[…] of a feather flock together. I don’t know any squares that run with them. They may go down to look. The who shot John? Suddenly we’ve got Kennedy assassins all over the place. In August, the former Dallas policeman Roscoe White was identified as the shooter on the grassy knoll by his son, after […]
[…] savvy folk knew Gerry had a wayward way with facts from his book’s first sentence, which claims that more than 2,000 books have been written about the Kennedy assassination. The actual figure is somewhere under 400. Posner probably got the 2,000 figure from the struggling Assassination Research Center in Washington, DC, which does (or […]
[…] now known of the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro plots.Incidentally, as another example of how unwise it can be to automatically dismiss someone as paranoid, one 1964 account of the Kennedy assassination (Red Roses from Texas by Nerin E. Gunn) quotes, as an example of vicious anti-JFK propaganda, a rightist broadsheet headlined ‘Kennedy Keeps Mistresses’. I am […]
[…] even the story. (Subsequent research has suggested that Nagell fired the revolver in the bank because he wanted to get himself some mental treatment.) To a dilettante Kennedy assassination buff like me, much of this is interesting because the entire history of the attempts to investigate the event by journalists and buffs is interesting. […]
[…] agency. This suggests that ‘revelations’ like the tunnel-as-source-of-Soviet-misinformation are CIA-approved. It is in this light, then, that we might also regard McCarry’s ‘solution’ to the assassination of Kennedy – the subject matter of Tears of Autumn – namely, that Kennedy was killed by members of Diem’s family in revenge for his (Diem’s) own assassination […]
[…] the ‘official documentary historical record of major US foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity’. Currently 28 recent volumes are online, including those on the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations: (www.state.gov/www/about_state/ history/frusonline.html) Covert Action in Thailand Foreign Relations of the US, 1964-68, vol XXVII, Mainland Southeast Asia; Regional Affairs. (Sept 2000) http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxvii/index.html This […]
[…] Paso, Texas, in September 1963 and fired two shots into the wall. Arrested and jailed, Nagell sent telegrams to J. Edgar Hoover and others, warning that President Kennedy was shortly to be killed by a New Orleans-based conspiracy of which Oswald was a part. Nagell, a former U.S. Army Intelligence agent, claimed that both […]
[…] that the Cold War is over. Under the heading ‘Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless conspiracy theorists, who speculate that Oswald, who had visited Moscow, was a K.G.B. “asset” […]
[…] theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was born in 1924 in Canada and returned […]
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