Robert Morrow

The number one goal of the murderers (LBJ) of JFK had was to kill John Kennedy as soon as possible because Johnson's destruction at the hands of the Kennedys was imminent and multiple shooters from front and behind JFK were used. Everything else was secondary. The killers of JFK (LBJ) knew that Lyndon Johnson would immediately become president and have the power to warp any investigation into the murder of JFK. If some of the shooters of JFK were anti-Castro operatives they would not have had to be paid; they would more than gladly put a bullet into JFK's head for free, no questions asked, no demands made - that is how much some in the anti-Castro Cuban community "hated" JFK. I talked to anti-Castro Cubans in Miami - the inner circle - in 2013, 62 years after the Bay of Pigs fiasco and they STILL hated the guts of that "traitor" JFK. Lee Harvey Oswald was playing his public and deceptive role of a "pro Castro Marxist" when he asked for New York's well known left wing lawyer Joe Abt to represent him. I think Oswald actually thought his handlers in intelligence would protect him and not orchestrate his death while he was in custody.

Roger Stone, who I knew well from 2013 to 2017, was working hand in glove with editors of the National Enquirer to craft hit pieces on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's GOP opponents. I became a source, too, for the National Enquirer for anything related to Hillary and Bill Clinton. Roger Stone helped the National Enquirer craft an article on all of Ted Cruz's supposed mistresses.

Lyndon Johnson on 4/3/1967 told his Chief of Staff Marvin Watson that the CIA had something to do with the JFK assassination https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62412#relPageId=60&search=In_this%20connection,%20Marvin%20Watson%20called%20me%20late%20last%20night (FBI Deke DeLoach memo -see page 2) I should add that Lyndon Johnson, behind the scenes, told many people for years that FIDEL CASTRO was involved in the JFK assassination. LBJ was immediately, within minutes of JFK's death, blaming a communist for the JFK assassination, which is weird with all the pre-Texas trip radiation about all the hard right wing atmosphere in Dallas. On 4/3/1967 he told Marvin Watson he was convinced the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination. Marvin Watson, in a panic, late at night called LBJ's man at the FBI Deke DeLoach and told him. DeLoach then memorialized this in an FBI memo dated 4/4/1967. But a mere 6 weeks after the JFK assassination at Austin, TX's Driskill Hotel LBJ told one of his top mistresses Madeleine Brown that "Texas oil and xxxxing renegade intelligence bastards in Washington" were involved in the JFK assassination (Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 189) Lyndon Johnson is confirmed as being at the Driskill Hotel by contemporary press reports and his presidential daily schedule late in the evening of 12/31/1963 New Year's Eve. Madeleine Duncan Brown was a mistress of Lyndon Johnson for 21 years and had a son with him named Steven Mark Brown in 1950. Madeleine mixed with the Texas elite and had many trysts with Lyndon Johnson over the years, including one at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX, on New Year's Eve 12/31/63. Late in the evening of 12/31/63, just 6 weeks after the JFK assassination, Madeleine asked Lyndon Johnson: "Lyndon, you know that a lot of people believe you had something to do with President Kennedy's assassination." He shot up out of bed and began pacing and waving his arms screaming like a madman. I was scared! "That's bullshit, Madeleine Brown!" he yelled. "Don't tell me you believe that crap!" "Of course not." I answered meekly, trying to cool his temper. "It was Texas oil and those xxxxing renegade intelligence bastards in Washington." [said Lyndon Johnson, the new president.] [Texas in the Morning, p. 189] [LBJ told this to Madeleine in the late night of 12/31/63 in the Driskill Hotel, Austin, TX in room #434 which is now known as the Governor’s Suite and rents for $500-600/night in 2018. LBJ kept this room on retainer for business and as a place to tryst with his mistresses. LBJ and Madeleine spent New Year’s Eve ‘63 together here. (Another separate Room is #254 -today it is known as the "Blue Room" or “LBJ Suite” or the "Presidential room" and rents for $700-1,000/night as a Presidential suite at the Driskill; located on the Mezzanine Level.) Madeleine Brown died on June 22, 2002. LBJ kept room #434 permanently reserved at the Driskill Hotel. It is now known as the “Governor’s Room” and it is located on the 4th floor of the Driskill, middle room, facing 6th street to the South https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/discovering-lbjs-austin/ “Discovering LBJ’s Austin” by Madelyn Herzog for Texas Monthly, May 6, 2013: QUOTE The Johnsons—whose marriage was enduring, if not as idyllic as their courtship—stayed in the Driskill Hotel many times. Room 434, a fourth-floor suite with a balcony overlooking Sixth Street, was permanently reserved for the president. In November 1948, 1960, and 1964, the Johnsons gathered with friends and supporters in the hotel’s Jim Hogg Parlor to watch the election returns come in. UNQUOTE

Regarding, pro-Castro Cuban involvement in the JFK assassination, there just isn't any evidence of it. On the contrary, behind the scenes relations were about to start warming with JFK and Fidel Castro. I am sure you know about the journalist Jean Daniel revelations. JFK was using journalist Jean Daniel as a back channel to Fidel Castro in an attempt to ease tensions between the USA and Cuba. “I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK was Assassinated” by Jean Daniel for the New Republic - December 7, 1963 Web Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/120460/fidel-castro-reaction-kennedy-assassination-cuba QUOTE Then, suddenly, he had taken a less hostile tack: “Kennedy could still be this man. He still has the possibility of becoming, in the eyes of history, the greatest President of the United States, the leader who may at last understand that there can be coexistence between capitalists and socialists, even in the Americas. He would then be an even greater President than Lincoln. I know, for example, that for Khrushchev, Kennedy is a man you can talk with. I have gotten this impression from all my conversations with Khrushchev. Other leaders have assured me that to attain this goal, we must first await his re-election. Personally, I consider him responsible for everything, but I will say this: he has come to understand many things over the past few months; and then too, in the last analysis, I’m convinced that anyone else would be worse.” Then Fidel had added with a broad and boyish grin: “If you see him again, you can tell him that I’m willing to declare Goldwater my friend if that will guarantee Kennedy’s re-election!” This conversation was held on November 19. Now it was nearly 2 o’clock and we got up from the table and settled ourselves in front of a radio. Commandant Vallero, his physician, aide-de-camp, and intimate friend, was easily able to get the broadcasts from the NBC network in Miami. As the news came in, Vallero would translate it for Fidel: Kennedy wounded in the head; pursuit of the assassin; murder of a policeman; finally the fatal announcement: President Kennedy is dead. Then Fidel stood up and said to me: “Everything is changed. Everything is going to change. The United States occupies such a position in world affairs that the death of a President of that country affects millions of people in every corner of the globe. The cold war, relations with Russia, Latin America, Cuba, the Negro question… all will have to be rethought. I’ll tell you one thing: at least Kennedy was an enemy to whom we had become accustomed. This is a serious matter, an extremely serious matter.” UNQUOTE QUOTE We arrived at the granja de pueblo, where the farmers welcomed Fidel. At that very moment, a speaker announced over the radio that it was now known that the assassin is a “pro-Castro Marxist.” One commentator followed another; the remarks became increasingly emotional, increasingly aggressive. Fidel then excused himself: “We shall have to give up the visit to the farm.” We went on towards Matanzas from where he could telephone President Dorticós. On the way he had questions: “Who is Lyndon Johnson? What is his reputation? What were his relations with Kennedy? With Khrushchev? What was his position at the time of the attempted invasion of Cuba?” Finally and most important of all” What authority does he exercise over the CIA?” Then abruptly he looked at his watch, saw that it would be half an hour before we reached Matanzas and, practically on the spot, he dropped off to sleep. UNQUOTE JFK interview with journalist Jean Daniel on October 24, 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution QUOTE I believe that there is no country in the world, including the African regions, including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country's policies during the Batista regime. I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realizing it. I believe that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardized all of Latin America. The great aim of the Alliance for Progress is to reverse this unfortunate policy. This is one of the most, if not the most, important problems in America foreign policy. I can assure you that I have understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will go even further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. UNQUOTE Jean Daniel (1920-2020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Daniel Spartacus bio of Jean Daniel Bensaid: https://web.archive.org/web/20180112160030/http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdanielJ.htm Fidel Castro told French journalist Jean Daniel after hearing some conciliatory words relayed to him from JFK, that JFK could become “the greatest president of the United States, the leader who may at last understand that there can be coexistence between capitalists and socialists, even in the Americas.” http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdanielJ.htm

