Many of Babyboomers were very young when President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was in office with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). Because of their youth, they were unaware of the politics and behind the scenes shenanigans going on.
For example, did you know Democrat Vice President Lyndon Johnson was being investigated for criminal activities he was engaged in related to power and money just before President John Kennedy was assassinated?
“Criminal to President in 2 Weeks: LBJ’s Life Magazine Coup, November 1963 #readalong #lyndonbjohnson” – Jess Connell
Did you know that many eyewitnesses who came forward to testify contrary to the Warren Commission Report died mysteriously?
“The Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination Part 1” – The Conspiracy Archives
The above film highlights 20 people who seemingly died before their time with a promise of a second part revealing more people to come.
LBJ was never indicted for any crimes but, had JFK lived a few weeks longer, that may have changed. LBJ was heavily involved with known criminals Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes.
LBJ allegedly was involved in election theft and influence peddling. His standard fee just to listen to a proposed bribe was allegedly $ 10K. If he decided to work with someone, his starting price was allegedly $100K up, depending on what was to done. The payment could be in cash, or in some form of a barter agreement such as running an ad campaign on one of Lady Bird’s radio and television stations at 10 times the going rate. It is alleged LBJ would launder cash through the Brazos-Tenth Corporation with help from Ed Clark.
Another alleged example of LBJ’s corrupt wielding of power was seen in Lady Bird’s broadcast empire which was built with help from LBJ. She would buy a low powered station with little value, and he would use his influence with the FCC as Senator to increase the power and broadcast range of her stations. This would increase her viewer market and add value to her station.
It is also alleged LBJ was good at fixing elections. The stuffing of Ballot Box 13 was a famous case where he actually lost a Senate race by a less than 100 votes. But then, mysteriously, an uncounted ballot box turned up days later that had 202 votes for Lyndon and 2 for his opponent. This became known as “The Box 13 Scandal” a political scandal in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 Democratic primary involving Lyndon B. Johnson and Coke Stevenson.
Some people in-the-know felt LBJ may have had as many as 11 people eliminated. A book by Barr McClelland titled “Blood, Money and Power: How L. B. J. Killed J. F. K.” contains a copy of a communication between Lyndon Johnson and his lawyer and expediter Ed Clark. It seemingly discusses the need to murder one of LBJ’s enemies. That person was murdered shortly thereafter. An LBJ associate named Malcolm Wallace on October 22, 1951, fatally shot John Douglas Kinser in his clubhouse of the golf course he owned in Austin. Wallace was caught and sentenced to life in prison by a jury. LBJ is said to have arranged for the judge to set aside that verdict and change it to 5 years’ probation. Once the trial was over, LBJ arranged for Wallace to get a management job with Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV), a large American conglomerate involved in various industries including aerospace. There Wallace held a top-secret security classification of the Federal government.
Another alleged story of LBJ corruption goes to one of his earliest supporters, an engineering construction company known as Brown & Root. They allegedly channeled money to him as campaign contributions which were really under the table payoffs. When LBJ became president, they became the second largest such company in the world building roads, hospitals, airports, water/sewer/power plants and buildings, many of them government contracts.
Congress was investigating LBJ’s corruption and dealings with Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker when JFK made his trip to Dallas in November of 1963. Life magazine had over 40 reporters investigating LBJ in Texas then. They planned an expose for their December 1st, 1963, edition cover story. Much of the information Life got was provided by Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (RFK), President JFK’s brother. When LBJ became President on 11/22/63, all investigations related to him and his associates were stopped. RFK would later be assassinated as he campaigned for the presidency in 1968.
There were many witnesses to the Kennedy assassination. They were not interviewed by the Warren Commission and they were not widely covered by the media. Many of them wound up dead after they came forward in ways that looked intentional (gunshots) and ways that were determined accidental (brakes out on car).
“Railroad Worker James Leon Simmons – Witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy” – Clip from Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment (1967)
CONCLUSION:
My regular readers know I have old expressions come to mind as I do my research for articles and I like to use them. Three that came to mind in this article:
- “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton
- “Sometime the truth is stranger than fiction.” – Lord Byron
- “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” – Karl Marx
Three deep thoughts also came to mind in doing this article:
- Today’s Democrats certainly had a good teacher in Lyndon B. Johnson when it comes to a modus operandi in corruption.
- It is interesting how people of ill repute and intent try to label the truth as a conspiracy theory to manipulate the masses in their belief system while clouding the entire issue.
- Thank God we have motion picture and video cameras to expose the truth to dispel the lies.
Podcaster Lucid Rob, aka Robert Walsh, recently dropped this outstanding video that offered more things I did not know about the Kennedy assassination.
“WATCH: Suspicious Secret Service Agents During JFK Motorcade!” – Facts Versa
Near the end of this video Walsh presents a video short from the channel Kennedy Era that offers this:
“They love to say JFK stood for peace. But peace doesn’t get you killed in broad daylight. What he really stood for, INTERRUPTION! He challenged the CIA, tried to pull us out of Vietnam, threatened the power of the Federal Reserve, and told the American people to beware of secrecy and shadow control.
That’s not peace. That’s pulling the plug on the whole machine and just as he started making moves they erased him. What if he had lived? Would we have avoided war? Would the system have collapsed or finally changed? Or was one man with too much charm and too much truth simply too dangerous to keep alive?”
This video short gave me chills as I thought of the parallels between President Kennedy of 1963 and President Trump of 2025.
Pulling the plug on the whole machine!
Draining the swamp!
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
