen. John Sherman Cooper, a close friend of JFK, believed in real time, while he was on the Warren Commission, that LBJ had just murdered JFK. The very credible source for that is former RFK and Sen. Cooper aide Morris Wolff who wrote his memoirs a mere few years ago.

The issue is: what does the evidence say about who murdered JFK: LBJ or Allen Dulles? It is not even close. Jackie, RFK, Ethel, Madeleine Brown, Ed Clark, KGB, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Evelyn Lincoln, the Mexican CIA, the Fort Worth Police, civil rights activists, liberal activists in Texas - all of those people and groups said Lyndon Johnson killed JFK. And Jack Ruby too! Who was in mortal danger in November, 1963 from the Kennedys: LBJ or Dulles? It was Lyndon Johnson. Who immediately blamed the JFK assassination on a communist? Again, it was LBJ. And then who blamed it on Fidel Castro for the rest of his life? LBJ Who told Will Fritz to quit interviewing Oswald? LBJ. Who called Dr. Crenshaw on 11/24/63 and wanted only a confession out of Oswald, not any questions about who might be his confederates? LBJ Who appointed the Warren Commission with his best friends and CIA people? LBJ Who murdered Henry Marshall in 1961? LBJ Who murdered Sam Smithwick in 1952? LBJ Who got Mac Wallace off of a first degree murder conviction in 1952? LBJ Who tried to sink the USS Liberty in 1967 with Israel and blame it on Egypt? LBJ - that would be murdering U.S. sailors at least 34 and wounding 174 others. Who stole billions in gold from White Sands? LBJ Who was a malignantly narcissistic criminal psychopath that was in a continuous behind the scenes battle with the Kennedys from 1960 to 1963? LBJ It is the criminality of LBJ before and after the JFK assassination and the total hatred between the Kennedys and LBJ both before and after the JFK assassination that tells you who was the most important figure in murdering JFK. Who was often called an "animal" (both Nixon and RFK) or a "monster" (top British politico) by high level political figures who knew him well? LBJ Lyndon Johnson.

Because Lyndon Johnson had decades' long friendship with the super rich businessman, politicians, lawyers, media executives who controlled Texas. Just in Dallas alone LBJ had working relationships with H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, Sr. (who ran Dallas), D.H. Byrd. Over in Fort Worth LBJ was friends with Aman Carter who owned the newspaper there. The Dallas DA Henry Wade was a WWII roommate with John Connally, longtime LBJ aide. Every politician in Dallas was heavily influenced by all the rich oil men and military and governmental contractors who were close personal friends of Lyndon Johnson. In statewide government, Attorney General Waggoner Carr was influenced/controlled by these same people. Lyndon Johnson's power broker pal Edward Clark admitted privately to involvement in the JFK assassination. Reader's Digest in the 1950s called Ed Clark "the secret political boss of Texas" and Leon Jaworski told his grandson journalist Robert Draper that Ed Clark was a "very, very powerful man." Ed Clark was a big source Robert Caro for his books on LBJ. Between the two "kill JFK perps," LBJ and Ed Clark, they had vast amounts of influence in Texas.

Lyndon Johnson was the planner of the JFK assassination. LBJ was the Mastermind of the JFK assassination. LBJ was the micro-manger of the JFK assassination. He was not checking in with any "planners" of the JFK assassination to get their permission on what to do or not to after a bullet goes into JFK's head. Lyndon Johnson, who initially opposed a national commission, succumbed to political pressure to create one: HIS commission and he rigged it just like LBJ would have rigged a Texas Court of Inquiry. After Oswald was murdered in Dallas police custody, the national mood was we are not going to trust the results of any investigation based in Texas. But the problem was the leading murderer of JFK was the new president from Texas and he rigged the results anyhow mainly with the help of FBI Hoover, then CIA Allen Dulles and then CIA/FBI friendly Gerald Ford and LBJ/CIA friendly John McCloy.

I suggest mapping the distance from the U.S. Capital to the Supreme Court. Apparently, it is a mere 1/10th of a mile away and someone can walk there in 2 minutes. I don't think a car drive would be needed for that trip. The distance from the U.S. Capital (where Sen. Cooper office) and the current day National Archives Research Center is 1 mile away or a 6 minute car drive. I think Morris Wolff meant to say he chauffeured Sen. Cooper to the National Archives Building.

