March 29, 2021
Nicola Longford,
Executive Director Sixth Floor Museum
Stephen Fagin, Curator,
Sixth Floor Museum
Dear Nicola and Steve,
You can read a 1,000 books on the JFK
assassination and scour every web site on the internet, but you will never find
an example where Lee Harvey Oswald had a cross word to say about President John
Kennedy. In fact, there are many sources, including Marina Oswald Porter,
Michael Paine and others who say that Lee Harvey Oswald was a huge fan of both
JFK and Jackie Kennedy. Michael Paine said that Oswald said that JFK was the
best president of his life time. Ruth Paine says that she never heard Oswald say
a cross word about JFK. Lee Harvey Oswald would have been a good candidate to be
the chapter president of the Dallas Fan Club for JFK and the Kennedys.
Lee Harvey Oswald as a young teen was
enthralled with the TV show “I Led Three Lives” which is about the story of FBI
informer Herb Philbreck who was a man who PRETENDED to be a communist while in
fact he was an FBI informer spying on communists. That is in his brother Robert
Oswald’s book Lee: Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother, p. 47.
Completely innocent CIA patsy Lee
Harvey Oswald did not shoot at JFK. Nor did he shoot Officer Tippit, whose
murder occurred at 1:06 PM on 11-22-63 and Oswald most definitely was not there
(witness Helen Markham was adamant in all her testimony that the Tippit murder occurred
at 1:06 PM because she knew her regular timeline to catch the 1:15PM bus to her
waitressing job.
Nor did Oswald shoot at Gen. Edwin Walker
in April, 1963. That is another fabricated fantasy. I doubt either of you know
that Gen. Edwin Walker contacted the HSCA in the 1970s and said that the bullet
in evidence was definitely NOT the bullet that was found in the wall of his
home (because the bullet in evidence was PLANTED to posthumously frame Oswald).
Nor was Oswald wanting to shoot Richard
Nixon. That ridiculous fake news story was put into the mouth of Marina Oswald
in early 1964 by CIA asset Hugh Aynesworth. I asked Hugh Aynesworth did you
hear that story from Marina or from someone else first: and Aynesworth let the
cat out of the bag and told he heard it from someone else! It is a fabricated
lie designed to slander Oswald. Hugh Aynesworth used to brag that he had sex
with Marina Oswald and he told this to one of the early JFK researchers Shirley
Martin. Hugh Aynesworth is an absolute snake and he has never come clean about
his connections to CIA, FBI and Lyndon Johnson. When Aynesworth went to work for
Newsweek in the 1960s, that magazine was filled with U.S. intelligence
operatives in that era. I think Aynesworth truly believes the bunkum that he
pushes, but he is an extremely compromised man who once applied to work for the
CIA (as did Priscilla McMillan who was once very close to Marina Oswald and who
the CIA once said, she will write anything we ask her to).
Marina Oswald, under government
control and most definitely under government surveillance told many lies about
Oswald in 1963-1964 at a time when she had a baby Rachel and a young toddler June
and her English was not that good, all the while the LBJ-CIA-FBI controlled
national media was bellowing headlines that her victim husband had killed the
president.
Marina Oswald told Jesse Ventura in
2010, “Would you sacrifice your children for the truth?” Thus you can throw in
the trashcan all those coerced lies that Marina was forced to tell about Lee
Harvey Oswald in the 1960s. Marina’s interpreter in those days was ILYA
MAMONTOV, who was a right wing anti-communist White Russian who Marina despised
because he was twisting her words to slander Lee Harvey Oswald.
Which means that utterly ridiculous
story (from a coerced Marina) about Oswald wanting to hijack a plane to Cuba is
100% pure slanderous garbage as well. It never happened and it was all a part
of the posthumous frame up of Lee Harvey Oswald who was murdered by the same
forces who murdered JFK.
My suggestion for you and the Sixth
Floor Museum is please quit lying about, slandering and defaming the memory of
Lee Harvey Oswald who was a good man and man who loved his wife and kids and
who loved to play with kids (sources: Pat Hall and Buell Wesley Frazier, both
knew Oswald. Both are alive in the year 2021).
Unlike JFK-admirer Lee Harvey Oswald
there were three men from November, 1963 who hated the guts of the Kennedys. Three
men whose lives and careers were on the line in the fall of 1963 and their
names were LYNDON JOHNSON, FBI chief J. EDGAR HOOVER and GEN. EDWARD LANSDALE.
I know Steve knows this, but did you
know this, Nicola: Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover were neighbors for 19
years from 1943-1961? LBJ and the wife he treated like mud under his Texas
boots lived at 4921 30th Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20015 and his
blood brother and fellow Kennedy-hater FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover lived at 4936
30th Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20015.
