Episode 268 Bobby Baker Part 2 The Key Elements of His Downfall and We Hear From Bobby In His Own Words

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This is Part 2 of the mini-series that covers the story of Bobby Baker. This mini-series is part of a larger series covering Billy Sol Estes, Mac Wallace, Bobby Baker and other members of Johnson's Texas inner circle. All of these men were quite intertwined around Johnson at the time of the assassination. They were involved in circumstances that were closing in on Johnson too and that provided him great motive in the killing of the President. The stor...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK and The Enduring Secret.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:19.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:23.0	Today's episode is episode 268, and I know you've been waiting a couple of weeks for that next Bobby Baker story.
0:32.1	And I really cringe when that much time goes by without the production of an episode.
0:37.3	Well, hopefully the weight will have been worth it,
0:39.9	and hopefully this will be an avalanche of good listening
0:42.4	because I have a series of episodes teed up for you.
0:46.8	I know this wander into the Baker affair doesn't suit everyone,
0:50.2	but it does stand to suit many of you and most of the time. So I'm just going to continue to
0:56.3	wander into the Bobby Baker discussion and I hope by the time it's all over, you really will
1:01.9	have enjoyed it and concluded that it was a worthwhile trip to make. And certainly it is one of those
1:07.7	wanders where you can easily say, you just can't write this stuff.
1:13.0	For me, the initial challenge in this wander into the Bobby Baker story was about how to sequence
1:18.3	these little vignettes and tie them all together into a cohesive story.
1:23.7	With a context, as I always say.
1:26.6	But soon it became apparent that while the Baker's story is
1:30.3	fascinating to tell, it still isn't too easy to tie any of it into what it means exactly for the
1:37.3	JFK assassination, except for the obvious, you know, the thing that, well, we already know. And that is that Baker had a
1:45.6	close relationship with Johnson. And if Baker was going down, then Johnson, because of that
1:51.8	close association, might really be in trouble in terms of staying on the 1964 Democratic
1:57.5	ticket as Kennedy's vice presidential candidate. Or even worse, if Johnson was involved in
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