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Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)

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Summary of Lyndon Baines Johnson::

• Background & Profession: US born congressman/senator/president with businesses on the side.
• Associates: J. Edgar Hoover, Clint Murchison, HL Hunt, Bobby Baker, Mac Wallace, Billie Sol Estes.
• Involvement in JFK murder: Evidence indicates involvement in murder is likely; involvement in cover-up is certain.
• Motive: LBJ, ambitious & ruthless wanted to be president. Since his criminal background was being exposed in the Bobby Baker
  hearings he would have been destroyed, probably jailed, if the murder occured any later.
• Possible Role: Leading the cover-up with friend Hoover by telling FBI to go with lone nut story.
• Fate: Dies of reported heart attack in 1973.