The Rise of Lyndon B. Johnson From Texas to the White House and His Possible Involvement in the Kennedy Assassination

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Lyndon B . Johnson -Lyndon B . Johnson and Conspiracy Theories Mark Canne October 9 , 2007 Lyndon Baines Johnson also commonly nicknamed as LBJ was born on August 27 , 1908 near Johnson City , Texas and became the thirty-sixth President of the United States . Because of a murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in his home state , Lyndon Johnson was able to assume the role as the first Texan president and fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming one

Heritage

LBJ once claimed that his white-haired grandfather rode his black stallion

and thundered across Texas Hill the day he was born to shout at every farm that , A United States Senator was born this morning Caro , 1982 : 3 . No one pledged remembrance over that ride into Texas Hill , nor the old man 's shout but Lyndon Johnson 's relatives claimed however that his definite features were of the Bunton strain clearly manifested in LBJ 's blood which included magnolia white ' skin towering height of over six feet , wavy black hair , heavy and darkened eyebrows and piercing black eyes . Caro , 1982 : 4 . Of the usual characteristics of his Bunton ancestors , LBJ had inherited their drive for ambition in a grand scale along the Texas frontiers . Records revealed that history was not unkind to the Buntons as LBJ 's heritage dated back to the pioneering Texas settlers who raised cattle for a living . The initial phase of the Bunton heritage in Texas prospered during the 1850 's and saw success until 20 years later when the market became flooded with cattle growers which substantially lowered their price The first Bunton , John Wheeler arrived in Texas among a group of riders in the plains of Bastrop in 1835 . Ibid . He was elected as a delegate to the constitutional convention that signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and a member of the committee that wrote the constitution of the new republic . Ibid . A few years later , John was joined by his brothers , one of whom was Robert , LBJ 's great grandfather who decided to live in Texas for good . The family fought under a Lost Cause during the Civil War along with their sons and grandsons , and Robert in his old age became an idealist who often spoke about the government On his mother 's side of the family , LBJ descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman , George Washington Baines , who was a church pastor of eight churches in Texas as well as others in Arkansas and Louisiana . Caro 1982 :35 George Baines who was the grandfather of Johnson 's mother Rebekah was also the president of Baylor University

Early Life

Lyndon was the eldest and considered the only child for three months after his birth on August 27 , 1908 to Sam Ealy Johnson Jr . and Rebekah Baines of Stonewall , Texas . Caro , 1982 :51 . LBJ 's status as an only child in the family was foiled after he earned 3 more sisters , Rebekah , Josefa and Lucia and a brother named Sam Houston who grew up with him in...