Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Presidential Historian Robert Morrow's Open Letter to Sixth Floor Museum CEO Nicola Longford & Curator Stephen Fagin - Date: March 29, 2021

 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:

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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."

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 [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

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           A mirthless smile played across the vice president’s lips, and he seem almost apologetic. “You may not believe what’s happening, but you may as well know.” Then he began relating what he had been learning from Walter Jenkins.

          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.”

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 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 129-130]

 Longtime LBJ aide, speechwriter and friend Horace Busby, describes how Lyndon Johnson had seen up close and personal previous vice presidents removed from the party ticket and vice presidency.

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           This was an old and popular game of power in Washington. “Dumping the vice president” began with Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, who was removed from the Republican ticket in 1864 largely because of President Lincoln’s own petulance and jealousy. Most vice presidents since had experienced the threat. During his own career in Washington, Lyndon Johnson had seen FDR’s first two vice president’s, John Nance Garner and Henry A. Wallace, “dumped” at Democratic conventions, and he had empathized with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1956, when a White House cabal had almost succeeded in persuading President Dwight Eisenhower to select a new running mate for the second term.

          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.”

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 131-132]

 

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

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           As we passed the darkness of an ancient cathedral, he stopped abruptly, pushed his hat far back on his head, and turned toward me.

          “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.”

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 134-135]

 Longtime LBJ aide Horace Busby on the torrent of rumors and inquiries from reporters in mid November,1963 that JFK was going to drop Lyndon Johnson from the 1964 ticket

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           In Washington, where I had remained, rumors ran amuck. Each day newsmen were calling George Reedy or Walter Jenkins or myself to check out the stories – always on “good authority” – that President Kennedy’s purpose in planning to spend the night at the LBJ Ranch was to break the news that Lyndon Johnson would not be on the ticket in 1964. When we traced these stories back to their sources, the origins lay not at the White House or among Kennedy intimates but among Texans in Washington friendly to Senator Yarborough. Repetition, nonetheless, had its effect, intensifying tensions, magnifying worries, expanding out imagination of what might go wrong on the Texas journey.”

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 139]

 

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

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 Mary V. handed me the front page of a recent issue. “Read this,” she said. “Someone has lost their mind.” It was a story announcing that, on his visit to Dallas, President Kennedy would ride in an open-car motorcade from Love Field to the site of his luncheon address.

          “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.

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 140]

 

QUOTE

           On Friday, all those concerns would come together – the president’s ride through Dallas, the ticket sales for the fund-raising dinner at Austin, the climax at the LBJ Ranch after the politicking was done. November 22 was a day we all faced with dread.

          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.

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 141]

 

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

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… 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.

 UNQUOTE

 [Horace Busby, The Thirty-First of March, pp. 142]

 

 

 

         

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