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LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination

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Before you conclude from the title there is no way LBJ could have masterminded the JFK assassination, read the facts in this book. This account brings all the last pieces together of what connected the CIA, FBI, Mob and Oswald and what could have pushed all these elements and players over the line into the horrible, an assault on the entire nation. They did not just happen to all act alone at the same time. I've read a good many of the books investigating the facts of the case and the cover up.

What remains a concern for me is how to get the government to release all the remaining FBI and CIA documents that were to be released 20 years ago, as this author points out. As one who can remember the assassination, I believe that the nation and the effects this catastrophic event had on it needs the healing of the truth of what happened.

This new edition of the author's work eliminates the redundancies and streamline the narrative of the first edition. The total number of pages has been reduced by 10%, even with a considerable amount of new material added to support the many assertions of Lyndon Johnson's complicity in a number of criminal acts leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

I am truly impressed with Phillip Nelson's outstanding book "LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination", now in an EXPANDED and UPDATED format on the very same publishing house as major best-selling authors Mark Lane and Jesse Ventura! While there are quite a few "honorable mentions", I feel strongly, based on reading hundreds of books and decades of research, that Nelson's book, along with Mark Lane's "Last Word", Doug Horne's "Inside The ARRB" 5-volume works, Jim Douglass "JFK & The Unspeakable", and Barry Ernest's "The Girl On The Stairs", is among THE very best books written on the JFK murder to date. Nelson finishes the work started by such authors as Craig Zirbel and Barr McClellan, yet greatly expands and improves on what came before. Nelson, Lane, Horne, Douglass, and Ernest: their works are absolutely essential to all students and scholars on the case.

WOW. LBJ was like the worst of the Roman emperors; what was that guys name? Caligula? Well, LBJ makes Caligula look like Ross Perot, or Adolph Hitler look like Ron Paul, I mean LBJ WAS DEFINATELY OUR WORST PRESIDENT EVER, and it's all here. What a gutless sob; he was already ducking down in the car before they even turned onto Houston st. I am tellin ya this guy had no morals, no class, and no limits as far as his self serving behavior. He was washing his hands, talking insanely like Macbeth,in the bathroom of Air Force One... If you want to know more about LBJ's disgusting behavior, illegitimate kids, etc read Texas in The Morning by Madeleine Duncan Brown.

I first read Mr. Phillip'initial self published book of the same title earlier this summer. I came away with a totally different view of the Coup in November 1963. I had read James Douglass's masterpiece, JFK And The Unspeakable, Why He Died & Why It Matters about two years ago. This awakened me to why LBJ and the CIA and the established elite had to eliminate President Kennedy. This is a must read!

For too long most researchers focused too much on the usual suspects, the Mafia, the Cuban Exiles, Big Oil and of course the Military Industrial Complex and most certainly the CIA. We focused on proving there was a conspiracy by dissecting the "Johnsom Committee" and it sham job of selling LHO as a lone nut assassin. We also spent so much time with the medical evidence to prove the conspiracy. Now it is time to place the blame where it truly belongs.

Now with Phillip's book we can now see the forest, not just the trees. Phillip has made an enormous contibution to the search for the truth by exposing "Landside Lyndon" or "Lying Lyndon" for what he was. A psychopath, a sciopathic liar and manipulator who would not stoop beyond anything to gain the prize he felt entitled to, the Presidency. From rigged elections, murder and bridery, LBJ will go down as the most corrupt and monsterous President in the long history of the United States.

Don't take my word for it. Read Craig Zirbel's The Final Chapter; and finally an insider Barr McClellan's Blood Money & Power How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.; LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy A Coalescence of Interests by Joseph P. Farrel and Betrayal In Dallas by Mark North. I can't leave out Doug Horne's enormous contribution with his five book, almost 2000 page "Magnus Opus", particularly book five. All of these books corroborate Phillip's brilliantly written book.

Phillip's masterpiece though is the strongest documented and complete of all of the books about LBJ's role (with Hoover & Dulle's assistance) in the Coup that forever changed this former Democracy, and not for the better. Read this book ASAP!!! Five Stars.

Stephen Courts November 15, 2011

...like most interesting JFK books for the last 15 years, this one does not particularly shine because of exclusive new information, but rather because of the perspective put by the author on mostly already-available data (though you'll probably learn a thing or two: I was personally unaware of LBJ's absence in the Altgens picture).

After 50 years of slow decantation and filtration, all serious and objective researchers of the case agree on the basic facts:

*JFK was not killed by a lone shooter
*there was a cover up orchestrated to hide this truth from the US people

A group of credible suspects, whith the prerequisite motives, means and opportunity to perform the deed, was rapidly identified as soon as the mid sixties.The discoveries and exploration of ties between all these groups or individuals(disgruntled CIA operatives and their Cuban assets, Mafia figures, right wing oil men and money, Hoover...) started after Watergate, and it took about 20 years to coalesce into a coherent scenario, though still fuzzy in parts, of what happened that day in Dallas, and later.

Basically, in the last 20 years,it has boiled down (with the exception of the realization that the cover up may not have been part of the original plan, which itself opens new options...) to a process of moving the cursor, of fine-tuning the allotment of responsabilities in the conspiracy: was it a CIA hit (Lane)or did they just happily jump on the wagon? Was it a Mafia hit, with Hoover's tacit acquiescence? Did LBJ only want to avoid nuclear war when he instructed the Dallas police to go for the Lone Nut solution, and stop their case, or was he one of the plotters? Etc...

