Ex-presidents, Johnson widow call for JFK film probe

[kskiska]

LOS ANGELES - Two former presidents and a former first lady are calling on the History Channel to investigate a documentary it aired alleging President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, said the film "falsely and irresponsibly" accuses her husband of conspiring to kill President John F. Kennedy.

No accusation made against Johnson "has hurt as painfully," the 91-year-old Mrs. Johnson said in a Jan. 29 letter. Her husband died in 1973.

Copies of her letter were sent to the chief executives of three companies that own A&E Networks, which includes the History Channel. The letters went to Bob Wright of NBC, Victor Ganzi of Hearst Corp. and Michael Eisner of The Walt Disney Co.

Former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter also sent letters citing the documentary, "The Guilty Men," which aired in November as part of a series of History Channel specials on the assassination.

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/7858641.htm

[wuushew]

1. Why is George H. Bush absent from this request

Is he no longer considered an Ex-President of the United States?

What is he hiding?

[DODI]

2. Try this link below, is he hiding something?

I truly don't buy into this conspiracy stuff, but found this interesting.

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones07.htm

[hang a left]

3. thanks for the link!

[wuushew]

4. If he never worked for the CIA why was he considered qualified as director

Usually in a typical bureaucracy, management is promoted from within. Also why did George H. Bush only remain director for one year. Was he considered a failure? In that short time he certainly set the ground work for many bad things the Middle East and Central Asia.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. Poppy Bush was a long-time CIA employee...

....with an association with the intelligence communities dating back to WWII. His bloody fingerprints are all over Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.

For instance, two landing craft were acquired from the U. S. Navy for the Bay of Pigs landing in Cuba. After repainting, the two craft were named the "Barbara" and the "Houston". Additionally, the operation was codenamed Operation Zapata...Poppy's oil company was known as the Zapata Offshore Oil Drilling Company.

Even more bizarre is the fact that a fellow by the name of George DeMohrenschildt had Poppy's address in his address book...DeMohrenschildt was Oswald's handler when Oswald moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In Oswald's address book was found the name of George DeMohrenschildt. By the way, Oswald had a CIA 201 personnel file...meaning that he worked for the CIA.

What a tangled web we weave.

By the way, Poppy was replaced as Director of the CIA by a man that Carter appointed when Carter became President in 1976. Ford, our first unelected president (Junior being the second) had earlier appointed Poppy as the Director of the CIA. Ford was also one of the commissioners on the Warren Commission that white-washed the JFK assassination.

Popy's contemporaries in the CIA would have included E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, and Frank Sturgis, men that were later involved in the Watergate burglary. Those same men, to include Al Haig, worked for Nixon as part of the 5412 Group, a covert ops organization that was involved in the assassination of at least one head-of-state.

[aquart]

10. Source, link for Oswald's CIA personnel file?

It's new news to me and I thought I was well read on this.

[nolabels]

5. I still remember the day I got a mailer from Ford before a election

His plead was for us voters to inact this bond mesure to make funds availible for road improvements in the voting district. He was distrught for the reason of his difficulties to get on the freeway from his residence in Palm Springs (it's starting get crowded around them parts now, you know).

It was just breaking my heart for him after reading it, knowing that he pardoned Nixon and everything. Gee what an inconveinence for the poor guy, I am sure them people in Indochina feel for him, after giving Dick a "get out jail for free" card

http://www.vnrc.org.vn/orange_fund/photo02.html

[leesa]

6. Where was GH Bush the day Kennedy died. He can't seem to recall

Odd, isn't it?

[kath]

19. Yeah, that really freaks me out -- virtually everyone in the country who

was over the age of 6 at the time (I was 7 and remember it clearly) remembers exactly where they were when they heard the news --EXCEPT GHW BUSH.

[Dogmudgeon]

21. I was five ...

... and I remember the day very well.

It was a quiet day. So quiet it spooked me.

Everybody was at home, in front of their TVs, and many of them were weeping. I would peek in through the windows and see them.

My kindergarten teacher told us that the President had been shot and was probably going to die. We were sent home early. By the time I did get home, he had died. I felt like someone or something had poisoned the whole world.

I never had that feeling again until about 28 months ago.