NICOLE WALLACE – LONE NUTTER - MSNBC TV host On 4/24/24 at 3:01PM CST on MSNBC she referred to Lee Harvey Oswald as “JFK’s assassin” as she was referencing the Donald Trump hush money trial that was going on in NYC. Wallace was referring to the 2016 National Enquirer article that attempted to link Sen. Ted Cruz’s dad to Oswald in New Orleans. Nicole Wallace Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolle_Wallace Miramonte High School – 1990 – an elite high school Miramonte High School - Wikipedia Univ. of California, Berkeley – BA in mass communications - 1994 Northwestern Medill School of Journalism – MA 1996

Jeremy Kuzmarov’s scholarly 2023 article for Covert Action Magazine which indicts LBJ for the JFK assassination: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/22/60-years-after-jfks-death-it-is-more-and-more-apparent-that-kennedy-was-a-victim-of-a-palace-coup-spearheaded-by-vice-president-lyndon-b-johnson/ I would put D.H. Byrd, Ed Clark, close associates of LBJ, along with Gen. Edward Lansdale, whose career LBJ resuscitated, as front row participants in the JFK assassination. In my rarely humble opinion (which changes) I have FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and fired CIA chief Allen Dulles as "murderers-after-the-fact" for their roles in covering up the JFK assassination. I think people should focus more on the role of the Air Force than merely the CIA in the killing of JFK, although Oswald was obviously a CIA operative and a fake pro-Castro Marxist. I do think Gen. Edward Lansdale roped in some CIA anti-Castro Cubans to help kill JFK ("Dark Complected Man" also known as "Radio Man" was for sure involved in the JFK assassination as a spotter for snipers on the Grassy Knoll.)

I think Secret Service agent Clint Hill went to work for Lyndon Johnson, who never trusted him, just like LBJ never trusted anyone who was close to the Kennedys.

LBJ's and Hoover's phone call occurred Saturday morning on 11/23/1963. Here is what LBJ did on the afternoon of Saturday 11/23/1963: Lyndon Johnson personally told Dallas Police Detective Capt. Will Fritz to STOP questioning Oswald on late in the afternoon on 11/23/63 There is an extremely important passage in Noel Twymann's Bloody Treason; it is on pages 792 to 803 of the hardback version. Twymann details and confirms Lyndon Johnson PERSONALLY calling Will Fritz late on Saturday 11/23/63 and telling him to QUIT interrogating Oswald. The fix had been in on Oswald beginning 14 minutes after the JFK assassination when Marguerite Oswald’s 1960 physical description of him to the FBI was broadcast all over the Dallas police radio five times within 24 minutes. Author Noel Twymann spoke to 2 people: Frank B. Harrell and Jim Leavelle. Here is what Twymann says about his meeting with Harrell: "He was very cooperative. He remembered the lunch and confirmed that Captain Fritz told that story, that Lyndon Johnson had called and ordered Captain Fritz to pull off questioning Oswald." [Noel Twymann, Bloody Treason, p. 794] "Harrell says that Fritz was 'pulled off because he was getting too close.' He said that in 'a couple of more hours he'd have broken Oswald, but they pulled Oswald out.'" [Noel Twymann, Bloody Treason, p. 794]

Jackie Kennedy’s cartoons from the 1960 campaign show a cartoon of Lone Star “Texans” Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn shaking hands with JFK. The big Texan LBJ is squeezing a tiny frail JFK’s hand to the point that it hurts: https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/jackie-kennedy-knew-all-about-lyndon.html Daily Beast article on Jackie’s 1960 campaign cartoons: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jackie-kennedys-jfk-cartoons-1 (7th cartoon down is Jackie’s cartoon of how LBJ and Sam Rayburn treated JFK at the 1960 Democratic convention. Notice how LBJ is crushing the hand of a noticeable smaller and diminished and pained John Kennedy.) That is a pretty good summary of how LBJ “strongarmed” his way onto the 1960 Democratic ticket. The JFK-LBJ ticket was seemingly an act of friendship but in reality an act of hostility and one of the parties was “forced” to go along with it. No wonder the JFK-LBJ relations were so rancid during JFK’s presidency. No wonder Robert Kennedy was out to utterly destroy Lyndon Johnson in the fall of 1963! (I wonder how LBJ would feel about that?)

