Bobby Baker person
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Claims (14)
Bobby Baker recruited
Edward Cutolo book_quoted
“He was at the time he made the affidavit. He was the commanding officer of the Airborne 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Four years earlier, Watchtower had changed his life. Colonel Cutolo said in his December …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 4:30
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Bobby Baker host_asserted
“Two men came very close when Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He made Baker the Secretary for the Majority.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:07:17
Bobby Baker founded
Serv-U Corporation host_asserted
“In 1962, he established the Serv-U Corporation, which is this vending machine corporation.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:12:03
Bobby Baker founded
Quorum Club host_asserted
“In 1961, Baker established a thing called a Quorum Club, Q-U-O-R-U-M.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:14:00
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Bobby Baker documented
“Vice President took it as one more sign that he was going to be dumped. If the Kennedys were indeed looking to get rid of Johnson, they were given the perfect opportunity by a growing Washington scandal that fall involving Bobby Baker, the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 18:54
Bobby Baker laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“In September, lurid stories about Baker's wide network of corruption began appearing in the press, including the campaign slush fund and Capitol Hill party houses, stocked with young call girls who catered to every sexual whim, with which B…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 19:21
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
Bobby Baker documented
“Vice President took it as one more sign that he was going to be dumped. If the Kennedys were indeed looking to get rid of Johnson, they were given the perfect opportunity by a growing Washington scandal that fall involving Bobby Baker, the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 18:54
Lyndon B. Johnson recruited
Bobby Baker host_asserted
“that he approached this young page saying, Mr. Baker, I understand that you know where all the bodies are buried in the Senate. I would appreciate it if you would come to my office.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:05:56
Clint Murchison paid
Bobby Baker host_asserted
“Murchison paid Baker to secure government contracts for a meatpacking company he owned in Haiti while he worked on defending Jimmy Hoffa.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:09:13
Bobby Baker recruited
Ed Levinson host_asserted
“Baker arranged for Ed Levinson, who was an associate of Meyer Lansky and Sam Giacano of the mafia, to become involved in this deal.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:07:48
Bobby Baker front_for
Ed Levinson host_asserted
“He repeatedly fronted for syndicate gamblers Cliff Jones and Ed Levinson in investments that earned super profits for himself and military industrialists.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:08:17
Bobby Baker laundered_money_for
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter, were Johnson's bag men.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:08:43
Bobby Baker recruited
Ellen Rometsch host_asserted
“And Bobby Baker takes an interest in her and takes her on holiday.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:15:45
Bobby Baker framed
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“I want all of you to understand where those accusations come from. They come from this man right here, the man working for LBJ.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:17:15
Mentions (32)
▶ 53:52
thing that basically had all kinds of mafia and CIA ties. I think we're going to get to that because Bobby Baker, we are going to talk about him. He was big into the Serv-U Corporation, which has mafia ties and Operation Gladio all over it.…
▶ 1:00:08
continued looking into the activities of Billy Estes and Bobby Baker. During the investigation, it emerged that LBJ had been involved in political corruption. This included the award of the $7 billion contract to General Dynamics. And when …
▶ 1:00:37
In October 1963, Korth is forced to resign from his job in the government as a result of the congressional investigation. So, it is later said that on 22 November 1963, a friend of Baker's, Bobby Baker, by the name of Don Reynolds, told a m…
▶ 1:01:08
and that's just the initial, Everett Jordan and his Senate Rules Committee, that he saw a suitcase of money, which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff, to Johnson for his role in the Fort Worth contract. John McKellen was the chairman of t…
▶ 1:04:02
I did want to cover this one guy, Bobby Baker, because this guy's crazy. He basically, at the age of 14, and I know what every one of you are thinking, at the age of 14 gets invited to become a page in Washington, D.C. by a senator in South…
▶ 1:04:33
Um, but anyway, so he gets, um, brought to Washington DC at the age of 14, who would let their kid do that? I don't know. Um, and unless they're paid a huge sum of money, not that I would do that for money, but I'm just saying, um, I don't,…
▶ 1:05:03
In Washington, D.C., because he is basically like an errand boy there. And he overhears all of these snippets of information. And he had worked for like a grocery store in a small town since he was like 10 running groceries to people. And h…
▶ 1:05:26
you know, strange men would be coming out of other people's houses in the middle of the day that there was money to be made in the blackmail game. And so he makes like the perfect page in Washington, D.C. because he's already figured all of…
▶ 1:05:56
