Larry Hancock Texas: JFK Lancer Productions and Publications, 2006; $35.00, h/back, ISBN 0-9774657-1-3, Faced with the vast pile of data which now constitutes the JFK assassination literature, an author – a serious author, at any rate; and Hancock is serious – has to chose a path s/he is going to follow through it, […]
[…] a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY RECEIVED FROM TOP COMMAND AS […]
The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and […]
[…] or Fidel Castro in JFK’s assassination.’ One hopes that Bugliosi is doing all this on a pro bono publico basis and eschewing what he terms the ‘lucrative JFK conspiracy industry’ (see below). Who he? ‘I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged Posner in their books that they’re going to have […]
[PDF file]: JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux Robin Ramsay The identity of the three ‘tramps’, photographed under police escort in Dallas after the assassination of JFK, is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like […]
[PDF file]: The JFK Assassination Diary My search for answers to the mystery of the century Edward Jay Epstein New York: EJE Publications, 2014 T his is Edward Jay Epstein’s fourth book about the Kennedy assassination. He wrote his first, Inquest, while a graduate student. By a combination of luck and smarts he got access to […]
[…] that the idea of a meta-conspiracy isn’t attractive. Faced with a cover-up extending across the intelligence services, the mass media, and the political establishment, many of the JFK researchers made the not unreasonable assumption that it was co-ordinated, and that its purpose was the concealment of the identities of the real assassins. (In some […]
[…] may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK is a complex figure and while a politician, with all that entails about strategies and the primacy of electoral considerations, he was also (by American standards) […]
[…] Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to do so by some Soviet disinformation about the case. Yes, we are back with the […]
[…] New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he claimed he […]