If you Mapquest it or Google map it,
LBJ and Hoover lived 171 feet apart for 19 years. 171 feet is about one-half a
football field. Did you, Nicola, know that LBJ and Hoover used to walk their
dogs together? That Hoover would often come over to LBJ’s house for brunch on
Sundays and read the newspapers? That Hoover used to brag that he helped to
raise the Johnson girls? That when the Johnsons would lose a dog, they consider
calling the FBI to go find it? That LBJ for decades would use the FBI under
Hoover to investigate/harass his political opponents?
On January 1, 1965 J. Edgar Hoover was
going to turn 70 years old and hit the mandatory retirement age for the
government of that era. The Kennedys were going to let the law retire this
megalomaniac closet homosexual and serial blackmailer and they would be done
with him. In spring 1964 and post JFK assassination, Lyndon Johnson held a press
conference and gave Hoover a lifetime exemption from retirement!
As for GEN. EDWARD LANSDALE – I will
not say much about him except to say he was a notorious and well-connected CIA
operative active in the Philippines, Vietnam and he ran Operation Mongoose (to
harass Cuba) under the direction of a very irritating and demanding hard ass
Robert Kennedy. Gen. Edward Lansdale, with a reputation for being a loose
cannon, was kicked out of the Kennedy Administration and forced to retire on
October 31, 1963. The next day on Nov. 1, 1963 Landale’s pal Diem of Vietnam
was overthrown in a JFK and CIA supported coup in Vietnam. The next day Nov. 2,
1963, Diem and his brother were murdered. Let’s just say that in November of
1963 Gen. Edward Lansdale, who had a track record of torturing and killing
people for the U.S. government and who vehemently opposed the Vietnamese coup, did
not have warm and fuzzy feelings about the Kennedys.
Gen. Edward Lansdale was identified in
photos by his peers Col. Fletcher Prouty and Gen. Victor Krulak as being
present 5 feet west of the Texas School Book Depository building at a time of 2:30
PM on 11-22-63. This was exactly two hours after the JFK assassination which
occurred at 12:30 PM. The reason we know it was 2:30 PM is because of the angle
of the shadows in the Lansdale photo and because that is when the “three tramps”
were marched into police custody.
Six weeks after Lansdale was forced to retire on
10-31-63, by mid- December, 1963, he had a job in the Executive Office Building
on White House Grounds under the new Lyndon Johnson Administration. I should
note that the Executive Office Building is where LBJ kept his Vice Presidential
office. Let’s not forget that Gen. Edward Lansdale’s chief congressional
sponsor was Sen. Thomas Dodds, a right-wing CIA Democrat from Connecticut who
was close friends with LBJ and who absolutely hated the guts of the Kennedys.
LBJ toyed with the idea of making Sen. Thomas Dodds his VP in 1964. Lansdale
was also a protégé of Allen Dulles, who was quite resentful at having been
FIRED by the Kennedys after he had built the CIA. As Dulles spitefully told
journalist Willie Morris before he died, “That little Kennedy… he thought he
was a God.” Allen Dulles was placed by LBJ to run the cover up of JFK’s murder
on the Warren Commission and Dulles was the most active member.
Now we get to LYNDON JOHNSON. Unlike
patriotic government operative Lee Harvey Oswald who loved the Kennedys so much
he could have been president of the Dallas JFK fan club, Lyndon Johnson felt
differently.
If I could summarize how LYNDON JOHNSON felt about the
Kennedys, it would be that he would like to take a piss on both their corpses.
Robert
Caro describes the LBJ-RFK relationship post 1960 Democratic convention, where RFK
had moved heaven and earth attempting to keep LBJ off the 1960 Democratic ticket.
Caro:
QUOTE
John Connally, who during long days of conversation with this
author was willing to answer almost any question put to him, no matter how delicate
the topic, wouldn't answer when asked what Johnson said about Robert Kennedy. When
the author pressed him, he finally said flatly: "I am not going to tell you
what he said about him." During the months after the convention, when
Johnson was closeted alone back in Texas with an old ally he would sometimes be
asked about Robert Kennedy.
He would reply with a gesture. Raising his big right hand, he
would draw the side of it across the neck in a slowing, slitting movement.
Sometimes that gesture would be his only reply; sometimes, as during a meeting
with Ed Clark in Austin, he would say, as his hand moved across his neck,
"I'll cut his throat if it's the last thing I do."