No, it is not a "colossal blow" to the credibility of Morris Wolff who really was 1) an aide to Robert Kennedy 2) an aide to John Sherman Cooper and 3) who was one of 4 men (Jews) who personally wrote the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It is the case of "an old man making a simple mistake" on what building he drove Sen. John Sherman Cooper for the Warren Commission hearing. I think there are lots of 80+ year old men and women who make minor mistakes like that. I would be like me saying I had a Trans Am car in my early 20s when I really had a red Iroc Z-28. QUOTE Author Morris Wolff was an agent of change. He established the first international AIESEC Secretariat in Geneva in 1960 with exchanges in 33 member nations. Morris worked closely in 1963 in the Oval Office with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy in writing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and getting it passed in the U.S. Senate with John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky. Morris Wolff remains a man of wisdom and purpose, courage, integrity, and stamina and he gets things done. Morris is a man constantly on the move whose incredible life story of perseverance and a positive mental attitude you will enjoy. He is a forward person who loves to reach out and meet new people and hold meaningful and enjoyable conversations. His ingenuity led to his impromptu meeting in Ghana, with President Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo in 1960. He met with Nelson Mandela in prison in South Africa in 1993. He later helped negotiate the peaceful transition of power from Prime Minister Willem de Klerk to President Nelson Mandela without a single drop of bloodshed or violence. UNQUOTE David S. Wolff of Houston is the brother of Morris Wolffe: https://wolffcompanies.com/about/leadership/david-s-wolff/ “Morris Wolff talks about life, book” – news article from July 4, 2011:https://www.ocala.com/story/lifestyle/2011/07/05/morris-wolff-talks-about-life-book/31444041007/ Excellent Morris Wolff video from 2020 as he received the David A.B. Brown Psi Upsilon’66 Distinguished Alumnus Award – he talks about his life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMZGnUgwzo 128 views Dec 1, 2020 Morris Wolff, Gamma ’58 (Amherst), has led a distinguished life as an attorney, professor and humanitarian including Marching with Marion Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund at the gathering on the Washington Mall in 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King when King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Most famously, he worked to free Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish Diplomat who was imprisoned in Russia in 1945 and filed a historic lawsuit in the District of Columbia against the Soviet Union which resulted in the Wallenberg family being awarded damages in the amount of 39 million dollars. Brother Wolff has received numerous awards and accolades for his lifetime of service including the National Council of Christian and Jews annual award for humanitarian service (1983), the UN Peace Award for Humanitarian Service (1993), and the Alumnus of Distinction award from AIESEC (International Association of Students of Economics and Commerce) where he served as president for a number of years. Learn More about Morris, the David A.B. Brown ΕΦ ’66 Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Psi Upsilon at http://www.PsiU.org Morris Wolff talks about life, book: The scholar and Villages resident investigated the fate of a Swedish diplomat imprisoned in WWII. https://www.ocala.com/story/lifestyle/2011/07/05/morris-wolff-talks-about-life-book/31444041007/ Gary Green Correspondent Morris Wolff is not just another retiree at The Villages. He may enjoy biking, swimming and playing tennis, but even though he has had a lifetime of accolades and accomplishments, he is far from ready to retire and rest on his laurels. Wolff splits his time between The Villages and Daytona Beach, where he is an associate professor and also director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Bethune-Cookman University, a program to strengthen the writing skills of freshman at the predominantly black college. "It's wonderful to be privileged to become 74. You live your life in a way that you just appreciate every day," Wolff said. He said he appreciates the ability to still make a difference, which he had done most of his life. Just out of Yale Law School, Wolff found himself on the staff of then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Wolff wrote sections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and remembers the many Saturday brainstorming sessions when Kennedy, with his dog Boomer, sat with his staff and discussed the best way to go about writing the historic bill. "They were amazing learning sessions for a young lawyer," said Wolff. As a legal counsel to the White House, Wolff also spent time in the Oval Office briefing President John F. Kennedy on the Civil Rights Act and ultimately was assigned to brief Congress. "It was very exciting to be part and parcel of that, and to be a young lawyer sitting at the elbow of these great men like Everett Dirksen, Hubert Humphrey and John Sherman Copper, who became my senator," Wolff said. To help in the politics of passing the Civil Rights Act, Wolff was assigned as Legislative Aide to the Republican Senator from Kentucky who led the effort to pass the historic Civil Rights Bill. Around that time, Wolff remembers it being a hot day in August when he accompanied his friend and Yale classmate Marion Wright Edelman in the 1963 March On Washington. They witnessed the "I Have A Dream" speech from the fifth row and met Dr. Martin Luther King afterward. "It was just a march. I didn't realize at the time it would become such an iconic moment," Wolff recalled. Those were not his first or last brushes with world leaders. As president of the International Association of Students of Economics and Commerce, Wolff turned a chance encounter with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah and the Congo's Patrice Lumumba into a productive private meeting. Years later, he would turn a chance encounter with President Bill Clinton into another private Oval Office session with a sitting President. Wolff is generous in relating such anecdotes, as well the gems of wisdom that helped mold him. According to him, his father's favorite saying was, "The only sin in life is to aim low." Wolff did not disappoint. He became a renowned international lawyer, a scholar, an educator and a humanitarian. Among his many accolades and honors are the 1993 United Nations Peace Award for Humanitarian Service given at Carnegie Hall on the same stage with Audrey Hepburn, and the National Council of Christians and Jews Medal he was awarded in 1983 along with Rosa Parks. In 2005, Wolff was honored by the US Congress for his efforts to seek the release from the Soviet Union of Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg saved the lives of more than 100,000 Jews, helping them escape during the Holocaust, only to be imprisoned by the Russians at the end of WWII. In 1983 the Wallenberg family asked Wolff to sue the Soviets for Raoul's release. Rescuing Wallenberg was the subject of Wolff's meeting with Clinton. With the approval of Congress, Wolff secured a $39 million judgment and demand for immediate release from the Soviets in a U.S. Court. The case has gone on for 27 years, with the original $39 million now worth $142 million. While many have considered Wallenberg long dead, Wolff said he recently received from a source a copy of a KGB memo that proves Wallenberg was alive and being held as recently as 1998. "Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg" is the book Wolff has written about what he calls his greatest case and accomplishment. It has garnered praise from people including Clinton, Elie Wiesel and Anatole Scharansky. Meanwhile, Wolff shows no signs of slowing down. "He has this revolving mind," said Patricia Pawlowski, the life partner Wolff calls "my angel." "You never know what the day is going to bring," Pawlowski said. "He's always having these epiphanies." According to Wolff, the main epiphany that has guided him through the years is something he learned as a Jewish/American exchange student in Germany after World War II: "We are not here to disturb other people or to fight old battles, we are here to make the world a better place." 2019 Psi Upsilon Fraternity article honoring Morris Wolff’s life of Service https://psiu.org/a-lifetime-of-serving-society-morris-wolff-gamma-58-amherst/ [“A Lifetime of Serving Society: Morris Wolff, Gamma ’58 (Amherst),” Phil Upsilon Fraternity, 2019] At the age of 83, Morris Wolff, Gamma ’58 (Amherst) still rides his bicycle eight to ten miles a day. Now living in central Florida, Wolff was born and raised in Philadelphia. He considers himself to be a very lucky man as he reflects on his life experiences and enjoys God’s humor and the craziness that life brings about, especially when it comes to the people he has had the opportunity to meet and work alongside with. In more than eight decades of life, Morris Wolff has worn many hats. He has been a husband, an author, a civil rights lawyer, a teacher, an activist, and an advocate against injustice. He worked many years as a respected and well-known human rights lawyer and has been sought out by many to work in emancipation efforts for various groups of people, often working pro bono. “Wherever I saw injustice, I felt called to help and to heal,” said Wolff as he explained how he was inspired to write his first book, ‘Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg?,’ which tells the story about his efforts alongside the Wallenberg family of Sweden to rescue Raoul after his wrongful imprisonment by the Soviet Union following World War II. Wolff was contacted by Wallenberg’s family after Wallenberg had already been in a Soviet prison for 39 years. Wallenberg had become the forgotten hero of the Holocaust and Wolff went to work immediately to attempt to rescue him, suing the Soviet Union to secure the Swedish diplomat’s release. Wolff won a $39 million verdict against the Soviet Union and later joined forces with Israel’s officials and a former US ambassador to rescue Wallenberg. Unfortunately, Wallenberg was never released. Wolff’s passion for righting wrongs and interjecting when he encountered injustice began from a young age. That pillar of confronting injustice was an important part of his upbringing, and eventually led him to join two of his three brothers who were also involved in Psi Upsilon Fraternity at Amherst College. One of Wolff’s favorite and lasting memories at Amherst is when his fraternity brother, John Boettiger Gamma ’60 (Amherst), requested the fraternity hold a tea party so that he could bring his grandma as a guest. Boettiger wanted to show his grandmother where he lived and what he was doing in college. His grandmother was none other than former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Wolff played an important role in this day that would leave an impression on him forever, as he picked her up from the airport and transported her to the Psi Upsilon house. As Wolff would find out quickly, this one-on-one time he spent casually with Roosevelt would change his career trajectory forever, as well as fuel Wolff’s fascination with meeting important people, which continued to play a part in his life experiences in meeting Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Frost, John and Jackie Kennedy, and many more figure-heads. Wolff describes Eleanor Roosevelt as such a kind and gentle woman, who genuinely cared enough to sit down and give guidance to young men such as himself. When Wolff first met Roosevelt, he had been determined to go to Harvard Law School, but in the short few hours he spent with Eleanor Roosevelt in transit, she encouraged Wolff to attend Yale instead, a decision which impacted Wolff’s life greatly. Roosevelt sustained her friendship with Morris Wolff, later connecting him in September of 1958 with Fred Rodell, a progressive liberal democrat and law professor at Yale. Wolff was drawn to Rodell’s unorthodox and maverick nature, both characteristics Wolff felt as though he too embodied. He quickly became Rodell’s research assistant and gained Rodell’s highest praise with his passionate and well-researched work. “This is the finest piece of student research and writing that I have seen in my 36 years of teaching law,” wrote Rodell on Morris’ research paper that would later be published in the Winter 1963 New Jersey Bar Journal. “Certain human beings deeply influenced me along the way,” recalled Wolff while speaking of his time studying under Rodell. After graduating from Yale Law School, Morris’ career propelled him into fulfilling his passions as he was specifically chosen in 1963 to work for Robert “Bobby” Kennedy in Washington D.C., making $5,200 as his annual salary. Working for Kennedy, Morris became a key element in not only drafting parts of the Civil Rights Acts, but also a bargaining chip in securing the votes to pass it. “All of that started with Psi Upsilon and the visit from Eleanor Roosevelt,” Wolff said. One of Wolff’s greatest motivators continues to be his discomfort and disdain for the misuse of power and injustices, particularly within government. He is vocal about his dislike for bullies, whether it be kids in the schoolyard, hazing in a fraternity, or those who are in political power. Wolff is still consistently outspoken in these scenarios, and always has been. He, only half joking, credits this to his Jewish heritage and his Quaker educational background. “They taught me to speak up when things were wrong and unacceptable.” Wolff explains that Psi Upsilon’s pillar, Service to Society, rings most true to him and his life accomplishments. From his upbringing, to his education, to his profession, he feels as though his life has truly been devoted in his service to society. After working in the thick of the Civil Rights movement and legislation, Wolff continued to embody service to society. After spending some time in the justice system, Wolff saw a need from the younger population to be equally and fairly represented. He began the TAKE A BROTHER program of Philadelphia which was committed to saving hundreds of young people from injustice within the justice system. The genius of the program involved matching little boys in trouble with the law to outstanding high school boys in the neighborhood in a mentorship fashion. Wolff partnered with his wife Patricia, going into the public high schools to find these outstanding boys to lead these wayward boys away from the life of crime. The program awarded the high school boys with college scholarships. Wolff explains that in Philadelphia at this time, many young kids were pushed through the justice system without much of a chance to learn, grow, and become future contributing members to society. The innovative program received a Points of Light award from President George H. W. Bush. “Psi U focuses on the human heart as a place of knowledge and positive energy,” says Wolff, “This has motivated me to intervene and teach to the heart of these youth, where others had failed.” Sixty years after his time as an undergrad member in Psi Upsilon, Wolff still recognizes the impact those four years of membership and brotherhood had on him. He still maintains friendships with fellow brothers Freddie Greenman, Gamma ’58 (Amherst) and John Lagomarcino, Gamma ’58 (Amherst) after all this time. As he sang over the phone “O Dear Old Shrine,” one of many songs Psi Upsilon members hold sacred, Wolff made it clear and apparent that his love for the organization and friendships have not faded over the years. To Wolff, Psi Upsilon’s motto, “Unto us has befallen a mighty friendship,” is the brotherly oath that each brother belongs to each other, from the heart. Morris and his wife Patricia at the 2019 176th Psi Upsilon Convention in Chicago. “I’ve been very, very lucky,” Wolff concludes. “I am looking forward to as many more years of health and happiness as possible.” We’re proud to announce Morris as a recipient of the David A.B. Brown, ΕΦ ’66, Distinguished Alumnus Award. The Distinguished Alumnus Award is the highest award which may be bestowed upon an alumnus of Psi Upsilon for bringing honor to the Fraternity by exemplifying the true spirit and meaning of brotherhood and moral leadership in all that they do and say, for dedicated and unselfish service in pursuit of the advancement of the Fraternity, and for demonstrating a commitment to serve the educational environment, their community, and their country. We would like to congratulate Brother Wolff on this award and thank him for all his hard work and reflection on Psi Upsilon. We are honored to have him as a member of our fraternity.

