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There’s a book I read called the “JFK Assasination tapes” which are just transcripts of tapes from LBJ’s oval office pertaining to the aftermath of the assasination. It’s basically original source history as the words are LBJ’s and his interlocutors, as opposed to some author’s version of what did or didn’t happen.

Having read this book I am sure of one thing - which is that LBJ wanted the Warren Commission to be a blue ribbon rubber stamp of the lone nut theory. The idea was to get as many eminence grise on board as possible, to get it done quickly, and to get the report written and accepted as fact. Truth seeking was not part of the agenda - meaning finding the “truth” was not what the exercise was all about. And LBJ twisted quite a few arms to further that end.

This is not speculation. This is historical fact.

I agree with your statement about Johnson. I forget the exact wording in his autobiography, but he stated that the country needed to heal and that he specifically wanted the Commission to quickly reach a conclusion and put the country's mind at rest. It's been years since I read that book, but I remember thinking at the time, "He doesn't mention finding the truth."

I am not saying that LBJ took part in a conspiracy, but at the best, he didn't really give a flip who killed Kennedy. There are other possibilities, including the fact that if a conspiracy traced back to Castro, that would lead directly to Russia, and war.

That said, the big flag to me is Ruby making the equivalent of a suicide hit on Oswald. Why would a Jewish mob guy that runs a strip club do this? I mean he HAD to believe he would die that day. Would you expect to shoot someone in front of a room full of armed Dallas cops (with the attitude they had in 1963) and not get shot down?

All this aside, I think other people were involved. No clue as to who, where, how, why, but Dan Rather believes Oswald acted alone, and that's enough to convince me there was a conspiracy.

In actuality, we'll never know what actually happened. Too much was covered up then, too many false leads planted, too many bozos doing the investigation, too many amateur sleuths tracking through the information.

"There’s a book I read called the “JFK Assasination tapes” which are just transcripts of tapes from LBJ’s oval office pertaining to the aftermath of the assasination."

By Max Holland. Good book. I know the author. He's coming out with another on the Warren Commission itself.

"Having read this book I am sure of one thing - which is that LBJ wanted the Warren Commission to be a blue ribbon rubber stamp of the lone nut theory."

You have to keep in mind that the case was pretty conclusively solved within days of it happening. By the time LBJ formed the Warren Commission it was already clear that Oswald did the shooting. He wasn't as focused on solving the case because it was already solved. What he wanted to do was avoid the circus of having multiple investigations and congressional hearing all going on over the same case. That was his state of mind.

The Commission was tasked with finding the truth, including any conspiracy that might have happened.