UNQUOTE
[Robert Caro, The
Passage of Power, p. 140]
By
the fall of 1963, the Kennedys had a two-track plan to get rid of Lyndon Johnson.
1) The Kennedys were going to use coordinated national media exposes into LBJ’s
epic corruption as a way of forcing LBJ off of the national Democratic ticket
for 1964. By November, 1963 these efforts were in high gear with LIFE
magazine, Newsweek and the nation’s #1 political journalist Drew Pearson
and other media outlets all ready to go with Kennedy-fed exposes into LBJ’s
corruption. 2) The Kennedys were also encouraging a Senate Rules Committee
investigation into LBJ’s corruption. See Seymour Hersh’s interview with Burkett
van Kirk in The Dark Side of Camelot. The Kennedys were working with the
Republicans on the Senate Rules Committee to take down LBJ because the
Democratic senators were too close to Johnson.
Why did the Kennedys choose to utterly
destroy Lyndon Johnson rather than have a private conversation with him and ask
him to step down for the 1964 campaign? Because relations between LBJ and the
Kennedys were too acidic. They were not friends; it was state of war. LBJ had
forced his way onto the 1960 Democratic ticket and the Kennedys did not think he
would peacefully remove himself from the 1964 ticket. Robert Kennedy wanted to
succeed his brother JFK as president in 1968 if the winds good fortune were
blowing. Jackie Kennedy in her oral history said there was a plan in the works
by the Kennedys to keep LBJ from being president in 1968. This plan was to slit
LBJ’s throat with media exposes and congressional investigations in the fall of
1963.
The game plan was not merely to remove
LBJ from the 1964 Democratic ticket, but to utterly
annihilate/destroy/humiliate Lyndon Johnson once and for all. If you read
Robert Caro on LBJ, one of the themes over those 3,000 pages is Lyndon Johnson’s
life-long fear of embarrassment, humiliation and exposure. By November, 1963,
the Kennedys were within mere days of dropping a hydrogen bomb of humiliation
on the head of Lyndon Johnson. The thing that a pure psychopath like Lyndon
Johnson or Donald Trump fears above all else is humiliation; humiliation and the
exposure of their crimes and true nature.
Bottom line: The Sixth Floor Museum
should stop it’s constant and never-ending slandering and defaming of completely
innocent JFK fan and CIA patsy Lee Harvey Oswald and start telling the story of
Lyndon Johnson’s orchestration of the murder of President John Kennedy and why
it happened.
Sincerely,
Robert Morrow
Presidential Historian
at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for the Study of Presidential Crime
Austin, TX 512-306-1510
Horace Busby: Lyndon Johnson was aware by Nov. 4,
1963 while he was out of the country in Luxembourg that the Kennedys had sent a
SWAT team of FORTY national reporters to Texas to utterly destroy him
On
Monday, as the vice president arrived in Luxembourg, teams of newsmen from
major national publications began arriving almost simultaneously in Austin and
Johnson City, as well as the major metropolitan centers of Texas. None of the
reporters were known figures of the Washington press corps, but upward of forty
correspondents thus far had been identified in different parts of the state. At
first, when the newsmen began making their presence known, it was assumed that
they were arriving to do advance stories on President Kennedy’s visit. One of
the senior figures, however, quickly revealed the true purpose. Talking with an
attorney whom he mistakenly believed to be a Johnson enemy, the newsman said:
“We’re here to do a job on Lyndon Johnson. When we get through with the
sonofabitch, Kennedy won’t be able to touch him with a ten-foot pole in 1964.”
It
appeared to be a dragnet operation. The investigative teams were spreading out
over the state, talking with attorneys, bankers, businessmen, and known
political enemies of the vice president. Four or five publications were
represented, but many questions from the different teams were almost identical.
Evidently, someone had compiled and distributed a master dossier on the vice
president’s twenty-six-year career in rough-and-tumble Texas politics; some
questions, for example, involved campaign charges dating back to before World
War II. “Whoever’s behind it,” the vice president conceded, “has done one hell
of a thorough job.”
In
those cases, the patterns were strikingly similar. Attacks against the
incumbents came from within the “palace guard” at the White House or from among
the power brokers in control of the party; in each instance, the objective was
to control the line of succession – to dictate who would take over the party
and perhaps the White House upon completion of the incumbent president’s term.
The stakes had never been the vice presidency – that was virtually an
irrelevancy – but, rather, the presidency itself.
When
the vice president paused in his monologue, I asked the obvious question. The
simultaneous arrival of the various teams of newsmen, the similarity of their
dossiers and of our questions, the commonality of their revealed purposes –
these things were not coincidence. “Who,” I asked “is orchestrating this?”
