Roger Stone spoke at Bay Ridge Manor to contingent of The Brooklyn Young Republican Club

State Senator Golden and BYRC President Nocera greet author and long-time GOP firebrand

The Brooklyn Young Republican Club hosted Roger Stone, the notable and notorious political strategist, author, former White House operative and former national chairman of the Young Republicans at their November 10th meeting at the Bay Ridge Manor.

About thirty people attended and enjoyed cheese and crackers along with coffee, cookies and soda provided compliments of State Senator Marty Golden in the main hall of the Manor. Prior to the scheduled program, Mr. Stone casually spoke for some time with several of those gathered there early, including State Senator Golden.

At about 2:15 Golden welcomed all of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club members and their guests and spoke about how necessary organizations like the BYRC and other Republican Clubs were to a healthy GOP in Brooklyn. Club President Glenn Nocera then followed with thanks to the state senator for the refreshments and the use of the hall, and made his introduction of the speaker Roger Stone.

Mr. Stone talked about the material from his latest book “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.”  The presentation was different from a typical author’s reading and/or signing  – notably absent were piles of Stone’s book, which he mentioned  is already into a fourth printing. The whole thing seemed exactly like what you would expect from Roger Stone along with plenty of lurid details of murder and sex, both before the Kennedy assassination and since. There were a hand-full of people that Stone knew personally, or with whose work Stone was completely familiar, that he personally skewered for their lack of journalistic or academic ethics because they knowingly worked to keep the historical record on Johnson's multiple involvements with the assassination and the cover up that followed under deep seal and cover – Robert Caro and Bill Moyers being two that I recall being “mentioned.”

The Q &A showed that many in the audience were very up on their Kennedy Assassination conspiracy details. Stone mentioned that a lot of his work covers what is well established in the record, but that he tightly weaves it into a narrative with some new material that demonstrates that not only was LBJ the biggest direct beneficiary of the assassination, LBJ had all the necessary contacts to carry it out. Johnson had the motive, the opportunity and behavior indicative of intent to carry out the deed. In addition, a complete rundown of the multitude of additional murders following the assassination of John F. Kennedy also shows many additional links to Johnson.

In a brief mention of local politics, Roger Stone expressed how badly he felt about the recent mayoral election. He mentioned that he knew and supported the election of Joe Lhota, but the way things are in NYC politics at this moment, Lhota’s election was a near impossibility.

Jacob Bard won the raffle drawing for a copy of the book, which was endorsed  “To Jacob from Roger Stone.”