Vice President Johnson Was Feeling The Heat In The Summer Of 1963 With Rumors Of Being Replaced On The Ticket
By the summer of 1963 Vice President Johnson-LBJ-was carrying a lot of baggage and was somewhat on the outs with the administration. Open rumors abounded that were not being denied by the JFK administration that alternatives were being considered for LBJ on the JFK ticket, should he be investigated by congress for either the Billy Sol Estes or Bobby Baker investigations, or both.
Particularly in light of the initially ruled suicide of the agriculture department’s Frank Marshall, who was a key witness in the Sol Estes investigation who had mysteriously committed suicide. But a new autopsy doggedly pursued by a Texas Marshall had concluded it was a homicide based on him being strangled, initially suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning related to a hose running from his truck inside the cab, and actually succumbed to five shots from his own hunting rifle, any 3 of which were ruled to be debilitating.
The leading suspect in the Marshall case was Mac Wallace, a known LBJ associate who had served time in Austin for the murder of a golf pro who had been spooking around with LBJ’s sister. Wallace had mysteriously showed up in Texas from California during the time Marshall was killed, stopping at a local gas station, chatting up the attendant, asking for directions to Marshall’s ranch. Later stopping by the same gas station talking to the same attendant on the way out of town, explaining that it turned out he didn’t need to see Marshall after all: as it turned out he was dead. Wallace lived in California and just happened to show up in Marshall’s town on the weekend of his suicide/murder.
Wallace’s fingerprints would later-inexplicably-be found in boxes around the 6th floor window of the Dallas Book Depository.
Many have dismissed out of hand or attempted to debunk the LBJ theory, including a massive tome by Vicent Bugliosi of Charles Manson prosecution fame. There are two issues I have with Bugliosi’s work, number 1 being the fact that he basically dismisses out of hand any information that counters his prosecutorial approach: which is exactly what you would expect from a prosecutor’s standpoint. Number 2 is he dismisses it based on the fact that RFK would never have stopped pursuing the truth if he had even a scintilla of evidence that it was Johnson.
Of course-there is also all the information that is not in the Warren Commission Report, like the lack of any mob related ties, the fact that Oswald was an employee of both the CIA and FBI, Ruby’s entanglements with Marcello, etc., etc.
But the biggest issue is that Johnson likely blamed JFK’s murder on Castro and was well aware that RFK was leading an effort to take Castro out even in the midst of JFK’s appeasing comments about possibly beginning some type of negotiations with Castro. LBJ likely put that guilt on RFK-backed up by Hoover, who loathed RFK-who was a broken man for several years after JFK’s assassination.
While JFK’s FBI Director-that he in fairness inherited as well-was a known gay, transvestite before it was fashionable in the democrat party, an irascible character whose specialty seemed to be fighting with JFK’s Attorney General-his brother Bobby-creating dossiers to spy on national and political figures like MLK and by insinuation-JFK and the other Kennedy brothers-and failing to get behind some of his major agendas like the crackdown on the mob that was an RFK priority that Hoover was slow to embrace and reticent to pursue. Hoover was known to accept special treatment at the racetracks in Santa Anna, Ca and New York, where he often rubbed elbows with and was treated very well by known, shady characters.
There was the elephant in the room fact that the Kennedy fortunes were intrinsically tied to the mob through poppa Joseph, who as recently as late 1959 sought the intervention of Sam “Mooney” Giancana in a dispute between Kennedy and Frank Costello of New York. Who put a hit out on the elder Kennedy for not consummating agreements that facilitated the transport, custom passes and “juice or grease” supplied by Costello to facilitate the operation of the Kennedy “business ventures.”
According to a memoir written by the son of Giancana, the elder Kennedy offered assurances that Giancana and crew would soon have a “man in the White House” if they played their cards right, a long-time goal of the organization.
Giancana reportedly facilitated the cancellation of the contract and greased the skids with Mayor Dailey and the unions to help in the election.
Giancana would later share a girlfriend or two in common with JFK and facilitate special accommodations for some of his travel arrangements, which included rubbing elbows with celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, among others. These actions did not go unnoticed by the press or the FBI.
JFK’s “battles” with the CIA became the talk of the town as early as the disastrous Bay of Pigs fiasco, which resulted in a scandalous black eye early in his administration where Kennedy was blamed publicly for allowing the “Cuban Brigades” to be slaughtered while withholding promised air support. This aborted action representing the cancellation of planned American air support for the “invasion” flotilla, as well as the ground force consisting of primarily expats gained JFK a lot of enemies, including elements of the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US military taking part in the operation, the mafia who had been somewhat included and promised the return of their business interests after the successful coup d’etat, and Cuban exiles that had considerable constituencies across America in places like South Florida.
