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LBJ Pressured Earl Warren to Head Commission Investigation into JFK Assassination

Chief Justice Earl Warren hands over the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination to President Johnson. The lengthy report, submitted on Sept. 24, 1964, was composed by the seven-member panel who investigated the murder. PHOTO: History.com/Bettmann/Getty

One of the key elements of the Kennedy assassination cover up was how Lyndon B. Johnson ever managed to get Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren to so abjectly prostitute his name and prestige to the Warren Commission project.

Warren was governor of California from 1943 to 1953, the running mate with Thomas Dewey for president in 1948 and the chief justice of Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969.

But digging deeper into Warren’s background, we learn he was very active after 1919 in Freemasonry and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He rose through the ranks in the Masons, culminating in his election in 1935 as the Grand Master of the Freemasons for the state of California from 1935 to 1936. Biographer Jim Newton says that Warren “thrived in the Masons because he shared their ideals, but those ideals also helped shape him, deepening his conviction that society’s problems were best addressed by small groups of enlightened, well-meaning citizens.”

Some of Warren’s “well meaning” positions included eugenic forced sterilizations and the confiscation of land from Japanese owners during WWII. Warren, who was a member of the outspoken anti-Asian society, Native Sons of the Golden West, successfully sought legislation expanding the land confiscations.

Warren was also a warmonger and rejected the non-interventionist tendencies of many Republicans and supported Roosevelt’s rearmament campaign. Following Pearl Harbor, Warren organized the state’s civilian defense program, warning in January 1942 that “the Japanese situation as it exists in this state today may well be the Achilles’ heel of the entire civilian defense effort.” He became a driving force behind the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans without any charges or due process.

President Kennedy, Chief Justice Warren and their wives in November 1963

JFK and the Warren Commission

Warren privately supported Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy in 1960. The two became personally close after Kennedy was inaugurated. Warren later wrote that “no American during my long life ever set his sights higher for a better America or centered his attacks more accurately on the evils and shortcomings of our society than did [Kennedy].” In 1962, Warren switched his party registration to the Democratic Party.

Supposedly the additional rationale for Earl Warren as a secret society member and hack to toe the line in the JFK cover up was the backstory of a Communist conspiracy “evidence” behind the assassination.

President Johnson used the fear of “40 million Americans” dying in a nuclear exchange to force a reluctant Senator Russell onto the commission and made Earl Warren finally say yes when told about “a little incident in Mexico City.” This of course refers to the fake Oswald imposter showing up at the Soviet embassy shortly before Dallas.

This presumably is what induced such men as Chief Justice Warren, Sen. Richard B. Russell and Robert Kennedy to knowingly engage in or allow a cover up. This is not to say that they necessarily believed in a Communist conspiracy, only that they knew that the alternative to the lone gunman theory would inevitably be a powerful effort to pin the assassination on foreign sources.

LBJ explains this in an audio recording of a telephone conversation with Sen. Russell (8:55 p.m. on Nov. 29, 1963). Nor did LBJ hesitate to use compromise to get his way. And what’s with the thinly veiled remark about an old 1952 breakfast meeting? Why did LBJ say this and, so completely out of place, “Do you think I’m kidding you?”

President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Sen. Richard Russell ‘The Johnson Treatment,’ 1963 by Science Source

Sen. Russell was a bachelor and a Cold War warrior. He, like LBJ, was corrupt and spent a great deal of personal time with LBJ and Lady Bird over the years. Under pressure (or duress), Russell, like Warren reluctantly agreed to serve on the assassination commission, but Russell was never fully cooperative. Russell’s personal papers indicated that he was troubled by the commission’s single-bullet theory and the whole squirrelly narrative around the persona of Oswald.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Dick… do you remember when you met me at the Carlton Hotel in 1952? When we had breakfast there one morning.

Richard Russell: Yes, I think so.

Lyndon B. Johnson: All right. Do you think I’m kidding you?

Richard Russell: No … I don’t think your kidding me, but I think … well, I’m not going to say anymore, Mr. President … I’m at your command … and I’ll do anything you want me to do. …

Lyndon B. Johnson: Warren told me he wouldn’t do it under any circumstances … I called him and ordered him down here and told me no twice and I just pulled out what Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City and I say now, I don’t want Mr. Khrushchev to be told tomorrow (censored) and be testifying before a camera that he killed this fellow and that Castro killed him … And he started crying and said, well I won’t turn you down … I’ll do whatever you say.

