Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] piles of peasant bodies were growing. There are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Osborne is by John Kowalski, ‘The Dual Life of Albert Osborne,’ that can be read here: 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby- JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] forty years for David Lifton’s follow up to Best Evidence?2 Where’s that got to? Last Second is part memoir, with Thompson describing his early involvement in the JFK assassination, viewing the Zapruder film while working with Life magazine, the writing of Six Seconds in Dallas, and how it wove in and out of his […]

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[…] seen an Israelis-dunnit explanation of Dallas which was worth taking seriously but Guyénot’s version, nearly 10,000 words and thoroughly documented, deserves a look. The thesis is that JFK was killed because he was a threat to the Israelis’ nuclear programme. They had a reactor at Dimona and JFK was making vague noises about getting […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] USA’s post-WW2 empire, complicates the study of American foreign policy (or would if academics and journalists could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] that a former member of the US Secret Service, Paul Landis, has written a book in which he says that he found a bullet in the car JFK was travelling in when he was shot.2 And thus Landis has detonated the official Warren Commission verdict on the shooting. This is significant, albeit 60 years […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). ‘Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics’, and ‘Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate’. Both are in Lobster 73 (Summer 2017). 88 27 isn’t what we learned about American government and democracy in high school civics. But […]

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[…] companies15 and thus is highly unlikely to save the NHS from the private healthcare sector. Dallas again – Joesten I was looking through posts on John Simkin’s JFK Assassination Debate16 and noticed some discussion of Joachim Joesten and decided that since I think LBJdunnit (or was one of those who done it), I’d better […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *New* JFK I wrote below (‘But not that page’) that only Roger Stone and I seemed to have spotted that Robert Caro had omitted a large chunk of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *New* JFK I wrote below (‘But not that page’) that only Roger Stone and I seemed to have spotted that Robert Caro had omitted a large chunk of […]

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