One of my favorite stories about John Kennedy is told by famous author Lawrence Wright whose father in 1950 was a local banker in Ponca City, Oklahoma and he was also the head of the local Chamber of Commerce. Lawrence Wright's father was asked to arrange a speech for Congressman Kennedy and when he talked with JFK's advance people he was told that Cong. Kennedy required that services of a prostitute for his trip to Ponca City, OK. Even though JFK was not married in 1950, this is exactly how he behaved his entire adult life up until the moment of his death. The night before JFK's death, on 11-21-1963, he invited his friend Pam Am stewardess Layte Bowden Dopp (Florida State Univ. Homecoming Queen, 1956) up to his suite at the Hotel Texas and she did not go because she assumed Kennedy would make a sexual advance on her. JFK and Jackie were sleeping in different rooms. You can read this in Layte's memoirs Under the Radar in Camelot. Read the accounts of Evelyn Lincoln, Hy Raskin and Pierre Salinger and one can figure out how Lyndon Johnson was able to strong arm his way onto the 1960 Democratic presidential ticket: SEXUAL BLACKMAIL, threats to embarrass JFK in an election where JFK was already that his rampant womanizing would become a political issue. JFK wrote on a piece of paper that year "I got into the blondes" and he expected to be "hit with something" as the campaign progressed. LBJ and Sam Rayburn could have used any number of JFK's trysts to embarrass Kennedy, but I think the one they honed in on was the JFK-Pamela Turnure affair which Florence Kater had spread far and wide to the media that was not yet reporting on it. The wife of CIA William King Harvey, who hated JFK's guts, said that John Kennedy required the services of TWO PROSTITUTES when he traveled to Rome. There is a video of Mrs. William King Harvey saying this. What does this all add up to? John Kennedy was an 1) unhinged 2) hyper-promiscuous 3) compromised 4) reckless rampaging adulterer and it bit him in the fanny when he was shamefully forced to put Lyndon Johnson on the 1960 Democratic ticket as VP. LBJ forced/strongarmed his way onto the ticket because he knew the Kennedys, if elected, would immediately have him removed as Senate Democratic Majority Leader. JFK later said no one will ever know how LBJ got onto the ticket and that is a good thing: because the truth about is a humiliation of John Kennedy and it shows his weakness in crumbling to bully LBJ as well as his poor character. Putting LBJ on the ticket was a fatal mistake by JFK and it directly led to his assassination. Lawrence Wright: https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1988/november/was-dallas-a-city-of-hate/ QUOTE Daddy had his own dark thoughts about Kennedy. As a younger man he had had political ambitions of his own. Like Kennedy, he was a war hero; like Kennedy, he hoped to trade his wartime glory for public office. Kennedy was a young congressman from Massachusetts when my father made arrangements for him to speak in Oklahoma, at the Ponca City Chamber of Commerce, which my father chaired. Clearly there were advantages in an alliance between my father and this young political star. My father was expected to supply whatever the congressman needed, and what he needed was an ample and varied supply of Oklahoma women-no, not dinner dates, my father was instructed, just sexual companions. It was the moment my father’s own political aspirations died. He saw then the secret appetites of the public man, and he understood how his own appetite for power might lead him to violate his vows to God. He did not even go to hear Kennedy speak. UNQUOTE [“Was Dallas A City of Hate?” Lawrence Wright, D Magazine, 11-01-1988] Lawrence Wright wrote that in 1988 and in 2013 in Dallas he told the exact same story at a symposium on the JFK assassination in Dallas. You can find it at the 21-minute mark here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_J0j2RYdg

JFK’s notes from the 1960 campaign show he was concerned that his sexual promiscuity would hurt him in the election. JFK wrote these notes after developing laryngitis on the campaign trail: “I got into the blondes.” “I suppose that if I win my poon [slang term for sex] days are over. I suppose they are going to him me with something before we are finished.” Web link: JFK's sexual preferences and fear of being exposed as an adulterer revealed in notes | Daily Mail Online - Daily Mail, March 9, 2020, Ryan Fahey reporter.

My interpretation of Lyndon Johnson's behavior in the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination is that he was "playacting" - pretending to have a heart problem or some medical issue as a way of drawing attention away from his participation in the JFK assassination. LBJ immediately and weirdly blamed a communist for killing JFK after there had been so much worry about the toxic and well documented right wing atmosphere in Dallas, TX - https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/lyndon-johnson-at-120pm-was-immediately.html LBJ was so hysterical on Air Force One, which he insisted on immediately commandeering, that Gen. Godfrey McHugh had to slap Johnson. Gen. McHugh used to squire Jackie around Washington, D.C. in the early 1950's and he had a soft spot in his heart for her. Jackie, for her part, IMMEDIATELY suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination as she told her press secretary "Lyndon Johnson did it." [Eddie Fisher, Been There, Done That: An Autobiography, pp. 257-258] Gen. Godfrey McHugh had to slap Lyndon Johnson to compose him on 11/22/63 QUOTE But Johnson had no intention of leaving until he was sworn in as President- a needless formality that could easily have taken place at a later time, once everyone was out of harm's way. He had placed a call to Federal District Judge Sarah Hughes, and now everyone was forced to sit in the sweltering afternoon heat- the airconditioning could not be turned on until the engines were started- waiting for Judge Hughes to arrive. Johnson, meantime, was cracking. General McHugh, who at first had no idea that LBJ was even on the plane, claimed that at one point he discovered Johnson cowering in the closet of the President's cabin. "They're going to kill us," he whimpered. "They're going to shoot down the plane, they're going to kill us all." It was then, McHugh said, that he actually got LBJ to "snap out of it" by slapping him. McHugh, in turn, was observed by others on the plane as dashing up and down the center aisle a half dozen times, wild-eyed and rambling. Neither man was a picture of composure. UNQUOTE [Christopher Anderson, Jackie After Jack, p. 11] On the flight back from Dallas, Lyndon Johnson was pounding Cutty Sarks, drinking about "half a fifth" according to Air Force steward Doyle Whitehead. A "half a fifth" is about 10 drinks of that cheap scotch.