Blackmailers Johnson and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover no doubt had compromising material on both Russell and Warren. Both of the men dreaded their assignment, but it was abundantly clear to them what was expected.

Johnson, the transcripts show, originally wanted the Texas attorney general to handle and control the matter and strongly opposed the idea of a presidential commission when it first was proposed to him on Nov. 24, the day that Kennedy’s accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot.

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Joseph Alsop

On Nov. 25, 1963, 10:40 a.m. – Phone call between President Johnson and Joseph Alsop

Influential Washington Post columnist Joe Alsop strongly advised LBJ to accept the idea of a presidential commission. When Johnson suspiciously persisted in wanting local authorities and the FBI to handle what he calls a “local killing,” Alsop snaps, “Well, in this case, it does happen to be the killing of the president.”

Alsop warned Johnson to “get ahead of” the Post and repeatedly invokes the name of Cold War icon Dean Acheson as one of the people behind the commission idea. Johnson says he will call Acheson, though no such call is in the available recordings.

Meanwhile, the lone gunman script was pushed by Johnson and Hoover from the get go, well before any real investigation could be conducted.

On Nov 24, 1963, 4:00 p.m. – Account of phone call between FBI Director Hoover and White House Aide Walter Jenkins

Hoover began by reporting that “there is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.”

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White House aide Walter Jenkins (L) with Bill Moyers (R). Jenkins was later ousted following a homosexual sex sting operation known as “LBJ’s gay purge.”

At the end of the call, Hoover noted the need to have “something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin,” and that (Assistant Attorney General) “Katzenbach thinks that the president might appoint a presidential commission of three outstanding citizens to make a determination.”

Hoover in a conversation with LBJ at 10:01 a.m. on Nov. 23 can’t even keep Oswald story straight and says Oswald shot the police officer (Tippet) at the theater. Hoover already states they have their man in lone gunman Oswald. Fourteen minutes is missing from this tape.

You will note the presence of Asst. Attorney General Katzenbach, who is quickly laying the groundwork for the cover up. Then U.S. Attorney Gen. Robert Kennedy was away and out of the picture, detained by family matters. How could Katzenberg possibly know what went down in Dallas just three days after the hit?

Nov 25, time unknown – Katzenbach Memo

Titled “Memorandum for Mr. Moyers,” Katzenbach lays out the need for a public statement on the assassination. Katzenbach states that “the public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.”

NOT AMUSED: Nicholas Katzenbach with President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in August 1964. PHOTO: Princeton.edu/Bettmann/Corbis

Later, by Katzenbach’s own admission, he could not know these things to be true. Many observers see this document as reflecting policy rather than fact, and in effect announcing a cover up. Katzenbach even critiques the conspiracy script writers in the memo that “unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem too pat — too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.).”

Nov 29 at 1:40 p.m. – Phone call between President Johnson and FBI Director Hoover

Almost immediately, LBJ calls Hoover to run by him the seven names of “this proposed group that they’re trying to put together on this study of your report.” Hoover gives a “good man” to most names, though he is “not as enthusiastic about McCloy.” LBJ does not even mention Warren, the head of the commission.
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LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover

A curious Nov. 29 conversation between LBJ and Allen Dulles about the latter’s new role on the commission. Dulles, a kingpin in the assassination conspiracy, can barely be heard. At 0:40, LBJ refers to the assassination of “our beloved friend,” a statement that can only be sarcasm given that Dulles as CIA head was fired by Kennedy.

Allen Dulles
Allen Dulles

Winter Watch Takeaway: What a bunch of gangsters.

7 Comments on LBJ Pressured Earl Warren to Head Commission Investigation into JFK Assassination

  1. LBJ knew that Warren was the POS who SINGLE HANDEDLY caused 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans to be rounded-up and thrown into concentration camps in WW2. LBJ could count on Warren to sink the investigation while lending his “good” name to the coverup.
    Warren was the Attorney General of California and was planning on running for Governor in November 1942. He gave hundreds of speeches, up and down the state, falsely claiming the Japanese-Americans were spies and saboteurs. He thought, correctly, that the publicity surrounding this outrage would get him elected. He did it for purely political reasons. He was an evil asshole.

    • What you wrote is mostly bullshit. Learn some actual history before you write.

