President Lyndon Johnson 'nearly shot dead' hours after JFK assassination

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telegraph

President Lyndon Johnson 'nearly shot dead' hours after JFK assassination
President Lyndon Johnson was almost shot dead by an American secret service agent 14 hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it has emerged.
By Jon Swaine in New York
Published: 8:00PM BST 20 Oct 2010

The near miss is described in a new book co-written by the agent, Gerald Blaine, who was stationed outside the new president's house in Washington the evening after the assassination in November 1963.

In the early hours of the next morning, Mr Blaine heard someone approaching and drew his Thompson submachine gun, the book, The Kennedy Detail, explains.

It adds: "He firmly pushed the stock into his shoulder, ready to fire.

"He'd expected the footsteps to retreat with the loud sound of the gun activating, but they kept coming closer. Blaine's heart pounded, his finger firmly on the trigger. Let me see your face, you -------.



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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well more and more

Was a coup

[Ozymanithrax]

2. No Coup, just a secret serviceman too ready to fire.

according to the story.

[stopbush]

5. Yep. Not a coup in any sense of the word.

[monmouth]

3. I wanted to pre-order this book, went to Amazon and B&N and they

don't offer it. Know where else I can look?

[flyingfysh]

9. you can pre-order the book on Amazon

at http://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Detail-Secret-Service-Silence/dp/1439192960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287616733&sr=8-1 I don't see a release date.
There is also a Kindle version.

[monmouth]

10. Many thanks, saw it after I posted. n/t $28 in in some stores, $16 there...n/t

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[cliffordu]

6. Maybe more,

Who was next in line for Presidency???

[regnaD kciN]

7. Speaker of the House John McCormack (D-MA)...

...a very old man with very few stated opinions who was considered past his mental prime. I think we could have done without him as our leader.

[ozymandius]

11. To be fair...

We did get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Thurgood Marshall and, briefly, Abe Fortas on the Supreme Court; Medicaid and the highest minimum wage that was, in fact, a living wage in 1968 dollars; the culmination of JFK's Apollo moon landing... and more...

Yes, Vietnam was horrible in the absolute waste that insane war generated. However, I feel it necessary to consider all angles of his presidency.

[cliffordu]

12. Good points.

It was fucking NIXON that let me go.....

[pattmarty]

13. If it wasn't for Viet Nam, Johnson would be one of the greatest Presidents...........

................The LAST of the true liberal Democratic Presidents. After him came the conservadems Carter, Clinton and now Obama.

[ozymandius]

14. I agree. Carter could have been wonderful.

World events were very unkind to Carter. I'll say for him - the Department of Education was created under his watch. The bill allowing home brewing of beer and wine was signed into law in 1978. Progress in making solar energy a viable off-grid alternative was underway. So much else on the domestic agenda could have been accomplished if the foreign agenda had not commanded the public's attention.

Congress, unfortunately, was too conservative for Carter's agenda.

Consider the metric system my generation started to learn in 5th grade. By Reagan's first year in office, the metric education program was dead. Blame Reagan but Congress enabled that short-sighted scoff at progress. Solar energy research was nixed in favor of an energy policy that has brought tragedy, poverty and war through its exploitative nature. The Religious Right did not exist before Reagan. They were a mere footnote as a political force before the 1980 campaign.

Carter, I believe, would have provided a sound transition from the post WWII world, looking toward the 21st century. The events during the thirty years after him have given me many reasons to grieve over what could have been.

[mitchum]

15. LBJ was the most liberal president of my lifetime

[xchrom]

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