[…] then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend or excuse. Crucially, he accepts the received view that JFK and LBJ were the same: he is apparently unaware of JFK’s plan to pull the US out of Vietnam. ‘Nor is there any reasons to suppose that things […]
[…] known how many contributions Meyer Lansky had made to Humphrey’s various campaigns. (When Humphrey later took his oath as vice president of the US in 1965 under LBJ, the Bible he swore on was held for him by one of his old patrons, Minneapolis vice lord Fred Gates.) Adlai Stevenson won the nomination and […]
[…] to have robbed Nixon of the 1960 election.(15) Nixon, in turn, scuppered the Democrats in 1968, by persuading the Vietnamese to hold out on peace negotiations with LBJ, with the promise that they’d get a much better deal under a Nixon White House. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey discovered what was going on while travelling […]
[PDF file]: […] of the JFK researchers are the two areas which I have written about in these columns over the past 20 years or so: the putative link to LBJ through Billie Sol Estes and ‘Mac’ Wallace, and Chauncey Holt’s account of being an unwitting part of the technical support for the operation. Two other serious […]
[…] they do. Another little detail looms larger than perhaps it should: the fact that Robert Caro chose to omit Billie Sol Estes entirely from his account of LBJ in the 1960s. Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ are a monument – perhaps the monument – in American political biography. Caro is unflinching in presenting […]
[PDF file]: […] they do. Another little detail looms larger than perhaps it should: the fact that Robert Caro chose to omit Billie Sol Estes entirely from his account of LBJ in the 1960s. Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ are a monument – perhaps the monument – in American political biography. Caro is unflinching in presenting […]
[PDF file]: […] the suicided Estes witnesses. Who would murder Marshall but someone threatened by his inquiries? Who was most threatened? Estes himself and, if we believe Estes on this, LBJ whom Estes had been paying-off for years. This is the central point of the LBJ-dunnit thesis: JFK’s death was merely one in a series linked to […]
[…] the suicided Estes witnesses. Who would murder Marshall but someone threatened by his inquiries? Who was most threatened? Estes himself and, if we believe Estes on this, LBJ whom Estes had been paying-off for years. This is the central point of the LBJ-dunnit thesis: JFK’s death was merely one in a series linked to […]
[…] as mine as to why Hunt’s confession has been rubbished and ignored by the research community. My guess would be that Hunt was blanked because he named LBJ as being part of the conspiracy and LBJ-dunnit remains unthinkable for most of the JFK researchers.19 In the case of Holt, in so far as they […]
[PDF file]: […] as mine as to why Hunt’s confession has been rubbished and ignored by the research community. My guess would be that Hunt was blanked because he named LBJ as being part of the conspiracy and LBJ-dunnit remains unthinkable for most of the JFK researchers.19 In the case of Holt, in so far as they […]
