[…] 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 […]
[…] to the print job.’ The end result of that process is huge book, 670 pages in all, half of which are devoted to JFK, 100 to Robert Kennedy, 80 to King, 60 to Malcolm X and 30 to the media’s response to the assassinations. The content varies from the readable to the dazzling. The […]
[…] 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 >
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did LBJ know? This book does not answer that question, […]
Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins […]
