A very smart English teacher once said to me that a wink is a word with 3 definitions: definition 1 is “I find you very attractive”, definition 2 is “I was only kidding, don’t take what I just said seriously” and definition 3 is “you and I have a secret.”
A Wink Can Say So Much
Yesterday was not only Thanksgiving, it was also the 49th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, an event that profoundly affected every American alive at that time (I was 9), and changed the history of the world irrevocably.
What do those first two paragraphs have to do with each other? Well, I don’t believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin, basically. Even if he was, he was not the deranged lone gunman that official history says he was.
I believe LBJ was behind it. Oh, I don’t think he actually got on the phone and dialed up Murders-R-Us, nothing as direct as that. He didn’t have to be involved in the planning, and probably wasn’t. He was, after all, riding just a couple cars back and, if you have read Robert Caro’s books, in one of which he describes Lyndon’s wartime service, you’ll know that Lyndon was not likely to put himself in the proximity of physical danger.
No, all old Lyndon had to do was make it clear to his buddies in the military industrial complex that if he should, by some accident, become president, they would get the war in Viet Nam they so badly wanted. (They were Brown and Root at the time, later Kellogg, Brown and Root, then Halliburton)
Anyway, I made a comment to that effect on this article over at Huffpo and somebody responded, referring me to this. It’s a video (well, mostly audio, with still shots) of Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office, on board Air Force One, with Jackie Kennedy standing beside him, about an hour and a half after handsome Jack’s brains had been forcefully ejected from his head.
The man in the back, with the bow tie, who can clearly be seen winking at LBJ when he turns to look at him, is Congressman Albert Thomas, from Houston, who delivered pork by the trainload to his district while Johnson was president, and had very close ties with Brown and Root.
I’m sure it was not a “Hey, good lookin'” wink. I’m equally certain it was not a “Just kidding” wink. That leaves definition number 3.
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