Kennedys, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, KGB, Civil Rights Leaders, LBJ insiders, Texas liberals, Secret Service all believed Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis on the day after the JFK assassination: "The angrier agents among us commented rashly that they wouldn't be surprised if Johnson had something to do with the events in Dallas. We all knew how badly he wanted to be president."

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, above, said that some Secret Service agents were immediately suspecting LBJ in the JFK assassination

Jackie Kennedy immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination [Eddie Fisher, Been There, Done That: An Autobiography, pp. 257-258]

Radiant Jackie Kennedy was all smiles at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast honoring JFK on the morning of 11-22-1963, but within mere hours she was telling her press secretary Pamela Turnure (also a JFK mistress) that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination!

Pamela Turnure, above, was told by Jackie Kennedy in real time that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination. Pamela Turnure told this anecdote to her famous singer boyfriend Eddie Fisher who included it in his autobiography.

Summer of 1964: Jackie Kennedy's mother, Janet Auchincloss, believed that Lyndon Johnson had something to do with JFK's murder [Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie: Public Private Secret, p. 179]

Above: Jackie Kennedy pictured with her mother Janet Auchincloss who by summer 1964 believed that LBJ had killed JFK - a common belief among the Kennedys

JFK's secretary of 12 years, 1951-1963, Evelyn Lincoln immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination. Here is Lincoln's list of tops suspects which she wrote on the plane ride back from Dallas. LBJ was her top suspect. [http://www.justiceforkennedy.com/2010/12/evelyn-lincolns-list-of-suspects-in-jfk.html?zx=be91136b964d2435] 

Above: Evelyn Lincoln pictured with JFK and JFK, Jr.

Above: this is the list of suspects that JFK's secretary Evelyn Lincoln compiled on the back of an envelope in the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination. Lyndon Johnson tops her list! JFK had told Evelyn mere days before that he was going to remove LBJ as a candidate for the 1964 vice presidential spot.

Evelyn Lincoln on how lowly she thought of Lyndon Johnson:

Evelyn Lincoln was quite clear about who she thought was behind the JFK assassination and LBJ was in her list of perps!

Russian Oleg Nechiporenko, worked at the Russian embassy in Mexico City in 1963. He had many contacts in the Mexican FDS, their equivalent of the CIA. Many in the Mexican FDS immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination [Oleg Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 181]

Above is a photo of KGB Colonel Oleg Nechiporenko, who was stationed at Russia's embassy in Mexico City at the time of the JFK assassination. He said many in Mexican intelligence thought LBJ had murdered JFK.

Above: the flag of the Mexican DFS which is an intelligence agency with a long history of corruption. Many DFS operatives suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination.

Whitney Young was a very prominent civil rights activist in the 1960s. "Everywhere" he went asking questions, people told him Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK [Robert Parker, Capitol Hill in Black and White, p. 132]

Above: LBJ with civil rights leader Whitney Young in 1966. After the JFK assassination, Whitney Young said that "everywhere he went" in the wake of the JFK assassination political insiders were telling him that LBJ had murdered JFK

In December of 1966, J. Edgar Hoover wrote a memo to LBJ stating that the KGB, by September of 1965, had concluded that Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination [Here is the link to the actual document: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32204484.pdf ]

LBJ and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover were neighbors in Washington, D.C. from 1943-1961 and they were very close personal friends. Hoover would often go the LBJ's house for brunch on Sunday.

Longtime CIA operative E. Howard Hunt believed that Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the JFK assassination:

Watergate burglar and longtime CIA operative E. Howard Hunt stated before he died in 2007 that he thought LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

Madeleine Brown, a longtime mistress to LBJ and mother to his son Steven, made it clear to anyone who ever talked with her that she thought LBJ, the man she loved, was behind the JFK assassination:

Madeleine Brown (1925-2002) was an inner circle mistress of LBJ from 1948-1969. She had a son Steven with LBJ and Madeleine firmly believed for the rest of her life that LBJ had JFK murdered.