Well, you are not the first or the last person to think that LYNDON JOHNSON was involved in the JFK assassination. Heck, Warren Commission member Sen. John Sherman Cooper, a liberal Republican and close friend of JFK, thought that WHILE HE WAS ON THE WARREN COMMISSION! Sen. John Sherman Cooper, while he was a member of the Warren Commission: “I think Lyndon Baines Johnson was involved in the planning and execution of Kennedy’s death.” Source: his aide Morris Wolff (born 11-30-1936 and still alive in March, 2024) Morris Wolff contact info: phone [contact me and I will give it to you] and email is moewolff657@gmail.com QUOTE He was still by something that had just occurred, and he sputtered, “They have it all wrong. They refuse to look at the facts. The forensics are right there. One bullet came in from the front, and the President grabbed his neck, and his head shot back in the open limousine. The car had slowed down in front of the Texas School Depository. The next shot came in from the back, from a window on the 7th floor, the top floor of the Book Depository building on Dealey Plaza. A third shot came from behind the motorcade, jerking his head backward as he slowly passed the area. It was the shot fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, one of two or three killers. At least two were active that day, one from in front and the second from the back. The forensics clearly show there were at least two separate shooters, and they were standing in different places, one from the grassy knoll and one high in the office building. Our new President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, now wants to cover up and move on. I want to delay and get all the facts. They are covering the facts and putting their collective heads in the sand. LBJ pretends to give me the green light to press forward with the investigation. But he is secretly telling the others to bring the hearings to a quick close.” Senator Cooper was boiling mad, somewhat out of control for the only time that I had ever witnessed. “They want to bury the truth under a pile of stones. I think Lyndon Baines Johnson was involved in the planning and execution of Kennedy’s death.” As his driver to and from the Warren Commission hearings, I got to hear the latest scoop on the way back. I was not just his legal counsel but also had become “Maxie the Taxi.” Cooper selected me to convey him to and from the Supreme Court building for the hearings headed by Earl Warren, and that was a lesson van. UNQUOTE [Morris Wolff, Lucky Conversations: Visits With the Most Prominent People of the 20th Century, p. 112]

