[…] 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 […]
[…] documents can be seen at . It is just possible that the rejection of Northwoods led to the CIA plan to stage a phoney assassination attempt on JFK, which has been described by fringe participant, the late Chauncey Holt in his memoir. I reviewed this at the end of or . The author has […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] legal, ethical or privacy concerns either for the Hess family or prisoner Spandau #7.’14 Since 1979 the Hess Doppelgänger question has ranked somewhere between the assassination of JFK and the Zinoviev Letter in the catalogue of unsolved conspiracies. Consequently it took less than three days in the online world of revisionist history for Joseph […]
[PDF file]: […] lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff you begin to lose the will to live’. See . Yes, both subjects are full of […]
[…] 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, […]
[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment of […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
