Murder from Within: Lyndon Johnson's Plot Against President Kennedy

by Fred T. Newcomb, Perry Adams

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 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 level group within Kennedy's own Cabinet betrayed him and killed him to benefit an ambitious Vice President determined to become President no matter what.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

On the back cover of this book is a review by Prof. Medford Evans from 1975. He writes, "I don't know whether the Secret Service killed the man it is hired to protect or not. I'm not a detective, but just a fellow who sits and reads books. As I read Newcomb and Evans I could not confirm or automatically accept what they were saying. But neither, as I examined their documentation, could I charge them with recklessness or arguing from prejudice or malice."
I think Evans' review sums up my feelings for this book.
Originally written and self published by Fred T. Newcomb and Perry Adams (at their own expense) in 1974, 'Murder from Within' has now been updated and published by family members of the original writers in 2012.
While I do not agree on many specific premises put forward in the text, that does not detract from the overall documentation. Each chapter, indeed almost every sentence is referenced with Notes, and most Notes are accompanied with further text, making the Notes sections a longer read than the original chapters. Here is the strength and power of this book.
If the authors are proposing that Secret Service agent Greer was the assassin, or the windshield was holed from within the limousine, these are not reasons to dismiss this tome. That would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. I have always been happy with Greer and Kellerman's guilt, by their actions and obfuscations and outright lies. I also believe the windshield suffered a through and through hole, inflicted from the front, which caused JFK's throat wound. Who the actual assassins were has never really concerned me. The important facts are that the president was killed in a conspiracy and high government officials were involved and covered this up.
No, do not dismiss this work. There is excellent information on the Dallas motorcade, with many drawings based on film images that bring clarity to the old grainy pictures, and many charts giving details of plaza witnesses.
Kudos to Newcomb and Adams, as they wrote this in the early 1970's and exposed many anomalies in the case years before authors like Lifton's 'Best Evidence' or Nelson's guilty verdict on LBJ.
No matter how many books I read on this topic, and I'm approaching the two hundred mark, it never fails to amaze me to come across completely new facts. I have found them here. Yet another 'patsy' in San Antonio, one Harry L. Power, a member of the Young Communist League with a rifle similar to the planted TSBD Carcano. (Although research printed in the 4th Decade in the 1990's state that this rifle was a Mauser.....not the first time this anomaly has surfaced.) In November 1963 patsies were almost ten a penny, Thomas Vallee in Chicago, Vaughn Marlowe in L.A. Santiago Garriga in Miami, Gilberto Lopez in Tampa, John Glenn in Indianna among others! Also Oswald's job applications are shown here, all ten are situated along both proposed motorcade routes. Oswald's self addressed mail in Irving, the contents of which vanished after the assassination. All this and so much more!

[Max Gwynne · Rating 3 out of 5]

an overall interesting read.

despite being poorly edited, the book sheds light on some interesting facts in the case for the assassination being an internal, domestic coup d'etat.

all work is well backed up with strong evidence and is laided out in good fashion.