Jim DiEugenio is 100% correct. Lyndon Johnson did not think of or support the concept of what became known as the "Warren Commission." What LBJ did was PICK HIS BEST FRIENDS AND ALLIES to be on the "Warren Commission" so LBJ could rig it to blame it all on a lone nut named Oswald. LBJ did this all the while telling people behind the scenes that it was an "international communist conspiracy" that that Fidel Castro had killed JFK. Russell and Boggs were best friends with LBJ. McCloy was friends with LBJ, Clint Murchison Sr. and longtime LBJ-fixer Abe Fortas. Allen Dulles had been FIRED by JFK just like LBJ was within days of being FIRED by John Kennedy. And just like Lyndon Johnson's blood brother and neighbor of 19 years (1943-1961) J. Edgar Hoover was going to be FORCED TO RETIRE when he turned age 70 on January 1, 1965. Gerald Ford was picked specifically by LBJ because FORD HAD CIA EXPERIENCE as Lyndon Johnson explicitly told him and you can hear this today on YouTube. The only screw up by LBJ was putting a personal friend of JFK, Sen. John Sherman Cooper, on his presidential commission. Sen. John Sherman Cooper thought in real time that LYNDON JOHNSON HAD JUST MURDERED JFK and Cooper was leaking Warren Commission information to journalist Dorothy Kilgallen (see RFK and Cooper aide Morris Wolff for those relevations). Lyndon Johnson wanted to rig the cover up of JFK's death with a Texas Court of Inquiry led by Waggoner Carr. Of course LBJ opposed a national commission, but the critical point is he rigged it anyhow by putting his best friends and CIA/FBI friendly people on it. Lyndon Johnson told Madeleine Brown at the Driskill Hotel on 12/31/63 that Texas oil and "xxxxing renegade intelligence bastards" had killed JFK. Of course, this psychopath made a point to leave out his own involvement in the JFK assassination.

