[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] from senior administration officials of the period, including Richard Helms, Clark Clifford and former NSA head Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, all rejecting the ‘accident’ thesis. The Malcolm Kennedy case A potentially important development in the Malcolm Kennedy case (see previous Lobsters) has occurred. Kennedy was wrongly convicted of the killing of Patrick Quinn in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
