President Kennedy and Medicare

Booth:  "I would be permitted to pass and protected by himself (Mr. Johnson) absolutely in my escape, and that on the death of President Lincoln, he (Vice-President Johnson) would become president of the United States, and that in this official capacity I could depend on him for protection and absolute pardon, if need be, for the crime of killing President Lincoln, which he had suggested to me and I had agreed to perform." […]

It’s the lone nuts that really should give one pause for thought as they are actually the most plausible examples of extremist political conspiracies. Sane people have enough trouble approaching the president without an insider. Someone that hears voices, hallucinates, and is completely detached from reality could never get close to the president unless someone on the inside put him there. You can see these people a mile away. […]

UPDATED: CIA and NBC cover-up detailed in #JFKfiles. “As a matter of fact, the Warren Commission’s inquiry into the assassination started off with a completely unacceptable philosophy for a democracy like ours. One of its stated objectives was to calm the fears of the people about a conspiracy.” […]