Funny. I was about the same age as those kids in Florida who had the dubious privilege of a visit from the Dim Son.

--bkl

[yowzayowzayowza]

7. "falsely and irresponsibly"

Yet they still do not provide a single instance of falsehood in the episode. Hmmmm...

[teryang]

8. This is a bunch of crap

The cable channels that published this should be commended for exercising their first amendment rights for a change.

Maybe next they'll publish something on the Bush complicity in the attempted assassination of Reagan.

[MajorFlaw]

11. That's a new one on me

The suggestion that the Bushes had something to do with the attempt on Reagan; care to provide a link.

[Ediacara]

12. I think he was making a comparison

Kennedy's VP was implicated by the cable station in Kennedy's assasination, maybe next, that station will produce a show implicating Bush Sr in Reagan's assasination attempt.

Both allegations are baseless.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

14. No, there is a direct link...

Here is a good example:

Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting
The Associated Press Domestic News
March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle

HOUSTON
The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today.

Neil Bush

The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons.
http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

[SpiralHawk]

22. Ahhh, Silverado Neil Bush

Another paragon of Bush Family Values, just like Marvelous Marvin Bush, who apparently magically manifests underage hookers in his hotel rooms -- saying he does not know how he does it.

What a crew.

[theHandpuppet]

20. I agree!

And putting any stock into some LBJ connection to the JFK assassination would only make us look like fools. I don't blame Ladybird for being so distressed. This is absolutely shameful.

[nolabels]

16. If you must, cheers

This from the thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=199853
It's time for another Bush/Nazis thread
(snip)
I dare say they waited 4 or 5 years too long to pull PNAC off

How it relates this article here relates to a lot of what is been covered on this thread and the other links to other articles pulls a lot of other things together. These racist secret tribal cohorts started many moons ago. Now sons and grandsons are invested into this, much like any organized crime organization. The only difference I can really see between them is the Nazi's and organized crime is they are people like the Gambinos had some semblance of Honor.

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=3...

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB
(snip)
This is the extrordinary story of a dinner date. A dinner date that was scheduled to happen on march 31st 1981 - the day of the strange assassination attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the president. And George Bush Sr, the very ambitious former CIA director from Texas was the Vice President.
What makes this dinner date so special that night was it’s two guests. Hold on to your seats because the following news item should send a chill up your spine. The dinner party was to be held at the home of Neil Bush, the vice president’s son. The guest at the dinner party (which was quickly cancelled after news of the failed attempt on the life of the President), was Scott Hinckley the brother of John Hinckley who just that afternoon fired several shots into Reagans chest, coming one half inch from putting his bullet into the heart of the President - a half inch from putting his friend’s father, George Bush, into the White House.

Now lets pause a moment and reflect on that. So far what we have is the son of the Vice President linked to the brother of the guy who just tried to kill the president. Take a moment to absorb that.
Go look it up on Google. Type in (neil bush scott hinckley dinner) See for yourself.
What was the Bush team’s response to this chilling revelation on the planned dinner date? They barricaded themselves behind a wall of the biggest PR Firms in the nation and issued the following statement “This horrible coincidence has been devastating to the Bush Family. Our condolences go out to all involved. And we hope to get the matter behind us as soon as possible.” (sic)
(snip)

[The White Rose]

18. I read somewhere (can't for the life of me think where)

that Reagan refused to have a secret service guard in the hospital and instead ordered up a security detail from a recently docked US Navy ship. Anyone know about this? If true it would seem that he, at least, suspected an inside job.

[PaDUer]

13. JFK was going to have Johnson's name

removed from the ballot that day before the ride in TX. Also, there was something about who was riding in which cars on that fateful day.

[roguevalley]

15. which means nothing. Jeez. I don't blame them wanting a reckonning. If

you can broadcast something as news and its false, then
you have Fox, not the History Channel.

[Voltaire99]

17. Frequently disappointed by History Channel

I've seldom found a show on it worth watching. Generally it's endless "greatest generation" recycling of WWII documentaries -- it should be called the Gung Ho Channel.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. This is what happens because the Warren Commision was unconvincing

And the same questions will exist forty years after the Bush appointed commissions reach their conclusions too.