      The facts of Japanese interment are these-

      2-19-42 Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, ordering the interment of Japanese resident aliens and Japanese-Americans who reside near the west coast. This is effectively
      all of them outside Hawaii. Executive Order 9066 meets a solid wall of opposition. California governor Culbert Olson is opposed. Even FDR’s most loyal stooge, J Edgar Hoover, opposes interment. In response, FDR orders a trainload of obsolete anti-aircraft guns shipped to LA, and the Democratic political machine goes into maximum overdrive.

      2-23-42 Roosevelt orders an American submarine to shell the beach at Goleta, California. $500 in damage is reported. A real Japanese attack on California’s oil industry would have struck the massive complex at Huntington Beach, where a single submarine gun could have caused millions in damage in less than five minutes.

      2-25-42 The anti-aircraft guns having arrived in LA, Roosevelt orders the ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ a 3 AM bombardment of the empty sky, all to cause more fear and panic. The press begins screaming for Japanese interment.

      Earl Warren did not make hundreds of speeches. He and the whole Democratic party and most of the press worked to implement FDR’s order.

      Roosevelt used the fake bombardment trick again in June, when an American destroyer bombarded a Canadian lighthouse in order to panic Canada’s Parliament into passing conscription. French Canadians and PM Mackenzie King were opposed to conscription, but Roosevelt and Churchill wanted it- and they got it.

  2. “Warren later wrote that “no American during my long life ever set his sights higher for a better America or centered his attacks more accurately on the evils and shortcomings of our society than did [Kennedy].”

    Public Law 87-297
    Many will spin the above quote as JFK’s attempted take down of the CIA and the MIC. In reality it has nothing to do with either. Long forgotten and shoved down the memory hole is Kennedy’s role in creating the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). As enacted, H.R. 9118 was Public Law 87–297. President Kennedy signed H.R. 9118 On September 26, 1961. This was nothing more than the total planned surrender of American sovereignty to the United Nations. Under PL 87-297 America(along with the rest of the world)was slated to disband her military and disarm her citizenry. All global law enforcement was to be under UN control. This is of course was to be the vaunted New World Order George H. W. Bush so often spoke of. The Freemasonic wet dream if you will.

    JFK is so often idolized, when he was at best a mediocre president and was the one who set America on the road to what we call the New World Order/One World Government.
    https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKWHP/1961/Month%2009/Day%2026/JFKWHP-1961-09-26-C/JFKWHP-ST-215-104-61.jpg

    More on PL 87-297: http://www.channelingreality.com/NAU/IVHS/nafta_superhighway_Info_Page4.htm

    • Johnny Walker Read,

      I generally agree. Kennedy meant well, for the most part, but he is lionized and deified way too much, as are most of the Kennedy family. With what I’ve read on him, the word that comes to mind is oblivious. I don’t think he had any idea of the forces that were mobilizing for his downfall. He mentioned on a few occasions how he was ‘forced’ to choose LBJ as his running mate when he didn’t want to. Alan Hart said, “Jack was forced by Israeli supporters to take Johnson as his running mate.” Of course, Jack Ruby mentioned in his 1965 news conference at the Dallas County Jail, “When I mentioned Adlai Stevenson, if he was Vice-President there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy.” When asked to elaborate, Ruby said, “The answer is with the man in office now!”

      Hey! If some of you are not aware, there is a new, almost 5 hour documentary on the USS Liberty below. It costs $12.99 to rent!

      https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/

  3. I think when Johnson mentioned that “little incident in Mexico City” to Earl Warren it may have had nothing to do with Oswald’s trip or non-trip…maybe Hoover had given Johnson some kompromat on Earl Warren about something Warren had done in Mexico City. Something Warren really, really wanted kept secret. Wonder what it was…

  4. According to the excellent “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”
    2003 9 part video series in the final episode 9 “The GUILTY MEN”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkKVANqT4U
    both fbi Director J Edgar Hoover and then former Vice President Richard Nixon
    attended “a party” at Texas oil tycoon Clint Murchison’s mansion outside Dallas
    to finalized the details of the cover-up of the assassination of President Kennedy
    planned for the next day in Dallas. According to serving staff, the party broke up shortly after Vice President Johnson arrived (to harangue the guests in a closed door session) shortly after midnight. The entire video series appears to be far more logical and “fact based” than the “Oswald lone gunman” and “Magic bullet” narratives pimped by the government and mainstream corporate press/media.
    Even more substantial is the account presented by Dallas lawyer
    Barr McClellan in his book “BLOOD, MONEY & POWER – How LBJ Killed JFK.”
    https://youtu.be/B51oyITQXDg

    McClellan was a top lawyer hired by the firm in Dallas that represented Lyndon B. Johnson through much of Johnson's political career in Texas... that is to say, the firm was neck-deep in COVERING-UP and TIDDYING-UP the LOOSE-ENDS from Johnson's many shady - not to say nefarious - dealings in Texas.

