Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 278, and yes, it's sort of part two of the first episode of Don Reynolds. Try to keep track of that.

Yes, this original story covers the whole story around Johnson's

life insurance policies and the related kickbacks and graph that he required, which was

principally to buy advertising time from his KTBC station in Austin and the receipt of a stereo

of Magnobox at that.

The story has been involved enough that we've been compelled to break it up into two pieces.

This episode 278 is part two of this portion of the Don Reynolds story.

So without further ado, let's listen to episode 278 of

JFK, The Enduring Secret.

Let's see back and appreciate a point I've been trying to make at various moments throughout the Baker series.

By 1963, John F. Kennedy realized that Lyndon Johnson had become a problem as vice president.

He'd been drawn into political scandals involving Fred Korth, who we mentioned just briefly, Billy Solestis, which you know well from

prior episodes, and now Bobby Baker. According to James Wagonvord, the editorial business manager

of life, the magazine was working on an article that would have

revealed Johnson's corrupt activities. Beginning in later summer, 1963, the magazine, based

upon information fed from Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department, while they had been

developing a major news break piece concerning Johnson and Bobby Baker. On publication,

Wagenvord believed that Johnson would have been finished and off the 1964 ticket.

And Wagonvord knew that that was the reason the material was being fed to him. He thought that

Johnson might even be facing prison time. The Time Life magazine was arguably

the most important general news source in the U.S. at the time. The top management of Time,

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