See note:(1) Did Staff D feed the Oswald-Kostikov lie to the CIA? Abstract: There exist at least four successive versions (or falsifications) of Silvia Duran’s so-called statement of November 23,1963, to the Mexican DFS (Dirección Federal de Seguridad), about her interviews of Oswald in the Cuban Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the … Read more
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more
[…] Agca’s personal library – the one Henze claimed Henze’s mother said she had burned (Henze pp.31-2) – it included Frederick Forsyth’s novel about a right-wing plot to assassinate De Gaulle, The Day of the Jackal, and they assert that Agca read it several times. See Pontiff, pp.9-10, 445. Dobbs, ‘Child of Turkish Slum’, p. […]
[…] the elections.’ The government, said Aburto, has three goals: ‘First, to convince everyone that I’m the only shooter; second, to claim that I’m crazy; and third, to assassinate me… and say I killed myself. That way everyone can forget about the Colosio case.’ (Michelle Chi Chase, Mexico City News, 21 August 1996) The same […]
[…] in Dateline Dallas (SpringSummer, 1993), the newsletter of the JFK Assassination Information Center. (See final paragraph below.) Davis, John H. The Kennedy Contract: The Mafia Plot to Assassinate the President. New York: HarperPaperbacks (sic), 1993. 312 pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. A hurriedly written pendant, incorporating Frank Ragano ‘confessions’, to Davis’ earlier and better written […]
[…] to kill General Edwin Walker, and his avowed commitment to Marxism and Communism as factors that contributed to his character and might have influenced his decision to assassinate the president.’(31) Nearly six hundred pages later Bugliosi returns to the subject with a chapter tersely entitled ‘Motive’.(32) After an opening discussion of the legal meanings […]
First off, a slight digression. There’s been much talk recently about just how many books have been published on the assassination. ‘Over 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK … Read more
There is one book not reviewed here that should have been. The reason is it wasn’t written and, indeed, it cannot now be. I am referring to Evelyn Lincoln’s autobiography. JFK’s executive secretary passed away on 4 May 1995 in Washington and with her have gone all of the secrets she shared with JFK. She … Read more
Introduction This, as some of Lobster‘s older readers will recognise, is a re-write of the essay I wrote on the JFK thing in Lobster 2, published on the 20th anniversary of the assassination in November 1983. This rewrite was written for the first issue of Casablanca, but it failed to appear. In JFK the Costner/Garrison … Read more
[…] 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the arrest of Clay Shaw, a wealthy New Orleans businessman and real estate developer, on charges of conspiring to assassinate Kennedy. From then on Garrison’s enquiry took place in the full glare of the world’s media, making objective reporting and investigation virtually impossible. It is not […]
