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A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] the Sixth Floor Museum, which is housed in the former book depository building on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas. From there the ‘official’ assassin – Lee Harvey Oswald – is said to have fired on See or 1 or < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308941/Mobhitman-James-Files-stands-claims-man-responsible-President-John-F-Kennedy-s-assassinationprepares-release.html> 2 Kennedy. Refreshingly, the museum does not take a partisan line on assassination […]

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[…] him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’28 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This may explain why Ruby killed Oswald: he was tidying up for his political boss. Ruby’s hints about LBJ’s role to the Warren Commission people who interviewed him may have been provoked by […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Mexico, met former governor of Texas, John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? ‘Absolutely not,’ Connally said. ‘I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission.’ So why not […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Warren Commission was an inquiry into who shot Kennedy. It wasn’t: the conclusion was preordained. The Warren Commission hired some young lawyers to make the case against Oswald. They duly cherry-picked evidence and rewrote eyewitness testimony where it was inconvenient. But they were still left with a ballistics scenario in which the wounds of […]

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[…] him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’23 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This may explain why Ruby killed Oswald: he was tidying up for his political boss. Ruby’s hints about LBJ’s role to the Warren Commission people who interviewed him may have been provoked by […]

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[…] him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’2 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This may explain why Ruby killed Oswald: he was tidying up for his political boss. Ruby’s hints about LBJ’s role to the Warren Commission people who interviewed him may have been provoked by […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] remember or can find. Has anyone seriously tried to dispute the disappearance of left and trade union people during Pinochet’s years? And, finally before giving up entirely, I checked his account of JFK’s assassination. This is his Oswald on page 207. ‘….failed volunteer for the military and the CIA and the KGB.’ Huh? Robin Ramsay

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LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] 61 spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by a real assassination attempt, which was done in the […]