Barr McClellan, alive today in October, 2023 was a hotshot lawyer and top oil and gas attorney in Texas in the 1960s. Barr worked with Ed Clark and Don Thomas, two of Lyndon Johnson's closest friends.

Photo: 1969 LBJ, Tom Johnson, Lady Bird and Ed Clark who used to brag to his law firm members that he was involved in the JFK assassination.

Above: prominent Texas oil and gas lawyer Barr McClellan was told by two of LBJ's closest associates, power broker Ed Clark and LBJ tax attorney Don Thomas, that Ed Clark and LBJ were behind the JFK assassination. A third attorney at Barr's firm, John Coates, said the same thing.

 Both Ed Clark and Don Thomas said Ed Clark was behind JFK's murder and this meant LBJ was as well because LBJ and Ed Clark were so close:

Richard Nixon, whose code for the JFK assassination was "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" also thought Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination. Nixon told his young aide Roger Stone, "Both Johnson and I wanted to be president, but the only difference was I wouldn't kill for it."

Richard Nixon firmly believed that Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination and that it was also related to the "whole Bay of Pigs thing," which according to H.R. Haldeman was Nixon's code phrase for the JFK assassination. 

By 1973 Sen. Barry Goldwater had come to believe that Lyndon Johnson was behind the JFK assassination. Arizonan Jeffrey Hoff told me that Barry Goldwater told him this at a public event BBQ in October, 1973. [Robert Morrow interview in November, 2012 at JFK Lancer conference in Dallas]

 Goldwater had also read and complimented Fred Newcomb's 1974 book on the JFK assassination, Murder From Within, which posited that LBJ murdered JFK. Goldwater wrote Fred Newcomb and said "the book ... seems to be very concise, detailed, documented" as he complimented the book. 

Here is 2011 edition of Murder From Within:

Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci (1913-1992), the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence and a man very close to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, also thought LBJ murdered JFK. Gen. Cappucci told this to his top aide Col. William Henry Amos and his wife Jan Amos who told this story in an oral history with the Sixth Floor Museum. [Robert Morrow interview of Jan Amos at her home in Dallas, July 31, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CetTAKiGY1Y ] Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci:

Bill Ballew (William V. Ballew, 1918-1996) - head of the Harris County, TX Democratic party around 1963 - immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination. Bill Ballew was listening to the radio at the news from Dallas and said to himself "Lyndon, what have you done?" Bill Ballew was co-chairman of LBJ's 1964 election campaign in Harris County, TX)

[William V. Ballew, this man, believed LBJ had just murdered JFK: Collection: William V. Ballew, Jr. papers | ArchivesSpace Public Interface (rice.edu) and William Virgil Ballew Jr. (1918-1996) - Find a Grave Memorial

Bill Bunch, who married into the family of Bill Ballew, told me that the family of Bill Ballew told him that Bill Ballew, a liberal Democratic chairman of Harris County, immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination.

Robert Morrow email conversation (3/6/14) with Bill Bunch, a local environmental activist in Austin:

Robert Morrow: “Btw, what was the name of your father-in-law who was Harris County Demo chairman on the day of the JFK assassination and who immediately suspected LBJ? What exactly did he tell you - he was driving, listening to the radio, and then said to himself LBJ did it? He was not the only one. Other people have told me their parents said "Lyndon what have you done..."”

Bill Bunch: “Bill Ballew; he was one of the few and perhaps only Democrats at the Vinson and Elkins law firm in Houston; by the time I knew him he had suffered encephalitis and was not all there; his family members told me this story, so it is second hand; I am fairly sure he had been Harris County democratic party chair for a number of years.

