Interview · moment 16 of 23
Barbara's Bad Hair Day and Framing His Own Assistant
from Dead President with Russ Baker · #125
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3 minGuest
Baker recounts the bizarre story of Bush calling the FBI to implicate his own assistant as a possible Kennedy shooter, complete with a fabricated alibi involving Barbara Bush at a hair salon, and the odd detail that the accused man was found making campaign lawn signs for Bush.
- 56:27Tim has a chapter called Barbara's Bad Hair Day about Barbara Bush's involvement in the Kennedy cover-up.
- 57:04Bush calls the FBI to report someone was talking about doing something to Kennedy, claiming he should have said something earlier.
- 57:26Bush calls the FBI in Houston despite being near Dallas in Tyler, Texas—an odd choice for reporting a local threat.
- 57:48The FBI agent who took the report is close friends with Bush, a detail conspicuously absent from the official report.
- 58:16The person Bush implicates turns out to be his own assistant—essentially framing his own employee.
- 59:00When the Secret Service goes to the assistant's house, his mother says he's out making lawn signs for George Bush.
- 59:14The man Bush just fingered as Kennedy's potential assassin is making campaign signs for the guy who reported him.