It should be pointed out that H.L. Hunt
and D.H Byrd, who were two of LBJ's inner circle Dallas, TX oil men supporters
were both very close to Gen. Curtis LeMay. Air Force Gen. Ed Lansdale was
identified at TSBD by two of his peers Col. Fletcher Prouty and Gen. Victor
Krulak. JFK researcher John Judge has long pinned the JFK assassination at the
feet of Gen. Curtis LeMay.
Curtis LeMay, in his oral history with the LBJ Library,
calls the Kennedy people “cockroaches” who were “vindictive,” “ruthless” and
with [low] “moral standards.”
Link to LeMay's oral history with LBJ Library: http://web2.millerce...s_1971_0628.pdf
Frantz : As long as they rescue a portion of it well they
are . . . . Where were you at
the time of the assassination?
LeMay : I was in Washington at the time--the Chief of
Staff of the Air Force .
Frantz : You were at work on that particular day?
OFF SOME PLACE
LeMay : No, I was off some place, at the actual time of
the assassination, I was
called back .
Frantz: Yes, what was the situation that you found when
you got back to Washington?
Was there a little bit of tenseness or was it pretty well
decided that Lee
Harvey Oswald was just after one man?
LeMay: Well there wasn't much of a flap . Everybody was a
little concerned that they
didn't know what made the attack, the assassination, so
they wanted
everybody present for duty . That's the reason they were
called back.
Frantz: Was there any great difference between working on
the Joint Chiefs under
Johnson than it had been with Kennedy or did the fact
that you had the same
Secretary of Defense insure the continuity?
LeMay : No, I didn't understand exactly what was going on
. For several months
before the President was assassinated they were rumors,
and then they
got to be a little more than rumors, Vice President
Johnson was going to
be dropped for the coming election . And all the Kennedy
team was finally
got to openly to giving to the Vice President to the back
of their hands,
and it was rather embarrassing for the country around
Washington because
it was so apparent . Then bang, all at once he is
President .
Frantz : Yes.
LeMay : And I believe all of this hard feeling grew up
around the flight from Fort
Worth back was brought on by these people who had really
been vulgar in
my opinion and snubbing the Vice President who expected
to be stepped on
like the cockroaches they were, and he didn't do it . As
a matter of fact
quite the contrary . From all I got the President was
extremely polite to
Mrs . Kennedy and the family and bent over backwards to
do everything he
could to soften the blow if that is possible . It isn't,
but he certainly
was a Southern gentleman in every respect during this
period . And I think
this rather surprised these people because they expected
the same kind of
treatment that they had given him and he didn't give it
to him . Why, I don't
know : I really don't know because well I can understand
in having to face
an election and I can understand him being a smart enough
politician to
know if he threw out all of the Kennedy crowd and put his
in, this might
split the Democratic party at the time in the next
election and so forth .
So I can understand him keeping these people around until
the election was
over, but then he won the election--he won it with the
greatest majority
that any President has ever had, but he still kept these
people around .
The same people that had treated him so miserably during
this period just
before President Kennedy's assassination .
Frantz : This is curious .
LeMay : Yes . I could never understand, never could
figure it out yet . The only
answer I could come up with is that knowing the
vindictiveness of these
people, knowing the moral standards of these people, how
ruthless that
they were, they must have had some threat over the
President that he
knew that they
would carry out .
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