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LBJ: The MasterMind of JFK's Assassination

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The first edition of " The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination" has been withdrawn from the new book market, as of May 31, 2011. The manuscript for the book has been professionally re-edited and substantially revised and updated with new material which makes the case against Johnson even more compelling than was true of the earlier edition. The new (second) edition of the book will be introduced in November, 2011 by the new publisher, Skyhorse Publications. The book is available for pre-orders at Amazon at this   amazon.com/LBJ-Mastermind-Assassinati...

The book starts by looking back into Johnson's past, from the time he was a boy in Texas.  Among the sources are the three books by Robert Caro. It then follows the development of his character traits throughout his school days, through college and as a young congressional apprentice in Washington.  
The essential themes of the book,
- Johnson's mental issues (paranoia, bi-polar disorder and sociopathic personality)
- And criminal associations drove him higher and higher up the ladder
- Culminating in a plan begun in 1958-59 to force himself onto the ticket as vice president in 1960, an office he "detested."
- During his time as Vice President, Johnson hated being in that office and continued his criminal actions and associations with Billie Sol Estes and Bobby Baker (and through Baker, with many other Mafia-connected lobbyists like Fred Black, Irving Davidson, Mickey Weiner, oilmen like Clint Murchison and gangsters like Johnny Roselli, Cliff Jones, Ed Levinson and Ben Seigelbaum directly to Mob-boss Carlos Marcello.
- As JFK continued making peace overtures to the cold war enemies (his "Peace Speech," the nuclear test ban, his reversal of policy towards Vietnam, his negotiated settlement on the Cuban missile crisis) a number of men holding very high offices in the military and intelligence agencies became very upset and decided, with Johnson's backing and provocations, to effect an "Executive Action" to remove JFK.
 
There are many loose strings which connect all of this together and reveal the existence of a widely based conspiracy, with connections to the military and CIA networks, even though nothing was ever written by the plotters to allow direct tracing to their organizations. 

730 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 2010

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Phillip F. Nelson

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Phillip Nelson grew up in Indiana and studied at the University of Wisconsin (Whitewater Campus), and served in the Peace Corps in Brazil during 1969-70. He began researching the JFK assassination intensely in 2003, and published his first book, "LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination" in 2010. This was followed by "LBJ: From Mastermind to Colossus" in 2014.

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August 16, 2023
Really deep look into the corrupt life and the unethical mind of LBJ. I find the title to be a little deceptive, but in fairness the author did stick to his theory of LBJ as "mastermind" until the end of the book. What makes this theory very plausible to me is the shocking way on which JFK was cornered (by LBJ and Hoover) into selecting LBJ as his VP while someone else had already been chosen, AND the fact that LBJ had no interest whatsoever in decreasing his own power massively from leader of the Senate majority to VP, unless it was for a longer-term strategy to become President. While I'm still not sure I completely buy that, like any other reasonable person I do realize there was a conspiracy of some kind around the JFK assassination. This book is good, and I recommend it, although my favorite work on this topic remains "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James Douglass.
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370 reviews13 followers
October 27, 2019
This book is an amazing biography of LBJ essentially. Anyone who thinks Trump is the worst really owes it to themselves to pick up probably any book about LBJ. That man was truly a monster, but he makes for some marvelous reading.

All in all I've read quite a few of these JFK assassination books by now and this is undoubtedly one of the better ones. Much better even than some of most popular ones.
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May 21, 2014
The front sleeve displays a review of this book by James Fetzer, author of 'Murder in Dealey Plaza', his simple summation is "A masterpiece. Beautifully written." I go along with that.
It must be hard to find two more extreme contrasting views of the same person as this book and Randall Woods' 'LBJ-Architect of American Ambition', which I read recently.
Phillip F. Nelson has graduated from the Assassination-critics University with a two-one with honours.
Although this work covers over six hundred pages, the author has studied a vast amount of the publications of the past forty years that question against the 'lone nut' hogwash. Nelson is no investigative pioneer like Twyman, Lifton, Marrs, Hancock etc. Rather he stands on the backs of these giants. There are some one hundred and seventy books listed in the Bibliography and he refers to most of these past publications as well as internet websites and YouTube to produce this Encyclopaedia Dealeyplaza. For readers coming late to the party, many of the early publications are somewhat difficult, or expensive to get hold of. Twyman's 'Bloody Treason' comes in at £160 for a used hardcover copy. Davy's 'Let Justice Be Done' can be obtained in used paperback for just over £50 and Thompson's 'Six Seconds in Dallas' around £40. Although not possible to adequately cover all the angles of this 'crime of the century' in a volume twice the size of this one, 'LBJ' is a very comprehensive and readable tome.
The premise is that polecat Lyndon was a paranoid, bipolar, antisocial personality. Guilty of election fraud, involved since early 1950's in murders, including his own sister. Infatuated with becoming president, he was the principal controller of the coup d'etat in '63, recruiting Kennedy haters such as Hoover at the FBI, Dulles,Angleton, E.Howard Hunt among other rogue elements in the CIA, factions of the Military chiefs and Mafia to the 'Big Event' in Dallas. Future presidents who knew of this coup were Nixon and Ford. The cover up and the social damage continues today.