Mob bosses like Santos Trafficante Jr. had been imprisoned in Cuba for a time after Castro took over. At one point Jacob “Jack Ruby” Rubinstein traveled to Cuba to help negotiate a release for Trafficante. This was not the end of the JFK administration’s plans for Cuba, with operation Mongoose pursued by RFK with the strategy to conduct a coup d’etat against Castro or a third-party assassination which turned into an effort to develop a fast-acting cancer to mask the involvement of the US government.
The ramifications of the failed Bay of Pigs effort resulted in JFK announcing that he would break up the CIA and spread it to the winds in 1000 pieces. He also announced that even if such a thing was successful-the overthrow of Castro-he had no intention to allow the mafia/mob to have a role in the aftermath.
With the eventual firing of Director Allen Dulles, JFK’s Joint Chiefs of Staff were similarly distrusted and had a propensity of thought that was the topic later portrayed in a movie about careless beliefs of surviving a nuclear exchange with the Soviets, while believing it would be possible to minimize US casualties to a manageable number in the millions. The Cuban Missile Crisis followed in which the JCS penchant for a somewhat casual attitude about a nuclear exchange with the Soviets was deeply concerning to JFK who sought council from an inner circle of confidants that did not rely on the military.
JFK was not making many friends in the south with what was regarded as his federal “bullying” of southern governors who fought whole heartedly against Civil Rights initiatives that had to be enforced by the deployment of the military. These initiatives were not particularly popular nor supported within his own party.
JFK had acute and specific problems with the business community that included potentially incendiary plans to discontinue the oil depletion allowance that extended depreciation offsets to the industry. The change, alteration or cessation of which would have cost entrepreneurs in the industry tens of millions of dollars a year. Representing a deliberate, somewhat unforced blow to a huge constituency in the democrat party that could be counted upon to grease the political wheels when grease was needed.
With a burgeoning presence in Vietnam, JFK irritated those who thought we should engage in a big way in that ill-fated country. But much like Eisenhower before him, who opined on the inability-and futility-of the US- “the white man getting involved in Asia” in what had been a French near self-inflicted quagmire since World War II that evidenced the problems, legacy and stigma of colonization, JFK was determined to end US involvement before things got out of hand.
But he supported the ill-considered coup d’etat plan of his CIA and JCS against Vietnam President Van Diem, resulting in the unintended consequence of the murder of the Vietnam President and his brother that exposed JFK’s relative naivety and how little control he as president truly had over his cabinet, including the CIA and the JCS.
JFK was beloved by the electorate-the voters-but as one can imagine in consideration of all of the above, he was accruing enemies at every turn of policy he pursued including those members of his administration with a stake in the outcomes, none of which had more to lose than LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover.
All to say that I can continue to spew facts and run back the tape and events and actions and history and the like. But there is no sugar coating the JFK Assassination. You might never get comfortable with embracing and accepting the truth about it in the face of the never-ending and ongoing nonsense debates about what “he said, she said or what they said, they did.”
It might be the most documented action in our short history outside of massively documented war efforts such as the Civil, World Wars and Vietnam. A person committing themselves to getting up to speed on the corpus of JFK Assassination information is about a year-likely more-from getting through the basic information available. A college or university could offer a curriculum leading to a degree in the subject, which would constitute a very lively data science analytic methodologies basic, intermediate and advance course over several years.
None of that will change the top level, somewhat obvious truth in situations like this that is not often clarified or mitigated by the mind-numbing details. Much like the everyday problems that must be faced and solved in life, the truth is that JFK was the target of a conspiracy that had to be led by the men around him that somewhat broke out into at least four specific groups, three of which were most likely cut-outs or control groups solicited to share in the guilt through association-participation-and subsequent cover-up to keep them from talking. Or from ratting out the other guy.
To include them in the “club,” a guilt by association action that taints everyone involved and thereby solicits an unholy compact of silence through that affiliation. Or to gain precious leverage-“juice”-over their sponsors for the post-assassination, hunker down, claim and redemption phased period where the conspirators in the lead collect their due.
Whether they succeeded or failed was irrelevant to the mob tenet of getting them dirty in the act in order to secure their silence in the aftermath.
The important act was participation. The remedy for those who could not be trusted received Carlos Marcello’s treatment: 3 people can keep a secret if two of them are dead (in a barrel of lime on his property.)
Max Dribbler
9 April 2026
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