[…] it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island. There were no survivors. Immediately […]
[…] The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at £29.50 (hb) £14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited and cannot be taken as anything like a real record of the […]
[…] – perhaps because of the shift to an American location and American characters – isn’t so good. The ‘men with the guns’ are the gunmen who shot Kennedy, and the book’s plot concerns a hunt for them a decade or more later. It’s a good idea but it doesn’t quite come off, neither as […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] The more recent volumes make use of declass’d records, Presidential tape recordings, and other documents. Currently 21 recent volumes are on-line, including those on the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Centre for the Study of Intelligence http://www.odci.gov/csi/ Conducts research on intelligence and publishes classsified and unclassified editions of the Studies in Intelligence journals. […]
[…] came from him.) (3) Without the French, thought Butler, peace had to be made. Butler saw Lord Halifax – who agreed. An envoy was sent to Joseph Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador. An isolationist, Kennedy approved and saw Halifax. De Courcy is vague at this point but, presumably, talks began, avenues explored. Given the limited […]
[…] conspiracy buff, and in the late 1970s he bought a failing underground paper (the LA Free Press, I think) and turned it over to a group of Kennedy assassination buffs. They produced a one-off issue devoted to the assassination, included in which was the offer of $1,000, 000 from Flynt for information leading to […]