Addendum:-I do not believe that LBJ was the architect or mastermind of the JFK killing. I do however lean toward LBJ having prior knowledge of the events in Dallas, and certainly taking part in the cover-up after becoming president.
There is no doubt that he was a nasty piece of work and guilty of being a party to the many murders that are documented in this book. I do not believe in the 'Murchison party' and I am sceptical of the assassination involvement of Mac Wallace that is written about in 'Texas in the Morning' by Madeleine Brown.
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March 26, 2025
“The first and most important of these works was LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, a hefty 2011 volume running well over 600 pages by Phillip F. Nelson, a retired Texas businessman. Nearly fifty years had elapsed since Johnson’s death, and Nelson did an excellent job of collating and compiling the overwhelming evidence of Johnson’s long and extremely sordid political career, a career that allegedly culminated in the murder of his predecessor.”
-Ron Unz, “American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame”, June 24, 2024
5 reviews4 followers
March 18, 2012
Lyndon Johnson was at the epicenter of the JFK assassination.

Buy this book immediately. It is game changer and one of the best books ever written on the JFK assassination. The weight of the evidence suggests that Lyndon Johnson and his Texas oil men used their CIA/military contacts to murder JFK, with LBJ and his very close friend J. Edgar Hoover (FBI) to cover it up. Allen Dulles (CIA) (another enemy of Kennedy's) was brought in to controll and manipulate the Warren Commission farce.

There is a lot of blockbuster material on the JFK assassination, aka the 1963 Coup d'Etat in Nelson's opus. Get it and recommend it to your friends.

Madeleine Duncan Brown was the most beloved mistress of Lyndon Johnson for 21 years from 1948 until 1969. Madeleine is one of the truth tellers and keys to understanding the ugly reality of the JFK assassination. She had a son Steven Mark with Lyndon in 1950. Madeleine lived from 1925 to 2002 and was madly in love with Lyndon Johnson when she wrote the book Texas in the Morning 24 years after the death of LBJ. She makes some BLOCKBUSTER revelations in this book, such as:

In the night of 12/31/63 morning of January 1, 1964, just 6 weeks after the JFK assassination, Madeleine asked Lyndon Johnson:

"Lyndon, you know that a lot of people believe you had something to do with President Kennedy's assassination."
He shot up out of bed and began pacing and waving his arms screaming like a madman. I was scared!
"That's bull___, Madeleine Brown!" he yelled. "Don't tell me you believe that ____!"
"Of course not." I answered meekly, trying to cool his temper.
"It was Texas oil and those %$%& renegade intelligence bastards in Washington." [said Lyndon Johnson, the new president; Texas in the Morning, p. 189]

From Defrauding America, Rodney Stich, 3rd edition 1998 p. 638-639]:

"The Role of deep-cover CIA officer, Trenton Parker, has been described in earlier pages, and his function in the CIA's counter-intelligence unit, Pegasus. Parker had stated to me earlier that a CIA faction was responsible for the murder of JFK ... During an August 21, 1993, conversation, in response to my questions, Parker said that his Pegasus group had tape recordings of plans to assassinate Kennedy. I asked him, "What group were these tapes identifying?" Parker replied: "Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, Johnson of Texas, George Bush, and J. Edgar Hoover." I asked, "What was the nature of the conversation on these tapes?"

