Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
When I began studying the Kennedy assassination, back in 1983, my naivety was considerable. It would be a few years before I fully hooked into the diffuse network of assassination researchers, and my hit-and-miss efforts to locate that fraternity produced some bizarre results during the 1985-87 period. Consulting periodical directories and other sources, I […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s London File on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Calendared & Glossed by Anthony Frewin ‘Calendared and Glossed’ is pretty elegant, is it not? And totally accurate, of course. In his ‘Author’s Note’ Frewin tells us that this began as an idea for a Lobster piece but, like […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] was first published and came across a remaindered copy. Unlike the JFK murder, this case is absolutely straightforward. The forensic evidence is quite clear and inarguable: Robert Kennedy was shot three times at point-blank range – i.e. a range of less than three inches. The fatal shot was fired into his head behind his […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] to defend US economic and geopolitical interests and never mind how much (non-white) blood was spilt. It gets worse. I always look at the assassination of John Kennedy as a touchstone for academics writing about America intelligence. This is Jeffreys-Jones wriggling his way past the subject on p. 194. ‘Kennedy’s assassination on 22 November […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] ever taken this novel seriously. However, it is a work much loved by literary critics, academics, Guardian reviewers and others with little or scant knowledge of the Kennedy assassination. Their argument goes that the novelist’s imagination can bring an understanding to Oswald that is beyond the grasp of a mere researcher or historian. Oh, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Introduction Greenwood Press in the USA have just published Anthony Frewin’s’ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-1992 (ISBN 0-313-28982-4). The book is divided into 12 chapters covering such subjects as Oswald in New Orleans, Dealey Plaza (some 40 entries, no less), Dallas post-assassination, TV programs and compilations, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] and Graf, 2005, h/b, $33.00 There is 900 pages of this, in the first 250 or so of which the authors demonstrate that there was a Kennedy brothers plan to create an internal coup in Cuba, which was set to go on 1 December 1963. They offer a sequence in which, having rejected […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] interesting, potentially very important book. It contains three loosely linked sections. The first hundred pages, and especially the first seventy-six pages, are an attempt to represent the Kennedy administration as a kind of US version of Harold Wilson. Kennedy, says Gibson, was a progressive social democrat: he was pro: manufacturing, growth, demand management and […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot 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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Vincent Bugliosi New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007 xlvi + 1612 pps. + CD-ROM End Notes and Source Notes (958 + 170 pps.). Illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95. ‘Reclaiming History is important not just because it’s correct, though it is. It’s significant not […]
