[…] Hoffa/Mafia origin to the plot, though he is open to other suggestions. Important and not-to-be-missed by organised crime chasers. GRODEN, Robert J. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record. New York: Penguin Studio, 1995. x + 262 pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Virtually every photo of LHO ever taken, and some! Awesomely […]
[…] KIND BEFORE AND SAY HE IS KNOWN TO THEM AS SOUND AND LOYAL PERSON WITH NO SECURITY RECORD. WANTED ABOVE REPORTED PARTICULARLY IN VIEW REPORTED SOVIET BACKGROUND OSWALD. DEPENDING ON CIRCUMSTANCES, HQS MAY WISH PASS ABOVE TO AS COULD NOT REACH REP THIS MORNING. STAND READY ASSIST IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE ON INVESTIGATIONS HERE. […]
[…] a Marxist (as does Estes), apparently based on nothing more than a 1949 FBI file. In one of his ‘faction’ sections McClellan has Wallace, the Marxist, recruiting Oswald, another Marxist. So in his version, if LBJ and Ed Clark were behind the shooting, it was carried out by two Marxists! There is also one […]
[PDF file]: Last post for Oswald Garrick Alder On the morning of 20 November 1963, something very ordinary happened in Texas. The mailman delivered a standard Postal Service slip to the Irving home of Ruth Paine. It stated that a package with 12 cents postage due was being held at the post office for Lee Oswald, […]
[PDF file]: Oswaldology, as it were Anthony Frewin The Oswald Code Alan Jules Weberman New York: Independent Research Associates, 2014, 300 pps. Illustrations, notes, index, $17.00 (amazon) Alan Jules Weberman or, more familiarly, A J Weberman, is widely known as a garbologist, Dylanologist, and as the author of a book on the JFK assassination.1 The […]
Stephen Dorril London: Viking, 2006, £30 In his 1975 biography of Oswald Mosley, Robert (now Lord) Skidelsky very much celebrated the old fascist on his own terms, contributing, wittingly or not, to his attempted rehabilitation. Mosley, we were told in all seriousness, was always driven by his concern for ordinary people and a […]
[…] York, 1992) a chapter of which is devoted to the sport. Nickell spends 98% of the chapter to rubbishing the late Michael Eddowes’ theories about the ‘second Oswald’, something an averagely bright first year student could do. He then blithely dismisses all the rest of the literature in twelve lines! This is awesomely incompetent […]
[…] political movement committed to excluding women from the worlds of politics and work and confining them to the home. The validity of this view with regard to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) was first called into question by Martin Durham in his Women and Fascism, published in 1998 and now it has […]
[…] last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark phrase: ‘Basic facts yet contradictions on Oswald in Mexico; photo not him’.) Wrone is brisk to the point of bracing, and whatever else this book may be, it’s certainly not boring. I get […]
[…] 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Random House, 1993, p. ix): ‘More than two thousand books have been written about the assassination of President John […]
