Henry Wade- 'Token' Dallas D.A.

[Jerry Freeman]

LBJ was liberal, re the Great Society.

Southern Democrats were the slave holders of the previous century. The Klan was Southern Democrat. The Great Society was political in order to gain black voters.

  Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser. And if he was, your constantly bringing it up in such a condescending way is homophobic.

Typically, you just contradicted yourself there..."Even if he was"... Besides...homophobic [whatever you might mean by that] is a word that you would not even be aware of-- if you were not taught it by some modern day social structure. IOW there were really no 20th century references to this word.
If you are offended [for some reason].. I will try and avoid mentioning such in the future.
Anyway, I don't think you knew Hoover or anything about his personal life.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover#Sexuality

 
 
 

[Jerry Freeman]

Wade was told the evidence.  He believed Oswald was guilty.  He said so to the press.  Big deal.

"BIG DEAL"?
R U serious? Henry Wade went out of his way to make up claims of evidence that did not exist at all.
"Finger prints on the rifle" ..."A map showing the assassination plan"...Claiming that "Oswald must have been planning the assassination for weeks or even months"-- based on nothing at all. But, this was Wade's method of operation.
He sent a lot of innocent guys to prison.

[Walt Cakebread]

The secret government arranged for the case to go to Wade knowing he would lose it through ineptness or could be "persuaded" to purposely lose it?

A bit far for me. In Netfilk's "The Confession Killer", the two Texas Rangers handling Henry Lee Lucas did some unusual things, such as supposedly giving Lucas some hints so he could "confess" to visiting law enforcement eager to close cold cases around the United States. They eventually got the count up to 600 murders. Lucas told a Japanese film crew given special access that he had done a few in Japan, traveling there by car.

The District Attorney of McLennan County in Waco, Vic Feazell, questioned the "closing" of a case in Waco, based on a Lucas "confession". As a consequence, the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (in charge of the Rangers) and Dallas TV-station WFAA launched a campaign to discredit Feazell.

If Henry Wade was involved chances are very good that J. Edgar Hoover and HL Hunt were right at his elbow....

PS    Speaking of Hunt...  I was happy to see Andy Reid and his team win the Super Bowl but the mention of the Lamar Hunt trophy makes me want to puke!....

[Jerry Freeman]

Nothing definitive there about Hoover being gay or a cross-dresser. More, I would say, to the contrary. FWIW

Hoover reportedly hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality.

Pornography for blackmail---Under Hoover, agents were directed to seize all pornographic materials uncovered in their investigations and forward them to Hoover personally.[114] He kept a large collection, possibly the world's largest,[115] of films, photographs, and written materials, with particular emphasis on nude photos of celebrities. Hoover reportedly used these for his own titillation, as well as holding them for blackmail purposes.[116][117]

In his biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), journalist Anthony Summers quoted "society divorcee" Susan Rosenstiel as claiming to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing in the 1950s, at all-male parties.[118][119]

Summers alleged the Mafia had blackmail material on Hoover, which made Hoover reluctant to pursue organized crime aggressively. According to Summers, organized crime figures Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello obtained photos of Hoover's alleged homosexual activity with Tolson and used them to ensure that the FBI did not target their illegal activities.[120] Additionally, Summers claimed that Hoover was friends with Billy Byars, Jr., an alleged child pornographer and producer of the film The Genesis Children.[121]

Where there's smoke...FWIW
 
 

[Jerry Freeman]

[Tim Nickerson]

Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

 Yeah, Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

The Truth about J. Edgar Hoover

[Walt Cakebread]

Yeah, Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

The Truth about J. Edgar Hoover

Who the hell cares If Hoover was a homo??......    Which he was....    Hoover had far more serious character flaws than simple homosexuality.  Hoover was the devil incarnate ....  Personally I believe that he was more inhuman and corrupt than Adolph Hitler.