President Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973) was having sex with Hearst and
CBS reporter Marianne Means (1934-2017). Marianne Means began to have a
national profile in 1965 which was no doubt a result of her close relationship
with LBJ.
If you want
to know why the cover up of the JFK assassination was so easy despite it being
a blatant coup d’etat it is because the murderers of JFK, particularly Lyndon Johnson,
were close personal friends with the owners of the big three national TV
networks as well as personal friends with the owners of the Washington Post,
the Graham family and the owners of Hearst media properties and God knows many
more high level friends LBJ had in TV, print and radio.
Allen
Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Cord Meyer, FBI Deke Deloach and FBI and CIA in
general had very strong media influence operations as well.
On top of
ALL THAT, Lyndon Johnson was having sex with Hearst and a high profile CBS News
reporter Marianne Means while he was in the White House.
At the time
of the JFK assassination Marianne Means was age 29 and LBJ was age 55. Marianne
Means, during her affair and no doubt BECAUSE of her affair with Lyndon
Johnson, started having a national profile in 1965.
Marianne
Means Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Means
Marianne Means was also a sexual lover of John Kennedy. I guess you could say
LBJ and JFK were Eskimo brothers.
Sincerely,
Robert
Morrow
Presidential
Historian, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for the Study of Presidential
Crime and the World’s Foremost Authority on the JFK Assassination
Austin,
TX 512-306-1510
David Lifton:
(b) Castro had pre-empted (i.e., he acted in
self-defense).
"Kennedy was trying to kill Castro, and so. . . " (complete in 25
words or less. . e.g., "this was a backfire. ." or "this was
blowback" etc)
This line was reserved strictly for insiders (and possibly even top media
moguls in the NY times or the Luce organization)
It became public in the Spring
of 1975, when Howard K Smith and Marianne Means each revealed how LBJ had taken
them into his confidence with this one.
The basic pitch: "We can't let the world know that the President and his
brother were trying to kill Castro! That would make it look like Castro acted
in self-defense!" Johnson's exact words (per H K Smith: "I'll
tell you something that will rock you. . Kennedy was trying to get to Castro, but
Castro got to him first." -- "Johnson is Quoted on Kennedy
Death", NY TImes, 6/25/76)
Ed
Tatro corrects columnist Marianne Means on the JFK Assassination
Responding to her
JFK comments in post 9/11 column
[Marianne Means,
a young reporter in the 1960's, was one of Lyndon Johnson's flirtations. I
don't know if he ever bedded her, but one time she went swimming with LBJ and
Lady Bird in the White House swimming pool [Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of
American Ambition, p. 481]
http://www.ratical.o...y/JFK911MM.html
The FIRST column
is by Marianne Means, who was a long time columnist and a flirtation of Lyndon
Johnson in the 1960's when she was a young reporter. Marianne Means' column is
typical of the establishment LIES, DISINFO and PROPAGANDA that has appeared so
many times in the mainstream media for 47 years. The SECOND column is an email
reply by JFK researcher/expert Edward Tatro to her; Tatro is just correcting
Means on a few points; he knows much, much more than what is in this email.
Nothing like it since JFK Assassination
by
Marianne Means, Hearst Newspapers,
From: Ed T
Sent: Saturday, September
15, 2001 7:01 PM
To: Jim Marrs
Subject: Nothing like it since JFK Assassination
by Marianne
Means, Hearst Newspapers, undated
Washington -- In
modern peacetime, only the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy
matches the enormity of the sheer horror and international angst produced by
the attacks against the New York World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Lee Harvey
Oswald's murder of the president was a direct assault on a flesh-and-blood symbol
of American power. Tuesday's murderous assault on buildings that represent our
global, financial, and military supremacy carried the same impact. In both
cases, the country immediately went on an emergency alert as concerns for
national security and fears of a worldwide conspiracy were raised.
The Kennedy assassination turned out to
be an isolated evil perpetrated by a loony loner, but this did not dispel the emotional intensity
provoked by such an unexpected cruel event. It is too early to know the extent
of the plot behind the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil, but the unprecedented
number of deaths guarantees that the deep mourning will be as traumatic.
Not even the shock
of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, in which 168 died, compares to the sense of
national crisis that staggered this country after JFK's death and has sent us
reeling now.
On Tuesday, all air
traffic was forbidden, government buildings evacuated, business halted and the
president flown to a safe military base far from Washington.
President Bush's
continuing duty is to maintain communication with the rest of the world,
reassure all of us with calm, steady leadership, and quickly demonstrate that
the guilty will be punished.
This is the
heaviest burden that can befall a president and as important as it is rare. It
was Lyndon B. Johnson's task, too, in the immediate aftermath of Kennedy's death.
In such emotional
chaos the stability of government, and its primary leader, is put to its
greatest test. Shaped by law, tradition and generations of practice, the
machinery of government must function normally to preserve the survival of our
democratic system.
