The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] LBJ couldn’t turn the inquiries off; and the Kennedys were happy to see the scandals brewing: they wanted LBJ off the ticket for the 1964 election. Then Kennedy was bushwhacked in LBJ’s backyard and his immediate problems disappeared. This book appeared as I was finishing my little Pocket Essential volume on the Kennedy assassination […]

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Surf’s up! Internet sites of interest

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] lot of information relating to President Kennedy’s assassination, and links to related sites. JFK http://heiwww.unige.ch/jfk/ Includes JFK declassified documents (eg Zapata operation, memoranda, etc). alt.conspiracy.jfk Items on Kennedy Assassination eg LHW as ‘Manchurian Candidate’, discussion of ballistic evidence and the Zapruder film, the ‘magic bullet’. Mother Jonesmagazine http://www.mojones.com/ also at FTP: Address: mojones.com Path: […]

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Dr Mary’s Monkey

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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 […]

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Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] are bound to arise unless the text is carefully proof-read by experts. There is also one very striking claim. In the section on the murder of Robert Kennedy it states: ‘….video footage, though not ideal, does suggest that someone in a guard’s uniform appears to fire into the back of Kennedy’s head.’ This is […]

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] dangerous the Agency is and the fact that American politicians are aware of what it is capable of is shown by one telling episode. When President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had […]

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‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

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 […]

Miscarriage of justice, the police complaints system and whistle blower protection for police officers

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] including that of Barry George, convicted in July 2001 of the April 1999 murder of Jill Dando. He says he has experienced harassment on every case.(3) Malcolm Kennedy, whose case has been discussed in previous issues of Lobster , said that there was no adequate supervision of interception powers, and no adequate remedy. People […]

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Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] Morgan. His service (see below) he informs me, is now computerised, and he ‘now covers both the January openings and the monthly New Lists.’ Steamshovel Press President Kennedy with the late Mary Meyer I lifted the picture from the front cover of Steamshovel Press Number Ten. It shows President Kennedy with the late Mary […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] doctrine, that of Territorial Warfare (in a document translated into English by Pauker), which gave priority to counter-insurgency as the army’s role. Especially afier 1962, when the Kennedy Administration aided the Indonesian Army in developing Civic Mission or ‘civic action’ programs, this meant the organization of its own political infrastructure, or Territorial Organization, reaching […]

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A short history of Lobster

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[…] pointing this out, which IT published. In the process of this bit of research I wandered into fields about which I then knew little: American history, the Kennedy assassination, nuclear strategic theory, the history of the cold war and what was then just beginning to be called parapolitics. And I was fascinated. I spent […]

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