[PDF file]: […] events that day in Dallas. The only member of the cast of characters definitely identified around the assassination is Jack Ruby; and while in prison Ruby identified LBJ as the man behind the shooting. Although I disagree with DiEugenio’s thesis, this is a really good book, with much new and newish material. Highly recommended. […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty radical stuff, for the time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until […]
[PDF file]: […] power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to organise a temporary halt to the Vietnam War before the election. The Nixon team heard about this and set about frustrating it. Through Anna […]
[…] ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty radical stuff, for the time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until […]
[PDF file]: […] apartheid, Rosenhead is going to be taught how to think correctly about anti-semitism. All this quasi-legal activity expelling people for not toeing the line, has Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 70 or 71 On whom see or . 72 or 73 25 cost the Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour line on anti-semitism actually is these days, the business of expelling Jewish members who won’t toe that line John Booth spotted this. 41 Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 42 or 43 14 continues. The latest such victim is Jonathan Rosenhead, emeritus Professor of […]
[PDF file]: […] vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 11 following year. After Kennedy’s death, Harry brought Time and Life magazines into the LBJ camp. This was partly out of pragmatism (the Luces still had personal connections to the new president), and partly because Johnson seemed likely to reinvigorate the […]
[PDF file]: […] had visited Texas Ranger Clint Peoples who, 15 years or so later, would persuade Estes to talk about another of the murders committed by ‘Mac’ Wallace for LBJ. Peoples also subsequently died in a one–car crash and all his papers disappeared. And so on. The book is a shower of fragments including: hanky-panky with […]
[PDF file]: […] first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the possibility of allowing a military coup in Brazil and […]
[PDF file]: Oh, conspiracy! Robin Ramsay The Guardian has been having an attack of conspiracy theory anxiety. First there was the piece on 18 December by Natalie Nougayrède, the former diplomatic correspondent and later editor of Le Monde, ‘The conspiracy theories of extreme right and far left threaten democracy’.1 The subhead, expressing her thesis, was this: ‘In […]
[PDF file]: […] US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of a nonmatch between the known prints of LBJ crony Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace and the prints listed as ‘unidentified’ obtained by the Bureau from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Seven months after receiving […]
