by Roger Stone at X
Lyndon Johnson was under investigation for two of the biggest scandals in American political history: the Bobby Baker scandal and the Billie Sol Estes scandal.
The Senate hearings into Bobby Baker began on November 22, 1963. Johnson had also heard that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was telling people Johnson would be dropped from the 1964 ticket, prosecuted, and sent to prison.
In fact, Drew Pearson, the most influential syndicated columnist at the time, had already written a column set to be published on November 23, 1963—the day after JFK’s assassination. In it, he accused Johnson of taking a massive bribe in exchange for securing a defense contract for General Dynamics.
Lyndon Johnson was a man staring into the abyss. From his perspective, it was kill or be killed.
Johnson had a unique relationship with every element involved in the assassination of JFK:
Continue ReadingAs Senate Majority Leader, Johnson took the unusual step of appointing himself to the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, which oversaw the CIA’s secret black budget. In this role, he effectively became the CIA’s paymaster, overseeing its massive budget growth throughout the 1950s.
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