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The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ Paperback – September 2, 2014
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From the mind of consummate political insider Roger Stone, unofficial adviser to Donald Trump and subject of the documentary Get Me Roger Stone, comes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK.
Stone maps out the case that LBJ blackmailed his way on the ticket in 1960 and was being dumped in 1964 to face prosecution for corruption at the hands of his nemesis attorney Robert Kennedy. Stone uses fingerprint evidence and testimony to prove JFK was shot by a long-time LBJ hit man—not Lee Harvey Oswald.
President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas, from the criminal underworld, and from the United States government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it.
Legendary political operative and strategist Roger Stone has gathered documents and uses his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK’s assassination, but was in fact the mastermind.
- Print length480 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSkyhorse
- Publication dateSeptember 2, 2014
- Dimensions6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101629144894
- ISBN-13978-1629144894
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—Former U.S. Attorney David Marston
I think this is probably the most definitive book . . . the most speculation free and certainly the most rubbish free work I have ever read on the subject. You would be doing yourself an enormous favor to get it, read it, digest in, and maybe read it again.
—John B. Wells, Coast to Coast
Any serious student of politics or history should read Roger Stone's stunning new book The Man Who Killed Kennedy.
—Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Roger Stone nails LBJ for JFK murder!
—James O' Keefe III, journalist, filmmaker
Stone's evidence is compelling and fascinating.
—Dick Morris, political author, commentator, and consultant
GREAT book, you have it covered very well.
—Phil Nelson, author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
Roger Stone is likely the only person who both had access to higher levels of government and is willing to stake his reputation on this particular theory.
—PolicyMic
Stone’s indictment of Lyndon Johnson deserves to be taken more seriously than anyone else’s.
—JFKfacts.org
Has evidence Lyndon B. Johnson arranged John F. Kennedy's assassination
—Daily Mail UK
Startling revelations
—Sunday Times of London
America's biggest cover-up exposed after 50 years!
—The Globe
Bombshell new evidence!
—National Enquirer
After 50 years, Stone exposes the truthLBJ did it.
—Florida Courant
Backs up the bombshell claim of President Lyndon B. Johnson's former mistress, that LBJ was the power-crazed mastermind behind the assassination of the man he replaced in the White House, John F. Kennedy!
—National Examiner
LBJ was far more evil, ruthless and unbalanced than we were told.
—South Florida Post
Explosive!
—Radaronline.com
Groundbreaking.
—East Orlando Post
Stone's book will change American history forever!
—Robert Morrow, historian
About the Author
Mike Colapietro is an investigative journalist and researcher who received his bachelors from Eastern Connecticut State and is studying for Masters from the University of South Florida. His work has appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, Smoke Magazine, and Yahoo.com.
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- Publisher : Skyhorse; Reprint edition (September 2, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 480 pages
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- Dimensions : 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
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Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative, speaker, pundit, and New York Times Bestselling Author featured in the Netflix documentary “Get me Roger Stone”. A veteran of ten national presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to four Republican presidents including Nixon, Reagan and Donald J. Trump. Mr. Stone served as Chairman of Donald Trump’s Presidential Exploratory Committee in 2000 and Strategic Consultant in 2012.
An outspoken libertarian, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ”, the Clinton’s War on Women, The Bush Crime Family, and the Making of the President 2016- How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution. Mr. Stone has written for Fox Opinion, Infowars, Breitbart News, StoneZone, the Daily Caller, and the New York Times.
A well-known voice in politics for over forty years, Roger Stone often gives insights on behind-the-scenes political agendas at StoneColdTruth.com and StoneZone.com, as well as InfoWars.com, where he hosts an hour long show five days a week. Follow him at StoneColdTruth.com
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Among what I would call the "bombshells" in the book are the following:
1. Richard Nixon was among many millions who saw on TV Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby. His response to an aide at that moment was, "I know that guy." The aide did not ask whom Nixon recognized since he worked in an environment where you only spoke to Nixon when spoken to. Years later, after he was out of office, Nixon is quoted as having said to the author that he recognized the shooter as Jack Ruby, someone he knew back in the day when Nixon was a congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee and Lyndon Johnson had asked that Jack Ruby be hired to act as LBJ's informant on what was going on. Nixon referred to Ruby as "Johnson's guy." The fact that LBJ had known Jack Ruby for a long time and Ruby had worked for him previously in a clandestine manner adds a lot of credence to the book's conclusion that LBJ had a part in Kennedy's death and the cover-up of the facts following the assassination.