Robert Morrow: "I think Lyndon Johnson was planning to murder JFK as soon as he got on the Democratic ticket and as soon as he was actually elected Vice President in November of 1960." Lyndon Johnson was EXTREMELY UNHAPPY at being JFK's vice-presidential pick even though LBJ and Sam Rayburn had sexually blackmailed and strongarmed the compromised, unhinged sexual degenerate JFK (and weakling I should add) into putting LBJ onto the 1960 Democratic ticket. John Kennedy was quite concerned that his unhinged, degenerate, hyper-adulterous "lifestyle" would soon explode into the public realm and become a dangerous issue in the 1960 campaign. Evelyn Lincoln, his secretary, famously said she spent "half her time" dealing with JFK's paramours. I should add the Kennedys were never going to admit to anyone HOW and WHY Lyndon Johnson was able to get onto the 1960 Democratic ticket because it would reflect quite poorly on John Kennedy: showing just how compromised he was and how he buckled under to the strongarm tactics of LBJ/Rayburn. In the days after the 1960 Democratic convention LBJ would regularly, privately issue death threats against the Kennedys. In fact, he would do this every time (his humiliator) Robert Kennedy's name came up. LBJ spent the 1960 general election drunk as a skunk prowling down the aisles of his hotel rooms trying to get female reporters to have sex with him. LBJ's aides, such as George Reedy, were amazed he could function in this condition. On the night of the 1960 Democratic election, a time when candidates would normally be euphoric at their winning national elections, LBJ was in as a foul, nasty and a sour mood as one could be. That is because he knew the Kennedys totally hated his guts, did not trust him and they had all the power and he had none. On the day of the 1961 Inauguration, the crooked Bobby Baker, LBJ's longtime partner in kickbacks and crime, his fellow manipulator of the U.S. Senate, said that John Kennedy would not live out his term and that he would die a VIOLENT DEATH. Robert Caro describes the LBJ-RFK relationship post 1960 Democratic convention, where RFK had moved heaven and earth attempting to keep LBJ off the 1960 Democratic ticket. QUOTE John Connally, who during long days of conversation with this author was willing to answer almost any question put to him, no matter how delicate the topic, wouldn't answer when asked what Johnson said about Robert Kennedy. When the author pressed him, he finally said flatly: "I am not going to tell you what he said about him." During the months after the convention, when Johnson was closeted alone back in Texas with an old ally he would sometimes be asked about Robert Kennedy. He would reply with a gesture. Raising his big right hand, he would draw the side of it across the neck in a slowing, slitting movement. Sometimes that gesture would be his only reply; sometimes, as during a meeting with Ed Clark in Austin, he would say, as his hand moved across his neck, "I'll cut his throat if it's the last thing I do." UNQUOTE [Robert Caro, The Passage of Power, p. 140] The reason John Connally, the LBJ aide who urge Johnson to take the vice presidency, who would tell Robert Caro about literally everything but would not telling him what Lyndon Johnson said about Robert Kennedy was because LYNDON JOHNSON WOULD ISSUE A DEATH THREAT AGAINST ROBERT KENNEDY EVERY TIME RFK'S NAME CAME UP. On the night of the victory of the JFK-LBJ ticket, or rather early in the morning on Nov. 9th, 1960, Lyndon Johnson was very unhappy, with a rude and surly attitude. Journalist Margaret Mayer: Before she was a journalist for the Dallas Times-Herald, Margaret Mayer used to work for LBJ, so she knew him well. QUOTE Lady Bird was happy; she was going to enjoy being Second Lady, she thought, and she did. Besides, she was always glad when a campaign was over, victorious or not. Lyndon? Did he hoot and holler? Did he even smile except for the photographers? He did not. He was demonstrably morose. Margaret Mayer: “The night he was elected vice-president – very late, when it was quite apparent that he and Kennedy had been elected – I don’t think I saw a more unhappy man. He had been at the Driskill Hotel with the Homer Thornberrys, the Connallys, Jesse Kellam, and sometime after midnight, maybe one in the morning, they all came downstairs and went across the street to an all-night café on Seventh Street. “There was no jubilation. Lyndon looked like he had lost his last friend on earth, and later he was rude to me, very rude, and I tried to remind myself he was unhappy, but he did the same thing the next day in the TV station. He was rude to just about everybody. Now I’ve known Lyndon a great many years, and I’ve never known him to act like that. “It was clear to me and a lot of other people that even then he didn’t want to be vice-president.” UNQUOTE [Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, p. 273] Picture of Dallas Times-Herald reporter Margaret Mayer here: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2013/10/25/jim-lehrer-news-changed-forever-on-nov-22-1963/ Margaret Mayer - https://discoverlbj.org/item/mayerm Here is a link to LBJ henchman Bobby Baker's prediction of JFK's VIOLENT DEATH which occured on INAUGURATION DAY January 20, 1961 literally at the moment JFK was sworn in as president: QUOTE In January of 1964 the Warren Commission learned that Don B. Reynolds, insurance agent and close associate of Bobby Baker, had been heard to say the FBI knew that Johnson was behind the assassination. When interviewed by the FBI, he denied this. But he did recount an incident during the swearing in of Kennedy in which Bobby Baker said words to the effect that the s.o.b. would never live out his term and that he would die a violent death. UNQUOTE Web link to Esquire article: https://classic.esquire.com/article/1966/12/01/a-primer-of-assassination-theories [“A Primer of Assassination Theories,” Edward Jay Epstein, Esquire, 12/01/1966] All of these threats occurred YEARS before the JFK assassination and before Lyndon Johnson was issuing threats about JFK to his mistress Madeleine Brown literally on the morning of the JFK assassination. Lyndon Johnson to Madeleine Brown: “After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again- that’s no threat- that is a promise!” [Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 166] Lyndon Johnson on the morning of 11/22/63 to Madeleine Brown: “That son-of-a-bitch crazy Yarborough and that goddamn xxxxing Irish mafia bastard Kennedy, will never embarrass me again!” [Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 167] Lyndon Johnson on the morning of 11/22/63 to Madeleine Brown: "His snarling voice jolted me as never before - "That son-of-a-bitch crazy Yarborough and that goddamn xxxxing Irish mafia bastard, Kennedy, will never embarrass me again!" I managed to say, "I'm looking forward to tonight," when he blasted out even louder, "I've got about a minute to get to the parking lot to hear that bastard!", and he slammed down the phone. I was startled ... an uneasiness gripped me over Lyndon's actions and temper." [Madeleine Duncan Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 167]

Sean Fetter is wildly wrong about LBJ and Rayburn having a 4 year plan to kill the next Democratic president and put LBJ into office. Where Fetter is right is that Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn strong armed/force/demanded/threatened/insisted that JFK put LBJ on the ticket once things got cooking at the July 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles. The reason LBJ/Rayburn put the strong armed tactics on LBJ was because LBJ knew the Kennedys (plural) totally, totally hated his guts. That is what happens when you run around the Democratic convention telling everyone that Joe Kennedy, Sr. was for Hitler (even if this is basically true) and that JFK had Addison's Disease. Johnson knew the Kennedys (if JFK was elected) would quickly have him removed as Democratic Majority Leader and they would put in a much more agreeable person such as Sen. Mike Mansfied of MT which is ultimately what happened after JFK won the presidency. Lyndon Johnson in 1959 was taking nitroclyerine pills for angina. He may even have had a secret heart attack or a medical event that looked like a heart attack. LBJ was physically unwell, but he still wanted to be president but he was afraid he could not beat JFK in Democratic primaries because of his poor public presentation. LBJ wanted to scoop up the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention and he wanted to do it with wheeling and dealing in smoky rooms at Los Angeles. Sam Rayburn, Bobby Baker and aide Jim Rowe and so many others were all telling LBJ to run in the primaries but LBJ was simply too scared that he would lose to JFK in a primary schedule. Lyndon Johnson consistently told people publicly and privately all through the 1960 primary system that he would NEVER be a vice presidential pick of JFK. But things changed at the Democratic convention when LBJ figured out the Kennedys would CTRL-ALT-DELETE his career as Demo Majority Leader if given 10 seconds under a Kennedy Administration. John Connally told LBJ "the Kennedys play for keeps" and you have to take/demand the Vice Presidency to protect yourself and LBJ did, and while he did it, he was ALREADY planning to murder JFK, even while he was at the 1960 Los Angeles Democratic convention. Sam Rayburn in the end like the other LBJ aides came around to supporting LBJ for VP. Sam Rayburn snorted and Robert Kennedy when he rushed into LBJ's suite and asked if LBJ would like to be head of the diddly squat Democratic National Committee. RFK liked to tell the story of a sorrowful Lyndon Johnson begging to stay on the ticket even as the Kennedys were trying to kick him out in the noon/afternoon hours of July 14, 1960. Ultimately LBJ hung tight and people like Phil Graham and Joe Alsop were able to persuade JFK to keep the sociopathic big eared bastard on the ticket. JFK did this as a perceived path of least resistance; LBJ and Rayburn had been threatening to undermine the general election if JFK did not put LBJ on the ticket. The fact the JFK succumbed to blackmail intimidation tactics by LBJ was extremely embarrassing to the Kennedys. It showed weakness and you can't very well say publicly (or even privately) we had to put Johnson on the ticket because he was threatening to expose the JFK-Pamela Turnure affair and God knows what else Lyndon Johnson knows. Postscript - in 1959 when Robert Kennedy was sent down to the LBJ, Johnson made a POINT of humiliating Bobby. He put a rifle with a big kick in the hands of RFK and when the rifle retort knocked RFK to the ground, Lyndon Johnson lorded over him, looked down and said "Son, you have got to learn how to handle a rifle like a man." LBJ did everything but take a leak on RFK. 1) 2) https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/upshot/kennedy-lbj-and-a-disputed-deer-hunt.html

