Anyone with a TV set or newspaper seemingly would have known more by the morning of November 23 than LBJ or Jedgar apparently did, which is rather puzzling and somewhat frightening. Having now read all of Robert Caro's voluminous books on LBJ, I would have expected him to be on top of all the details and not having to rely on old Jedgar. Maybe LBJ was just playing dumb - let's take that ball and run with it, CTers. In fact, maybe both were playing dumb - the whole conversation was staged!
Apparently the underlings didn't tell the boss everything they knew. Whoever heard of someone doing that? I'll confess to having done that on occasion with the bosses I had while working.