Alone in a
Parkland Hospital room in Dallas he was told Kennedy had been declared dead in
a surgery room a few steps away. Johnson had no way of knowing why or by whom
Kennedy had been shot. It was his responsibility to suspect the worst and guard
the country against every possibility, as it is now Bush's.
A communist plot,
a domestic military coup or some other unimaginable orchestrated calamity could
not be ruled out in 1963, at the height of the Cold War. In fact, Johnson
told me some time afterward that he had indeed originally suspected the Soviets
might seek to take advantage of the American confusion to make some big
military move.
Taking charge, Johnson
ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to warn all U.S. combat commands around the world
to hold themselves in readiness for action. The U.S. commander in Bonn, Germany,
alerted his troops to a possible invasion from the east.
Accompanying
JFK's body and Mrs. Kennedy and a few staffers, Johnson hastily fled the
hospital, where the White House party was physically vulnerable, and headed for
the security of Air Force One.
Bush, too, was
immediately surrounded by extra protection, initially avoiding the inevitable
dangerous exposure of returning to the White House.
Johnson remained
on guard once in the relative safety of the airplane. He ordered the window
shades on the plane pulled down. He called for a local judge to rush to the plane
to swear him in and invest him with the full powers of the presidency, assuring
the orderly transition before Air Force One flew home. Pennsylvania police were
sent to guard the Gettysburg farm of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in
case he should be a target too.
Johnson was on the telephone constantly
during the flight home, contacting the FBI, the CIA, Cabinet members, all the
officials who now had urgent tasks to perform.
Oswald was quickly captured but it took
time to establish that he had acted alone, a fact which would be disputed by
conspiracy buffs for decades afterward. Two days after JFK's death, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin appeared in
White House aide Horace Busby's office and plopped a fat file on his desk.
"Oswald's not one of ours," he said tersely, to reassure the
president there had been no Soviet plot. The file was the confidential record
of KGB surveillance of Oswald during a visit to the Soviet Union, which
concluded he was unstable, untrustworthy, and not good spy material. [By the way, the
Russians thought that Lyndon Johnson murdered John Kennedy, according to their
intelligence files released decades later! - Robert]
In retirement later, Johnson told me he
thought that Cuban President Fidel Castro was somehow behind Oswald's deed, but
that has never been proven.
Some tragedies are so numerous the country weeps as one, rallying behind a
sorrowful president and temporarily putting aside partisan differences that
suddenly seem irrelevant. For a time, at least, Bush will have our support, as did
Johnson, until the normal spirit of contrariness returns.
ED TATRO REPLY TO
MARIANNE MEANS RE: JFK ASSASSINATION
From: Ed Tatro
Sent: Saturday,
September 15, 2001 3:56 PM
To: Marianne
Means
Subject:
"Nothing Like It Since JFK Assassination" article
Dear Marianne
Means:
I have felt pretty
demoralized by the events of this week, but your article of historical inaccuracies
sent my depression into overdrive. I'm sure my response will accomplish nothing
in your mind, but having researched the Kennedy assassination since it
occurred, (when I was an idealistic boy of 16), I feel compelled to respond.
I can't stop you from
denigrating my 38 year effort to determine who really killed JFK by your calling
me an obsessed buff, but it does give me satisfaction to know that you're wrong
in blaming Lee Harvey Oswald for JFK's demise.
Your article
makes reference to LBJ's commandeering of Air Force One after the assassination
and his subsequent conversations aboard the plane back to Washington. Are you aware
that those conversations were taped, but that only a one and a half hours of
edited tape of those conversations exist today? We're talking about the
destruction of some five hours of taped conversations, Marianne.
Do you know who possessed those pristine
tapes? I didn't think so.
Well, I do...and it wasn't Oswald. Did you know that Arlen Specter tried to persuade Ken
O'Donnell to say that O'Donnell told LBJ to take Air Force One back to DC when
it was LBJ who made that decision? Specter wanted O'Donnell to commit perjury
to hide the fact that Johnson had, in fact, lied to everyone.
Do you know why
all this deception was taking place? I didn't think so. Well, I do, and it had
nothing to do with Oswald.
Are you aware that Governor John
Connally's clothes were laundered prior to reaching the FBI's lab preventing
Hoover from determining if the metal on Connally's clothes would match the metal
on Kennedy's clothes, a
crucial factor in verifying or destroying the single bullet theory? Do you know
the people involved in the chain of transfer of those clothes? (The documents
were hidden for 35 years). I didn't think so. Well, I do, and it wasn't
Oswald.
Are you aware that the JFK limo
windshield possessed an entrance hole through it, not a crack? Do you know the
witnesses who saw it? Do you know the name of the professional glass man who was
instructed to remove it? Do you know who told him to do so? I didn't think so. Well, it wasn't Oswald
or Castro or the Russians ...and yes, I know who did it.