I used to be friends with Sean Fetter. The way he explained it to me was after Lyndon Johnson's embarrassment of an abortive presidential campaign at the 1956 Democratic convention, where he was coldly shunned because of his well-known association with the King of Southern Segregationists Sen. Richard Russell (D-GA), Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn together determined that a Southerner could never get nominated by the national Democratic party which was in the process of turning away from the Southern racist segregationist Democrats. Therefore as early as 1956 LBJ and Sam Rayburn were plotting to get LBJ on the 1960 ticket as Vice President with the full intention of murdering the Democratic presidential nominee IF the Democratic party were to win the presidency. Yes that theory is a crock of baloney and I can't find any evidence to support it. I am more in the camp of Lyndon Johnson decided to murder JFK just as soon as he got placed on the 1960 Democratic ticket - in the event that JFK were elected President. And based on what I see, that is exactly what happened! As for Sam Rayburn being "incorruptible" .... Sam Rayburn's coin of the realm was POWER not money and Rayburn was someone who slowly cherished the accumulation of much political power just as other people like to make money. And if Rayburn hooked up with someone as dirty and completely corrupt at Lyndon Johnson, then Rayburn probably was not lily white clean himself. Rayburn carried water for the same people who LBJ did: Texas oil oligarchs and the war hawks. Rayburn was a member of the hard right American Security Council (as was Gen. Edward Lansdale!) Rayburn died in November, 1961 and JFK went to his funeral in Bonham, TX. I have many problems with Sean Fetter's Under Cover of Night, but at the same time I have found very valuable information in it and I encourage folks to buy and read this book.

Fetter's book - despite its many problems and that it desperately needed an editor - has a LOT of great material, interviews and insights in his book. So please don't throw the baby out with the bath water: Jackie Kennedy’s cartoons from the 1960 campaign show a cartoon of “Texans” Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn shaking hands with JFK and the big Texan LBJ is squeezing a tiny frail JFK’s hand to the point that it hurts: https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/jackie-kennedy-knew-all-about-lyndon.html Daily Beast article on Jackie’s 1960 campaign cartoons: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jackie-kennedys-jfk-cartoons-1 Hat tip to author Sean Fetter who pointed this out in his book Under Cover of Night: The United States Air Force and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy That means Jackie knew all about the threats and blackmail tactics that LBJ and Sam Rayburn used to force JFK to Johnson on the 1960 Demo ticket as VP. In Jackie’s cartoon Texan Sam Rayburn is on the left, tall burly LBJ is in the center and he is crushing an emaciated JFK’s hand. That crushing of JFK's hand is the "strongarmed tactics" that Sam Rayburn and LBJ used to force JFK to put Lyndon Johnson on the Democratic ticket at the 1960 convention.

There are many things in Sean Fetter's book I disagree with. No I do not think Sam Rayburn and LBJ were planning to kill the next president as early as 1956 when LBJ got humiliated in his abortive attempt to run for president at the 1956 Democratic convention. But the big ticket item that Fetter gets right is that Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the JFK assassination and I give that an A+. Furthermore, I think Fetter makes a pretty good case on AIR FORCE INVOLVEMENT in the JFK assassination as opposed to the CIA (not that elements of both were not involved). In the early 1960s, the most hard core right wing and most hard core Kennedy haters were in the Air Force - people like Gen. Curtis Lemay, Gen. Thomas Powers and Gen. Edward Lansdale (after his firing and after the murder of his friend Diem in Vietnam in a JFK sanctioned coup). Sean Fetter's book is important because of his focus on the Air Force and his dozens of interviews of people in the Air Force, including many on the day of the JFK assassination. No, I do not believe Roy Kellerman was altering JFK's body with some sort of airplane axe in the sub compartment of Air Force One.

JFK had already selected Stuart Symington for Vice President, then LBJ moved in for a hostile takeover of the Vice Presidency QUOTE Clifford and the six Symingtons talked far into the night. In a separate interview Jim Symington remembered that he and his brother discouraged their father. “We told him, ‘You don’t want to go and carry another guy’s water for him. Go back to the Senate where you can make a difference.’ He said, ‘Thanks, boys.’” Clifford was ultimately persuasive in convincing Symington to give his assent to second place on the Democratic ticket on the grounds that he could do more for Missouri as vice president than as senator. They all went to bed waiting word from Kennedy. At the top of the Kennedy high command, a similar belief prevailed about Symington’s imminent selection. According to Dick Donahue, who spent time with Larry O’Brien and Ken O’Donnell after a brief period of celebration, “We were satisfied it was Stuart Symington. You know, that was it, and there wasn’t any doubt about it.” The choice of Symington had actually leaked into public print hours before Kennedy won the nomination. Both Charles Bartlett and John Seigenthaler filed stories for Wednesday citing unnamed sources who confirmed Symington’s selection. (Jack and Robert Kennedy were later identified, respectively, as the unnamed sources.) Then all hell broke loose. [Thomas Oliphant & Curtis Wilkie, The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign, p. 259-260] Joe Alsop on how he supported LBJ for Vice President and how many Kennedy insiders were vehemently opposed to LBJ and instead favored Sen. Stuart Symington QUOTE I had concluded that Kennedy would make a bad mistake if he did not offer the second spot on his ticket to Lyndon Johnson. By the longest possible chalk, Johnson was, after Kennedy himself, the biggest figure in the Democratic party. To pass him over would be dangerous for that reason alone but also would imply abandonment of all hope for southern votes in the electoral college. After a little research, I had concluded that substantial numbers of Kennedy’s closest advisors were advising him passionately to avoid any sort of offer to Johnson. (Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri was the alternate choice most often mentioned.) So I laid conclusions before Phil Graham. He agreed with me on every point. I, therefore, suggested that we go to Kennedy’s suite at the Biltmore to give the candidate our advice - for what it might be worth. UNQUOTE [Joseph Alsop, “I’ve Seen the Best of It,” pp. 426-427] Pierre Salinger was convinced that Lyndon Johnson blackmailed his way onto the 1960 Democratic ticket http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=17218&st=75&gopid=218292& Robert Kennedy to Pierre Salinger on why in the world John Kennedy would pick the despised Lyndon Johnson to be his VP running mate in 1960: "The whole story will never be known. And it's just as well that it won't be." RFK said this to Salinger just a few days after the 1960 Democratic convention. John Simkin: "One of Kennedy’s most important advisers, Hyman Raskin, claims that Kennedy had a meeting with Johnson and Rayburn early on the morning after his nomination. According to all other sources, at this time, these two men were strongly opposed to the idea of Johnson becoming Kennedy’s running-mate. However, Kennedy told Raskin a different story. Johnson was very keen to join the ticket and “made an offer he could not refuse”. Raskin took this to mean that Kennedy was blackmailed into offering Johnson the post. (16) This view is supported by another of Kennedy’s close advisers. Pierre Salinger was opposed to the idea of Johnson being Kennedy’s running-mate. He believed that the decision would lose more votes than it would gain. Salinger believed that Kennedy would lose the support of blacks and trade unionists if Johnson became the vice-presidential candidate. Although Johnson would deliver Texas his place on the ticket would mean Kennedy would lose California. A few days after the decision had been made, Salinger asked Kennedy why? He replied, "The whole story will never be known. And it's just as well that it won't be." Salinger also got the impression that Kennedy had been blackmailed into accepting Johnson. (17)" Robert Kennedy said that Stuart Symington was the final pick for Vice President for JFK (That is … until LBJ and Sam Rayburn threatened/blackmailed JFK in the AM July 14, 1960) John Simkin: “In an interview with John Bartlow Martin for the Kennedy Oral History Project on 1st March 1964, Robert Kennedy claims that "the only people who were involved in the discussions (about who should join JFK on the ticket) were Jack and myself. Nobody else was involved in it". "We thought either (Scoop) Jackson or (Stuart) Symington". Robert goes on to say they eventually settled on Symington. Unfortunately, he does not explain why LBJ became the final choice.”

