[PDF file]: The Man Who Killed Kennedy The Case Against LBJ Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro New York: Skyhorse, $24.95 (US), h/b I was wondering how to review this when I received a press release from Stone about it, listing what he thought were the important points in it. Let’s have a look at these. ‘By […]
JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir Robin Ramsay LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages […]
[PDF file]: Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b, (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would […]
[…] there. RR: Given the role of Johnson as the incoming President, I was wondering what you thought of the recent news of Billy Sol Estes’ remarks that LBJ ordered the murder of Henry Marshall.(6) This, added to the picture painted in Robert Caro’s recent biography of Johnson’s early years, suggests that LBJ was certainly […]
[…] is only one significant revelation that I can see. At 10 in the morning on the 23rd – i.e. less than 24 hours after the shooting – LBJ and Hoover had this curious exchange. LBJ: Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September? (emphasis added). Hoover: […]
[…] with such ‘speculations’ which was the initial specific motivation for the cover-up. (This aspect of the case gets ignored). At this distance, none of this seems exceptional. LBJ had had precious little foreign policy experience, and the last thing he would have wished on himself was another Cuban crisis in his first days in […]
[…] had endowed UT with five chairs in Mexican and Latin American Studies. Batholomew doesn’t prove this Rambler was the one in Dealey Plaza but he explores the LBJ, right-wing, and CIA connections on campus and in this part of Texas to great effect. Inconclusive and fascinating. Benson, Michael. Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: […]
[…] fought to save JFK and Oswald. A first-hand account of what went on at the hospital. Crenshaw says bullets struck Kennedy from the front, and also that LBJ phoned the hospital on the Sunday asking for a death-bed confession from Oswald. Important testimony with an introduction by John H. Davis. A new, updated and […]
[…] within days – that a nut had killed Kennedy, and he himself had been killed by another nut, with the possibility of a conspiracy being highly implausible. LBJ could have saved himself the trouble of setting up a commission and saved the Republic a serious amount of dollars by simply parachuting in über-attorney Bugliosi. […]
[…] most of the key points made by Brandon are supported by recently released papers in the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office). Highlights are the Wilson- LBJ relationship (uneasy), an account of Chancellor Jim Callaghan’s encounter with the US President in July 1965, Wilson’s difficulties with Lord Cromer (Governor of the Bank of […]