I don't have the tapes now, because all the tape recordings were turned over to [Congressman] Larry McDonald. But I listened to the tape recordings and there were conversations between Rockefeller, [J. Edgar] Hoover, where [Nelson] Rockefeller asks, "Are we going to have any problems?" And he said, "No, we aren't going to have any problems. I checked with Dulles. If they do their job we'll do our job." There are a whole bunch of tapes, because Hoover didn't realize that his phone has been tapped. Defrauding America, Rodney Stich, 3rd edition p. 638-639]

In his oral history, Robert Kennedy bitterly recounted a remark that Johnson supposedly made to someone else after the assassination. "When I was young in Texas, I used to know a cross-eyed boy," Johnson said. "His eyes were crossed, and so was his character... That was God's retribution for people who were bad - and you should be careful of cross-eyed people because God put his mark on them ... Sometimes I think that what happened to Kennedy may have been divine retribution." JFK himself had slightly crossed eyes.

[Leo Janos, LBJ speechwriter, Church Committee interview by Rhett Dawson, Oct. 14, 1975 ... also Gus Russo, Live by the Sword, p. 377]

Kennedy's close and trusted personal secretary for 12 years was Evelyn Lincoln. Here is a report about the Johnson blackmail:

Evelyn Lincoln, JFK’s secretary, reports that Johnson, with J. Edgar Hoover’s dark help, got on the 1960 Democratic ticket by using BLACKMAIL on the Kennedys

“During the 1960 campaign, according to Mrs. Lincoln, Kennedy discovered how vulnerable his womanizing had made him. Sexual blackmail, she said, had long been part of Lyndon Johnson's modus operandi—abetted by Edgar. "J. Edgar Hoover," Lincoln said, "gave Johnson the information about various congressmen and senators so that Johnson could go to X senator and say, `How about this little deal you have with this woman?' and so forth. That's how he kept them in line. He used his IOUs with them as what he hoped was his road to the presidency. He had this trivia to use, because he had Hoover in his corner. And he thought that the members of Congress would go out there and put him over at the Convention. But then Kennedy beat him at the Convention. And well, after that Hoover and Johnson and their group were able to push Johnson on Kennedy."LBJ," said Lincoln, "had been using all the information Hoover could find on Kennedy—during the campaign, even before the Convention. And Hoover was in on the pressure on Kennedy at the Convention." (Summers, Official and Confidential, p. 272).

According to Lincoln, Kennedy had definite plans to drop Johnson for the Vice Presidency in 1964, and replace him with Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina. In 1964, new President Lyndon Johnson gave FBI director J. Edgar Hoover a lifetime waiver from the mandatory retirement age of 70 that Hoover would hit on 1/1/65! In other words, Hoover could live to age 120 and still be head of the FBI. In my opinion, both LBJ and Hoover were conspirators, along with the CIA, in the JFK assassination. LBJ’s and Hoover’s jobs were to cover up the murder.

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807 reviews16 followers
January 9, 2020
This is perhaps the most convincing JFK assassination theory I’ve read to date. So many loose ends are tied up in this book and are congruent with other books I’ve read by different authors focusing on different areas of the case. I’d never much considered LBJ. I figured he had a prior knowledge to the plan but it didn’t occur to me he might have choreographed the scene (and if not put it together, played a big hand and gave the plan a go).

Kennedy’s assassination aside, I’m sickened that society regards Lyndon B. Johnson as one of the greatest presidents in history with so much evidence and proof to the contrary. What scares me most is how much this proves how uneducated the nation is today, what’s more, how unwilling people are to educate themselves in the first place and put total faith in the media. These are the same people who insist we believe one singular man high up in the book depository was capable of taking down the president of the United States with a perfect shot.