Do you know who
suckered JFK to Texas? Do you know who tricked him into going to Dallas? Do you
know who set up that motorcade route? Do you know who owned the buildings in Dealey
Plaza? It wasn't Oswald.
You seem to be bragging
that you talked to Johnson. Do you know about his impending future had JFK not
died? Are
you familiar with his lifelong corruption? Does the name, Bobby Baker, mean
anything to you? Are you remotely aware of the murders related to his affairs?
Do you recall Don Reynolds? Do you know what Reynolds said after November 22,
1963? He didn't accuse Oswald. Are you familiar with Billie Sol Estes at all?
I've been to the man's house. Do you recall Fred Korth and the TFX scandal?
These are the reasons JFK died....and
they have nothing to do with Oswald.
Did you think Johnson would tell you
that his best friends killed JFK? He told his mistress BEFORE it happened that it
was coming. I edited her autobiography. Have you ever talked to her? I didn't
think so.
Have you ever talked
to the autopsy technicians who prepared JFK's body at Bethesda? Do you know that
every damn one of them has said those published photos are fake? My best friend
met them all and videotaped them all. I have met two of them. They aren't
lying. Who controlled the medical evidence which has been tampered with?
It wasn't Oswald.
I could provide
you with much more, but educating you, considering your article, is probably
pointless.
Please don't
respond with Orwellian doublespeak and arrogant journalistic rhetoric. I'm no dummy.
I have been a consultant to Oliver Stone and Nigel Turner, I have two masters'
degrees, and I was invited to testify before President Clinton's Assassination
Records Review Board in 1995, one of only 6 New Englanders to do so.
Lyndon Johnson , through the years,
questioned whether the Russians did it, whether Castro did it, whether the CIA
did it, whether the Mob did it, whether the Vietnamese did it... all in the
name of diversion...and you fell for it. Only to the mother of his illegitimate
child did he tell the truth....and even then, he neglected to include himself
in the mix.
And on a more
personal level, Oswald was never convicted so your article condemns him when he
never had his day in court, a fundamental right for all Americans. Secondly, I am
friendly with his widow and articles like yours sting her children unmercifully
and unfairly. Ironically, his mother was treated very poorly, but she knew who
perpetrated the crime. Do you know the names of those she accused? I didn't
think so.
One last point: When JFK died,
it was LBJ and his cronies who benefited. Thousands of American kids and
millions of Asians were sacrificed for nothing but greed. Keep this in mind
when you write about this week's tragedy. Even if Bin Laden is responsible, find
out who educated his people and who really financed them before jumping
foolishly ahead as before. Who will really gain from all that is apparently about
to take place? It is a fair and sobering and frightening question....and many
of us may die prematurely because of them and their thirst for money and power.
Sincerely,
Edgar F. Tatro
Wayne Madsen says that the former husband
of Hearst reporter Marianne Means told him that Marianne Means had sex with
both JFK and Lyndon Johnson.
Marianne Means on LBJ: “Okay. It was an
affair, and I won’t share it with people, not even you. It was mine and he was
mine.”
Kitty Kelley (Dec. 28, 2017) on Marianne
Means who admitted to Kitty Kelley that she had an affair with Lyndon Johnson
http://www.kittykelleywriter.com/2017/12/28/remembering-marianne-means/
Remembering Marianne Means
December 28, 2017
by Kitty Kelley
I’d much rather be hoisting a glass
with Marianne Means, and hearing her rant about “that vulgarian” in the White
House than writing this valedictory, but she went to the angels a few days
ago, and her death leaves me with an
empty glass, albeit a full heart.
You may have noticed The Washington
Post gave her a large obituary, and applauded her as a “trailblazing White
House correspondent,” which led to 50 successful years as a syndicated
columnist for Hearst newspapers. The obit mentioned that Marianne made a
crucial connection as a college student with then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, when he
was campaigning for President in Nebraska. In the White House he sought to help
her make her way amidst a predominantly male press corps.
“Give her some stories,” the President
told one aide. “Give her all the help you can.”
For anyone who knew Marianne then
as a pretty blue-eyed blonde—“farm fresh,” recalled one photographer—and JFK as
an inveterate chaser, certain assumptions were made, and those assumptions were
to Marianne’s advantage, although her romance then was not with Kennedy, but
with his deputy press secretary.
I met her many years later in
Georgetown, where she lived all of her life since moving from her parents’
farm. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Phi Beta Kappa key,
and later earned a law degree from George Washington University. We lived near
each other, shared the same hairdresser and many mutual friends. Marianne was
great fun, wonderfully opinionated, and breezily direct about everything—except
for her husbands and lovers. By the end of her life she’d collected five of the
former and lots of the latter, but she did not kiss and tell. She would’ve been
appalled by #MeToo.
