Episode 276 Bobby Baker Part 10 Lyndon Johnson Speaks To Ramsey Clark About The Ed Levinson Wiretap

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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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is Part 10 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 story is extraordinary. Today's episode conti...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:24.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:28.5	Today's episode is episode 276.
0:31.7	We're marching our way toward 300.
0:34.6	And oh, what a wonder that's been.
0:39.3	You know, I was going through a box of old things the other day and I found this little sign that had been hanging up in the apartment that we had in Pittsburgh years ago.
0:45.4	It said, not all of those who wander are lost. And it reminded me that even though we are on a
0:53.1	wander almost constantly in this podcast,
0:56.9	we are not lost.
0:59.0	I hope you continue to enjoy the selections, and I know, no doubt, sometimes you might
1:04.3	want to pivot to something more current or view as more relevant.
1:09.2	You might have even said that last week when you were listening to a show about Ed Levinson,
1:14.5	thinking, what the heck does Ed Levinson have to do with all of this?
1:18.9	Bobby Baker is far enough away, but what does it all mean?
1:22.4	Well, obviously, we're covering Bobby Baker because he had an impact on Johnson.
1:28.9	And Levinson, of course, had an impact on Johnson, and Levinson, of course,
1:35.7	had an impact on Baker. Of course, we know by now how critical the Bobby Baker case was,
1:41.4	and really how existential it was to Lyndon Johnson. It very well may have impacted events on November 22nd, but it really didn't end there. In fact, it was,
1:46.6	in some ways, just the beginning. And the events related to the investigation of Bobby Baker
1:51.4	were active in one form or another, almost throughout the entirety of Johnson's presidential terms.
1:58.9	Baker was convicted in a federal court in 1967, and that took place
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