LBJ Saw Castro Role in JFK Slaying

President Lyndon B. Johnson thought Cuban President Fidel Castro played a role in the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, but worried that a retaliatory strike on Cuba could lead to nuclear war, a new book says. According to the book, “The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964,” by historian Michael R. Beschloss, Johnson also told the late Sen. Richard Russell in 1964 that he did not believe the conclusion of the Warren Commission, of which Russell was a member, that Kennedy was killed by one gunman. The book also asserts that Johnson had strong reservations about involvement in Vietnam.