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Lyndon B. Johnson. By Jake Kenney. A Rise To Power. Did LBJ "let" JFK die?. Conspiracy Theory. Johnson met and negotiated with o rganized crime kingpins and crooked members of the CIA to get John F. Kennedy killed, so he would be President. Election of 1964.
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Lyndon B. Johnson By Jake Kenney
Conspiracy Theory • Johnson met and negotiated with organized crime kingpins and crooked members of the CIA to get John F. Kennedy killed, so he would be President.
Election of 1964 • Lyndon Johnson vs. Republican Barry Goldwater from Arizona. • Johnson wins by a landslide. • He promised to “carry forward the plans and programs of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Not because of our sorrow or sympathy, but because they are right.”