an hour in Johnson’s life,
462
inside the vice presidential car, 469
the mastermind
back at the ranch, 44, 59, 147, 207–208, 220–221, 227, 230, 239, 257, 375, 507, 512, 609, 612–613
“executive action” organization, 318
“executive action plan”, 321
“plausible deniability” as planning precept, 263, 314, 322–323, 327
the hit and the aftershock, 372
new presidential party escapes to Love Field, 412
Saturday morning in the White House, 432
takes command, 420
watching everyone on Air Force One, 426
the aftermath of the assassination, 373, 435, 605
begins the cover-up,
gamesmanship, 590
throws a congressional hissy fit, 571
campaign for the presidency
1960 campaign, 195, 208, 268, 291–292, 362
“Lyndon’s law”, 279
preparing for the 1960 presidential election, 270
1960 Democratic Convention, 275
vice-presidential nomination, 596
November dilemma, 312
obsession to be president, xi, xv, 2, 28, 211, 334, 602
civil rights record, 607–608
congressman, 16–18, 20, 25, 43–44
connection with the mob and other miscreants, 39
depression, other mental issues, 5, 136, 268, 611–616, 621
early criminal conduct summarized, black bag finance and political payback, 37, 168, 286, 322, 330
final demise of, 609
goes to college, 8
goes to Vietnam, 108
goes to Washington, 11
the “Johnson Treatment,” 54, 200
learns the art of manipulation, 6
1964 presidential election, 354, 452, 569
campaign begins, 255, 257, 307
murders, 57, 151, 186, 197, 208–209, 217, 225, 228, 230–232, 245, 248–251, 253, 302, 315, 322, 596, 599–601
the first murder, 209
“Texas suicide,” 223
presidency
begins his legacy, 76, 532, 599, 605, 608–609
efforts to manipulate gullible historians, 532
Vietnam, xii, 15, 23, 56, 61, 68, 78, 80, 94, 105–110, 112–130, 153, 164, 168, 172–173, 180, 303, 307, 318, 372, 505–506, 510, 592, 596, 606–607, 610–612, 616, 622–625
“rags to riches” broadcasting business, 43
scandals related to Johson See Index Entries:
Billie Sol Estes, v, xii, xvi–xvii, 56–57, 62, 90, 130, 187, 189, 194–195, 197, 199, 201–205, 219, 221, 225–224, 236–238, 240–241, 243, 245–251, 254, 260, 302, 308–309, 581, 596, 600–601, 627
Bobby Baker, xii, 38, 40–42, 46–47, 56, 62–63, 90, 130, 159–161, 183, 194, 234–235, 240, 250–251, 253–263, 273–274, 283, 285, 298–299, 305, 308–309, 310, 312, 314, 373, 437, 444, 462–463, 536, 563–566, 568–571, 573, 574–578, 580–582, 596, 607, 609
Box 13, xiii, 29–33, 219, 223–224
murders ordered by, xiv, 197, 247,
stolen elections
TFX, xii, 57, 117, 157, 188, 190–194, 254, 258, 260, 262, 505–506, 563–565, 567
Silver Star Medal, 21–23
tirade with his pilots, 226
World War II “service,” 19
Johnson, Rebekah, 4, 613
Johnson, Sam E., 7
Johnson, Sam Houston, 3, 11, 210, 220
Johnson, U. Alexis, 80
Jones, Clifford (Cliff), 40, 254, 437
Jones, Douglas, 355
Jones, L. E., 12, 14
Jones, Mary Kimbrough, 235
Jones, Penn, 383, 487, 583
Jones, Robert E., 488
Jordan, B. Everett, 261, 563
Jungman, J. Frank, 38
Junta Revoluncionaria (JURE), 353
Justice Department, The, v, 43, 46, 62, 140, 146, 151, 155, 179, 191, 243, 247, 256–258, 297, 305, 307, 309–312, 325, 361, 444, 446, 463, 539, 553, 555, 559–560, 564, 574–575, 577, 579
Kaiser, David, 592
Kantor, Seth, 192, 388, 407
Karamessines, Tom, 349
Karnow, Stanley, 110, 622
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 299, 347, 372, 392, 417, 419, 422, 434, 439, 443, 444, 447
Kearns, Doris, 290, 474
See also: Goodwin, Doris Kearns-
Keating, Kenneth, 90
Keeler, Christine, 157
Keenan, Lawrence, 541
Kefauver, Estes, 39
Kellam, Jesse, 37, 142, 189
Kellerman, Gary, 367
Kellerman, Roy, 397, 405, 415, 511, 513
Kelly, Thomas, 544
Kennan, George, 134–135
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 170, 386, 421, 424, 512, 526, 586–587, 589