So did Lyndon Johnson need J. Edgar Hoover to give him all the sex dirt on the completely sexually unhinged John Kennedy? Who needs Hoover when you have your own personal staff trailing and spying on JFK's sexual affairs? Who needs Hoover when Florence Kater has already told the national media all rival Democratic campaigns to JFK that he was having an affair with Pamela Turnure? During the 1960 primary season JFK'S DOCTORS' OFFICES WERE BROKEN INTO. Now who would be doing this during primary season: Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson's people? I think we know the answer to that as LBJ operatives John Connally and India Edwards held a press conference at the 1960 Democratic convention and blared to the world that JFK had Addison's Disease, so don't nominate him because he is medically unfit to be President. That caused astronomical rage amoung the Kennedy entourage and that alone is proof that it had to have taken sexual blackmail on JFK to override all that hatred to LBJ to finally put him on the 1960 Democratic ticket. Gossip columnist Liz Smith, from Texas and close to the LBJ people, on how Johnson's people would keep a dossier of sexual indiscretions on John Kennedy Author Gail Collins quoting gossip columnist Liz Smith: "One of Johnson's assistants and I went all through high school and college together, " Smith says. "He told me the most incredible stories. Johnson's people kept dossiers on Kennedy. They'd interview the hotel maids. The maid would be there making a bed, and Kennedy would come in and give her a boff." One of Smith's friends told her that the president had taken her up to his office while she was still wearing her elaborate ball gown. "She was lying there with her dress over her head," Smith recounted. "She looked up and he was standing there at his desk, reading some papers and zipping his fly. He just left her lying there." [Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics, p. 176] Liz Smith grew up with inner circle LBJ aide Horace Busby who told her that LBJ operatives had done some heavy spying on the illicit sex life of John Kennedy. Her friend Busby told Liz this sometime during the LBJ Administration. QUOTE During the LBJ years, Helen decided she wanted an in-depth piece about the two girls in the White House – Lynda Bird and Luci Baines Johnson. I cheerfully rang my lifelong schoolmate, Horace Busby, aide to the president, sure I would get everything I needed. It seems to me I am always meeting or knowing people at the top, people who are so important, they are virtually useless to me as source and subjects. Horace had started kindergarten with me at E.M. Daggett in Fort Worth. We had gone on together through grade school, high school and the U of T. Horace whispered on the phone, “Don’t call me here again, I’ll call you.” When he did he said he couldn’t help me, as LBJ would have his scalp. But, he added, he wanted to see me and soon asked me to dine with him in New York. I was in my cute boots and miniskirted phase and I was looking forward to dinner with a presidential aide at someplace like “21.” Horace phoned again. “We have to eat at the hotel!” Disappointed, I still tarted myself up and kept the date. After all, dinner in the St. Regis wasn’t bad. But when I arrived he ordered me up to his room. “I can’t leave the room. I am on stakeout on the president’s orders. But damn, why didn’t you get here sooner. I was just on the phone to him. If only he’d called to find me with a girl in my room!” As we ordered room service and talked about old times, Horace told me a lot of gossip about the Johnsons and the Kennedys before them. It seems the job of LBJ aides was to keep a record of all the rumors and scandal that had accompanied Kennedy on the campaign trail. “We followed him. We would find maids in hotels and motels who claimed Jack just stepped up behind them as they were making the bed and then – well, you know.” I asked, “Why did you need this kind of information?” Horace said, “Oh well, we just had it, you know. We had to have it in case we ever needed it.” I felt disillusioned. Then I asked again why he was in the St. Regis. He said, “There are others like me all around the world. We are each in different places known to the Vietnamese, hoping Ho Chi Minh will give us a peace feeler to end the war.” I gasped. “But Horace, isn’t this top secret? Why would you tell this to me?” He smiled. “Who would believe you.” Who indeed. QUOTE [Liz Smith, Natural Blonde: A Memoir, pp. 289-290]

