The Suffolk County Police foiled President Johnson’s assassination when they discovered the KGB’s intended patsy, Robert Babcock, sitting along President Johnson’s motorcade route with a telescopic rifle on the seat beside him and a loaded shotgun in the trunk.
Suffolk County Police and the “Secret Service” questioned Robert Babcock, who “said first that he had been going on a hunting trip when he decided to stop and see the motorcade. He then said he had made a bet with barroom acquaintances that he could do what he did without being detected.”
With no chance of assassinating President Johnson due to the motorcade making no stops along the motorcade route, the “Secret Service” wanted the incident to receive as little attention as possible, and Babcock was simply “charged with disorderly conduct and jailed for the night.” The few details that are available ended up in a few paragraphs back on page 78 of the New York Times and on page 10 of the Dallas Morning News on November 1, 1964.
Once they knew their plan to kill President Johnson had gone awry, certain individuals in the “Secret Service” made sure that Robert Babcock was only “charged with disorderly conduct and jailed for the night.”
Babcock’s case makes it crystal clear that in 1964, a man could be paid money to sit along the Presidential motorcade route with a telescopic rifle on the seat beside him and a loaded shotgun in the trunk, and when discovered, the “Secret Service” would conduct no investigation, even though the Presidential election was three days away and the preceding President had been assassinated with a telescopic rifle less than a year earlier.
It was just two days after the Suffolk County Police discovered Robert Babcock that CIA Director John McCone’s “Special Assistant” wrote a memorandum stating there was a “continuing problem” of the “legal status” of CIA officers who were “detailed” to the Secret Service. Suffolk County Police undoubtedly deferred to the CIA/Secret Service on what to do with Robert Babcock when they questioned him.
With plans to assassinate President Johnson and plans for a Goldwater Presidency having gone awry, Republican Barry Goldwater ended up winning the segregationist Southern Democratic states of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Georgia with an average 65 percent of the vote. By contrast, Goldwater barely won his home state of Arizona with 50 percent of the vote to President Johnson’s 49 percent.
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