Can I ask a question of the JFK CTers?

[LuvNewcastle]

32. Yes, the post said "impeached."

I think the poster might have just used the wrong word, though. I knew Johnson was corrupt; I've heard stories through the years from people acquainted with the Johnsons and the Boggs family and some other Lou. and Texas politicians. Johnson had been a schoolteacher before he got into politics, so you only have to look at how wealthy he was when he died to know how dirty he was. I just didn't know he was being threatened with legal action.

Just knowing he was so corrupt was enough for me to suspect Johnson's involvement, or at least his foreknowledge, of the assassination when I first started reading about it. I don't think that very much happened in Texas in those days that Johnson wasn't at least aware of, and there's been a great deal of speculation through the years that the plan was hatched in coordination between the New Orleans mob and wealthy Texans.

Oswald was from New Orleans and he had that checkered past with the CIA, Russia, and Cuba. I think his spying in Russia turned to spying at home. The Russians didn't trust him, and the whole pro-Cuba thing was, I believe, an attempt at reeling in home-grown communists. The Texas crowd believed to be involved were wealthy Birchers with ties to the CIA. The New Orleans underworld crowd were extreme RWers. Any underworld figures in New Orleans would have had ties with mob boss Carlos Marcello, who used to openly brag that he killed Kennedy. That axis of people, I believe, set up Oswald to carry out the killing.

I think Johnson knew that Kennedy was going to be killed; he probably even knew it was going to be that day in Dallas. There's no doubt that Johnson knew the major players who I believe were involved. I didn't know about the cases that were coming up against him, however. Just one more piece to add to the puzzle.