    Which dealings amounted to so many of the usual bribery, blackmail, kickbacks, extortion, and ruthless insider trading deals so typical of British empire magnate “Made Man” Cecil Rhodes empire which Winter Watch outlines so well. I
    In Johnson’s case, in the virulently violent and crime ridden Wild West border state atmosphere of incestuous elites run, segregated, former Slave State Texas from the Great Depression through World War II to the 1960s.
    Just from being a savvy lawyer within the firm, Barr McClellan picked up that Johnson was far from as “clean” as the media presented, and the JFK assassination was far deeper than the official cover-up story – even though the hard-core documents about Johnson’s finances and dealings were kept segregated in a vault on the top floor of their office building, accessible only by senior partners of the law firm. The above linked video gives a good 40 min. summary of McClellan’s case that Johnson was the local (Texas) MASTERMIND & RING-LEADER
    of the CIA, mafia, military, “Deep State” JFK assassination COUP/ plot.
    But to keep this comment from getting too long, McClellan makes an astounding observation that all Americans should be aware of – that the CIA, Military, and “DEEP STATE” military/industrial/FINANCIAL COMPLEX dark lords over, above and behind Johnson in the shadows – presumably including the Judeo / satanic billionaires outlined in MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER’s book on the Israel, jewish overlords angle to the JFK hit –
    WANTED to make AN INVASION OF CUBA the
    immediate result of the Kennedy ASSASSINATION COUP

    and installing “mob man” Johnson as president.
    Johnson – who of course as Vice President had recently lived through the CUBA MISSILE CRISIS and it’s threat of short-range nuclear missiles wiping out U.S. east coast cities –
    WAS TERRIFIED of this possibility (the “Soviets” ,having backed down in the Cuba Missile Crisis, would be FORCED to RESPOND to any future U.S. invasion of Cuba).

    Johnson – NOW PRESIDENT _ WAS SAVVY ENOUGH, EXPERIENCED enough as former SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, and tough and FORCEFUL ENOUGH as an alpha American politician to STEER the DEEP STATE MOB from it’s desired
    “FRAME OSWALD as AN AGENT OF CUBA!” CUBA WAR PLANS,

    and instead gave them THE WAR THEY WERE LUSTING FOR… in distant Vietnam.

    IF this account is true – and it certainly seems rock-solid – then the American public
    NARROWLY MISSED NUCLEAR WAR on TWO occasions within just 2 or so years:

    the two Kennedy brothers RESOLVING THE CUBA MISSILE CRISIS
    without ATTACKING Soviet missile sites in Cuba
    (as the Air Force, army, CIA, and ENTIRE Joint Chiefs of Staff DEMANDED –
    we now know those soviet missiles in Cuba WERE ARMED & PRIMED
    for IMMEDIATE LAUNCH if ANY ATTACK on them was detected)

    and then Johnson STEERING the FRAME Lee Harvey Oswald mob
    from PAINTING Oswald AS an AGENT OF CUBA so to JUSTIFY A CUBA INVASION.

    Johnson got his presidency, the Deep State / military/industrial complex got their Vietnam War,
    and a MILLION Vietnamese civilians, and 58,000 American troops would be killed
    in that war which made AMERICAN CORPORATIONS billions $$$ of dollars in profits
    AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE from war material production AND FINANCING –
    (which war & financing would LOOT ALL the gold out of Fort Knox, DISCONNECT the U.S. dollar from gold standard, and BOMB rural Cambodia back to the stone age, among other consequences).

    But if true, Johnson was both the villain who presided over the assassination of a U.S. president… AND the U.S. president who SAVED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE from a nuclear war.
    It’s long past time for American people to wake from their zombie mass-media psychosis stupor, and realize that ALL big corporations, financial, social and cultural institutions
    HAVE ALL BEEN HIJACKED by insane psychopaths who will risk – or desire –
    nuclear war to assert their power & primacy.

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