[…] he acted alone….But no serious scholar of the president’s assassination will ever write again on the subject without citing Bugliosi….With this work, Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated America. It is a book for the ages.’ ‘Bugliosi is refreshing because he doesn’t just pick apart the conspiracy theorists. He ridicules them, and […]
[…] the cover-up. More tentatively he offers the outline of the Billy Sol Estes – Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace story. He does not take seriously the claim that the murder was organised by LBJ’s lawyer/fixer, Ed Clark, using ‘Mac’ Wallace, as suggested in Barr McClellan’s Blood, Money and Power (6) but he does mention Sample and […]
[PDF file]: Wrong on Rwanda Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad Michela Wrong London: 4th Estate, 2021, £10.99, p/b John Newsinger In its 18 September 2021 issue, The Spectator published a powerful article, ‘When will Britain wake up to the horror of Rwanda’s President?’, written by Michela […]
[PDF file]: Notting Hill in Ye Olden Tyme Murder in Notting Hill Mark Olden Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2011, 196pps, illus., notes and sources, p/b, £11.99. The murder of the black carpenter Kelso Cochrane on the streets of Notting Hill by a white gang in 1959 has never gone away. Never gone away because it was […]
[PDF file]: A Thorn in Their Side The Hilda Murrell murder Robert Green with Kate Dewes New Zealand: Rata Books, 2011; 210 pp., index, photographs, p/b, 40 NZ dollars O nce upon a time I used to know something about the Hilda Murrell case. At any rate, a piece about it without an author, therefore by […]
[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on […]
[…] the sort which in 1965 preceded a more general massacre. The Pentagon certainly know the implications of dealing with Prabowo and Kopassus, a unit notorious for terror, murder, rape, and torture. Yet, when Congress banned training under the usual Pentagon program of International Military Education and Training (IMET), the Pentagon quietly kept on training […]
[…] war who has talked a length, but one who was working, liaising with the RUC, in the Portadown area, one of the hot spots. Taylor discusses the murder of the IRA man John FrancisGreen by Protestant paramilitaries. Fred Holroyd was told by Captain Robert Nairac that he, Nairac, had been involved in the shooting. […]
[…] Commonwealth History, 33 (2), May 2005, pp. 245-265. Hilda Murrell case closed? Twenty-one years after Hilda Murrell’s death, Andrew George was convicted of her kidnap and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment following a four week trial at Stafford Crown Court. () George, who was 16 at the time, living in a children’s […]
