The Yankee and Cowboy War

A fascinating book "The Yankee and Cowboy War" by the late Carl Oglesby, published in 1976, is about the turf wars between the Old Money and the New Money. Oglesby forges a link between the JFK assassination and Watergate. Read it free online. Otherwise, it's very expensive used on Amazon with hardcover versions listing for over $100.

One thing that caught my eye is how Oglesby defined how the Federal government actually works as he did in this excerpt below:


"The trick of how the invasion could come about nevertheless, how there could be a Bay of Pigs against the will of the president, is that the president is not an absolute monarch ruling a submissive bureaucracy. Rather, a “corporate” presidency is nested within the federal power grid along with a variety of institutional strongholds, such as the Pentagon, the CIA, the Department of Transportation, the Texas Railroad Commission, etc. The president in proper person is only one among many others on the larger board of national directors – a special stronghold clearly but by no means the only power source on the scene. The presidency of the corporate state is the presidency of factional and bureaucratic coalitions that can weaken, grow old and brittle, fail in crises. The tragedy of Frontier Camelot, whose prince is said to have sought the presidency “because it’s where the action’s at,” unfolds in the princes gradual discovery of the corporate and limited nature of his office, then more particularly of its relative weakness against the will of the clandestine establishments of defense and security."

The Yankee and Cowboy War, by Carl Oglesby, HERE

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22107

Hunt and the Plotters

Here’s an interesting PDF called “E. Howard Hunt and the JFK Plotters” by Eric Hamburg.  I am not familiar with the author of this 57 page article nor is it sourced but makes for an interesting read.  Please take it for what it is worth.

http://cryptome.org/2012/07/jfk-hunt.pdf

All the Way with LBJ

Here is a web page with audio clips of Lyndon Johnson discussing numerous issues during the 1964 campaign.

http://allthewaywithlbj.com/

For more audio recordings of Presidents such as the following:

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon

Go to the Miller Center, University of Virginia to listen to those.  Transcripts available there as well.

http://millercenter.org/academic/presidentialrecordings

Watergate and the CIA

Excellent article by Jeff Morley (Our Man in Mexico) over at Salon entitled, Watergate’s Final Mystery, regarding the CIA’s involvement in Watergate.  This is a much neglected area of research with ties back to the Bay of Pigs operation and JFK’s assassination.

For further reading get a copy (now out of print - find it used on Amazon) of Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda.  It’s one of the best books written on the CIA and Watergate.

Secret Agenda by Jim Hougan - Amazon

Our Man in Mexico by Jefferson Morley - Amazon


Addendum
In regards to Jeff Morley mentioning in his article that Nixon asked Helms, “Who shot John…?”, he was asking that as a rhetorical question.  It wasn’t Nixon expressing doubt over the results of the Warren Commission.  Morley makes it appear as if that is Nixon’s point.  Though Nixon did seem to speak obliquely and dance around the issue of JFK’s death in other taped conversations.