LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination [Hardcover]

Here's the bad news: despite the cover blurbs, this is a badly written book. The author cannot distinguish between 'eminent' and 'imminent,' a mistake he makes on pages 60, 429 and 551. On page 248, he has Mac Wallace dying in 1971 and 1963. Other ridiculous errors include 'phenomenum' rather than 'phenomenon' (p. 399), 'conscious' rather than 'conscience' (p. 470), and he has absolutely no idea about what 'begging the question' means. Also, (p. 392) the sight of someone running 'astride' a limousine would certainly be worth seeing. I could go on and on, but the point has been made. These annoyances and distractions, along with many other errors of fact, might well cause readers to put this book in the same category as the self-published, printed-in-the-basement-on-a-Roneo-machine that unfairly afflicted so much early research on the JFK assassination and led to a general consensus that WHAT was being said was equally amateurish and mistaken. This would be an even graver error.

The worse news is that, despite these flaws, Phillip F. Nelson does a horrifyingly excellent job of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Lyndon Johnson was the most evil sociopath ever to occupy the White House. Nelson has the goods on him and intellectually honest future students of Johnson won't be able to write a word without coming to grips with the documentation presented in this book along with its solid 10-page bibliography.

Now that Oswald has been convincingly absolved of involvement in the JFK murder by dozens of respected researchers, the entire 'official story' collapses and we are left with the classic questions that are asked about every murder: means, motive and opportunity. Nelson supplies enough evidence not only to link Johnson to the conspiracy that killed JFK, but also to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that LBJ was, indeed, the mastermind of the pre-assassination plot and the post-assassination cover-up.

The 'conspiracy deniers' are, thankfully, a vanishing breed; those still remaining deserve a medal whose citation should read: 'For Stubborn Intransigence in the Face of Mounting Evidence'.

Without this book, you will never have a really clear idea about what really happened that terrible day in Dallas. This is a must-read!!

The author takes a very complicated subject and develops it in a meticulous clear and detailed manner without getting bogged down in covering ground that has been well researched by other authors. He builds on the works of others and references them at every opportunity to give the reader a choice to research any point in detail if so desired. He clearly tells us where he is going and without being repetitive refers back when necessary to points already covered. He develops his arguments like a trial lawyer and the reader is the jury. The development of his arguments shows clearly that not only did LBJ have the means motive and opportunity to kill Kennedy and that LBJ was motivated by blind ambition, but also that he had the ruthlessness to carry it out. His life of deception, wheeling and dealing, blackmail, extortion, manipulation had got him to the position of power and was intertwined with like minded individuals in the mafia, CIA, FBI, military, judiciary etc. The Kennedy's had amassed a tonne of powerful enemies, because of there policies which threatened the Hawks of the world. Inevitably the two diametrically opposed worlds had to collide. The author carefully develops the characters, and the world stage in this tragedy. This work is truly a masterpiece and does connect the dots in this crime filled with intrigue and deception, plot and sub plot. Reading this book makes the incredible credible as the preponderance of evidence is overwhelming. There is no hung Jury here. The problem with this book is that it is so well done that it will change the reader forever, when he looks at the world with real eyes not filtered by smoke and mirrors. Truly truth is stranger than fiction.

This is one of the most gripping books I have ever read regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Even though I do not go along with the author's premise that Lyndon Johnson concocted the entire scenario in his mind including the cover-up, Oswald as the lone gunman and the destruction of evidence, this book goes much farther than all the others in tying up a hundred loose ends in the assassination riddle. If even half the things written about LBJ are true then, compared to him, Hitler wasn't such a bad guy! Read this book and you will continually ask yourself..."How did this monster get to be President of the United States?" Johnson had a devious and conniving mind. He manipulated people constantly by bullying, blackmailing, threatening or sweet-talking them. Yet, I doubt that he had the intelligence to plan every detail of JFK's killing. More than likely, the plot was suggested to him by some high-ranking official in the Pentagon or the CIA.
Both the military, the spymasters and J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI hated Kennedy and wanted him gone. Wealthy industrialists and Texas oil men were of the same mind.
The killing of John F. Kennedy would put Johnson in the White House, where he had always longed to be. Read this book and you will see how all the pieces fell into place in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Forget all the books that speculate how Kennedy was killed by the Mob or the Cubans. This is the one that will put you on the right track towards the real truth.