Was L.B.J. Truly Psychologically Capable/ Predisposed To Sanctioning And Even Ordering Murders?

[Guest]

On 6/3/2022 at 6:22 PM, Joe Bauer said:

Was LBJ truly psychologically predisposed to sanctioning and even ordering murders?

From what I have read, yes, he had zero moral integrity behind the scenes, a man without scruples. He wouldn’t have thought twice about sanctioning a murder. In this case it was unnecessary. 
 

The truth is that he didn’t need to sanction or order the killing of the president. He’d have known better than most about the sentiments flying about before the JFKA and that many of the higher ups weren’t happy with JFK, including Dulles, Le May and the CIA. All he needed to do was listen to others in terms of playing his role in the aftermath. Yes, cui bono, he stood to gain a lot, the prestige of being president and the articles of his corruption would be buried. He didn’t have a single reason to resist a JFKA plot. He wouldn’t have organised it alone, as how could he be sure he’d get away with it? He didn’t control the media, the CIA, the FBI etc. Others did. You get back to the question; where does true power sit? With the president or elsewhere? 
 

LBJ didn’t organise Vietnam, the BOP or anything else, others did. Ultimately they are the reasons JFK is dead IMO.
 

 

[Steven Kossor]

LBJ's leadership in the coverup of JFK's killing was a key part of the plot, I think.  Without his support, the triggers would not have been pulled because the threat of the plot's exposure would be too high.  Getting him on board applied grease to the wheels of power, IMO. 

[Joe Bauer]

LBJ's call to Dr. Charles Crenshaw in the Parkland Hospital surgical room advising him of the presence of a man who was there to take the dying Oswald's confession doesn't sound like LBJ wanted an investigation at all.

He wanted it all to fall on and end with Oswald ( the lone nut ) right then and there.

Within days of returning to the White House after JFK was murdered, LBJ gets in touch with the JFK and RFK hating J. Edgar Hoover ( one of his best and closest long time friends and even his D.C. neighbor - "we are like brothers you and I") to discuss everything he needed to consider and do regards the immediate beginning stages of an investigatory process and committee.

LBJ is literally running by Hoover, the names of his choices to head such a panel in an approval seeking way?

What do you think of Allan Dulles? Dulles ... whom JFK fired and who hated JFK?

Hoover approves?

Gerald Ford? The most ardent supporter of Hoover in the entire congress? The man who kept Hoover and the FBI informed of every inside aspect of the supposedly independent of outside influence Warren Commission investigation it's entire run?

Thereby making Hoover another full and informed member of the Warren Commission by proxy?

Hoover to LBJ regards Ford ..."Good Man."

John McCloy? Oh please.

Richard Russell? Who represented the JFK hating deep South segregationist electorate?

We all know Henry Marshall was brutally murdered. And who benefitted by his killing - LBJ cronies and partners in crime.

I think 90% of anyone who has seriously studied LBJ honestly believes he was psychologically wired to cross the ultimate corruption line. And that he did do so in tacitly or even directly ordering or giving his approval to such deeds.

No LBJ writer has a problem with describing him as ruthless.

They just can't go on record stating LBJ ever went any further with his ruthlessness than just below the ultimate corruption mountain top line. Imo anyway.