“Both Johnson and I wanted to be president, but the only difference was I wouldn’t kill for it.” – President Richard Nixon

Pursuant to President Trump’s executive order, more documents have been released regarding the President John F. Kennedy assassination. The new information has been somewhat anticlimactic, although there are still documents being slow walked released.

Books galore have been written about the JFK assassination, each with their opinions or facts that, all these years later, still render it nearly impossible to determine who really shot JFK. We probably never will. Then-CIA-Chief Allen Dulles did a masterful job of creating a massive amount of paperwork that obfuscated facts and covered up other details. Dulles had been forced out as head of the CIA by JFK over the failed Cuban Bay of Pigs episode. Dulles, who despised Kennedy, was then instilled as one of seven commissioners of the Warren Commission by Lyndon B Johnson, an important narrative in my commentary.

Admittedly, my father always called me a suspicious bastard, but I never believed the Lee Harvey Oswald lone gunmen theory. Nobody is that good of a marksman to fire three shots in eight seconds the distance of nearly a football field six stories up with an army surplus rifle and then manage to hit the intended target twice. Oswald’s murder two days later by the low life Jack Ruby was equally suspicious despite the Warren Commissions bogus report.  

I’ve read books on the JFK assassination, watched Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, and poured through articles written on the subject. There are several trails leading back to LBJ. I’m not alone in my suspicions, as Jackie Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater all believed Johnson was behind the assassination.

One of LBJ’s mistresses, Madeleine Brown, claims to have asked LBJ outright about his involvement in the assassination at a hotel on December 31, 1963. She claimed LBJ became angry before telling her it was oil executives from Dallas and renegade intelligence agents behind the assassination. Later he told his chief of staff, Marvin Watson, it was the CIA that murdered JFK.

LBJ and JFK despised each other. JFK had picked Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri to be his Vice President. According to JFK secretary Evelyn Lincoln, LBJ blackmailed JFK using information from J Edgar Hoover in order to take the vice presidential spot away from Symington. (LBJ and Hoover were neighbors and friends for nineteen years in Washington DC) JFK acquiesced in order to keep a lid on his past indiscretions. Once on the ticket, LBJ was at odds with JFK and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy constantly.  

LBJ’s political advisor, the corrupt Bob Baker bragged that JFK would not live out his term and die violently. Baker and Senator LBJ were close, and the pair was being investigated by Congress for certain financial activities in the 50’s. After JFK’s assassination, the investigation was dropped.

LBJ was also involved in the Billie Estes scandal in 1961, which RFK was investigating. LBJ and his aide, Cliff Carter maneuvered for Estes to receive grain storage contracts exclusively. Estes stated that he funneled LBJ over $10 million in kickbacks.

In 1956 Texas Governor Allan Shivers accused LBJ of arranging the murder of Sam Smithwick in prison in 1952. Smithwick had threatened to go public about ballot stuffing in 1948 which enabled LBJ to beat Coke Stevenson in a Democratic primary. That information coincides with the Henry Marshall murder in 1961. Marshall was a US agricultural officer investigating the corruption of LBJ’s buddy, Estes. Marshall was shot five times with a bolt action gun on June 3rd. Incredibly, his death was ruled a suicide.

In 1963 the Baker scandal was released to the media. Baker was being investigated for vending machine kickbacks and other nefarious activities. When the scandal broke, LBJ denied knowing Baker, but sent his personal lawyer, Abe Fortas, to defend Baker. Evelyn Lincoln claimed the Kennedy brothers were going to take advantage of the scandal to get rid of LBJ once and for all.

Three days before he was assassinated, JFK told his secretary, Lincoln, that he intended to dump LBJ for the 1964 election and was going to tap North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford. He specifically mentioned it would not be LBJ.

In Douglas Horne’s 5-volume book “Inside the Assassination Records Review Board,” the fraud committed over JFK’s autopsy also points to LBJ. He contends JFK’s body was snuck into the Bethesda Naval morgue before the official autopsy to perform pre-autopsy surgery to hide evidence of shots fired from Kennedy’s front.

LBJ would only have had the authority to smuggle JFK’s body out of Dallas and delivered to the military before the state autopsy, as prescribed by law, could be performed. At the time, there was no federal law against killing a president, it was strictly a state matter. Therefore, no federal agency had any jurisdiction in the matter to order JFK’s body back to Washington DC.

It was the Secret Service that snatched JFK’s body away from Dallas County Medical Examiner, Dr. Earl Rose…at gunpoint! The body was placed in a casket and put on Air Force One, after LBJ had ordered seats in the back of the plane removed.  The Secret Service claimed to be following orders – who else had the authority to order JFK’s body removed and how did LBJ know to remove seats to make room for the casket?

LBJ would claim the Soviets were behind the assassination and that World War III was forthcoming. Yet, he waited to be sworn in as president and for the casket to be delivered, hardly the actions of a president concerned about an impending WWIII attack. LBJ had to know the Soviets had not assassinated JFK.

Later, by appointing Allen Dulles to the Warren Commission, LBJ would ensure that it was the lone assassin, Oswald, who had ties to Russia and Cuba, that shot JFK. Had JFK not been assassinated it was a certainty that LBJ would have been indicted and convicted for political corruption. America probably would not have been drug into the Viet Nam War either. Our nation would look quite different today has LBJ been brought to justice.