LBJ: The MasterMind of JFK's Assassination - Softcover

Phillip F. Nelson

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9781453503010: LBJ: The MasterMind of JFK's Assassination

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ISBN 10: 1453503013 ISBN 13: 9781453503010

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2010

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Nelson, Phillip F

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From the Author:

I remember reading the Life magazine articles on the weekend of the assassination, about Lyndon Johnson's connections with Bobby Baker, and the latter's extensive involvement with a number of shady characters. And I began wondering about just who this guy was. The more I read, the more I came to distrust this fellow who liked to portray himself as a glad-handing, back-slapping, "regular guy."   And I came to find out he was anything but those caricatures.

As a result of the failure of the "Fourth Estate" to perform their constitutional function, Lyndon Johnson is now ranked generally #9-12 in the various rankings of "greatest presidents" by academics and historians. There are a number of contemporary books by his biographers and "historians" (a misnomer, as it applies to those who have avoided the truth about Johnson) who laud him for his wonderful efforts in the area of Civil Rights, but many of them ignore the facts that:
-        Johnson was in fact very racist in his views of black Americans and latinos;
-        The 1964 Civil Rights Act is the same legislation that Johnson had suppressed while he was vice president and chairman of the EEO Committee under JFK.
-        The act was passed on the back of JFK and Johnson had kept it stalled until he became president, then immediately pushed Congress to adopt it.

These, and many other truths about Lyndon Johnson are revealed in my book, "LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination."
We identify numerous cases where the "benefit of the doubt" was given to Lyndon Johnson throughout his life. We start by looking back into Johnson's past, from the time he was a boy in Texas. We follow the development of his character traits throughout his school days, through college and as a young congressional apprentice in Washington.

The essential themes of the book relate to how Johnson's mental issues and criminal associations drove him to commit more brazen criminal acts, including, according to specific named sources, the ordering of multiple murders of people who "got in his way." Ultimately, the ever increasing stakes and his increasingly heinous criminal acts steeled his resolve to enlist the help of other key military and intelligence men to effect Johnson's "Executive Action" plan to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

There are many loose strings which connect all of this together and reveal the existence of a widely based conspiracy, with connections to the military and CIA networks, even though nothing was ever written by the plotters to allow direct tracing to their organizations. But there are many other traces which have become known over time:

From the Back Cover:

Lyndon B. Johnson's flawed personality and character traits were formed when he was a child, and - through his primary enablers, his mother and his wife - grew unchecked for the rest of his life as he suffered severe bouts of manic-depressive illness. The people-manipulation skills he learned at his father's side and had perfected by the time he graduated from college became the currency he used to barter, steal and finesse his way through the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. These skills, combined with his overpowering manic personality, amoral instincts and thirst for power, allowed him to prosper both financially and politically during his years in Congress. Neither his family nor his employees, aides, associates and cabinet officials would ever confront him on any issue for which he had made up his mind, including the Vietnam War.

Unfortunately, his "darker side" included a lifetime struggle with "bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder" which he successfully hid from the public, though not all of his aides. It is the premise of this book that Lyndon Johnson suffered recurrent and progressively stronger bouts of mental collapses during the period of his vice presidency as he planned his ascension to the presidency, purposely undermining Kennedy's domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the purpose of cleverly saving them for his own legacy. His active involvement with JFK's assassination will be conclusively shown, including photographic evidence that he knew in advance when and where it would happen. The stunning conclusion of this book is that Lyndon Johnson began planning his takeover - the fulfillment of his life-time dreams - even before being named as the vice presidential nominee in 1960.

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