Johnson Killed Kennedy
The Caribbean Is One Nation.
The basic
common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same
air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” - JFK
by Pachamama
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| President Lyndon B Johnson |
Everybody
seems to remember a gloomy day on November 22nd 1963 when a volley
of bullets rang out in Dallas killing John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), POTUS, and
injuring Texas governor Connolly. Despite 50 years of propaganda by the
conspirators to cover up the murder of the most powerful man in the world, the
truth has emerged. In the last 50 years 2000 books have been written about
these events, dozens of movies, many more documentaries, hundreds of unofficial
investigations and several official investigations. Some of these official
investigations were indeed conducted or controlled by the very people who were
part of the criminal conspiracy, to as they said, ‘rid the world of Communism’.
As part of
the basic conspiracy related persons and possible witnesses were killed, including
one JFK’s lovers. More importantly, there was a larger conspiracy by government
agencies to kill Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), the US
Attorney General in 1963 and brother of the slain JFK and the FBI supported
program called “Cointelpro’’ to prevent the rise of a Black messianic figure in
the USA. Of course, there were other security operations like ‘zipper’ and so
on. We will argue that there are many critical links between, among and within
the forces that committed the murder of JFK.
It is now clear that a coalition of forces within the FBI, the CIA,
Naval Intelligence and the Pentagon not only killed JFK, but more importantly,
had the means, opportunity and motives to kill and cover up this assassination.
These events have changed the very nature of the US Presidency and government
from a democracy to the variant of oligarchy and fascism which we have today.
By 1963 JFK,
who came to office nearly three years earlier as a hawkish Democrat, had been
guided into The Bay of Pigs debacle in Cuba, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile
Crisis and more hostile diplomatic relations with USSR’s President Sergeyevich Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War. Also by 1963, JFK had come to see
the futility of the Cold War and had opened back-channels with Khrushchev to
end it, rid the earth of ALL nuclear weapons and engage in normal relations
with the USSR. The belligerent hawks, like General Curtis Lemay, within the
military-industrial-security apparatus, the FBI, the CIA, naval intelligence
etc accused JFK of being a Commie and recruited a gangster, Lyndon Baines
Johnson (LBJ), Vice-President at the time, to be part of this criminal
conspiracy to subvert an elected government and assassinate JFK. Our revered
Malcolm X, at the time, deemed it as ‘chickens coming home to roost’.
What do we
know about LBJ? Let’s get what people say are the good things out of the way
first. It is said that he shepherd the Civil Rights legislation through
Congress. That he showed a higher level of commitment than JFK to civil rights
issues. That he was more amenable to working with Black people, etc. The first
mistake JFK made was to, in a perfunctory manner, offered the vice-presidency
slot to LBJ. This is oftentimes done in the American political system, as a
mere gesture to powerful contenders, but it generally expected that these offers
are to be declined as players have a ‘keen’ sense of who the real VP nominee is
to be, all this as part of the political shenanigans - not LBJ! He had worked
hard to put himself into contention at the DNC conference and felt he was more
deserving of the presidency that the son of a former bootlegger, Irish Mafia
figure and supporter of the Third Reich.
LBJ was also
known to be an uncouth fellow who would fart hard in public, was long
associated with a known killer Malcolm or Max Wallace who did his wet work, he
was known to have a deep resentment for JFK. Wallace was thought to have killed
more than eight people for LBJ. LBJ and RFK as attorney general never got along
well. One of his mistresses, from whom he fathered a child, Madeline Brown,
said he was a drunkard, an animal, admitted that LBJ told her about the
planning of the JFK assassination, that it was a two year plan, that he
impregnated another intern and made one of his aides, Jack Vallini marry her.
LBJ was from Texas and would have known political environment and being a power
former legislator and vice president had the ability to influence the facts on
the ground that dreadful day in 1963. Most importantly, all the major
initiatives embarked upon by JFK were immediately reversed by LBJ. For example,
involvement in Indo-China, the Vietnam War was escalated in contrast to the
de-escalation JFK was talking about thereby swelling the coffers of the arms
manufacturers for whom JKF’s new found peaceful intent represented a strategic threat.
Volume could be written indicting LBJ for being the front man in the murder of
JFK.
What of the
other conspirators? Let’s talk about FBI director Edgar Hoover. We know he keep
files on all US officials as a lever to get them to comply with his wishes. By
this time he had amassed vast powers within the bureaucracy. Hoover, a gay man,
had a longtime live-in relationship with his chief deputy within the FBI. Some
reports say that Hoover had videos of JFK engaging in sexual relations with women
other than his wife. It is said he once showed these pictures to RFK to
influence a decision. Both LBJ and Hoover were known to have ‘acquaintances’
with mafia figures. It is also reported that the major Mafia don, Trafficante
had pictures of Hoover having homosexual relations. It was the same Hoover who,
up to 1963, was still denying that any knowledge about the existence of the
Mafia. These are the informal and formal relationships that existed amongst
leading figure at the time. Relationships that were necessary conditions to get
away with the murder and cover-up of the most powerful man in the world.
What about
the nonsense of the lone gunman theory, that the patsy Lee Harvey Oswald killed
Kennedy. The lone gunman theory is essential to deflecting blame from the real
killers. It reappears time and time again in the assassinations of RFK, King
and other civil rights leaders during this time period. This theory could only
make sense when the death of JFK is opportunistically removed from the larger
national, international, geo-political context. It could only make sense if one
does now know that the trigger men, and there were three, included LBJ’s wet
work man Malcolm (Max) Wallace and an American Indian by the name of Loy
Factor. This theory, and it is all it has been and still is, only makes sense
if we ignore that Jack Ruby, the killer of Oswald, was a Mafioso figure with
strong connections to the mob and was at high levels planning meeting. Meetings
attended by high government officials prior to Kennedy’s death. This only makes
sense when you ignore the charges of five people who claim that LBJ admitted to
his involvement in the assassination of JFK. This could only make sense when we
ignore the mountain of forensic evidence pointing at a massive government
conspiracy before, during and after JFK’ death that modern investigative tools are
presenting.
Whenever there is a crime the police try to
determine three critical ingredient – motive, opportunity and means. In our
brief overview of the most notorious murder of the 20th Century we
have, on the personal level located LBJ as the one man having a motive, the
opportunity and the means to kill JFK. More fundamentally we have indicted the
organs of the federal and state governments of the USA as having planned,
executed and most importantly covering up the murder of JFK. We have connected
the murder of JFK to that of RFK to that of MLK and indeed Malcolm X. We have
painted a tapestry of criminality at the center of the American government that
ended in a series of high profile murders. Murders which have fundamentally
changed the character of American democracy, if one has determined that it what
it was. Fifty
years since these killings it must not be a time for the sanctification of
victimhood but a time to indict the people and governmental apparatus which
have irretrievably changed the world.
Pachamama is a leading Caribbean social commentator.
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