Episode 269 Bobby Baker Part 3 The Serv-U Corporation and Capitol Vending

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

4.6 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is Part 3 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 in The Enduring Secret.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:08.0	Hello, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:25.2	Today's episode is episode 269, and it's part three of our Bobby Baker series.
0:32.3	I don't think it needs much of an introduction because you've heard most of that in the first
0:36.6	two episodes if you've
0:37.8	been listening to JFK, The Enduring Secret. So let's just get right to it because today we tell
0:44.7	the story of what happened with Ralph Hill and the lawsuit that set things of fire in September
0:51.2	and led to Bobby Baker's resignation.
1:01.6	Sometimes it's just interesting to listen to the story of how the story got out.
1:03.6	So let's start with that.
1:10.0	In 1963, Phil Brennan was on the staff of the House Republican Policy Committee.
1:13.5	He was also writing a column for the National Review magazine.
1:20.6	The National Review was a conservative magazine run by a popular conservative who was the magazine's editor,
1:23.5	and it's a name that many of you will recognize.
1:25.3	William F. Buckley.
1:31.3	Brennan would write stories about what was happening in the clandestine world of the Cold War and what was happening in a war of another kind going on in Washington, D.C.,
1:37.3	the war between the conservative Republicans and the more liberal Democrat majority.
1:43.3	His reconnaissance was gathered and written under a pseudonym,
1:48.2	Cato, and that was a fact known only to the top leadership of the GOP in the House.
1:55.1	Brennan was well aware of the corruption that was underneath the covers in some political circles.
2:00.9	It was Cato, who claims to have broke the story of the Bill of the Bill of the corruption that was underneath the covers in some political circles. It was Cato, who claims to have broke the story of the Billy Saul Estes scandal,
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