Kennedy, John F., v, viii, ix, xi, xiii–xv, xix, 50–51, 60, 66–67, 69, 72, 77, 81, 96, 98, 125, 129–131, 133, 138, 144, 150–152, 154, 157, 161, 164, 166, 173–175, 185, 194, 247, 260, 266, 271, 275, 278, 289–290, 292, 296, 307–308, 316–318, 327, 342, 360, 362, 364
scene at Parkland Hospital, 324, 391, 395, 403, 407, 412, 418, 420, 426, 508, 509, 519–520, 533, 560, 563, 584–585, 604
the “killing zone,” 396, 464, 603
the designated “Patsy”, 168, 322, 325, 330, 332, 338, 343, 347–348, 352–354, 362–363, 366, 411, 466–467, 605
three pronged plan in the assassination of, 330
transporting JFK’s corpse, 514
trip to Texas, 372
confronts the CIA, 68
“Peace Speech”, 120, 122–123, 153, 158, 606
vulnerabilities of
Addison’s disease, 272, 275, 284
cast of military men, 176
the Mafia connections and Cuban exiles, 126
rich Texas oilmen, and their mobster friends, 143
Kennedy, Mylton, 10
Kennedy, Robert, xviii, 43, 54, 58, 60, 62–63, 77, 80, 84–85, 91–92, 95, 97, 101–102, 105–107, 127–128, 139, 140, 147, 154, 156, 161, 187–188, 237, 255–256, 258, 266, 276, 286–287, 289, 300, 301, 303–307, 309, 320, 321, 361, 374, 417, 419, 423, 428, 445, 536, 538, 552, 558, 564, 575, 584, 586, 588, 591–592
involvement with Marilyn Monroe, 94, 150–151, 154–158, 258, 372
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted”, 117
Kenney, (Admiral), 528
Kessler, Ronald, 548
KGB, 69, 94, 134, 166, 329, 337, 348, 366
Khrushchev, Nikita, 70, 78, 90–91, 93–95, 97, 99, 121, 169, 271
Kilduff, Malcolm, 129, 404, 415, 418, 421–422
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 74, 151
Kilgore, Joe M., 23
Kilpatrick, James J., 56
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 259, 322, 588, 608
Kingsbery, E. G., 44
Kinser, John Douglas, 209–213, 215–220, 222, 227, 230, 247, 250, 589, 600
Kinser, Winston, 209–210
Kirkwood, W. C., 42, 187
Kleberg, Richard, 11–13, 17, 26, 28
Knight, John S., 284
Korean War, 104, 179, 181
Korshak, Sidney, 42, 179, 190
Korth, Fred, 57, 187, 191–193, 564, 580
Kostikov, Valery, 329, 348
Kremlin, The, 158
Kritzberg, Connie, v, 436
Krock, Arthur, 66, 162
Krulak, Victor, 127, 509
Krutilek, George, 230, 238, 241, 247
Kurtz, Michael, 504
Lambert, William, 44
Lamar Hotel (The), 145, 323
Lane, Mark, 165, 335, 400, 451, 469, 479, 540
Lansdale, Edward, 81, 85–86, 99, 107, 111, 165, 171–173, 183, 509–510
Landrum-Griffin Act, 269
Lansky, Meyer, 40, 43, 141, 147, 165, 178, 345, 437
Lasky, Victor, 75, 294, 298, 566
Latimer, Gene, 12, 14, 26
Lawrence, Perdue W., 387
Lawson, Winston C., 379
&nbs
p; Ledgerwood, Virginia, 219
Leigh, Janet, 162
LeMay, Curtis, 108, 176–177, 317, 505, 526
Lemnitzer, Lyman, 76, 80
Leopoldo, 373, 385
Lesar, Jim, 195
Levinson, Edward “Eddie”, 40, 42, 144, 183, 251–252, 254, 257, 437
Lewis, Anthony, 143, 259
Lifton, David, 417, 427, 515, 517, 523–526, 547
limousine, presidential, 378, 385–388, 392, 396, 420–421, 450, 464, 494, 538
Lincoln, Evelyn, xiii, 62, 131, 260, 272, 274, 277, 281, 283–284, 286, 289, 304, 313, 373–374, 536
Ling-Temco-Vaught (LTV), 221
Lisagor, Peter, 58
Livingstone, Harrison, 245, 383, 621
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 58, 119, 124, 126, 128
Long, Robert (Bob), 214, 216, 218
Love Field, 379, 381, 386–387, 389–390, 392–393, 398, 412–413, 415, 418–419, 421, 427, 463–464, 498–499, 513, 517–518, 520
Lovett, Robert, 134
Luce, Clare Boothe, 136, 266
Luce, Henry, 137, 311, 119
Lumumba, Patrice, 70
Lundahl, Arthur C., 548
Luscombe Aircraft Corporation, 221
Lynch, Grayston, 165, 510
MacArthur, Douglas, 20, 105, 176
Mack, Gary, 547, 551
Maclean, Donald, 82
Macmillan, Harold, 158
MAD (mutually assured destruction), 181
Madame Nhu (wife of Diem’s brother), 119
Mafia, 39, 41–42, 71, 74, 77, 102–103, 131, 139, 141, 144, 146, 155, 158, 165, 183, 273, 307–308, 317–318, 323–324, 329, 331, 342, 357, 362, 369, 396, 437, 469, 485, 539, 542, 554, 564, 591, 602
