Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] it this witty, beautifully written panorama of American dissent is a movie with the last reel missing. Notes 1 Hersh’s book is savagely assaulted by Jim DiEugenio in ‘The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy’ in The Assassinations, reviewed above. 2 On this last little known point see Stephen Birmingham’s account at < www.birmo.co.uk/jfk/work_in_progress/index.htm >
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from The […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] leaked plans for Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) support and B 52 basing had failed to convince strong Senate opposition from such as Gary Hart and Edward Kennedy. It had also signally failed to convince the Russians. A little publicised but highly significant factor in drawing Soviet agreement on SALT 1 had been a […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Dr Mary’s Monkey Edward T. Haslam Waterville (Oregon): Trineday, 2007 (www.Trineday.com) $19.95 (US), p/b The Kennedy assassination literature has produced some oddities over the years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] of ‘conspiracy theorists’ have assumed that this man was signalling to the assassins, thus tying a seemingly trivial and inconsequential act into the alleged plot to kill Kennedy. It is precisely this totalistic, all-encompassing quality that distinguishes ‘conspiracy theories’ from the secret but often mundane political planning that is carried out on a daily […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] the campaign. Of course he was lying. As the flimsiest of ‘cover’ stories, for the duration of the campaign Mandelson became ‘Bobby’ – a reference to Bobby Kennedy who had been in charge of some of John F. Kennedy’s election campaigns. Tony and Peter, John and Bobby……cue faint strains of ‘Camelot’. Sunday Times 31 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Phoenix: Policing the Shadows Jack Holland and Susan Phoenix Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1996 The Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland Caroline Kennedy-Piper Longman, London, 1997 The war in Northern Ireland is apparently in its closing stages. There is still some way to go before it is all over, however, and undoubtedly there […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] Conference of Bishops; to Chile, where the Opus Dei magazine Que Pasa conspired against the regime of Salvatore Allende (1); and to the United States, where David Kennedy, President of Continental Illinois Bank is said to be a “conspicuous friend of the new power brokers in the Order of Opus Dei.” In France, Opus […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] and really cheap at £2.50 from Here and Now, PO Box 109, Leeds, LS5 3AA. Probe describes itself as the ‘Newsletter of Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination’, which doesn’t do it any favours. Actually it is a professionally produced, 32-page quarterly magazine whose primary focus is the Kennedy assassination but whose ambit […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton administrations, the authors simply reject the various claims that there is or has been a Rhodes Scholars network within the American ruling elites. […]
