6 Washington insiders who suspected a JFK plot
Jefferson Morley
July 22, 2022
Defenders of the semi-official theory of JFK’s assassination sometimes suggest that anyone who disagrees is deluded or dishonest.
…The JFK story according to seven U.S. presidents
Jefferson Morley
April 27, 2018
Before Donald Trump made his false claim that Ted Cruz’s father once associated with accused presidential assassin Lee Oswald, six previous U.S. presidents had offered opinions about who killed JFK. …
Woody Harrelson’s ‘LBJ’ is important American History brought to light
Jefferson Morley
November 6, 2017
In his era, Johnson was rightly vilified in his escalation of the Vietnam War, but in other areas of legislation (the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the anti-poverty Great Society) LBJ sought to uplift the underclass in this country, based on an empathy that is smartly expressed in the film. The assassination of JFK was a shocking act, and it was Johnson in the aftermath who had to reset the path of a nation.
Source: ‘LBJ’ is Important American History Brought to Light
Joan Mellen on the USS Liberty attack
Jefferson Morley
July 7, 2017
Joan Mellen sends word she is writing a book about the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. I recently posted about James Angleton’s role in the incident. …
RFK’s secret campaign to become LBJ’s Vice President
Jefferson Morley
May 26, 2017
By late July, Johnson could no longer risk waiting until the Democratic convention to remove Kennedy from vice presidential consideration. The president called his attorney general on Monday, July 27, and asked him to come to the White House—Tuesday, if he could—to talk over “some other matters.”
Source: Robert Kennedy’s Secret Campaign to Become Lyndon Johnson’s Vice President
Love Field has a problem with JFK’s assassination
Jefferson Morley
November 27, 2016
While a large number of Americans shudder at the turbulent transition currently underway, the change in administrations that took place a half-century ago in Dallas was equally historic – as well as sudden and violent.
Source: Dallas has a problem with JFK’s assassination – U.S. – Stripes
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Joan Mellen on LBJ, Texas, and JFK
Jefferson Morley
October 17, 2016
Recommended: Alan Dale speaks with Joan Mellen about her new book “Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas.”
In a new look at LBJ, Joan Mellen debunks the Mac Wallace myth
Jefferson Morley
October 12, 2016
In her new book about Lyndon Johnson, Faustian Bargains, Joan Mellen does something all too rare in the world of JFK research. She checked an oft-asserted “fact,” and found it isn’t a fact at all, but a fiction.
But first, the book. Faustian Bargains is intended less as a biography of LBJ than a portrait of the “robber baron culture” of Texas” and corrective to Robert Caro’s magisterial multi-volume biography, which Mellen scorns for its favorable depiction of LBJ’s political skills and legislative accomplishments.
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Woody Harrelson on playing LBJ
Jefferson Morley
September 17, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6yxpgTzRhA
The movie chronicles LBJ’s private fears, questions, and ideological splits with Kennedy before the rivals became running mates—and how JFK’s assassination changed LBJ’s politics. “He did adopt a big swath of JFK’s policies so it would be hard to not see it that way,” said Harrelson. “I’m not sure how much of it was motivated by his depth of emotion or by what he considered to be politically expedient. It’s really hard to read him. He’s a fascinating character.”
Source: Woody Harrelson Is Ready for a Revolution: ‘I Don’t Really Believe in Government’ – The Daily Beast
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JFK Facts podcast: 28 pages on 9/11, another Dallas nightmare, and more…
Alan Dale
July 15, 2016
Our 7th podcast. This week we discuss:
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The message in the Kennedy Kards
Jefferson Morley
May 30, 2016
The now poignant Kennedy Kards deck was published in early 1963 when the public infatuation with JFK had been revitalized by his statesmanship in the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962.
JFK was the Jack of Hearts, First Lady Jackie the Queen of Hearts, and Bobby Kennedy, the King of Diamonds.
“Long live the King, Queen and Jack,” proclaimed an informational card that came with the deck.
Within the year, the Jack of Clubs, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, would be president. …
Meet Joan Mellen, a prolific provocateur of American history
Jefferson Morley
April 12, 2016
There is no JFK author more provocative, more entertaining, more knowledgeable, more infuriating, and more fun than Joan Mellen. …
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