Before Pamela Harriman arrived in
Washington, Marianne Means was entertaining presidents, vice presidents,
senators and congressmen. “Not all at once, mind you. I saved Lyndon Johnson
for a special group of people,” she told me in 1973 when I was writing an
article about dinner parties. “As President he came to my house two times. Both
times Lady Bird was out of town and both times he approved the guest list in
advance.” I asked if she catered an elaborate menu for her illustrious guest.
“Can you believe it? I actually cooked it myself,” she said. “The President was
not a fussy eater, thank God, so I could get away with a simple dinner of roast
beef, which was good because I’m just a plain old meant-and-potatoes girl.”
In the article I mentioned her cat
had jumped on President Johnson’s lap. After publication Marianne corrected me:
the cat had jumped on the roast beef.
When I was thinking about writing a
book on Georgetown as the nexus of power and influence in Washington, D.C., Marianne
was my go-to source. She knew that few places in the U.S. carried the panache
of instant recognition like the 12 square blocks in the middle of the nation’s
capital, which have been home to presidents and prostitutes, senators and
scalawags, congressmen and convicts. Even when I decided not to write the book,
we’d still meet for dinner at La Chaumiere, where she would be wheel-chaired in
by one of her devoted caregivers.
One night she began talking about LBJ, and I gave her the
girlfriend-to-girlfriend look. She laughed, but wouldn’t say another word. I
mentioned the many references to her in President Johnson’s daily White House
diaries from 1964-1967.
“Okay,” she said. She paused for a long minute. “Yes, it
was an affair and, no, I won’t share it with people, not even you. It was mine
and he was mine.” She was serious, almost fierce, and I realized that
Lyndon Baines Johnson had been enormous in her life. Later that was confirmed
when I read John Seigenthaler’s oral history in the John F. Kennedy Library
regarding the 1964 Democratic National Convention when Robert Kennedy was given
a monumental ovation The
rancor between then-President Johnson and former Attorney General Kennedy was
visceral. Seigenthaler, administrative assistant to Kennedy in the Justice
Department, was a close personal friend. Flying back to Washington on the press
plane after the convention, he recalled: “I remember Marianne Means who loved
Lyndon and really worked on Bob. She was always a friend of mine. [But] I was
cold to her on the flight that night.”
During out last dinner Marianne
said to me: “I think it’s terrible Johnson has not gotten his due as a great
president and he was a great president. Look at all he did for civil rights.”
I agreed, then whispered,
“Vietnam.”
“Pew,” she said. (Yes, “pew” was
her exact quote.) “Vietnam was started by another president…. Johnson made sure
both his sons-in-law [Patrick Nugent and Charles Robb] served—in safe
positions, of course, but both went to Vietnam…. Ben Barnes [former Lt. Gov. of Texas] is now the leading
guy for helping us try to restore Johnson’s place in history.”
She talked about inviting President Johnson to one of her
weddings. “I think it was my second or third…. It was in my small house on 32nd
Street. Johnson came. My relatives still remember how they had left something
in the car and had to run outside to get it but couldn’t get back in because of
the Secret Service.”
“Must be nice to have a lover who
is protected at all times,” I said.
“Nice try, Kitty Poo, but I still
won’t tell you.”
We both laughed at my clumsy effort
to get more information, and now she, God bless her, gets the last laugh.
Photo: Kitty Kelley (seated);
Standing, left to right: Barbara Dixon, Susan Tolchin, Marianne Means and
Sandra MacElwaine.
Photo: Kitty Kelley (seated); Standing, left to right: Barbara
Dixon, Susan Tolchin, Marianne Means and Sandra MacElwaine.
Marianne Means’ national profile took off
after she started having a sexual affair with President Lyndon Johnson
“Marianne Means, political columnist and trailblazing
White House correspondent, dies at 83,” Harrison Smith, Washington Post,
12-3-2017”
QUOTE
Ms. Means
was in the lead press bus in Dallas, reporting on Kennedy's reelection
campaign, when the president was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. "Every
detail of the day will be imprinted on my mind forever," she later said,
recalling the bloodstained cushions of Kennedy's Lincoln Continental
convertible.
She then
covered the Johnson administration for two years, joining the president on
diplomatic trips abroad and to his ranch in the Texas Hill Country, where she filed
stories as a fast-driving Johnson raced around in an old fire engine and proclaimed, "This is why Barry Goldwater wanted to be
president."
She also wrote a book about first
ladies, "The Woman in the White House" (1963),
which featured interviews with Kennedy and former presidents Harry S. Truman
and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who discussed their wives' largely unheralded roles
in shaping public policy.
Ms. Means acquired a national profile as she began writing her
column in 1965, appearing on news programs as well as the "Tonight"
show with Johnny Carson and the CBS game show "What's My Line?"
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