(05-29-2018, 11:41 PM)guohua Wrote: ...My husband doesn't think LBJ was involved with the Bobby Murder, but he'll say that Certainly the
Shadow Government and J E Hoover was. Hoover was a Power Hunger Racist Asshole...
I'd go along with that because I'm always hesitant to say there was one person who nodded affirmation to the assassination.
Power and control are rarely personal.
The perception that's maintained is that JFK was the new way and never put a foot wrong, but that's only based on the idea
of his youthful 'Hollywood-esque' manner and the reluctance to be negative about a prominent person being murdered whilst
serving his country.
The media did it over here in the UK with Winston Churchill during WW2. Many see him as a stawlart Bulldog that growled
his way into motivating the troops into bringing Nazism to it's knees. True, there were photo-opportunities of him standing
in font of a bombed-out home in London, but the newspapers never mentioned his penchant for pheasant and other expensive
dinners in his stately home where he had a cinema built in the basement.
Churchill's plentiful intake of brandy was omitted also when the newspapers commended the British public's endurance during
the rationing years. The cigars and actual access to them...? Well, we don't grow tobacco in England, so where did he get them
from at a time of sea-going transport problems and basic shortages?!
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It's been stated that Lydon Johnson took the Vice-Presidency from Stuart Symington with the shadow of voter-fraud hanging
over him and with reservations fom John Kennedy himself. Along with John, Bobby didn't like him and to an outsider, it could be
seen as a reason for LBJ to have someone bump-off the two brothers.
But I believe the stakes were bigger than just selfish dislike.
Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson and Haroldson L. Hunt are often mentioned when Kennedy's tax reform plan is brought up.
The Texas oil business enjoyed favourable treatment when it came to paying federal income tax and JFK knew there was a
pool of cash available if such a reform went through.
John Kennedy saw the Oil Depreciation Allowance as a scam and he wasn't wrong. Robert Bryce pointed out in his book 'Cronies:
Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate' that it was a unique tax break that other industries fumed about.
Here's Bryce's explanation on how the oil depreciation allowance works:
"An oilman drills a well that costs $100,000.
He finds a reservoir containing $10,000,000 worth of oil.
The well produces $1 million worth of oil per year for ten years. In the very first year, thanks to the depletion allowance, the oilman
could deduct 27.5 per cent, or $275,000, of that $1 million in income from his taxable income.
Thus, in just one year, he's deducted nearly three times his initial investment.
But the depletion allowance continues to pay off. For each of the next nine years, he gets to continue taking the $275,000 depletion
deduction.
By the end of the tenth year, the oilman has deducted $2.75 million from his taxable income, even though his initial investment was
only $100,000."
A change in this benefit could cause one of these oil men to think 'eh, this guy is bad for our business' and look around to see who
could help. Politically, of course... unless things got tough.
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When discussing such things as 'Shadow Government' and 'Deep State' is that we tend to think in the terms of some-sort of fluid
organisation where everyone knows everyone. It doesn't work like that and our perceptions tend to be stunted because we struggle
to appreciate the long-term logistics that were set in place many-many years ago.
Here's an example:
The seed of what became the oil depreciation allowance was really planted around the nighteen-twenties.
Sid Richardson, and President Roosevelt's son Elliott, and Bill Kittrell, a kind of prodigy of Sam Rayburn's and a well-known man about
Texas, were keeping each other company on a trip to Washington on a through-the-night train.
But the conversation was beginning to droop, so Richardson sent Kittrell into the chair car to scout for a fourth for a round of bridge.
Not long after, Kittrell came back with a young Army colonel in tow, an open-faced fellow by the name of Dwight Eisenhower.
From the train trip developed a strong friendship between Eisenhower and Richardson. After the war, when Eisenhower was being
rushed by both political parties, his Texas oil pal showed up in Paris to tell him that if he ever did get into politics he could count on plenty
of Richardson money. Exactly what generosity Richardson showed has never been more than wildly hinted at, but it apparently was enough
to make Eisenhower moderately grateful.
When Richardson and other Texas oil men recommended Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower named him Secretary of the Navy.
The importance of this to Texas oil men is a matter of almost comical stress.
Anderson, a resident of landlocked Fort Worth, knew nothing of naval affairs before he got the post, but that hardly matters. All he needed
to know was that Texas is the largest oil-producing state and that the Navy is the largest consumer of oil as well as leaser of valuable lands
to favored oil firms.
(Two years before his death from cancer in 1987, Robert Anderson was disbarred for illegal banking operations and tax evasion.)!
From this producer-consumer relationship things work out rather naturally, and it was this elementary knowledge that later made John Connally
(who had for several years, through the good offices of his mentor Lyndon Johnson, been serving as Sid Richardson's attorney and who later
became executor of the Richardson estate) and Fred Korth, also residents of Fort Worth, such able secretaries of the Navy, by Texas standards.
Eisenhower, on the urging of Richardson and Lyndon Johnson, named Anderson to the office of Secretary of Treasury, and on June 21 (1957),
ten days after selling his gift oil property, Anderson was free and clear to tell the Senate Finance Committee that he held no property that would
conflict with his interest in the cabinet post.
A few weeks later Anderson was appointed to a cabinet committee to "study" the oil import situation; out of this study came the present-day
program which benefits the major oil companies, the international oil giants primarily, by about one billion dollars a year.
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By the way, Fred Korth was a lawyer in the private sector in later life and represented Edwin A. Ekdahl in a divorce.
In 1948, Edwin Ekdahl wished to part from his second wife due to his alleged penchant for other women and his wife's avarice for money.
That woman was Marguerite Frances Ekdahl -or to use her former name Marguerite Frances Oswald... Lee Harvey's mother.
To say it's complicated, is to underestimate the chessboard!
Lyndon Johnson was a bit-player in the JFK assassination, I'd suggest that. But not the only one.
As far as Bobby's killing, I think the queue was long and there's other interesting characters there that could be pointed at.
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