Lyndon Johnson, on April 23, 1963 was the FIRST person to
announce that John Kennedy was coming, not merely to Texas, but to DALLAS and
LBJ was also urging that JFK be in a open motorcade in Dallas
LBJ Sees Kennedy Dallas Visit - One-Day Texas Tour~ Eyed ."
Dallas Times Herald
Page One
April 24, 1963
LBJ:
"President Kennedy's schedule would permit him to attend a breakfast in Ft.
Worth, a luncheon in Dallas, and an afternoon tea in San Antonio..."
He's the only pilot you have, and if the plane
goes down, you go down with it. At least wait until November before you shoot
him down."
LBJ to editors of Dallas Times Herald who were hyper critical of JFK on Tuesday
April 23, 1963 - also present were execs from KRCE: AM, FM and TV station.
Lyndon Johnson, despite Secret Service concerns, wanted JFK to be
driven through Dallas in an open motorcade
Jack Bell: “It was a wonderful day, beautiful weather. He came
down Dallas’s Main Street in a motorcade. Kennedy had overruled the Secret
Service, which wanted to take him directly from the airport to the Trade Mart
where he was supposed to make a speech. Johnson had not wanted that. He wanted Kennedy to go
through Dallas and demonstrate to these people – and to the world – that Dallas
loved Kennedy. The people did. Out in the streets they gave him a
terrific hand. Jackie was beautiful, and the people were rushing out to lay a
hand on the car if they couldn’t get to the president. We turned a corner, and
there was the Texas Schoolbook Depository.”
[Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, p. 312]
Jack Bell was a reporter for the Associated Press.
Jack Bell – Spartacus bio - https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbellJL.htm
Jack Bell oral history at JFK Library - https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKOH/Bell,%20Jack%20L/JFKOH-JLB-01/JFKOH-JLB-01-TR.pdf
New York Post 1/14/2007 - I
need a source for Hunt saying LBJ tried to get Connally to ride in his car in
Dallas
E. Howard Hunt - the shadowy former CIA man who organized the Watergate
break-in and was once eyed in the assassination of President Kennedy -
bizarrely says that Lyndon Johnson could be seen as a prime suspect in the rubout.
Only the most far-out conspiracy theorists believe in scenarios
like Hunt's. But in a new memoir, "American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA,
Watergate & Beyond," due out in April, Hunt, 88, writes: "Having
Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to
work for it himself, could have been a very tempting and logical move on Johnson's
part.
"LBJ had the money and the connections to
manipulate the scenario in Dallas and is on record as having convinced JFK to
make the appearance in the first place. He further tried unsuccessfully to
engineer the passengers of each vehicle, trying to get his good buddy, Gov. [John]
Connolly [sic], to ride with him instead of in JFK's car - where... he would
have been out of danger."
Doug Caddy talks about the time
he met Robert Caro; email to me on 6/7/12
Yes, and I have posted the story of this incident several times on
the EF's JFK assassination topic over the years.
The incident occurred in 1985 or 1986. Robert Caro was scheduled
to speak at the University of Houston about urban planning, etc. He is an
expert on this after having written about Robert Moses in "The Power
Broker" for which he was awarded a Pulitzer.
So my father and I attended Caro's lecture. Afterwards, when a crowd
had gathered around him informally to ask him questions, I spoke up and asked whether he
planned to write about Mac Wallace in his forthcoming books on LBJ. Caro's face
turned white and he looked shocked and startled and he then quickly grabbed the
lapels of my suit and asked who I was and how could he get in touch me with.
I introduced myself and gave him my business card but never heard anything more
from him.
It was around that time that Billie Sol Estes casually
mentioned to me that J. Evetts Haley and Caro had stopped by to visit with him
in Abilene but that he refused to see them.
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