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2017-10-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Unsealed docs reveal KGB thought LBJ could have been behind JFK assassination

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-27 01:18|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 LBJ was a dirty SOB who rigged one election, so the KGB speculation isn't completely unfounded.

Posted by Raj 2017-10-27 01:29|| 2017-10-27 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The Soviet Union theorized that President Lyndon B. Johnson could have been behind JFK’s assassination.

Because that's the way it's done in the Soviet Union. Other Johnson-Soviet parallels in political methodology were to be revealed during the course of the Johnson presidency.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-27 01:35|| 2017-10-27 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Johnson may have hinted or implied his involvement to intimidate or impress certain people, which doesn't mean he was involved.

Posted by phil_b 2017-10-27 02:57|| 2017-10-27 02:57|| Front Page Top

#4 People just can't accept that a two bit loser could of killed a sitting president. Of the four assasinated presidents only Abe was killed by a person of public reputation.
And your right Raj. LBJ was a sonofabitch. But its not like he was the only one around. Imagine the mess it would have been if Kennedy had been killed in Palm Beach by the guy with the suicide bomb before the EC voted in December of '60

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-10-27 06:16|| 2017-10-27 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Not big into conspiracy theories, but a shot through the neck and the windshield says something different.

Posted by newc 2017-10-27 10:37|| 2017-10-27 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The Kennedy brothers were Democrats but were assassinated by extreme leftists because they were too far to the right.

#5. The shot through the windshield was because the car was going down hill and angling perpendicular to Oswalds bolt action rifle and accelerating. Oswald led too much on his final shot.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-10-27 15:20|| 2017-10-27 15:20|| Front Page Top

#7 A-HA!

"The shot through the windshield was because the car was going down hill and angling perpendicular to Oswalds bolt action rifle and accelerating. Oswald led too much on his final shot."

Posted by newc 2017-10-27 16:42|| 2017-10-27 16:42|| Front Page Top

#8 The Kennedy brothers were Democrats but were assassinated by extreme leftists because they were too far to the right.

The Kennedy's weren't particularly right-wing for that period. On national security, they were making up for lost time. Note that Truman downplayed the Communist threat until the Korean War broke out. He could have avoided that problem in its entirety by continuing to provide material aid to Chiang Kai-shek, who ran out of gas as the Soviets opened the throttle on shipments to Mao. On domestic issues, they were fully of the left, starting with their attempt to make the US a mini-UN via the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, which opened the floodgates to 3rd World immigration.

I don't fully understand the Right's infatuation with JFK. The guy was a left-wing dilettante who caused many of the problems that plague us today.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-10-27 17:58|| 2017-10-27 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 People just can't accept that a two bit loser could of killed a sitting president.

Something about a Marine and a rifle Lee Harvey Oswald speech from Full Metal Jacket

Posted by SteveS 2017-10-27 18:00|| 2017-10-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

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