The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hardly surprising. Doing anything but accepting the official 9/11 line would be bad for an academic career – in the same way that being interested in the JFK assassination would be. Being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still a potential career-killer. As a preamble to discussing 9/11 as a false flag attack, Hughes discusses […]

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[…] War on Secrecy.5 To my knowledge, neither Leigh nor Harding The unz.com website is anti-semitic and ran an essay arguing that it was the Israelis who shot JFK. I referred to this in my ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 88 (under subhead Dallas and Dimona). 3 or 4 This was discussed by Bill […]

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[…] War on Secrecy.5 To my knowledge, neither Leigh nor Harding The unz.com website is anti-semitic and ran an essay arguing that it was the Israelis who shot JFK. I referred to this in my ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 88 (under subhead Dallas and Dimona). 3 or 4 This was discussed by Bill […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] other academics in the field) that ‘conspiracy theory’ is an uncomplicated concept and anything so labelled can be assumed to be nonsense, is irrational and insulting (to JFK buffs in particular). However, with the spectacular crop of really dumb conspiracy theories which have emerged in recent years in the English-speaking world – QAnon etc. […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] course deployed in Nicholas Katzenbach’s infamous memo of 23 November 1963. It was deployed more forcefully by Lyndon Johnson when he pressurised Earl Warren into whitewashing the JFK case. It seems likely that this ‘Don’t Scare the Horses’ alibi had been tried and tested long before 1933. 9 Unsurprisingly, Zangara is depicted as nothing […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with the politicians before it decided to go and shoot some of the bog-wogs?13 Peter Dale Scott It was reading Peter Dale Scott’s early writing on the JFK events which steered me in the direction I have taken ever since. So it was with some pleasure that I found that there is a short […]

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[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

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