In matters of past and present, this book gave me great insight to the workings of the deep state — before it even had a name.
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59 reviews3 followers
September 28, 2019
Lyndon Johnson makes Donald Trump look like a saint. Bill Sol Estes, a business partner of Johnson, went to jail for a variety of crimes he committed that Johnson facilitated through lobbying with government agencies; when he got out of prison, in 1978 he was asked how many people Lyndon Johnson was involved with murdering, and he wrote down eight names, including John F Kennedy, and then said that he knew there were at least that many more murders but he did not know the names of the people murdered. Incredible amount of research, plus hundreds or thousands of others that have researched this realm are cited.
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166 reviews2 followers
April 11, 2011
This book was a VERY comprehensive account of the Kennedy assassination and the role that Lyndon Johnson played in organizing it and covering it up. It was a VERY long book----almost 800 pages, filled with names, dates, conspiracies, and details regarding the Crime of the Century. Excellent book, though a bit tedious to read in places. The author leaves the reader with no doubt about the fact that LJB---though he had help from several other sources was the mastermind of the crime.
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28 reviews13 followers
December 2, 2019
While this book was very interesting, I don't believe that LBJ was the mastermind of anything.

I recommend Joan Mellen's book, Blood in the Water, for more insight into the JFK assassination.

The real masterminds appear to have been James Angleton at the CIA and his MOSSAD colleagues in Israel and the US. No doubt that LBJ was a more than willing pawn, but he was no mastermind.
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116 reviews
April 3, 2012
Yipes! Another bunch of pieces to the assassination puzzle.
The author sites what appear to be very reliable sources. If even 25% of this is true, LBJ was a very bad man. He sure makes it seem probable that he was behind the assassination of JFK.
37 reviews5 followers
September 23, 2019
A truly enlightening critique of Johnson. I am now convinced that he planned and carried out JFK's assassination

This book has more convincing reasoning as to LBJ's ability to plan and carry out the assassination. I never realized how truly sick and evil he was.
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922 reviews32 followers
May 20, 2012
I had read the first three volumes of Robert Caro's _The Years of Lyndon Johnson_ with fascination, so naturally I went to look at the amazon reviews of the new volume 4, _The Passage of Power_. There were 23 five-star reviews, and 10 one-star reviews, with few in the middle. Curious, I started reading the negative reviews, and found many accusations that the respected historian and biographer Caro had toned down his previous portrait of LBJ, turning him from a raging lion into a pussycat. If so, who had bribed, threatened, or otherwise influenced him? My curiosity led me to read the book reviewed here for more detail.

And shock. This is history I lived through, and remembered many of the names and stories from headlines and Uncle Walter's reports as they were happening; Nelson had explanations that make more sense than any I had read before, and fit perfectly with my impression (partly created by Robert Caro, along with my own memories) of LBJ as the most corrupt and vicious politician of them all, skilled at flattery (known as the "Johnson treatment") and personally tailored manipulation of all sorts.

I never questioned LBJ's willingness to kill JFK, only his ability to bring it off. This book explains how, with the help of Johnson's neighbor J. Edgar Hoover, friends in the Pentagon, the CIA, the Secret Service, and the Mafia. Nearly all participants were kept in the dark about all but their particular part of the plan. Some were bribed, some blackmailed with material from FBI files. The press was managed before, during, and after. Many witnesses received threats against themselves and/or their families. Quite a few who knew too much or talked too much died under suspicious circumstances.

All the details are here, collected and assembled from 48 years of assassination research, with huge sections of notes and a large bibliography. It's well written (although poorly edited) and held my attention throughout. I'd sincerely like to hear from anyone who reads it all the way through and fails to be convinced.
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1,591 reviews35 followers
August 18, 2017
Conspiracists have been blaming LBJ (and many others) for JFK's assassination for decades. And the first half of this book that traces the career and character of LBJ makes this seem plausible. Almost everything in this section is in Robert Caro's multi-volume biography of LBJ with one major difference: Nelson accepts Billy Sol Estes' claim that LBJ was responsible for the murder of at least 8 people. Johnson stopped at nothing else to win office so the first half of Nelson's case seems possible. However when the second half of the book starts fleshing out all of the dozens, if not hundreds, of people that had to join in this conspiracy to make it work it just gets too far out. Furthermore after reading Gerald Posner's Case Closed his case for Oswald alone is much more convincing.
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190 reviews
June 21, 2015
Mr. Nelson has made a strong circumstantial case for Johnson's masterminding the assassination of JFK. There is an even greater reason (still circumstantial) to believe that he had guilty knowledge of the act. Without going into all the reasons for this opinion it is important for people to understand just what kind of person LBJ was. Mr Nelson accurately describes him as sociopathic, narcissistic, paranoid and boorish in the extreme. As often happens with the passage of time figures become mutated into something much greater than reality dictates.

