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60 Years After JFK’s Death It Is More and More Apparent that Kennedy Was a Victim of a Palace Coup—Spearheaded by Vice-President Johnson | CovertAction Magazine (covertactionmagazine.com)

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This article is MASSIVE. My feed reader clocks it at an 80 minute read. Since my brain is fried from anxiety it takes me twice of the estimate.

I am trudging through it. TIL that the American president, Lyndon B. Johnson was a literal psychopath.

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[–] D3FNC@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look, nearly all criticism of LBJ is valid and true. Corrupt, power hungry, egotistical, deranged, sure. But he did have a soft spot for the (rural, white) poor and did wander backwards into signing some progressive bills.

That said, the CIA killed Kennedy because not only did he tell them no, he told them he was taking their toys away and sending them home. It was at this point that the slow road to having every president have direct, first degree links to American intelligence operations culminating with a former director of the CIA and has only gotten more shameless since then. Although, Trump I haven't looked into it much.

LBJ was just there, and I'm sure he immediately signaled he'd play whatever kind of ball they wanted to play.