Posted on 09/15/2019 4:49:37 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Personal knowledge - LBJ and the Connallys were neighbors and best friends for years after the JFK assassination. Their families visited back and forth in Kingsland, TX at their lake homes. I simply can not believe Nellie Connally would have allowed a killer to sit at her dinner table or be around her grandkids. I also can’t believe Lady Bird Johnson would have “stood by her man” like Hellary did if LBJ had anything to do with the shooting when her best gal friend was in the car. For all Johnson’s faults, no way would he have been involved in nearly killing his best friend.
There was just as much confusion after Kennedy's speech. Grier said Barry told him the path through the kitchen made sense after the speech because it was the quickest route back to the service elevator. Schrade said the senator also had been led off the stage by the Ambassador Hotel maitre d', Karl Uecker, and another hotel staffer named Edward Minasian, not Barry. Finally, Schrade added that Kennedy's route had been altered to accommodate the press.
"Frank Mankiewicz (Kennedy's campaign press secretary) told [Kennedy], 'The media has not had access to you because you're out on the streets all the time and not available for interviews,' " Schrade said. " 'They want you to come over to the Colonial room, which is to the right off through the pantry, rather than left down to the master room.' And so that decision was made."
As soon as Kennedy started walking away from the spot where Grier was stationed, Grier immediately pursued him with Ethel. A swarm of bodies grew between them. A cameraman nearly ran into Ethel. so Grier shoved him out of the way. By that point, Kennedy had disappeared into the kitchen, and the next sound Grier heard was the rapid popping of gunfire.
Ethel dove to the ground instantly, and Grier instinctively moved over to the top of her to provide protection.
"I covered her for a second, and I take off and, and I ran right around the corner," Grier said. "I see these guys who were all over the senator. And so I ... grabbed [the shooter] by his leg, because I found out as a football player that ... if you want to stop somebody, you grabbed their legs. So I grabbed him by his leg, and I put him up on the table, and I locked his leg so he couldn't kick, and I just held on to him."
Kennedy had been shaking hands with a busboy named Juan Romero shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, when Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian who was upset about Kennedy's support of Israel, fired a .22 caliber revolver in his direction. Three bullets struck Kennedy -- one in his head and two others in his back -- while five other people in the room sustained wounds. Schrade was one of those injured, as a bullet hit his forehead and drove him back into Scott Enyart, who was a high school student who had snuck into the event just to take photos of Kennedy.
"Kennedy just dropped from the frame like a puppet [when you] cut the strings," Enyart said. After Grier wrestled Sirhan away from the crowd, he noticed that writer George Plimpton had pulled the gun away from the shooter, but Plimpton had the barrel of the weapon pointing right at his own face. Grier then yanked the pistol away from Plimpton. After shoving the gun into his pocket, Grier fought off a few other men who had charged toward Sirhan. By the time police arrived to take the assassin into custody, Grier had seen the wounded frame of Kennedy stretched across the kitchen floor.
Of all the details Grier remembers about that night, the one that haunts him the most is the decision Kennedy made when he left that stage and headed in a direction opposite of Grier. They had talked about their plans after the event, how everyone was going to a nightclub in West Hollywood to extend the celebration. It was going to be a great, joyous evening, right until Kennedy disappeared into that kitchen.
"I've thought about this a lot of times," Grier said. "If we had gone that way (away from the kitchen), nothing would've happened. But it did happen. Then I thought about if we had someone who had talked to Sirhan Sirhan, then he wouldn't have done what he did. ... Who would think that somebody is going to kill him? When you think about all the people that are in the crowd, you think of all the people around, who would've thought that this was going to happen?"
There is a great book on that Congressional investigation:
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Investigation-Insiders-about-Assassination/dp/1626360782
The CIA’s Western Hemisphere group included the US in their operations (in obvious violation of the law)—as JFK found out—the hard way.
Roger Stone addresses this issue—and many others—in his masterpiece on the JFK assassination:
Caught in mid facial expression. Can’t say it says anything.
I read it some years ago. The author, Gaeton Fonzi, impressed me as sincere, responsible as to facts, and disciplined in the claims he made.
I’ve been reading a Lie Too Big To Fail.
The CIA didn’t just start being corrupt a couple years ago. RFK’s assassination investigation was an all out sham. Full on blatant lies. Now, why??
Are you the only smart one on this thread? I am deeply into this extremely well researched book on every detail of the crime by a researcher who took 25 years.
A Lie Too Big to Fail
How do you know how deeply researched it is? How do you know how accurate, or truthful, it is? Lisa Pease is a certified nutjob.
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