I don't think that would hold Tucker back from using what Trump gave him. And, also, how many people HAVE ACCESS to those government documents that Trump authorized to keep secret? And who are the people that Tucker would have access to? Trump and Pompeo are at the top of the list. Trump's unreliability is why I did not pay much attention to Tucker's "revelations" that he had spoken to an insider who saw the documents. I thought Trump said that and he is only saying that to throw dirt in the eyes of the CIA because of his own personal problems with the intelligence agencies.

That is my theory. Hard to believe Pompeo was Tucker's source. More likely Trump who btw can't be trusted about anything.

Sen. John Sherman Cooper, while he was a member of the Warren Commission: “I think Lyndon Baines Johnson was involved in the planning and execution of Kennedy’s death.” Source: his aide Morris Wolff (born 11-30-1936 and still alive in March, 2024) Morris Wolff contact info: phone [contact me and I will give it to you] and email is moewolff657@gmail.com QUOTE He was still by something that had just occurred, and he sputtered, “They have it all wrong. They refuse to look at the facts. The forensics are right there. One bullet came in from the front, and the President grabbed his neck, and his head shot back in the open limousine. The car had slowed down in front of the Texas School Depository. The next shot came in from the back, from a window on the 7th floor, the top floor of the Book Depository building on Dealey Plaza. A third shot came from behind the motorcade, jerking his head backward as he slowly passed the area. It was the shot fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, one of two or three killers. At least two were active that day, one from in front and the second from the back. The forensics clearly show there were at least two separate shooters, and they were standing in different places, one from the grassy knoll and one high in the office building. Our new President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, now wants to cover up and move on. I want to delay and get all the facts. They are covering the facts and putting their collective heads in the sand. LBJ pretends to give me the green light to press forward with the investigation. But he is secretly telling the others to bring the hearings to a quick close.” Senator Cooper was boiling mad, somewhat out of control for the only time that I had ever witnessed. “They want to bury the truth under a pile of stones. I think Lyndon Baines Johnson was involved in the planning and execution of Kennedy’s death.” As his driver to and from the Warren Commission hearings, I got to hear the latest scoop on the way back. I was not just his legal counsel but also had become “Maxie the Taxi.” Cooper selected me to convey him to and from the Supreme Court building for the hearings headed by Earl Warren, and that was a lesson van. UNQUOTE [Morris Wolff, Lucky Conversations: Visits With the Most Prominent People of the 20th Century, p. 112]

