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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)Barr McClellan is Scott McClellan's father. His law firm represented LBJ all of his professional life. The details and the evidence in this book was the subject of The History Channel's review of the JFK assassination which prompted all of the Johnson family outrage.
I do not dispute what you say about George H.W. Bush being involved, but there were a lot more prominent people mentioned in the book than just Bush. JFK was considered a "security threat" to this country because he did not share the same philosophies about wars, confrontations and government as did the CIA and prominent government officials. He privately was working on a plan not only to end the Vietnam War but to negotiate a better relationship with Russia.
Jacqueline Kennedy had privately commissioned an investigation into her husband's death by a French investigative team. She received its final report and it will be released to the public something like 50 years after her death. I remember when I first read this how much it saddened me to know I would never know the contents, but I think she put that condition on the report's release for the security of her children....
Sam
Link to my thread on this book: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3120010&mesg_id=3121565
"It is simply miraculous that the American public survived the tragedies of the the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy and can analytically discuss today who or what might have caused these tragedies to befall these wonderful men. THE ONLY GOOD I CAN THINK OF THAT AROSE FROM THEIR PREMATURE DEATHS IS THAT WE AS A PEOPLE LOST OUR NAIVETY ABOUT THE INABILITY OF THOSE WHO GOVERN US TO PARTICIPATE IN INCOMPREHENSIBLY BARBARIC ACTS OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT. For those who were unconvinced that "The Ugly American" could truly exist as that book proclaimed, at least these losses forced them to contemplate the previously inconceivable."