that he approached this young page saying, Mr. Baker, I understand that you know where all the bodies are buried in the Senate. I would appreciate it if you would come to my office. When he arrived at the new senator's office, he says, I wa…
▶ 1:06:21
And basically says that he interrogated Baker for like two hours. Baker later recalled, quote, no senator ever had approached me with such a display of determination to learn, to achieve, to attain, to belong, to get ahead. He was coming in…
▶ 1:06:50
And close to a typical performance, politics simply consumed the man, unquote. So it became Baker's job to compile background on all the rest of the politicians who basically whined them and dined them using oil money, let their hair down, …
▶ 1:07:17
Two men came very close when Johnson became the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He made Baker the Secretary for the Majority. Mr. Baker proved especially adept at what they referred to as Senate math, and that's basically going around buyin…
▶ 1:07:48
which, by the way, is a CIA front, to establish casinos in the Dominican Republic. Baker arranged for Ed Levinson, who was an associate of Meyer Lansky and Sam Giacano of the mafia, to become involved in this deal. So this is the CIA gettin…
▶ 1:08:17
on the official inauguration guest list. While working for Johnson, Baker became the epitome of the Washington Wheeler dealer sleaze. He repeatedly fronted for syndicate gamblers Cliff Jones and Ed Levinson in investments that earned super …
▶ 1:08:43
His friend, Fred Black Jr., in exchange for him to intervene and help Jones and Levinson obtain casino contracts with the Intercontinental Hotel System, so basically the CIA. Bobby Baker, along with Walter Jenkins, Ed Clark, Clifford Carter…
▶ 1:09:13
relationship with criminals. These men dealt with Irving Davidson, Clit Murchison, James Hoffa, and Carlos Marcello. Davidson was deeply involved in Baker's scams. Murchison paid Baker to secure government contracts for a meatpacking compan…
▶ 1:10:08
I can't believe that my three best friends would betray me. Senator Kerr did not seem to be joking. As I attempted to calm him down, he kept shouting that we would ruin the Senate, ruin ourselves, and ruin him. Johnson basically told him to…
▶ 1:11:02
And he did run for both. And he was reelected as a senator at the same time he and JFK was elected to the president and vice presidents. So it goes on to say, in 1960, when Johnson was reelected, or excuse me, elected to vice president, Bak…
▶ 1:12:03
a guy by the name of Juan Bosch, B-O-S-C-H. Baker had already arranged another source of income. In 1962, he established the Serv-U Corporation, which is this vending machine corporation. He and his friend Fred Black and mobsters Ed Levinso…
▶ 1:12:32
The machines were manufactured and secretly owned by Sam Giacano. The president of Servu Corporation was Eugene Hancock, who was a business partner of Grant Stockdale's and George Smathers of Automatic Vending Services. Questions were asked…
▶ 1:13:01
Um, and most of this got exposed, which, um, required, uh, let's see, Stockdale, who had been appointed ambassador to Ireland to resign. Rumors began circulating that Baker was involved in corrupt activities, um, going back to the time when…
▶ 1:13:31
servant. Mr. Baker has been pursuing various business adventures, real estate, hotels, vending machine companies. In 1963, was an associate of a vending business, brought a civil suit against him, and resulting publicly drew scrutiny of the…
▶ 1:14:00
You know all those sexual allegations about JFK? Well, I want you to understand where they came from. In 1961, Baker established a thing called a Quorum Club, Q-U-O-R-U-M. This was a private gentleman's club housed in Carroll Arms Hotel on …
▶ 1:15:45
that was assigned to the German embassy in Washington, D.C., and she gets a job at this gentleman's club. So, obviously, very scantily clothed. There's all kinds of nude paintings hanging around in this place. I mean, it's a place of debauc…
▶ 1:16:17
to, of all places, New Orleans, which is like the pit of everything mafia slash CIA. Next to Miami, of course. One of Kennedy's friends, Bill Thompson, discovers that this woman, Roe Metsch, at the Quorum Club and asked Baker about her. Bak…
▶ 1:01:16
the scandal that LBJ was going down with on the... The killer? I'm sorry? The guy that killed everybody? No, LBJ's little helper, Bobby Baker. I'm sorry. Yeah, he was on... Well, he had several. He had an assassin that actually worked for h…
▶ 4:30
He was at the time he made the affidavit. He was the commanding officer of the Airborne 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Four years earlier, Watchtower had changed his life. Colonel Cutolo said in his December …
▶ 18:54
Vice President took it as one more sign that he was going to be dumped. If the Kennedys were indeed looking to get rid of Johnson, they were given the perfect opportunity by a growing Washington scandal that fall involving Bobby Baker, the …
▶ 19:21
In September, lurid stories about Baker's wide network of corruption began appearing in the press, including the campaign slush fund and Capitol Hill party houses, stocked with young call girls who catered to every sexual whim, with which B…
▶ 19:52
was Baker's puppeteer. Baker, who was referred to as Johnson's protege, and little Linden in the press, resigned from his Senate office as the scandal intensified. Hoping to protect the man he admired and called the leader. But the heat und…
▶ 27:23
Nixon's prediction, which was prominently displayed in the Dallas Morning News the next day, November 22nd, was another blow to LBJ. But he had even bigger concerns. Later that morning, a life investigative team was scheduled to convene in …
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for an expensive Magnavox stereo console that Lady Bird coveted. As Bobby Baker later commented, Johnson was always on the lookout for an odd nickel or dime. In fact, the insurance executive, Don Reynolds, was scheduled to testify about Joh…