It doesn't matter that it was Joe Alsop who changed LBJ's mind on having a commission, what matters is it was LYNDON JOHNSON WHO PICKED THE MEMBERS OF THE "so called" WARREN COMMISSION. Lyndon Johnson wanted to rig the cover up with a Texas Court of Inquiry. Really, all he wanted was a rubberstamp of anything Hoover's FBI would say. But, after Oswald was killed in police custody in DALLAS, it was politically unfeasible to rig the cover up of the JFK assassination with a Texas Court of Inquiry led by Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr and LBJ lawyer Leon Jaworski. So, Lyndon Johnson created HIS commission, HIS Presidential Commission to investigate the death of John Kennedy, and LBJ rigged it with HIS personal friends Sen. Russell, Cong. Boggs, John J. McCloy and also Allen Dulles. Earl Warren was picked to give a liberal window dressing to the Commission and I truly don't think LBJ would have picked Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-KY) if he knew how close Sen. Cooper was to President Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson specifically told Gerald Ford, and you can hear it on YouTube, I am picking you because you have CIA expertise. LBJ appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission and specifically says he (LBJ) wanted someone on the House Appropriations Committee “who knows CIA over in your shop” (referring to Ford). Time of LBJ-Gerald Ford phone call: Nov. 29, 1963, 18:52 = 6:52PM CST. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/lbj-appoints-gerald-ford-to-the-warren-commission (Ford): Yes, Mr. President. How are you, sir? (President Johnson): Happy Thanksgiving. Where are you? (Ford): I'm home, sir. (President Johnson): You mean Michigan? (Ford): No, no, I'm here in Washington— (President Johnson): You're here in Washington? Well, thank God there's somebody in town! [Ford chuckles.] I was getting ready to tell [James] MacGregor Burns he's right about the Congress. They couldn't function. (Ford): I thought your speech was excellent the other day. (President Johnson): Why, thank you, Jerry. Jerry, I got something I want you to do for me. (Ford): Well, we'll do the best we can, sir. (President Johnson): I've got to have a top, blue-ribbon presidential commission to investigate the assassination. And I'm going to ask the Chief Justice to head it, and then I'm going to ask John [J.] McCloy and Allen Dulles. (Ford): Right. (President Johnson): And I want it nonpartisan. Now, I'm not going to point out I got five Republicans, two Democrats, but I'm going to do that, and I'm just . . . then you forget what party you belong to and just serve as an American. And I want [Richard B.] Dick Russell [Jr.] and [John] Sherman Cooper, John Cooper, of the Senate. [Ford acknowledges.] Dick's on Armed Services over there, and I want somebody on Appropriations who knows CIA over in your shop— (Ford): Right. (President Johnson): —from the Appropriations angle, 'cause I'm covering the Armed Services angle with Russell. (Ford): Right. (President Johnson): I want to ask [T.] Hale Boggs [Sr.] and you to serve from the House— (Ford): Well, Mr. President— (President Johnson): —it'll be McCloy, and Dulles, and Ford, and Boggs, and Cooper, and Russell, and Chief Justice Warren as chairman. (Ford): Well, you know very well I would be honored to do it, and I'll do the very best I can, sir. (President Johnson): You do that, and keep me up to date, and I'll be seeing you. (Ford): All right. Thank you very much— (President Johnson): Thank you. (Ford): —and I'm delighted to help out. (President Johnson): Thank you, Jerry. (Ford): Thank— Gerald Ford became a member of the House Appropriations Committee in 1951 https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/ford/biography.html Ford became a member of the House Appropriations Committee in 1951, and rose to prominence on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, becoming its ranking minority member in 1961. In 1963 President Johnson appointed Ford to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1965 Ford co-authored, with John R. Stiles, a book about the findings of the Commission, Portrait of the Assassin. He once described himself as "a moderate in domestic affairs, an internationalist in foreign affairs, and a conservative in fiscal policy." Robert Morrow: In 1970 Newsweek called Cong. Gerald Ford “the CIA’s best friend in Congress.” Web link: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Newsweek+calls+Gerald+Ford+the+CIA%27s+man+in+Congress&va=b&t=hc&ia=web&iai=r1-4&page=1&sexp=%7B%22cdrexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22recipeexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22biaexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22msvrtexp%22%3A%22b%22%7D