Let us not forget Johnson's stubborn attitude to send thousands of young men to die in Viet Nam and to slaughter many more Vietnamese and Cambodians. This he did to satisfy his ego and to see that there were cronies who realized very large sums of money.

Was he capable of engineering the murder: certainly; would he have taken advantage of a plan made by others: most certainly.
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18 reviews43 followers
September 28, 2022
Badly in need of editing

This book would have been quite good at about one-half its length. The amount of detail, while impressive, is well in excess of that needed to support the author's thesis. Details and conclusions are repeated many times throughout the book and it was difficult not to start skimming, especially the last 150 or more pages. Looking back, it was impossible to sift through the filler to discern what may have been truly important due to needless detail. It was also difficult in some areas to discern fact from speculation because of the volume of distracting filler.
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1,448 reviews33 followers
August 20, 2023
This is an entertaining and informative book on the true perpetrator of the JFK assassination. For those who believe political corruption and criminal misuse of their office can't get much worse than Today, right now, with the prosecution of the former POTUS Trump who's running against the POTUS whose government is prosecuting him... Those people need to read this book. I'm certain Abe Lincoln and John F Kennedy would say their political criminal opponents were worse! Read this book and you'll know, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." (star wars) than you'll find in America's Political Criminals!
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11 reviews1 follower
September 30, 2014
Very tight read. Doubts about premise but enjoyed nevertheless.
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Author 6 books16 followers
February 19, 2023
LBJ: Conspiracy Theories by the Yard
This account of LBJ's life shows his ambition for the highest office and his ruthless exploitation of anyone who could help him get there. The repetitive and long-winded style cries out for drastic editing and promotes the volume to the doorstop class of books. Much of the content is based on secondary sources, including Robert Caro's magisterial multi-volume biography, which is a much better source, but is a slow-running work in progress, admittedly even more of a doorstop and not yet complete.

It is not difficult to demonstrate that the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy served the purposes of his vice-president Lyndon Johnson and the interests of LBJ's commercial and political backers. The official reports leave plenty of questions unanswered. And LBJ may well have manipulated and perhaps blackmailed his way into the vice-presidency with a view to the event that would boost him into the top job.

But that falls far short of evidence of a conspiracy masterminded by Johnson. When it comes to actual evidence of the alleged plot, the author becomes vague; we read 'Johnson almost certainly would have ...', 'it would have', 'it would not be unreasonable to suspect that', 'it can be assumed that', 'It may be' and 'it isn't a stretch to assume that'. Ultimately, this book exploits the fascination with the events before and after 22 November 1963 but the case for a Johnson/CIA plot to kill Kennedy is not proven.
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59 reviews
July 13, 2019
I love a well-researched book. Facts, supporting information to back up said facts... bring it baby.

However, this book reads like a dissertation. I was shocked to find myself only 15% through the book; I thought I had read more! It certainly felt like it.

I have always been the oddball person who was convinced that he was behind the assassination of JFK, due to what I call "first-runner-up syndrome": "If Miss America is unable to complete the reign...", who gets the prize?

Phillip Nelson covers EVERYTHING in the life of Lyndon Johnson, from childhood to college, where he began honing his 'skills' on the college president, into his beginning political years and his methods of swiping elections out from under the noses of his opponents. He discusses the 1960 election, and how upset Kennedy supporters were when the Kennedy/Johnson ticket was announced.

I have to put this book aside for now. When I have digested and understood what is going on, I will have to return, because this guy was more than a notion.
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67 reviews1 follower
April 25, 2018
People complain about Trump - they need to read about LBJ. People need to review how LBJ was all about himself and power - at all costs. He rigged elections for the sake of himself and not his constituents, which people could say that's how most politicians behave. LBJ took it to new heights (or lows, depending on one's perspective). He had the most to gain by Kennedy's death, and the most to lose if Kennedy lived. There were Senate hearings and investigations going on regarding LBJ at the time of Kennedy's death. LBJ was powerless to control and squash those hearings while he remained VP, but as president, he could halt everything.