Sunshine Williams (known in the early 1960’s as Imogene Williams) – said that the progressive young Democrats in Texas immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination – and not only that Bill Kilgarlin (1932-2012), the Head of the Harris County Democratic Party, immediately suspected LBJ in murdering JFK. Kilgarlin later became a Texas Supreme Court Justice (1983-1988)

[June 11, 2015 phone interview with Robert Morrow with Sunshine Williams of Austin, TX]

(Sunshine Williams, above with LBJ, was a tied into the Texas young progressive Democrats in 1963; by 1964 she was a reporter for a Houston, TX radio station. Around or on election day 1964 LBJ tried to get Sunshine to hop on the campaign plane and go back to the LBJ Ranch with him. Sunshine told me LBJ was ready to kick someone else off the plane. Johnson, obviously, had a sexual interest in Sunshine.)

Above: Sunshine Williams (born May 29, 1934) was a progressive Democrat at the time of the JFK assassination. She said that prominent Houston Democrat Bill Kilgarlin immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination. Sunshine later worked in real estate in Austin, TX and for a time owned a restaurant. Sunshine also believed to the end of her life that LBJ had murdered JFK.

           Sunshine Williams, later a real estate agent in the Austin area, was a member of the progressive wing of the young Democrats in Texas in the early 1960s. She says that many young liberal Texas Democrats suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination. “We all did. Everybody did.” Additionally Sunshine said that Bill Kilgarlin, the head of the Harris County Democratic Party and a later a judge, immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination.

          Sunshine was at Amarillo Air Force base in the 1960 when JFK and LBJ campaigned there. Sunshine was standing down below on the tarmac of that famous photo of JFK trying to restrain LBJ: http://i.imgur.com/zU1nVKn.jpg Sunshine says that Gen. William  Lee, the head of Amarillo Air Force base, was a John Bircher and he intentionally kept to F-15s revved up at high level as a way of disrespecting the campaigning Democrats.

          Sunshine says that in 1963 the progressive Young Democrats of Texas immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination. Sunshine says, “We all did. Everybody did [suspect LBJ in the JFK assassination.” (She says Ann Richards, David Richards, Barbara Jordan were all members of the Young Democrats of that era but she does not know what they felt about the JFK assassination.)

William "Bill" Kilgarin (1932-2012) became a justice on the Texas Supreme Court from 1983-1988. At the time of the JFK assassination, Kilgarin was the head of the Harris County Democratic party and he believed LBJ had murdered JFK. 

          Sunshine says that Bill Kilgarlin, the head of the Harris County Democratic Party, immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination. She said that Kilgarlin openly expressed this opinion among his progressive Democratic friends and that the view of “LBJ Did It” was rife among them.

          Sunshine says there were two factions of the Texas Democratic party in the 1960’s One faction was the progressives and it was composed of labor, Mexicans, women, unions, Teamsters and Farmers’ Union. The other faction was the LBJ-Connally faction and its big players were oil and insurance companies and Farmer Bureau.

          Sunshine said that she had a premonition that JFK was going to be killed and it disturbed her so much that she took off work on the day of the JFK assassination. After it had occurred she was devastated but many if not all of her progressive Democratic friends immediately suspected LBJ in the JFK assassination.

Justice William W. Kilgarin, 1932 – 2012 – (before he was a judge) immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination

The Fort Worth, TX police Department also immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson in the JFK assassination

Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood: after the JFK Assassination the government received an inflow of mail from people who were convinced LBJ had murdered JFK. Rufus Youngblood was LBJ's Secret Service agent and Youngblood was in de facto charge of the Secret Service in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. 

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           After John Kennedy was killed, the cranks across the country who were getting out pen and paper at the time to write him a threatening letter merely changed the name and mailed it to Lyndon Johnson. In addition to the predictable flow of mail, there was an additional inpouring from those who were convinced Johnson was somehow implicated in the assassination.

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[Rufus Youngblood, 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents, p. 128, second edition, 2018]

Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood, a crony of Lyndon Johnson, leading Lyndon Johnson out of Parkland Hospital on 11-22-1963 as they were on the way to Love Field and Air Force One.

And last, but not least, Robert Morrow, the World's Leading Authority on the JFK assassination, believes that Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK: