Maybe he too was having sex with Marilyn Monroe. Seems everyone else was.
Democrats were KKK, not a surprise, heck they still are..but they just go on TV and call Republicans klans man and people buy it
No. It claims LBJ was in the KKK. There is no evidence supporting the claim. Given LBJ's bigoted statements he made when he was trying to get the Civil Rights bill passed it is certainly possible and wouldn't surprise me.
I’d have been more surprised if he wasn’t in the KKK.
Is this all a just bunch of memos? Looks pretty boring to me.
The rest comes out in 6 months? Or never? I don’t see the point in keeping the good stuff out for a mere 6 more months.
I am really sick of this dogma that white racism against blacks in America is, was, and always will be the worst thing that ever happened on planet Earth.
Give it a rest already.
The story about Johnson being a KKK member doesn’t make sense. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a schoolteacher at a mostly Mexican-American school. Not the career for a white supremacist. The Klan had a lot of clout in Texas, but by the late 1920s, it was largely defunct due to anti-Klan politicians like Dan Moody. Additionally, the area Johnson represented has a large German-American population, among whom the Klan was not popular.
For an interesting expose read “A Texan Looks at Lyndon” by J. Evetts Haley (from about 55 years ago). Those who knew LBJ best trusted him the least.
Time to rename the Johnson Space Center -- may I suggest "Sheila Jacka$$ Lee Space Center"
Universities now teach that the parties swapped at some point.
I guess is was at some point AFTER LBJ.
LBJ interview on Kennedy assassination with Walter Cronkite - 1969 (guilty conscience?)
KKK == DIMocRATS! Has always been so.
I’m no fan of LBJ, but if this were true we would have known about it fifty-four years ago.
Just another reason for me to despise that big-eared bastard!! Overbearing, sorry POS!
However, for a short but interesting comedy bit from a comedian of that time, about LBJ and his alleged racism, check out this youtube clip of Lenny Bruce "imitating" LBJ's handlers, as they tried to teach LBJ how to say "negro", when he had to take over as president. ("LBJ" kept saying "nigga-o, nigga-o".)
Typical Gateway Pundit Clickbait BS
“A guy knows a guy who claims the Kluckers have proof.....”
Funny, that these files were locked up for 50 years. In the age of the internet, all news is now and global, instantaneously. Nothing will be hidden.
Political hides were being protected.
What else is in those FBI files that Hoover drooled over for decades?
Is anyone surprised by this revelation?
Are they going to reshoot some Scenes in the LBJ Movie that’s coming out to include this new information?
Woody Harrelson is playing the part of LBJ.
Yes, he really is, REALLY. No, I’m not kidding.
I’ll just say this.
Anybody that wants to know the particulars behind JFK assassination should look up James Files 2003 interview on You tube.
More background info here on how LBJ talked about blacks. Doesn’t confirm the KKK charge but is yet more evidence of his undeniable racism.
This is a 2014 article from MSNBC no less. I had not heard of some of these quotes. They did leave out the famous one where he told a member of Congress that if they pass the Civil Rights Bill “we’ll have those n* voting democratic for 200 years”.
Here is one interesting story excerpt:
“Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d [LBJ] drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism