Editorially
Sorry this is late but the schedule we set ourselves of an issue every two months. A number of reasons for this – the summer holidays, a typewriter breakdown – but mainly (a) just a lot of pressure from other areas, and (b) an enormous mountain of copy to be handled. In effect Nos 6 and 7 have been typed simultaneously. We should be back on schedule for No 7.
No 6 marks the end of year 1. We will produce a comprehensive name/subject index for each six issues but we make no promises when we will get it out. Part of the first index has been done but it is a time-consuming chore. Of course, if there is someone out there who just adores doing indexes, we’d like to hear from you.
At the end of the first year we can say that, mostly due to the cheap printing deal we get from the VOICE we are not yet in debt – but getting closer with each issue. We think the Lobster is pretty good by any standards, and for 60p per issue, is ridiculously good value. From odd bits of information we receive, we know our readership is much bigger than our sales – so subscribe! If you are reading this in someone else’s copy, put it down and make with the cheque-book. Meanwhile, any of our readers who are burdened with the guilt of affluence – we will gladly take your money.
In this issue are the second parts of the articles we began in Lobster 5. We asked for comment on this splitting of pieces, and it has been almost wholly negative. OK, we won’t do it again. And credit where credit is due, Dorril was against the split and Ramsay, who does the typing, was the one who did it.
Robin Ramsay/Steve Dorril
Forthcoming in Lobster 7
In August the American researcher Peter Dale Scott was in London and was kind enough to submit to prolonged tape-recording. (Transcribing this accounts for part of the delay in No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our opinion the best of the assassination research community of America – has ever been interviewed, in print, on the subject.
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Robin Ramsay / Steve Dorril
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