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JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux
[…] as he and Weberman did in their book – that two of the ‘tramps’ were Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. Jaffee contacted Richard Perle, then working for Senator Henry Jackson, who was told to take it to the FBI. In the FBI’s report of this, Sam Jaffee is quoted as saying that he contacted […]
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[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars
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Kelly Bond 007 essay
[…] their real life counter-parts, including 007’s CIA associate Felix Leiter. Shakespeare goes to great lengths to describe how Fleming came to meet and have dinner with then Senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was recovering from back surgery he received a copy of Casino Royale from Marion Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown, Washington D.C. neighbour […]
General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.
[PDF file]: […] went hand in hand with rooting out left-wingers and communists who were seen to be everywhere. (Don’t forget, this was the height of the Cold War and Senator Joe, though dead, was still a big hero in many quarters). Indeed, Caufield shows that Guy Banister’s main concern in New Orleans was just that, smokin’ […]
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[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
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View from the bridge
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]