Excerpt From My Book "JFK and the End of America"

From chapter one:

After the assassination, the two men warily circled one another. Johnson kept constant tabs on the progress of the Warren Commission, and the shadow of Dulles’s renegade CIA always loomed over Johnson. According to the memos of Paul Rothermel, ex-FBI man and head of security for Dallas oil billionaire H.L. Hunt, “Lyndon Johnson [was] mortally afraid of being assassinated and does not trust the Secret Service…and has ordered the FBI to be present everywhere he goes…”11 This might have been a figment of Johnson’s enormous paranoia, for the guilty plotters knew better than to turn on one another for fear of mutual destruction. Then again, Johnson saw first-hand in Dallas what the CIA and the Secret Service were capable of, and he surely never fully trusted the CIA.

With JFK’s death, Johnson achieved his life-long obsession of becoming president, he stayed out of prison by quashing congressional investigations into his shady business dealings, and, by becoming the most powerful man in the free world, he was able to cover up his involvement in the crime of the century. By killing JFK, he had also neutralized his hated enemy Bobby Kennedy, who was powerless without the backing of his brother.

With JFK out of the way, no longer did Johnson have to worry about the Kennedys, who “…were out to ruin [Johnson] completely by making him look like a crook.”12

Dulles also reaped immense benefits from the death of JFK. His vision of a world dominated by an elite cadre of plutocrats was restored. His beloved CIA was preserved; without meddling from the Kennedys, the agency’s illegal and unconstitutional operations flourished, and its power over American and international policy became more dominant than ever. The Cold War, which JFK wanted to end, became hotter than ever. Dulles’s clients and assets were enriched by war and the expansion of American imperialism. The largest impediment to Dulles’s quasi-Fascist America had been surgically removed. It was sweet revenge for his bitter ouster after the Bay of Pigs. As Dulles once told magazine editor Willie Morris, “That little Kennedy, he thought he was a god.”13

Upon Kennedy’s death, the two titans of American governance were restored to positions of such power that they were beyond any prosecution. One man stacked the investigatory commission with men he could easily control, and the other man became the de facto head of that fraudulent commission. It is hard to bring killers to justice when the killers are the ones conducting the murder investigation.

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