https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/06/the-assassination-tapes/302964/
Actually you can hear the Feb. 20, 1967 LBJ-Ramsey Clark conversation
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/conversation-ramsey-clark-february-20-1967 (Check and see if this audio web link is working. It was not working in early 2023 but I have been told that the glitch has been fixed.)
You can also hear the Feb. 20, 1967 LBJ-Ramsey Clark conversation on this website:
http://impiousdigest.com/dumbfucks/
Scroll down the page to the 1967 LBJ-Ramsey Clark conversation – Jim Garrison
was saying LBJ was involved, not Hale Boggs who had told Jim Garrison that the
Warren Report was garbage. Author Joan Mellen had found out by talking to Jim Garrison’s
wife Phyllis that it was Rep. Hale Boggs and not Sen. Russell Long who cued Jim
Garrison into knowing there was a dead rat in the JFK assassination official
story.
Interestingly, this
critical conversation between LBJ and Ramsey Clark is not on the internet at
the Miller Center: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/conversation-ramsey-clark-february-20-1967
The topics of the
conversation were “Jim Garrison Investigation of JFK Assassination, Drew
Pearson, Fidel Castro and Jimmy Hoffa”
[“The Assassination
Tapes,” Max Holland, The Atlantic, June, 2004.
QUOTE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1967, 9:40 A.M.
Call to Acting Attorney General Ramsey Clark
CLARK: I think that what he [Jim Garrison] is
workin' on must be the associations that Oswald had in the three or four months
that he was down there [in New Orleans] in '62 [and] '63. I doubt ... I think
it'd just be incredible if he [Garrison] had anything that went beyond that. I
think this subject is so volatile and emotional, though, that it could get
confused and obscured.
[Uncomfortably and
hesitantly] I had heard that Hale Boggs was sayin' [that] he—Garrison—was
sayin' that ... or privately around town [was saying] that it [the
assassination] could be traced back [to you] ... or that you could be found in
it someplace, which ... I can't believe he's been sayin' that. The Bureau says
they haven't heard any such thing, and they got lots of eyes and ears.
'Course, that was a
[credible] fella like Hale Boggs. But Hale gets pretty emotional about people
[like Garrison] that he really doesn't like, and people who have fought him and
been against him, and I would be more inclined to attribute it to that. Either
that, or this guy Garrison [is] just completely off his rocker.
JOHNSON: Who did Hale tell this to?
CLARK [somewhat in disbelief]: Apparently Marvin [Watson].1
JOHNSON [aside to Watson, who was in the room]: [Did] Hale tell
you that—Hale Boggs—that this fella [Garrison, this] district attorney down
there, said that this is traced to me or somethin'?
WATSON: Privately he [Garrison] was using your name as having
known about it [the assassination]. I said [to Boggs], Will you give this
information to Barefoot Sanders?2 Ramsey was out of town—this was Saturday
night. [Boggs] said, I sure will. So I asked the operator to get Barefoot and
Ramsey together, and they did.
JOHNSON [to Clark]: Yeah, I don't know about it. They don't ever
let me in on it, Marvin and Jake [Jacobsen] over here, so you have to call me
direct.3
CLARK: Well—
JOHNSON: They just think this stuff's for them.
CLARK: Such nutty things that ... it's awfully explosive but ...
The press, really, has quite a jaundiced eye about it ... and about Garrison,
so far.4 I had several press interviews out in Des Moines [on] Saturday evening
and afternoon, and the thrust of their questions is, What kind of nut is this?
UNQUOTE
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