01-01-2011, 08:07 PM
The truly unfortunate thing about a book like Nelson's is, as CD has stated, this: by exaggerating LBJ's role--calling him a mastermind--he naturally inflames the real critics of this case.
No one who has studied this case in any depth could possibly believe that LBJ could have conjured up and then controlled the almost superhumanly complex conspiracy that took the life of JFK. I mean, sitting in the White House for 8 years, LBJ could not even understand the Vietnam War until Tet!
So the idea that somehow he put together a plot that was so fiendishly clever that it took five years for anyone to get an inkling as to what had happened (Garrison in Playboy), sorry--I don't buy it.
No one who has studied this case in any depth could possibly believe that LBJ could have conjured up and then controlled the almost superhumanly complex conspiracy that took the life of JFK. I mean, sitting in the White House for 8 years, LBJ could not even understand the Vietnam War until Tet!
So the idea that somehow he put together a plot that was so fiendishly clever that it took five years for anyone to get an inkling as to what had happened (Garrison in Playboy), sorry--I don't buy it.