I don't think LBJ specifically mentioned what day or month that Kennedy was coming to Texas. I think LBJ's attitude was just get Kennedy down here and we will know what to do with him. I think LBJ's language was a Freudian slip by LBJ who was already plotting to murder JFK, but first he had to lure Kennedy to Texas where LBJ could control both the killing and the after assassination cover up. Here is my blog post on the topic - Robert Morrow Political Research Blog: Search results for shoot him down Lyndon Johnson told Robert Novak in summer 1962 that the Kennedys were losing the cold war against the Soviet Union, losing to conservatives in Congress and that Robert Kennedy was planning to dump him off the 1964 Democratic ticket. Robert Novak later married Geraldine, a secretary to LBJ Notice how Johnson is telling Novak in the summer of 1962 how the Kennedy Administration was "losing" the cold war to the Russians. This is before the fall, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. I imagine Johnson was using these same arguments with the generals, the Texas oil men and the military intelligence in the lead up to the JFK assassination. Robert Novak: QUOTE "After a Texas-style cookout, LBJ reclined, nearly prone, by the swimming pool. It was just the two of us drinking Scotch, and he spoke with a candor he never bestowed on me before or after. He felt the Kennedy administration was in serious trouble, losing the cold war to the Soviet Union and losing the legislative war to conservatives in Congress. He said that he had done everything the Kennedys had wanted, including foreign missions that only guaranteed him bad publicity. He was repaid with insults and humiliation, especially from the attorney general. Johnson was sure Bobby Kennedy was plotting to dump him in 1964. "But I'm going to fool them," he said. "I'm going to pack it in after the term ends and go home to Texas." That would have been a huge scoop, but I knew Johnson was just blowing off steam. As for going back to Texas, the political environment there was hardly more congenial for LBJ than it was in Washington. Johnson's protege, John B. Connally, had just won the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas, which still all but guaranteed election in Texas. As secretary of the Navy, Connally had been the highest Kennedy administration official bearing the LBJ brand. But campaigning for governor, Connally removed the brand. With JFK and LBJ both unpopular in Texas, Connally ran against the administration he had just left, and won. Talking about Big John in that summer evening in 1962 led Johnson into self-pity. "John has turned my picture to the wall," LBJ told me. "You know I would never turn his picture to the wall." QUOTE [Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness, pp. 90-91] David Lifton analysis of what Lyndon Johnson was telling Robert Novak about his major bad blood with the Kennedys in summer, 1962. David Lifton email to Robert Morrow on 2/18/2020 2/18/2020 - 8:20 AM CST Robert, I think you missed an important “data-point.” Note the following quote: " He was repaid with insults and humiliation, especially from the attorney general. Johnson was sure Bobby Kennedy was plotting to dump him in 1964. "But I'm going to fool them," he said. "I'm going to pack it in after the term ends and go home to Texas." That would have been a huge scoop, but I knew Johnson was just blowing off steam. Forget about what Novak thinks; and focus on what LBJ said. By stating this to Novak, LBJ was creating a public record of his having no future political ambition(s). Rather, his intent is to “go home to Texas.” IMHO: This statement is his (somewhat weak) attempt to create the appearance that he has no future political ambition; thus, removing him as having a “personal motive” in the upcoming assassination of JFK. Think about it. . : The bank robber is outside the bank; a key person says, “I don’t know what you guys think you’re up to, but I’ve got to go to the bathroom. Is there a bathroom nearby? Oh well, I’m going down the street to that Texaco station. I think they have a toilet.” etc etc. So. . . He’s no longer at the scene of the crime; he’s not “in charge.” He was just there, but that’s of no consequence, because he left when he suddenly needed to go to the nearest bathroom, down the street.” IMHO: That’s what LBJ was doing with Novak. Creating a “political alibi.” I disagree with Novak. Johnson was not “blowing off steam.” He knew about—and was probably up to his neck—the upcoming plan to “get rid of JFK” . (And remember: it was LBJ who—as Manchester reported, based on extensive interviews with Jackie and with Kenneth O’Donnell’—pleaded with JFK to make the Texas trip ; and who (according to Jackie)“lured” him to go to Texas. And that’s the word that she used: “lured” — and that’s after all the editing of what Manchester originally wrote. The word “lured” remained. G-D only knows what the original draft stated, before the editing by Sorensen (remember that?). So, the central notion that LBJ (according to the evidence was deeply involved in getting Kennedy to “make the trip”; but, simultaneously was planning to “go home to Texas”—is absurd. That’s just plain nonsense. As I’ve heard they would say, down there in Texas: “That dog won’t hunt!”. DSL P.S. Also. . Lyndon Johnson told Robert Novak in summer,1962 that the Kennedys were losing the cold war against the Soviet Union, For Johnson to be saying this is significant because (a) That would echo the sort of thing coming from a Curtis Lemay, (and others of that ilk); and second: since when does a Vice President take up a political position that is so completely different than his boss, the President, who is pursuing reasonable compromise, so that the world is peaceful, and things don’t escalate into a nuclear exchange? IMHO. DSL Political Journalist and author Alfred Steinberg: LBJ was so concerned about being dropped from the 1964 Democratic ticket that he developed severe stomach pains in the fall of 1963 QUOTE By the fall of 1963 talk was common in Washington that Johnson would be dropped from the 1964 ticket because he had turned into a negative factor. A Midwestern senator, who traveled to Connecticut with the Vice President for a fund-raising affair for the Vice President’s pal Senator Tom Dodd, reported to his Senate colleagues afterward that Johnson had lugubriously remarked during their New England visit, “I’m going to be out of it for a second term. Jack has another man in mind for Vice President.” So concerned was Johnson over what he believed would be his political doom that he developed severe stomach pains. But in this instance, the doctor’s diagnosis found it a coincidence of timing, that he was suffering from an oversupply of calcium and should eliminated milk from his diet. UNQUOTE [Alfred Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy: A Close-Up of the President from Texas, p. 589] Lyndon Johnson told Liz and Leslie Carpenter in the fall of 1963 that he was get off the 1964 Democratic ticket before the Kennedys could kick him off of it. Liz Carpenter was a longtime LBJ partisan who became Lady Bird’s press secretary in the White House (LBJ’s “right hand man” Bobby Baker had resigned as Secretary of the Senate on 10/7/63) QUOTE But denying any intent to dump Johnson was good politics. There is no doubt that if scandal sank the vice president, not a tear would have been shed in the White House. More important, Johnson believed the Kennedys wanted him off the ticket. Shortly after the Baker scandal broke, Johnson had dinner with friends, including Liz and Leslie Carpenter. Johnson's car took the couple home and Johnson rode with them. "Park in the driveway and let's talk a few minutes," Johnson said. "I think I'm going to announce that I'm not going to run again for vice president so that I can get off that ticket before they try to knock me off. What I would like to do is go back to Texas and be president of Southwest Texas State Teachers College." UNQUOTE [Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, p. 414, Leslie Carpenter oral history]

I don't know. But LBJ, according to Connally, was advocating hard for JFK to come to Texas in fall, 1963. But I do know this; the lure to get JFK to Texas was the Houston dinner for Cong. Albert Thomas, who happened to be a college roommate of GEORGE BROWN of Brown and Root (by 1962 Halliburton had bought out Brown & Root). George Brown and Hermann Brown were the crooked sugar daddies of Lyndon Johnson since he was elected congressman in 1937 in Texas' 10th Congressional District. Cong. Albert Thomas met with JFK and pleaded for him to come to his dinner. Later that night Cong. Albert Thomas had an evening meeting with Lyndon Johnson. Those facts are in Sean Fetter's Under Cover of Night, which indicts LBJ for the JFK assassination. (No, I do not agree with *everything* that Fetter writes in his book). Cong. Albert Thomas was the winking at Lyndon Johnson after LBJ got sworn in on Air Force One. Remember, again, Houston, TX Cong. Thomas was extremely close to LBJ sugar daddy George Brown who under the guise of Kellogg Brown & Root made a TON of money off of the Vietnam War. I once asked Barr McClellan if he thought that George Brown, even if he personally was not involved in the JFK assassination, would have figured out quickly that LBJ was and McClellan just start laughing: of course he would have said McClellan! George Brown was CIA connected as Joan Mellen wrote about.

I still have my money on it was DONALD TRUMP would told that to Tucker Carlson and furthermore Trump only said that because he hates the CIA in the years 2015 to 2024 and sees "the intelligence agencies" as his enemy. I can see Pompeo trying to intimidate Carlson to shut him up from spilling the beans that it was Trump who was his source. I just can't see Pompeo leveling with someone semi-honestly behind the scenes.

I always *assumed* that Tucker Carleson's "source" on the JFK assassination was Donald Trump. But that was a guess.

I am not fan of Trump or his lawyers, but this should be over in the Water Cooler area. In fact I hate the guts of that stupid Trump lawyer. This is irrelevant.

Reasons for JFK assassination: 1) Lyndon Johnson - kill JFK before the Kennedys could nationally humiliate and destroy LBJ. Kennedy were out to utterly destroy LBJ and not merely "drop him from the 1964 Democratic ticket." 2) D.H. Byrd - preserve his decades long investment in JFK that paid off so handsomely for him before and after the JFK assassination. I can give you 132,000 reasons why D.H. Byrd was involved in the JFK assassination. 3) Ed Clark, LBJ power broker pal who admitted involvement in the JFK assassination - make money off of LBJ due to his close association with this crooked politician. Ed Clark, according to Barr McClellan, was very unhappy when LBJ pulled out of the 1968 presidential race because Ed Clark made tons of easy money legal retainer fees by being associated with Johnson. 4) Gen. Edward Lansdale - kill JFK as revenge for overthrowing and killing Diem in Vietnam. Never mind that JFK did not want Diem dead, that is what happened. Lansdale not happy with being run out of government on 10/31/1963 and being politically castrated in regards to Vietnam policy which he thought was proprietarily his. In return for his Dallas services, Lyndon Johnson resuscitated Lansdale's military career and sent him to Vietnam 5) CIA David Atlee Phillips - he obliquely admitted to his family that he was involved in the JFK assassination. He would have been mad about Cuba policy. 6) "Dark Complected Man" aka "Radio Man" - a spotter for snipers (plural) behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll. This man, never identified which is highly suspicious - looks like a dark complected CIA connected or Lansdale connected anti-Castro Cuban. He would have been in a rage over Cuba policy. 7) In general, it was the LBJ complex of power VS the Kennedy complex of power and LBJ's side won. NOT on the list of motives: A) JFK being killed because he was not going to prosecute the Vietnam War. That is one of the greatest canards in all of JFK research and it is Oliver Stone's hobby horse. It is right up there with lone nutterism as far as being grotesquely inaccurate. B] JFK's battles with Wall Street C) Everything else - including U.S. fear of losing nuclear superiority.