Forthcoming Greenwood Press in Connecticut, USA, are publishing this October Anthony Frewin’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-92. This began life as a proposed article for Lobster merely listing the more important films and videos, but it grew and grew until it became book length. Frewin contributed […]
[…] 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 >
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
Election time! Ah, the roar of the hustings; the pulse of democracy is about to be taken. The enduring worthiness of our political system is about to be proven yet again. But what’s that you say? Something’s not quite right with the result? You smell a rat? Be quiet. Such things only happen in tin-pot […]
[…] in hand and I hope to return to the subject in a future issue of Lobster. TO: FBI. FROM: LEGAT, LONDON. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. CLASSIFIED BY 2040. EXEMPT FROM GDS CATEGORY J. DATE OF DECLASSIFICATION INDEFINITE. 7/9/77. Remyairtel 11/26/63 reporting a newspaper reporter in Cambridge, England had stated he received […]
[…] Helms to DCI Dulles, dated April 3, 1953, Tab A, pp. 1-2. . Summary Report on CIA Investigation of MKNAOMI, Report Book I, pp. 360-63. Also see Kennedy Subcommittee Hearings on Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by DoD, 1977. Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot captured by Soviet Union, carried one such toxin concealed […]
