[…] about Platoon – Stone’s Vietnam War movie, based on his experiences there as an infantry private. Then they moved to the Kennedy assassination, the subject of Stone’s JFK. Rogan is a hunter and knows about rifles. Like other shooters who have looked at the case, Rogan focused on CE399, the so-called ‘magic bullet’. Rogan […]
[PDF file]: […] field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or selfinterested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to […]
[PDF file]: […] Russian operations, my guess would be that the US will produce similar devices and begin attacking Russian officials overseas. Both sides might then stop using them. More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the […]
[PDF file]: […] debunked by the physical evidence and the emergence of the 1963 booking sheets. The fact that this has been offered without qualification is rather striking. My essay, ‘JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux’, which refutes the received position above, is on the first page of hits if you ask Google for ‘Chauncey […]
[PDF file]: […] Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK assassination books. On his blog3 he begins his self-description thus: […]
[…] debunked by the physical evidence and the emergence of the 1963 booking sheets. The fact that this has been offered without qualification is rather striking. My essay, ‘JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux’, which refutes the received position above, is on the first page of hits if you ask Google search for […]
[…] stoop, and big class ring, he looked very distinctive to me.25 24 Gregory C. Lavin, Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, p. 176 in the Kindle version. 25 8 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t […]
[PDF file]: […] 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading about the assassination. The big surprise about this book was: […]
[…] March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On 20 NB Neither of the apps I use to shorten URLs would work with this one of Murray’s. 21 7 Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,22 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon reportedly said: […]
[PDF file]: […] years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen’s view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School […]