Nelson's point is that LBJ was the critical factor, first in the setting up of the plan, then in its realization, and he sets out his arguments rather convincingly, though I do not agree with his conclusion that LBJ was the major force behind the assassination (though definitely indispensable to the fullfilment of the objective)

People who are not aware of the Baker and Estes, or TFX, stories and their importance in the JFK case, will find plenty here to get a better grasp of "real politics" in the US democracy (where legislation is "bought" via suitcases full of cash, elections and murder trials are fixed, and unconvenient witnesses turn up dead).

I did not feel very comfortable with Nelson's writing style, but this may be due to bad editing.
There were also, in my opinion, undue repetitions at times of the same facts or arguments. This is however a book that I would recommend to beginners or to seasoned researchers who have not yet explored fully the Texas Connection...

I've been saying since the Warren Report was released that LBJ had, if not organised, most certainly knew of the plot to kill his nemesis and most popular president of the last century. Aware that he would never become president through a legal election, LBJ accepted a 'go nowhere' position, surprising both John and Bobby Kennedy, when JFK offered him the vice presidential office. LBJ tossed out words that fully indicated his belief that he would become president based on the 4 to 1 statistic showing the likelihood of obtaining the highest authority, through the death of a sitting president.

His animosity continued to grow with the constant and prevailing degradation offered by both Kennedy brothers. While his position as vice president was bombarded by scandals, any of which,of a near certainty,would topple even him from power and make it virtually impossible to rise to the presidency running for this office, leaving him the only possibility of rising to the top was the removal of JFK while both were sitting in their respective offices, mandating LBJ, as the next in line, to assume his life-long goal.

An exceptional portrayal of the machinations of a totally corrupt man who would stoop to anything and stop at nothing, to achieve his goals. A very quick read, in language anyone can and understand and enjoy without consulting a dictionary. Buy it and be amazed at the devious nature of one man's twisted ego. Joe Hartmann LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination

An important book from which to not only learn OF the past, but to learn FROM the the past. How a man with such a volatile psychological profile and record as LBJ made his way up through the ranks of power, all the way to the presidency, should highlight the "deficiencies" of the system. The vetting process that many delude themselves to believe to be so sacrosanct is laughable as we well know. Phillip Nelson follows LBJ's trajectory from youth to the highest office, and exposes and implicates him as the very dangerous thug that he was. Definitely one of the best books out there on the JFK assassination as we are led through insights into motivation and method for taking out his predecessor.

Note: I read the first edition of this book.
The Latin legal term "Cui Bono" means "to whose benefit?" When a wife is murdered, the first suspect is the husband, especially if there is a recent life insurance policy on the wife. If a politician is murdered then presumably everyone who did not support him can be said to "benefit" in a small way...but hardly enough to motivate a murder. Those who stand to lose their jobs or businesses obviously have more of a motive. One can imagine the CIA, Mafia, and military industrial complex having motives to kill JFK. Perhaps some of these groups were involved in the conspiracy. This book forcefully reminds us that only ONE man stood to improve his "career prospects" from prison to the Presidency as a result of JFK's murder. That man was Lyndon Johnson. Not only would he NOT have been JFK's candidate for Vice President in 1964, he stood an excellent chance of ending up in prison because of his massive Texas corruption. We know he and Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, hated each other. We know LBJ never worked a day outside government but died with a net worth of at LEAST $50 million in 1972 dollars. Probably much more. You want motives? LBJ had so many motives we hardly know where to begin. Of course, even if a husband had millions in life insurance on his murdered wife that fact alone will not convict him of her murder. Is there more evidence against LBJ. Yes, there is. Of course it is all circumstantial. Citizens and journalists can hardly be expected to collect DNA and blood spatter evidence. We are not allowed to do autopsies, least of all on murdered Presidents. So what is the evidence? LBJ had ordered other murders before JFK. He employed a "hit man" for many years. That hit man appears to have left his fingerprint at Oswald's sniper nest. Billie Sol Estes and Bobby Baker were among his "bag men" who collected money for him from those wanting favors. Both were accused of criminal activity involving LBJ. Once LBJ became President these investigations lost interest in him. Knowing what we know today, one would almost be disappointed in LBJ had he NOT played a leading role in the murder. The man was a true psychopath who never got caught. His own grandmother did not know the term but she nailed him as one, warning that he would end up in prison. She did not understand that very smart psychopaths do not get caught; they get to the top.

Philip Nelson's book is, quite simply, the most original, best researched and most convincing attempt at clarifying the so-called "Crime of the Century" you will find out there. Nelson builds his case with commendable efficiency, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the truth behind Lyndon Johnson's role in the Kennedy assassination. The revelations made by this seminal book are startling, shocking and deeply unsettling, but they are brought forth in so forceful and consistent a manner that even Doubting Thomases will certainly surrender at the end, crushed by the weight of the irrefutable evidence presented by the author. Nelson seems to have read, critically and methodically, everything that has already been published about the tragic event of November 1963, and he goes one big step further here, with courage and fierce determination. An important and unmissable book.

There are many good books on the Assassination. In fact even books that main thesis is seriously flawed or untenable such as Live By The Sword,& Mortal Error have some very good information that does not jibe with the official account of JFK's death.The best book on the mafia connection is Legacy Of Secrecy, the best book on the Intelligence/Military connection is JFK And The Unspeakable, but taken together these aspects only comprise 50-66% of what happened. The other third to a half is LBJ and his Associates connections to all aspects of the Assassination, from Johnson's connections to the owner of the Schoolbook Depository, to Bethesda Naval Hospital, to the longtime myriad links to Intelligence,Dallas Police,Texas and Washington high level Political System, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia and Military Networks, in the conspiracy, and cover up, which author Nelson shows so deftly and seamlessly makes undeniable in the central conclusion, that no one else possible could have done this.It's way past time for the media to knock off the lone nut assassin nonsense and start reporting what is contained in this book.