[…] 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 […]
[…] released, Ellsberg recalls: ‘General Maxwell Taylor was being interviewed by Martin Agronsky, in a program that had been taped earlier. He was describing his recommendations to President Kennedy in November 1961. He was telling Agronsky and the American public ten years later: “I did not recommend combat forces. I stressed we would bring in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun […]