I highly endorse reading and culling from Sean Fetter's extremely important book Under Cover of Night, while at the same time I vehemently disagree with a fair amount of the material in that book. I used to be "telephone friends" with Sean Fetter for about 13 years as we would converse about the JFK case, but I guess because I most definitely do not endorse EVERY contention in his book, Fetter has gone radio silent on me and not responded to any of my emails in the past few months. The JFK research community, in general, is the greatest collection of "butt hurt" people I have ever been around. Many JFK researchers are so wedded to their particular beliefs on the JFK assassination that they can barely even carry on a conversation with you if you disagree with them. I agree that I am dogmatic about the JFK case (LBJ Did It) but I can debate the case with anyone and defend my views. I have had strong arguments and disagreements with Fetter over many things in his important book Under Cover of Night, which I encourage everyone to buy and read. The book is a mixed bag but it has some extremely valuable new material and insights in it. No Sam Rayburn was not involved in the JFK assassination, but Sean Fetter is right about one thing: Sam Rayburn along with LBJ was involved in the blackmailing of John Kennedy (July 13 -July 14, 1960) to FORCE LYNDON JOHNSON ON THE 1960 DEMOCRATIC TICKET. Screw Ted Sorensen's little VP list - the hated Lyndon Johnson was not even considered by the Kennedys as a VP candidate- certainly not at the 1960 Democratic convention where LBJ was running around saying JFK's dad was for Hitler and LBJ aides John Connally and India Edwards were screaming to the world that JFK had Addison's Disease and was going to die in office if elected. The rage levels of the Kennedy boys towards Lyndon Johnson was astronomical at that point and Lyndon Johnson knew it. Relations were so rancid that Lyndon Johnson, who publicly and privately for months had SWORN he would NEVER be a Vice Presidential lackey for JFK, suddenly realized and his advisors realized that if JFK were elected president, the Kennedys would immediately instigate a revolt of the Senate Democratic Caucus and REMOVE Lyndon Johnson and Democratic Majority Leader. And if Nixon won the general election, he was not going to be like Ike and have such friendly terms with Lyndon Johnson. So LBJ decided that because the Kennedys would destroy him as Demo Majority Leader if JFK were elected, then the only possible way to give LBJ a route to power was to make a hostile takeover of the Vice Presidential slot - WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. And this directly led to the JFK assassination because I think Lyndon Johnson was planning to murder JFK as soon as he got on the Democratic ticket and as soon as he was actually elected Vice President in November of 1960. LBJ's right hand man Bobby Baker told Don Reynolds on Inauguration Day 1961 that JFK would not live out his term and he would die a violent death and that is exactly what happened. DiEugenio says "But rather reluctantly, and after talking to many people, Johnson accepted [the Vice Presidency]." John Connally told LBJ these Kennedy boys play for keeps and if you don't get on the ticket as VP, your career is over because they will absolutely remove you as Senate Majority Leader. Sam Rayburn came to see the light on this as well. Vice Presidency was the only route to keep LBJ's political relevancy alive. If the JFK-LBJ were to lose in 1960, the Johnson people could always blame it on JFK and Lyndon Johnson would be in a position to be the Democratic nominee in 1964 (or so they thought). In reality the Democratic party was changing, getting more liberal and civil rights for blacks was the top issue of the time among liberal Democrats and LBJ was his alliance with all his racist Southern friends was not where the Democratic party of the early 1960s was going. Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn BLACKMAILED John Kennedy and FORCED HIM to put Lyndon Johnson on the 1960 Democratic. John Kennedy was, of course, sexually unhinged and he was quite fearful that his rampant womanizing, which so many people in the Democratic party and the media knew about, would finally trickle into public view and ruin his campaign. LBJ and Rayburn had a lot of material to work with and I think the #1 blackmail item they used on JFK was his sexual affair with Pamela Turnure (who died last year). The Katers had told EVERYONE about that affair including the media, the FBI and rival Democratic campaigns - so even though the media was not YET reporting on this affair it was well known. JFK’s good friend Hy Raskin tells how Lyndon Johnson got on the Democratic ticket as VP in 1960: read the Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh, p.124-129: Close JFK friend Hy Raskin: “Johnson was not being given the slightest bit of consideration by any of the Kennedys… On the stuff I saw it was always Symington who was going to be the vice president. The Kennedy family had approved Symington.” [Hersh, p. 124] John Kennedy to Clark Clifford on July 13, 1960: “We’ve talked it out – me, dad, Bobby – and we’ve selected Symington as the vice president.” Kennedy asked Clark Clifford to relay that message to Symington “and find out if he’d run.” …”I and Stuart went to bed believing that we had a solid, unequivocal deal with Jack.” [Hersh, p.125] Hy Raskin: “It was obvious to them that something extraordinary had taken place, as it was to me,” Raskin wrote. “During my entire association with the Kennedys, I could not recall any situation where a decision of major significance had been reversed in such a short period of time…. Bob [Kennedy] had always been involved in every major decision; why not this one, I pondered… I slept little that night.” [Hersh, p. 125] John Kennedy to Clark Clifford in the morning of July 14, 1960: “I must do something that I have never done before. I made a serious deal and now I have to go back on it. I have no alternative.” Symington was out and Johnson was in. Clifford recalled observing that Kennedy looked as if he’d been up all night.” [Hersh, p. 126] John Kennedy to Hy Raskin: “You know we had never considered Lyndon, but I was left with no choice. He and Sam Rayburn made it damn clear to me that Lyndon had to be the candidate. Those bastards were trying to frame me. They threatened me with problems and I don’t need more problems. I’m going to have enough problems with Nixon.” [Hersh, p. 126] Raskin “The substance of this revelation was so astonishing that if it had been revealed to me by another other than Jack or Bob, I would have had trouble accepting it. Why he decided to tell me was still very mysterious, but flattering nonetheless.” [Hersh, p. 126] JFK to Pierre Salinger on how LBJ got to be picked as Vice President: “The whole story will never be known. And it’s just as well that it won’t be.” Stuart Symington (spartacus-educational.com) QUOTE Following the nomination and selection of Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate Thursday night, I returned to the office and was immediately called by a number of newspaper men who were checking on a story by John S. Knight, publisher of the Knight Newspapers, which purported that Johnson had forced Kennedy to select him as the vice-presidential candidate. Earlier that day I had gone to Bob Kennedy's room which was across from mine in the Biltmore Hotel. Ken O'Donnell was there and after I came in they were discussing the possibilities for Vice President. Bob Kennedy asked me to compute the number of electoral votes in New England and in the "solid South." I asked him if he was seriously thinking of Johnson and he said he was. He said Senator Kennedy was going over to see Johnson at 10 a.m. Ken O'Donnell violently protested about Johnson's being on the ticket and I joined Ken in this argument. Both of us felt that Senator Stuart Symington would make a better candidate but Senator Johnson seemed to be on Bob's mind. I remembered all of this later that night when I saw the news report about Johnson forcing himself on the ticket. I called Bob Kennedy that night to check the Knight story. Bob said it was absolutely untrue. From my conversation with him, however, I gathered that the selection of Johnson had not been accomplished in the manner that the papers had reported it had. I got the distinct feeling that, at best, Senator Kennedy had been surprised when he asked Senator Johnson to run for Vice-President and Johnson accepted... A day or two after the convention, I asked JFK for the answer to that question. He gave me many of the facts of the foregoing memo, then suddenly stopped and said: "The whole story will never be known. And it's just as well that it won't be." UNQUOTE [Pierre Salinger, With Kennedy, p. ] Did Lyndon Johnson use his knowledge of JFK’s affair with Pamela Turnure as leverage to force his way onto the 1964 Democratic ticket? Sounds probable to me. https://www.duhocchina.com/wiki/en/Pamela_Turnure In The Dark Side of Camelot published in 1997, author Seymour Hersh alleged that Kennedy had an extramarital affair with Turnure in 1958 when she was working in his Senate office.[16] In 1958, Turnure's landlady Florence Kater allegedly took a photograph of the senator leaving Turnure's apartment building in the middle of the night, a photograph that Kater tried repeatedly to bring to public attention to ruin the senator's presidential campaign, according to Hersh. Kater and her husband allegedly rigged a tape recorder to pick up sounds of the couple's lovemaking and made an enlargement of their picture of Kennedy as he exited the building.[17] The credibility of The Dark Side of Camelot was called into question immediately after its 1997 publication.[18] One of Hersh’s allegations in this book, that the Washington, DC newspaper known in 1960 as The Evening Star reported at the time what the Katers were trying to do, is patently false. [19] The entire output of the newspaper for 128 years has been digitized and can be searched by keyword and by date of publication.[20] Florence Kater and her husband allegedly sent their information about JFK’s adultery to various print media publishers. A company called Stearn Publications supposedly passed it along to J. Edgar Hoover. Soon after, Hoover "quietly obtained a copy of the compromising sex tapes and offered them to Lyndon Johnson as campaign ammunition." Johnson "had been using all the information Hoover could find on Kennedy - during the campaign, even before the Convention. And Hoover was in on the pressure on Kennedy at the Convention." A few days after Kennedy was extorted to offer Johnson the vice presidency or be outed as a womanizer, Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's campaign's press secretary, had asked Kennedy whether he really expected Johnson to accept the offer or if he was merely making a polite gesture. Kennedy responded cryptically: "The whole story will never be known. And it's just as well that it won't be." CBS Reporter Nancy Dickerson's Account of how Lyndon Johnson got selected at the 1960 Democratic convention: the Kennedys greatly wanted Stuart Symington for VP and repeatedly had made that known. QUOTE As the convention drew nearer, JFK had three secret meetings with Clark Clifford, who was handling the campaign of Senator Stuart Symington. The first was a luncheon at Kennedy's Washington house, where, through Clifford, he offered the Vice Presidency to Symington, provided Symington's Missouri delegation votes went to Kennedy. Symington turned down the deal. The second conversation, which took place in Los Angeles, was a repeat of the first, and again it was refused. The third conversation was in Kennedy's hideaway in Los Angeles, during which he told Clifford that he was fairly certain of a first-ballot victory and asked if Symington would be his running mate. As Clifford later told me, "There were no strings attached. It was a straight offer." The Symington and Clifford families conferred, Symington agreed to run, and Clifford relayed the news to Kennedy. Clifford was playing a unique role: he was not only Symington's campaign advisor but JFK's personal lawyer as well. He is one of the world's most sophisticated men, and he does not make mistakes about matters like this. As he told me, "We had a deal signed, sealed and delivered." [...] Early the next morning, Thursday, July 14, John Kennedy walked down the flight of stairs from his suite to call on Senator and Mrs. Johnson. There was a new sense of seriousness about him, a reserved inner calm that was perceptible not only in the way he walked, but in the way reporters and onlookers gave him a new deference, standing aside to let him through. I never dreamed that he was there to offer the Vice Presidency to LBJ- and if any of those among the more than fifty other reporters outside the door were thinking about it, they didn't say so. It never crossed my mind because Johnson had sworn to me a dozen times, both on the air and off, that he would never take the Vice Presidency. For his part, Johnson had been expecting the offer; he took it at face value and said he'd think it over. A politician to his bones, he could see the merits of a Kennedy-Johnson combination. All the Johnson aides believed it was a serious offer, and LBJ went to his grave saying he thought so, but there were many in the Kennedy camp who believed that it was only a courtesy. UNQUOTE [Nancy Dickerson, "Among Those Present: A Reporter's View of 25 Years in Washington," pp. 43-44] Robert Kennedy stormed into LBJ’s hotel room in Los Angeles and told him if he (LBJ) knew what was good for him, he would get off the 1960 Democratic ticket! LBJ and Unity: Kennedy vs. Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzJn7vaA3ZQ John Connally, Bobby Baker and a third man are in this video 01:29 Finally, the candidate's brother, Robert Kennedy, paid Johnson a visit. 01:35 I was in the room, in Johnson's bedroom with Johnson and John Connally, the three of us 01:40 alone on the morning of the nomination for the vice presidency at about 10:30, when Bobby 01:49 Kennedy stormed in and started screaming at Johnson that if he knew what was good for 01:55 him, he'd get off that ticket. 01:56 So what happened was that Mr. Rayburn and John Connally went in to meet with Bobby Kennedy. 02:01 And Bobby Kennedy said that all hell had broken loose on the convention floor and that Johnson 02:08 was going to have to withdraw, just change his mind and not accept the vice presidency. 02:12 And Mr. Rayburn looked at him and he said, "Aw," and uttered an expletive that I am not 02:18 going to use. 02:19 Old man Rayburn said, "dooky, sonny," and kicked him out. 02:22 I said, "Your brother came down here and offered him the vice presidency and Mr. Johnson accepted it. 02:29 Now, if he doesn't want him to have it, he's going to have to call and ask him 02:33 to withdraw." 02:34 And I am grateful, finally, that I can rely in the coming months on many others, on a 02:42 distinguished running mate who brings unity and strength to our platform and our ticket, 02:48 Lyndon Johnson. Nancy Dickerson had known Lyndon Johnson since the early 1950s and had covered him for both CBS and NBC. Nancy Dickerson was a friend of Lyndon Johnson. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/nancy-dickersons-reporting-on-lyndon-johnson-inside-lbjs-house-the-night-after-jfk-died.html