2. JFK's motorcade route through Dallas was not published in the Dallas newspapers until the morning of November 22, 1963. Given that Oswald had to travel from Irving, Texas to Dallas to get to work, he would not have had access to what was published in the newspapers until after he got to work, at the earliest, about three hours before the assassination. The actual motorcade route was not established until November 18, 1963, so nobody, including the Secret Service, had any knowledge before then about where the route would actually be. It seems logical to conclude that someone with inside knowledge passed the route on to Oswald, assuming he was the shooter.
3. I was unaware that there was another fingerprint found on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository that was identified as being from the pinky finger of a Mac Wallace. This was the same Mac Wallace for whom LBJ spent an inordinate amount of time and effort in getting a suspended sentence (ultimately expunged) for a conviction of first-degree murder in Texas. The author links Wallace to a number of other subsequent murders that benefited LBJ at critical times in his career.
4. I was unaware that there was a soldier on leave in Dallas that day, Gordon Arnold, who happened to be standing near the fence at the back end of the grassy knoll. He had just completed basic training which included having to deal with live ammunition and was filming the motorcade passing by. He is clear and convincing on YouTube in describing how he felt a bullet pass behind and near his left ear at the time of the third and fatal shot to Kennedy's head. He was not asked to testify before the Warren Commission, even though someone impersonating a CIA officer demanded and confiscated Arnold's film when the record shows there were no CIA or Secret Service personnel at Dealey Plaza immediately following the assassination. It is also notable that the critical frames of the Zapruder film were suppressed for so many years by the FBI until the public finally got to see in 1977 the massive damage done to Kennedy from the one frontal shot and how his head was propelled backwards, something Arnold probably also caught on film.
5. I was unaware that just seconds prior to the first shots ringing out on Elm Street, LBJ ducked down so far into the back seat of his limousine following the Secret Service car that followed Kennedy's car, that in a photograph taken at that moment he is not even visible in the back seat next to Lady Bird.
6. The book does a credible job of showing how the Warren commission was a hurried whitewash of facts so that the desired result of the lone shooter would be established.
7. Also credible are the accounts of people who worked at or frequented Jack Ruby's strip club who recall that on more than one occasion they saw Ruby and Oswald altogether. The author also points out that after Ruby left the Texas Book Depository he had traveled by bus and was walking in a direction very near Ruby's apartment when he had the encounter with Officer Tippit. Stone suggests from this fact that it could have been Oswald's plan to link up with Ruby. Stone leaves unexplained how anybody other than Oswald could have killed Officer Tippit, or why Oswald would have done that if he was not one of the shooters.
8. The book points out the sad irony of Frank Sinatra being the person who probably put into motion the players and events that led to Kennedy's assassination. Sinatra was a friend of Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, and through Giancana Chicago was delivered to Kennedy and thus the election in 1960. In 1961 Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke and could no longer talk, and his sons John and Bobby did not honor the promises their father had made to the mob for the money and votes they got in order to win the election. Instead of going easy on the mob, Bobby Kennedy mounted an aggressive campaign to destroy them. Giancana suffered a huge loss of face with the rest of the Mafia for having been suckered by Sinatra. Giancana even went so far as to put out a hit on Sinatra. Giancana later withdrew the contract on Sinatra only because he didn't want to be responsible for killing such a talented singer.
One thing that comes through in all the conspiracy theories is that there was a rich collection of powerful people all of whom would have been glad to see Kennedy dead. I think it is not improbable that there could've been more than one conspiracy afoot at the time of Kennedy's assassination and that they may or may not have known of one another until they literally bumped into each other on November 22, 1863. Of course, after taking big factual stretches to support improbable theories on things like the trajectory of the bullets and their number, and coming up with shaky explanations for the sound recording of the shots recorded on one of the Dallas police officer's Dictabelt tape, it is possible, though I think remote, that Oswald was the lone shooter. I think it is reasonable that a large number of Americans, myself included, simply don't accept that. With so many powerful people with strong motives, and the way the autopsy was botched and other evidence contaminated or lost, and the follow-up investigation clearly manipulated, it is hard to think otherwise.
Stone could have, and in my mind should have left LBJ's culpability at around the level of his knowing what was going to happen without necessarily having to have orchestrated or initiated the plot itself. There simply is no evidence to show that LBJ was the one who hatched and directed the assassination. There is, however, plenty of evidence that he was involved in the cover-up. Stone makes a strong circumstantial case in that direction, but I think he undercuts his own credibility by making some major leaps of faith that LBJ masterminded the assassination.
So much surrounding the Kennedy assassination is one big Rohrschach test. People tend to see what they want to see. The controversy over LBJ's role in JFK's death will certainly never go away. It is a legacy LBJ probably richly deserves regardless of his degree of participation in the plot. He certainly was a major mastermind in the cover-up.
