Written in 1974 Murder From Within will show what actually happened to President Kennedy, the consequences of his murder, and what action Americans can take to protect their institutions from further internal assault. The problem of usurpation from within and illegitimate and bloody transfer of power is as old as political history itself. Betrayal from within from the leaders own inner circle dates all the way back to Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ. Centuries ago, several Roman Emperors were killed by their own Praetorian guards. This plot, which involved only a handful of high officials and a few Secret Service Agents, called for President Kennedy to be maneuvered to Dallas and executed in public. His body was then forcibly removed from the control of the Dallas Coroner and flown to Washingon, D.C. to a military hospital. There, autopsy findings were supervised to foil a later investigation and implicate a scapegoat. The plot required a high probability of success. Therefore, it was self-contained: carefully recruited members of the Secret Service- the President's guards- murdered him. The portability of a motorcade allowed the assassins to escape and the evidence to remain under their control. With their obvious cover as guards, the Secret Service could ensure that the planning would result in the replacement of one chief executive with another who now had the power to cover the crime up. The scapegoat for the crime was placed near the motorcade by being told to look for work at locations on one of two likely parade routes. Once he had a job, the motorcade was planned to pass in front of where he worked. In this way, it would appear that he had found his position by accident. To plan the route first and then place the scapegoat in position would raise serious questions in an investigation about his prior knowledge. Seven years in the making Murder From Within shows exactly and in detail how a small high l
MURDER FROM WITHIN
Lyndon Johnson's Plot Against President KennedyBy Fred T. Newcomb Perry AdamsAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2011 Fred T. Newcomb and Perry Adams
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4634-2242-4Contents
Part I Destruction At Noonday.......................................................................................1Chapter One Planning for November Maneuvering President Kennedy to Dallas...........................................5Chapter Two Prelude to Murder How the Motorcade Was Managed.........................................................31Chapter Three Execution How a small select group within the Secret Service killed the President.....................44Chapter Four The Filmed Assassination How the Key Movie of the Murder Was Altered...................................91Part II The Body Snatchers..........................................................................................121Chapter Five Parkland...............................................................................................123Chapter Six Bethesda How Kennedy's Wounds Were Altered..............................................................161Part III Consolidation..............................................................................................217Chapter Seven Scapegoat: How Oswald Was Set Up......................................................................219Chapter Eight RFK How Robert Kennedy dealt with Johnson and his Secret Service......................................272PART IV Epilogue....................................................................................................285Chapter Nine "... what you can do for your country" How to Protect the Presidency...................................287Appendix A...........................................................................................................297Appendix B...........................................................................................................305Appendix C...........................................................................................................310Appendix D Witness Interview List....................................................................................314Appendix E Graphics..................................................................................................316Appendix F The Walkie Talkie Man.....................................................................................318Photo and Image Credits..............................................................................................321
Chapter One
Planning for November Maneuvering President Kennedy to Dallas
Prelude
This book explains the 1963 murder that changed America. Who did it? How was it done? Why did the official investigation fail?
An ex-marine and Russian defector named Lee Harvey Oswald was implicated. He ordered a gun that fired a bullet found on a stretcher near the mortally wounded President. Did he fire that rifle? Where were the eye witnesses? The evidence was lacking. If not Oswald, then who? The new leadership tried to calm fears by claiming the murder was solved. The public remained skeptical. Was Oswald set up? To imagine a plot to kill a President and to plant evidence leads only to those at the highest level of government.
Did a rogue group in one of the intelligence agencies or in the military carry this out? Who could they turn to for protection to escape prosecution? After all, the murdered President's brother Robert was Attorney General.
Was it a group outside the government such as Cuban terrorists, fascist oil barons, or organized crime? They lacked the necessary access.
A successful plot had to completely control the route, speed, order and timing of the motorcade; the scapegoat; communications; and the key evidence of the body, the autopsy, and the limousine. Only the White House Secret Service detail had that capability. Only the new President had the power to take over the government, to manage information, and to control the investigation.
Our examination of the huge record of Warren Commission documents, with our extensive photographic and film collection, and dozens of interviews of those ignored by the official probe focused on the key political question:
Who benefited?
How did Oswald benefit? Where did he show his animosity? When the same question is asked of Lyndon Johnson, a record emerges of threats, hatred, and an abiding lust for power.
If politics is about dreams, then this is the story of a political nightmare. The target of this plot was the Presidency. A popular leader was killed to make room for his killer.
1964
Lyndon B. Johnson was to have been dropped as Vice-President in 1964, ending his political career. That career would also have ended in disgrace because of the scandal involving his close associate, Robert G. "Bobby" Baker. The sure way out was to become President. Johnson received assistance from John B. Connally, Jr., his close political ally, and from Dean Rusk, Secretary of State.
Rumors
There were rumors, going back to 1962, that Johnson would not be on the 1964 Democratic party ticket as Vice President. Connally, in late 1963, noted this: "The Democrats want to win the 1964 elections and they might insure a loss if they drop the Vice President." With the "dump LBJ" rumor, both Johnson and his friend Connally tried to maneuver
President Kennedy into a position where he would find it politically embarrassing. Such a rumor would put pressure on the President to go to Texas and reaffirm his faith in the Vice-President.
Officially, the decision for the President's Texas trip was made on June 5, 1963, during a meeting at the El Cortez Hotel in El Paso, Texas, with Kennedy, Johnson and Connally. A summer date of Aug. 27, Johnson's birthday, was mentioned, but was rejected as impractical.
Yet, 43 days before the official decision, Johnson publicly announced the trip on his own. On April 23, 1963, he told a Dallas audience the President might visit the city and four other Texas cities in the summer. The itinerary he gave for the summer trip was the one that followed in November.
Johnson's premature April announcement committed the President to go to Texas. Johnson made the curious statement: "... the President of the United States is like a pilot and the election is when the nation picks an airplane and a pilot for the next four years.
Once you pick him, and you're flying across the water in bad weather, don't go up and open the door and try to knock him in the head. He's the only pilot you have and if the plane goes down, you go with it. At least wait until next November before you shoot him down." Johnson knew that 1963 was not a Presidential election year.
Scandal
One month before the assassination, in October 1963, Johnson told his friend, Sen. Thomas Dodd, he felt the Kennedy people were out to ruin him completely by making him look like a "crook" and force him from office.
The key to this alleged conspiracy, as Johnson saw it, was the scandal about his political protege, Robert G. "Bobby" Baker. Baker, secretary to the Democratic majority leader of the Senate, was described as a "... close personal friend ..." of Lyndon Johnson. Furthermore, Baker obtained his position when Johnson was Senate majority leader. The New York Times assessed the significance of the scandal in an editorial of Nov. 20, 1963: "More than the good name of the Senate is...