The book is well researched, despite so much evidence being manipulated and destroyed. (Shades of modern day presidential elections.) It isn't too far-fetched that LBJ would have a hand in the Kennedy assassination. The author presents a very compelling case.
1 review1 follower
April 26, 2021
Conspiracy Facts

Have studied the JFK assassination for decades and always have concluded this was an inside job. As a former military officer I have found it absurd to believe that a single unprofessional gunman could make the "magic" shot the Warren Commission wanted Americans to believe. Also, having walked the Dealey Plaza terrain several times and visiting the book repository it is more likely that multiple shots were taken from better positions and concealment. Finally, you only need to see Jackie reach over the rear hood of the limousine for JFKs back skull fragments in the Zapruder film and witness Johnson's callous, unfeeling regard after the assassination to realize there was alot more to this conspiracy than a bumbling ex-Marine! Great book laying out the case that LBJ and his cronies were the perps that plotted and successfully assassinated JFK for their own political gain!
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25 reviews
November 23, 2024
This book has been the most heart wrenching read of my life. I was a young child when President Kennedy was murdered and never quite got over it. In the late 1980’s, I began to research the assassination, because I never believed that Oswald killed JFK.

After reading thirty or more books, I became convinced that LBJ was involved in the cover-up. I guess I did not want to believe that: 1) He planned the crime, and 2) He was able to get cooperation from the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, the US military, and the mob. The author of this book convinced me otherwise.

This is one of the best, if not the best, book that I have ever read about the JFK assassination. It is long and many details are repeated; therefore, it is not a perfect book. Nevertheless, if you really want to know who was responsible for President Kennedy’s death and the subsequent coverup, read this book. If you have any memory of November 22, 1963, and still hurt, it will be a difficult read. But it is worth it.

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48 reviews
February 6, 2020
As much as I would like for this book to have definitive proof of its premise that LBJ was the mastermind behind the JFK killing, this book just doesn't get there. Possible, yes. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, no.

An evil man responsible for a multitude of other deaths, and certainly a beneficiary of what happened, maybe even a participant in the planning, but mastermind? Doubtful. Probably someone at the CIA who pitched the idea to him and he went along with it.

This is a very long, very repetitive book. It could have been much, much shorter. Still, it is an interesting read. Based on personal information, he has a few minor details wrong, but none that affect the conclusions.
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104 reviews2 followers
August 6, 2017
LBJ - the role model for all that is criminal in DC! A murderer. Perpetrator of fraud. A liar. A cheater. A buddy of the criminal element in the FBI and in the CIA.

Everything that is wrong in America today can be traced right back to LBJ! Were it not for him, we wouldn't have been mired in Viet Nam nor would we have the likes of Hillary and Bill Clinton! All should have been arrested and tried for corruption, murder and treason!

Hopefully, somebody will dig up LBJ's bones and beat them with a shovel.
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2,061 reviews97 followers
January 14, 2024
What an amazing read. Nelson takes his readers step by step through Johnson's early years and how he manipulated his way into the Presidency. Over and over we hear how Trump used Nixon's playbook, but if we look beyond Nixon, Johnson may well have actually achieved a coup. If you substitute "Trump" for "Johnson" in this book you'd think you were reading about the 45th president. The schemes, the cover ups, the mis-use of government resources.....it's all there.

I have to wonder what Nelson would have had to say about Trump if he were writing today.
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412 reviews
January 23, 2025
4.5 stars

I am no fan of LBJ. He was a disgusting slime ball at very best. The author lays out his case to show that LBJ was the only person who had the means, the motivation, and the power to murder JFK and then cover it all up. The book is well sourced, not just someone's crazy notion. My mind is still open, but he makes a strong argument.
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43 reviews4 followers
April 8, 2025
I have read 15 books on JFK. This was the best. Very thorough account and well documented. Required reading for every American.
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512 reviews1 follower
May 30, 2025
I've read a LOT of books about the Kennedy assassinations over the last couple of decades. Sorry, I'm just not buying this. LBJ was no saint, but he wasnt this guy.
25 reviews
October 17, 2025
I think this book is a must read for any American who wants to know the truth about LBJ and the part he played in the assassination of JFK. An eye-opening account, for sure.
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77 reviews
August 8, 2023
I have read at least 20 books and watched at least 10 documentaries on YouTube about JFK’s assassination and this is truly the best to date. Kudos to Philip Nelson for telling us the truth about what happened to JFK. A very sad commentary on our country.
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