magic bullet theory, 441, 459, 519, 617
(See “single bullet theory”)
Magruder, John, 322
Maheu, Robert, 42, 71, 148
Manchester, William, 83–84, 266, 379–380, 386, 391, 399, 405–406, 412–414, 416, 418–419, 421–423, 426, 428, 432, 464, 470–471, 473–475, 480, 514, 518, 523, 536–537, 562–563, 586–589, 623
Mankel, Jose, 175
Mann, Thomas, 540–541
Manning, Robert, 430
Mannlicher-Carcano rifl e, 324, 330, 408, 428–429
Mansfield, Jayne, 162
Mansfield, Mike, 88, 117–118, 133, 289, 299
Mantik, David W., 397, 400, 530, 546
Manuel, Robert E., 202
Marcello, Carlos, 41–42, 77, 144, 146–147, 149, 155, 307–309, 317, 321, 323, 325, 331, 342, 357, 437, 539, 540, 553
Marchetti, Victor, 337, 339, 557
Markham, Helen, 407, 503
Marquat, W. F., 21
Marrs, Jim, 334, 355, 383, 411, 448, 456, 543–544, 584
Marsh, Charles, 28, 267
Marshall, Burke, 301–302
Marshall Ford Dam, 18–19, 33
Marshall, George, 83
Marshall, Henry, xviii, 195, 199, 202, 205–206, 208, 221, 225–230, 232, 236, 241, 243–244, 246–247, 249–250, 309, 315
Martens, Layton, 554
Martin, B. J., 380, 387, 390, 412–413, 420, 471, 477, 487, 496–497, 602
Martin, David C., 83, 99
Martin, John Bartlow, 62, 99
Martino, John, 168
Masferrer, Rolando, 365, 367
Mason, Bill, 223
Masen, John Thomas, 543
Mauser rifl e, 324, 330, 408–409, 436, 490
McCarthy, Joseph R., 60, 135, 138, 181, 567
McCarthy, Eugene, 592
McClellan, Barr, xvii–xviii, 64, 199, 210, 211, 224, 230, 241, 323, 601, 609
McClellan, John, 195, 228, 565
McClelland, Robert, 404
McCloskey, Matthew (Matt), 260, 556
McCloy, John, 134, 179, 182, 317, 441, 447
McCone, John, 80, 87, 91, 549, 592
McCormack, John, 536, 571
McDonnell Aircraft Company, 191
McDonnell-Douglas Corp., 508
McGarr, Lionel, 111, 173
McHugh, Godfrey, 387, 415, 421–422, 513
McIntyre, Jamie, 22
McKnight, Gerald, v, viii, 457
McLaney, Bill, 345
McMahon, Homer, 547–549
McMaster, H. R., 126–127, 623
McNamara, Robert, 115–116, 127, 182, 191, 193
McSpadden, Coleman, 198
McWillie, Lewis, 345, 437
Meagher, Sylvia, 356, 623
Mecom, John W., 208, 239
Melanson, Philip, 336
Menger Hotel (The), 225
Mercer, Julia Ann, 490
Mertz, Victor Michael, 360
Mesta, Pearl, 41
Meyer, Cord, 69, 134, 136–137, 152–153, 165, 173–174, 180, 468
Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 135, 150, 152–153, 174
Miller, Carl J., 202, 241
Miller, Jack, 155
Miller, Merle, 290
Miller, Tom, 297
Miller, William, 568
Millican, A. J., 456
Mills, Randolph, 38
Milteer, Joseph A., 368
Minh, Ho Chi, 115
Minutemen, The, 160, 180, 343, 543
Mitchell, Mary, 402, 471
MK/ULTRA, 70, 361, 521, 585
Mohr, Charles, 120
Mollenhoff, Clark, x, 255, 259
Monroe, Marilyn, 94, 150–151, 154–158, 258, 372
Monteith, Edgar, 38
Moody Foundation, 249
Moore, Elmer, 560
Moore, J. Walton, 339
Moorman, Mary, 399, 494, 552
Morales, David Sanchez, 102, 165, 168, 331, 343, 510
Morley, Jefferson, 100, 171, 348–351
Morris, William E., 199, 202
Morrow, Robert, P. v
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Company, 40
Mosley, C.W., 233–234
Moss, Jim, 220
Mossadegh, Mohammed, 138
Moyers, Bill, xvii, 6, 16, 19, 26, 116, 284, 287, 304, 376–377, 389–390, 393, 395, 413, 415, 424, 427, 463, 615
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 304
Mundt, Karl, 568
Murchison, Clint, 41–42, 141, 144–145, 183, 187–188, 203, 234, 254, 308, 317, 321–324, 339, 364, 375, 382–383, 539, 594
Murphy, Charles S., 204, 232
Murphy, Thomas J., 451
mutually assured destruction, 181
Nagell, Richard Case, 323, 364–365
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 299, 301
National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), 90, 547–549
National Security Council, 80, 84, 100, 148
Neutrality Act, 101, 346
New Orleans Trade Mart, 344
New Guinea, 20
Newman, Bill, 496
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