I heard Roger Stone do a radio interview on his book and realized I had read little to nothing on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I didn't go see the Oliver Stone film. I found it strange that I've read books on the Viet Nam War and Watergate - the other two defining political events in my growing up years - but I had never taken the time to accept or reject the Warren Commission. It's interesting that in the back of my mind I've sort of known there are two self-contradictory popular beliefs that guide popular perception on the Kennedy assassination:
1. the Warren Report is seriously flawed
2. anyone that presents an alternative view of the Warren Report is a kook
So who does Roger Stone - longtime political strategist for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, and George W. Bush - say killed JFK? Since he has a picture of President Lyndon Baines Johnson on the cover and subtitles the book, The Case Against LBJ, I'm not giving a spoiler to tell you where this book is going. (Note: Stone is equally hard on Republicans as Democrats; he is an equal opportunity sledgehammer.)
His attack on the Warren Report - from his rejection of the "magic bullet" (the conclusion that the same bullet went completely through Kennedy's body and then hit Texas Governor John Connelly, breaking his leg), to the 50+ witnesses present that said there was gunfire from the grassy knoll and whose testimony was deemed unreliable - was all fascinating.
But what makes the book sizzle is his depiction of Johnson as a psychopath who had at least eight men murdered to protect and promote his political career. (The Box 13 incident that got him elected to the Senate in 1946 is just as surreal as the alleged murders in his wake.) Stone sets out to show how the parties that would most benefit from Kennedy's death worked together, including the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, a few renegades in the CIA tied to the Bay of Pigs and several failed assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, certain Texas oilmen, and first and foremost, the man who stood the most to gain and who could organize the plot and then perform the most important function to hold it all together - controlling the evidence - namely Lyndon Baines Johnson.
How was the book? If you can get past the typos of a self-published bestselling outlier, Stone's writing was fine and propelled you through the pages. It was as or more titillating than many a political suspense thriller.
Did Stone make the case against LBJ? Like any argument based on an historical event; you have to present - and hope the readers / listeners believe - a boatload of circumstantial evidence, assembled cogently, and wrapped up neatly with a bow on top. Did I believe him? I think I can confidently say this: Even if all Stone's assumptions and dot connecting aren't correct, he made an overwhelming case that the Warren Commission and its report was a sham that was designed to protect powerful participants in a plot that could not be subsumed within a lone gunman theory.
Is this the best book to read if you haven't read anything else about the Kennedy Assassination? Go back to the two popular beliefs: the Warren Report was flawed and conspiracy theorists are kooks. An author like Bill O'Reilly tries to make the case that both of those beliefs are still absolutely true - and that he has written a groundbreaking book. (And after reading Stone I'm finding Killing Kennedy decidedly unsatisfactory.) So why not Stone? You'll learn about the political winds of the day, the dominant views, and an alternative view that was there from the moment JFK was shot. If it doesn't go down right, there are a myriad of more traditional primers.
What a information packed read -- almost to the point there were so many characters involved, you might loose track -- but the hundreds of incidents that stack up, and the intertwining of relationships, and events can't help but keep you glued to the book (that is if your interested in this sorta stuff).
The author apparently did one heck of a lot of research to put together this book. Was a good purchase and well worth reading (IMHO). If your interested in the assassination of both JFK and Bobby, this is your read. Enjoy
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The book shows LBJ was involved in several political murders including using hit men one of who’s fingerprints were found on cardboard boxes in the sniper’s nest at the Texas School Book Depository after the assassination. It is also interesting that eyewitness testimony showed LBJ ducking down in his limousine 10 seconds BEFORE the first shots rang out on 22/11/63! It’s a good read and the author really makes the case of LBJ being the mastermind behind it all.
“Gran cosa la Storia… peccato che non sia vera…" ( Tolstoy) ciò nonostante qualcosa di vero ogni tanto si fa strada… e “Il vero è brutto” diceva un altro… Buona lettura.
A long-time political operative, Stone knew and interacted with many of the principal players involved in the assassination and subsequent cover up. His book is the product of decades of insider knowledge and extensive research. In it, he pulls together findings and observations by other assassination researchers (identified in extensive foot notes) and his own observations to make the case against LBJ.
In a logically organized series of chapters he shows how LBJ, aided and abetted by Texas oilmen, the CIA, the FBI, the mob, and the purveyors of the largely fictional Warren Commission report, pulled off the crime of the century and then covered it up. Regrettably, the cover up continues to this day but, with works like Stones', it's coming apart at the seams.
In the book's conclusion, Stone poses the question: "Why care about a murder that occurred fifty years ago." His answer: "The Kennedy assassination goes hand in hand with the distrust of government that sprung up in the late 1960s which he suggests "dug the foundation for the distrust and lies that landed us in the Vietnam War and the Watergate break in."
"In order to earn back the trust of the people," he says, "it's the government's responsibility to come clean." No kidding!.