The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] his eligibility. Birtherism was not just used against Obama! The ultimate strike against Cruz, however, was the National Enquirer front page headline ‘TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION’. Once again, Trump claimed to have nothing to do with this story being run, but once it was out there took relentless advantage of it. […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] domain was established and funded. See or . 26 These activities were the subject of enquiries by the FBI that were later exhibited in the US government’s JFK assassination archive. See . 27 The Hayward story – moving away from UK manufacturing to off-shore financial dealings – is effectively a microcosm of what would […]

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

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] to come’. The premises were later famous/ notorious as the Vivienne Westwood/Malcolm McLaren boutique SEX. 5 Ambassador to the US 1961-1965, and an exceptionally close friend to JFK and his brothers – so close that he proposed marriage to the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968. What with Mary Pinchot Meyer passing through as well, […]

The Secret Team

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] sometimes in ways that undermine those activities, and very often ways that interfere with and muddle them. The U-2 incident Prouty came to the attention of the JFK assassination researchers because he was the most senior ex-intelligence/military figure to write about the Dallas events as an obvious conspiracy and cover-up. The book also drew […]

Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] I believed I was the first to discover the Oswald address book/ The Worker connection, this is not the case. In the July 1996 issue of the JFK assassination research journal The Fourth Decade (Vol. 3/No. 5) there is a note on page 35 written by the journal’s founder and editor Jerry Rose. Rose […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]

Accessibility Toolbar