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Newly Released JFK Files: LBJ was in the Texas KKK (Vanity)
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Posted on 04/26/2018 8:55:59 AM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: GOPJ
Democrats have played black citizens for fools for years and years and years and years...

As Malcolm the Tenth would have put it.... Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what He does....

21 posted on 04/26/2018 9:11:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: euram

“He’s a dem, so there will be no consequences.”

I think you are wrong.

With this revelation, there is no way that LBJ wins the presidency in 2020.


22 posted on 04/26/2018 9:13:50 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: TigerClaws

“Ned Touchtone”

That sounds like a legit name.


23 posted on 04/26/2018 9:15:32 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: BeadCounter

The Klan as the “Invisible Empire” at times, was like a fraternal organization, Harry Truman once paid membership fees into the Klan. One never hears about that though most concede it is true. I don’t think things will change much per LBJ’s legacy. Oh, change the library name or whatever, won’t happen.


24 posted on 04/26/2018 9:21:51 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: ltc8k6

Johnson was in the KKK says an anonymous source who says that Ned Touchstone said. At least twice removed hearsay. I guess there was a deep state even in 1963.


25 posted on 04/26/2018 9:22:47 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: BeadCounter

Klan actually had a desk at democratic conventions until about 1964. I think LBJ also, basically played some ploy against Goldwater, calling him basically, a racist.


26 posted on 04/26/2018 9:23:30 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Savage Rider

“Johnson was in the KKK says an anonymous source who says that Ned Touchstone said. At least twice removed hearsay. I guess there was a deep state even in 1963.”

Not just third hand hearsay but third hand hearsay from a dead guy with a fake name.


27 posted on 04/26/2018 9:27:56 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: GOPJ

I brought that up in a debate with a progressive.

She told me that Byrd recanted and everything was ok.
She then went on to tell me that the repubs were racist because they accepted the dixiecrats into the party


28 posted on 04/26/2018 9:28:44 AM PDT by South Dakota (We need a real independent investigation of Bill/Hillary and Obama's actions)
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To: TigerClaws

BOOM!


29 posted on 04/26/2018 9:30:04 AM PDT by GraceG ("Trust, But Verify the Plan!")
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To: BeadCounter

Just like this misguided belief that General Forrest was a “founder” of the Klan. On the plaque on the building where the Klan was founded in Pulaski, TN. Forrest’s name appears nowhere.


30 posted on 04/26/2018 9:36:27 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: TigerClaws; pookie18

31 posted on 04/26/2018 9:37:17 AM PDT by GraceG ("Trust, But Verify the Plan!")
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To: Magnum44

Magnum44 wrote: “Have to rename Johnson Space Center while they are at it.”

How does the Shirley Jackson Lee Space Flight and Mars Exploration Center work for you?


32 posted on 04/26/2018 9:37:54 AM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: DugwayDuke

I’d go with the Shirley Temple Space Flight and Mars Exploration Center. She never hurt anyone.

Anyone but Landslide Lyndon.


33 posted on 04/26/2018 9:42:45 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: BeadCounter

When I took Basic Training in the Army one fellow from down yonder there in the sticks tried to convince me the Klan wasn’t nearly as horrible as I’d been led to believe up in Yankee land, that it was sort of like the Rotary or Elks Club, something like that. Hm.


34 posted on 04/26/2018 9:44:34 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: TigerClaws

YAWN!


35 posted on 04/26/2018 9:54:35 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: TigerClaws

So LBJ was a Klan member?


36 posted on 04/26/2018 9:55:51 AM PDT by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: TigerClaws

LBJ’s Great Society did more damage to the Black Community that the KKK could ever dream of doing.


37 posted on 04/26/2018 9:56:27 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Savage Rider
I am more than a little skeptical of any claims that LBJ was ever in the Ku Klux Klan. Klan influence in the Lone Star State declined after 1924, when Felix D. Robertson, a member of the Dallas Klan, was defeated for the governorship in 1924 by Ma (Miriam Amanda) Ferguson. Johnson graduated from high school in that year, and spent the next two years in California. By 1928, Klan membership in Texas had declined to around 2,500, and most prominent supporters had abandoned the organization. Johnson entered the political sphere in 1931, working for Congressman Richard Kleberg. Klan membership would not have benefited him in the 1930s, especially as his native Hill Country had a large German-American population, which was Unionist during the Civil War and had little affiliation with the KKK, which was nativist to the core. The Texas KKK was strongest in the 1920s in cities like Dallas, where it was more anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant than anti-black, similar to the appeal in cities like Denver and Indianapolis. Additionally, Texas did not experience the Klan revival that occurred in the Southeast in the post-World War II era.

It is quite unlikely that Lyndon Johnson, who really had no ideology other than his own ambition, ever became a Klansman.

38 posted on 04/26/2018 9:59:57 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Blue House Sue

http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Ned_Touchstone


39 posted on 04/26/2018 10:03:08 AM PDT by sleddogs
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To: TigerClaws

Could you please post a link to the actual document in the National Archives, rather than to an image whose authenticity we cannot confirm.


40 posted on 04/26/2018 10:07:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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