Thank-you. That is very helpful. Note the Secret Service guys calling LBJ "Mr. President" immediately as LBJ arrived at Parkland.

That "policeman" does not necessarily have to be ROSCOE WHITE.

Beverly Oliver, who I consider a friend of mine, once said he was in the Carousel Club where she saw Jack Ruby introduce Lee Oswald "of the CIA." Odds of that actually happening are about one in one billion. Beverly is probably right about her own story but saying she saw Roscoe White on the Grassy Knoll is not worthy of trust.

Paul Brandus is a well known lone nutter journalist. I think his work history includes being in Russia. I have often wondered if Paul Brandus is or was an undercover operative for the United States government. I don't necessarily mean CIA - but rather any branch of the US government with CIA on the suspicion list. I am not saying he is - I am saying it is worth investigating if he is or was a governmental operative. The following profile could easily be for someone who is a CIA or governmental operative who is acting under cover as a journalist. I am merely saying this is fishy because the government has played this game so often in the past. See Carl Bernstein's article on the CIA and the Media. Paul Brandus bio for The Week: http://theweek.com/authors/paul-brandus QUOTE An award-winning member of the White House press corps, Paul Brandus founded WestWingReports.com (@WestWingReport) and provides reports for media outlets around the United States and overseas. His career spans network television, Wall Street, and several years as a foreign correspondent based in Moscow, where he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union for NBC Radio and the award-winning business and economics program Marketplace. He has traveled to 53 countries on five continents and has reported from, among other places, Iraq, Chechnya, China, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. UNQUOTE

I think that the George Joannides' files will show something EXTREMELY TOXIC to the official narrative of the JFK assassination. Something like indirect proof that Oswald was a governmental operative or indirect proof that George Joannides was a handler of Oswald. Something really really discrediting to the U.S. government must be in there. Jefferson Morley is right to be hound on this. Joannides and Oswald were very likely working in the same CIA program to undermine/discredit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.