Tony At 10: CONSPIRACY; BLOG #2023; MARCH 11,2016

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WHERE TO BEGIN?

ROGER STONE

He is a legendary political operative and strategist. Stone has gathered evidentiary documents and uses his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate account that proves LBJ was not only involved in JFK’s assassination, but was in fact the mastermind.

In his book, Stone makes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK. He maps out the case that LBJ blackmailed his way onto the ticket in 1960 and was about to be dumped in 1964 because of an impending prosecution for corruption at the hands of his nemesis Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Stone uses fingerprint evidence and testimony to prove that JFK was shot by a long-time LBJ hit man—not Lee Harvey Oswald.

MADELEINE BROWN

Madeleine Brown, alleged she was the mistress of LBJ, and also implicated him in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

In 1997, Brown said that Johnson, along with H. L. Hunt, had begun planning Kennedy's demise as early as 1960. Brown claimed that by its fruition in 1963, the conspiracy had involved dozens of persons, including the leadership of the FBI and the Mafia, as well as prominent politicians and journalists.

At a social gala the night before the assassination, Brown claimed that Johnson arrived at the gathering late in the evening and whispered to her that, "The Kennedys will never embarrass me again—that's no threat—that's a promise."

In addition, Brown said that on New Year's Eve 1963, she met with Johnson at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. He confided that in fact there had been a conspiracy to kill Kennedy and that, "the fat cats of Texas and [U.S.] Intelligence" had been responsible. Brown reiterated her allegations against Johnson in the 2006 documentary 'Evidence of Revision'. In the same documentary, several other Johnson associates also voiced their suspicions of Johnson.

E. HOWARD HUNT

Former CIA agent and Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt accused Johnson (along with several CIA agents whom he names) of complicity in the assassination in a posthumously released autobiography, 'American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond'.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

After Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba in 1959, Luce and her husband began to sponsor anti-Castro groups. This support included funding exiles in commando speedboat raids against Cuba in the early 1960s.

Henry Luce was a Time Life publisher. Claire told her husband that a man named Fernandez had called and told her there is a Cuban Communist assassination team at large and Oswald was their hired gun.

Some conspiracy theorists today continue to allege that Fidel Castro had ordered the assassination of Kennedy in retaliation for the CIA's previous attempts to assassinate him.

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THE 'MAGIC BULLET' THEORY

Oswald fired just three bullets in Dallas. But he killed JFK and badly wounded Governor John Connally who was sitting in the front seat of the limo. The Warren Commission - the investigation into JFK's killing set up in 1963 - came up with the 'single-bullet theory' to explain how Oswald did so much damage with just three rounds. It posits that both men were hit by a single bullet which "entered JFK's upper back, exited his throat, and then struck Connally, breaking a rib and shattering his wrist, and finally coming to rest in his thigh,". Sceptics say the trajectory was fanciful and re-named it the 'magic bullet theory'. It's just one reason why conspiracy theorists think more than one shooter was involved.

THE GRASSY KNOLL

Most JFK conspiracy theories pivot around the idea that Oswald wasn't acting alone. When the president was hit by the bullet that killed him, the motorcade was passing a grassy knoll on the north side of Elm Street. Newspaper photographs record that shortly after the shooting, police arrested three tramps found in a railroad car behind the knoll. Because the men were clean-shaven and well dressed there was speculation that they were CIA assassins rather than hobos.

Jean Hill, says she saw a shooter on the Grassy Knoll and writes in her book, 'The Last Dissenting Witness', that her boyfriend , a Dallas Police officer, told her about a slight route change that would take the motorcade past the Grassy Knoll.

JIM GARRISON

Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who prosecuted Clay Shaw for conspiring to murder Kennedy, claimed to have discovered the changed route. He says that, during his investigation of the assassination in 1967. Apparently, Lyndon Johnson's agents gave the instructions to change the route on the morning of the assassination.

James Files, who claims to have been the Grassy Knoll shooter, says that on the morning of the assassination he went to a pancake house with mobster Johnny Roselli. Jack Ruby then came in and gave Roselli an envelope containing Secret Service identification and a map of the motorcade route. The map showed a change in the route: a "zig-zag, that little turn they should never have

made.

Sniper's Lair- the Texas Depository where Oswald waited. Original planned route along Main Street

THE CIA

Conspiracy theorists suggest the president's alleged comment that he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds" made him an agency target. Other theories suggest that one of the tramps was E. Howard Hunt, the former CIA operative who was involved in the ill-fated 'Bay of Pigs' operation to oust Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

THE MAFIA

Why would the mafia want JFK dead? Speculation indicates that the Chicago Mob was responsible for Kennedy's victory in the key state of Illinois at the request of Jack's father Joe. The records show that there were more votes cast than the number of voters making up the electorate. The Mob felt betrayed when the Attorney General, Jack's brother Robert, was turning up the heat on organized crime. Robert's 'Anti-mafia Crusade' had lead to a sharp increase in the number of prosecutions of senior mafia figures.

LYNDON B JOHNSON

Does LBJ appear jealous or hateful?

In 2003, a Gallup poll revealed that 20 per cent of Americans believed Johnson was jealous of and had something to do with JFK's death. Theories include the vice president's desire to become president, his need to cover up scandals, and his involvement with the FBI.