[…] video tapes of Michael Jackson’s Thriller – just like their US counterparts. RR Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold The Hunt for The Czar (London 1976) Some of the ramifications of the Goleniewski case, touching the assassination of JFK, for example, are discussed in Jonathan Marshall’s ‘Notes on..’ Part 2, which will be in Lobster 6.
[…] in New Orleans); (b) that Oswald was ‘mentally unbalanced’ (said who?); and (c) that he was in “active contact with low-level FBI agents.” (which almost the whole JFK buff world believes but can’t prove). What is it about Kennedy’s death that encourages people to go into print without doing any of the reading? Longer […]
[…] of the sixties and related events. It contains pieces on William Pepper’s excellent book Orders to Kill (reviewed above); Garrison; military intelligence in Dallas; Cuban intelligence and JFK – the Cubans’ viewpoint; a report on the Coalition’s annual conference; updates on material generated by FOIA requests and by the Assassination Archives Review Board; press […]
[…] to be announced but it is expected to be around $50. Lobster will be running an extract in number 26. Greenwood Press are no strangers to the JFK case. They published Guth and Wrone’s magisterial bibliography The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Comprehensive Historical and Legal Bibliography 1963-79 (1980). A spook joke (and […]
9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99 This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is done […]
[…] from Lobster 29 (1995) Enemies Within? Reviews from Lobster 29 (1995) A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran, by Mark Curtis, from Lobster 30 (1995) Recent JFK (and related) literature, by Anthony Frewin, from Lobster 31 (1996) Who were they travelling with? By Tom Easton, from Lobster 31 (1996) UFOs and the governments […]
[…] with Meyer Lansky on Operation Underworld, the Mob’s first contact with the US intelligence community. Peter Dale Scott describes White in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK as ‘part of the “inner circle”‘, one of those who liaised between organised crime and the US bureaucracy in the post-war world. He also acted as […]
[…] in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize Russia The Hoover Institution, October 8, 2004, http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/papers/Dunlop%20paper.pdf. Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 6-15. See the anecdote in the latest edition of Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the […]
[…] ‘The last confession of E. Howard Hunt’, Rolling Stone, (1023), 5 April 2007, pp. 44-84. Also available at: Clifford Spiegelman et al, ‘Chemical and forensic analysis of JFK assassination bullet lots: is a second shooter possible?’ Due to be published in Annals of Applied Statistics. The draft article can be viewed at . See […]
[…] the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about […]