Lyndon
Johnson made a face. He tucked his chin down, frowned and shook his head
reprovingly, as though dealing with a youngster. “Buzz,” he said, pretending to
be surprised, “you’ve been around too long to have to ask a question like
that.”
Of
course I was not asking from ignorance or innocence. At any level of politics,
one always knows the adversaries; at the level of the vice presidency, involved
as that office is with the intrigues of the reigning court, sensitivity rises far
higher. But my question was purposeful. For three years, since the election in
November, 1960, Lyndon Johnson had sealed his lips; even in the most private
and confidential conversation, he would not permit himself to acknowledge that
he had critics, detractors, or adversaries anywhere within the new
administration. The principle might be commendable. “Nothing and nobody,” he
explained, “is ever going to divide the president and me, and I’m not going to
say anything to anybody, not even my wife, that might get back to the president
and cause him a moment’s concern.” The discipline was exacting and inflexible,
but it irritated some of us close to the vice president: he carried it, we
thought, to the point of unreality. I wanted to draw him out.
“You
mean –” I began, but he did not permit me to finish my question.
“I
don’t mean anybody,” he snapped. “You can guess the answer, dammit, but I’m not
about to start naming names.”
Longtime LBJ aide and friend Horace Busby
describes Lyndon Johnson, on Friday, Nov. 8 in Brussels, Belgian being extremely
concerned about the nature of his potential “exit line” from the Kennedy
Administration
“Buzz,”
he said, “I’ve had a good run of it. I’ve done a lot more and come a lot
farther than anybody who came from where I come ever had any right to expect.”
Agent Kivett had approached closely, checking whether some assistance might be
needed. The vice president turned and glowered until he moved on out of
earshot, then Lyndon Johnson leaned in very close, until his face almost
touched mine, and his clenched fists began pumping up and down.
“If
they want me to go, all they have to do is say so and I’ll be gone in five
minutes.” His voice fell to a hoarse and confidential whisper. “I don’t care
about that, it’s their business. What I do care about, my friend, is one
thing.” He stopped and stood erect, turning to look in all directions. The
street and the sidewalk were empty except for the two of us and Jerry Kivett,
now half a block away. The vice president leaned in close again. Lips set
tight, he spoke firmly. “I care about the exit line.”
Longtime LBJ aide and speechwriter Horace Busby
describes how he, his wife and the “Johnson men” were opposed to a motorcade
for JFK in Dallas because of the vitriolic right wing atmosphere
“I
can’t imagine your friends in the Secret Service letting the president do
that,” she said. I agreed with her. The thought of physical danger to the
president did not occur. Our memories were still fresh, though, of 1960, when
the vice president and Mrs. Johnson were mobbed in a Dallas hotel lobby. An
ugliness had crept into Dallas politics which perplexed many Texans. Only a few
weeks earlier there had been a nasty attack on Ambassador Adlai Stevenson when
he spoke there. An open-car motorcade was an obvious invitation for more
episodes – ugly signs, jeering chants, or perhaps an egg tossed at the
presidential limousine.
The
next day I voiced my concern to Walter Jenkins and learned that he shared it.
In fact, he told me, Governor Connally, Cliff Carter and all the Johnson men
participating in plans for the Kennedy visit were counseling against the Dallas
motorcade. But our interests and the interests of the Kennedy people were
hopelessly at odds. We were thinking, selfishly perhaps, of avoiding street
incidents which would acutely embarrass Vice President Johnson.
QUOTE
On
Thursday, November 21, I lunched with Leonard Marks at a club frequented by
Washington’s television and radio reporters. Since my conversation with the
vice president in Brussels, I had come to a gloomy but inescapable conclusion
that Lyndon Johnson’s days in that office were numbered; if the end did not
come the following day in Texas, ugly times were clearly ahead for us all in
Washington. I did not want to be around; the toll of peripheral involvement in
palace politics was too great.
Longtime LBJ aide and friend Horace Busby and his secretary Patty Scott were on pins and needles in Washington, DC as they worried over JFK’s reception in Dallas in real time on Nov. 22, 1963
… with my secretary, Patty Scott, I remained at
the office, buckling down to meet the early evening deadline for my copy. Patty
had recently come to Washington from Dallas; she shared my concern over
President Kennedy’s reception in the city. As the time neared for the presidential
party to arrive at Love Field, she began an almost continuous vigil over the
Teletype machine. We kidded each other about our Texas paranoia, but Patty
remained anxious. “You never know what those kooks are going to do,” she said.
Then
it came: the longest, the most unreal, the most terrible minute I had ever
known.
