[…] made the article untimely was the fact that its publication coincided neatly with the completion of the Warren Commission’s report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That report, which validated the FBI’s findings that the President had been murdered by a lone nut, was submitted to the Johnson White House on Sept. […]
[…] book reviewed below. 2 Rolling Stone, 1 May 2006, published a long, detailed account of the conventional theft story, ‘Was the 2004 Election Stolen?’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr..(And yes, he is one of those Kennedys.) A recent detailed study of the hackability of the Diebold voting machine is Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] imperialist essay (which appeared in successive iterations up to 1919 and 1943) shaped Anglo-American policy ever afterwards, he is not alone. For example, Harvard historian Paul M. Kennedy, writing in The Guardian in mid-2004, made a parallel claim. ‘Right now,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘with hundreds of thousands of US troops in the Eurasian rimlands and […]
[…] apparently unaware of JFK’s plan to pull the US out of Vietnam. ‘Nor is there any reasons to suppose that things would have been any different had Kennedy not been killed, for he was every bit as rigid a Cold Warrior as Johnson.’ (p. 188) This simply is not true and the fact that […]
[…] government funds. This seemed to imply that Dr Michel-Titus had acted as a conduit for the money. Other money was received via someone called Lt. Colonel Douglas Kennedy, about whom I have no knowledge. In 1980 I was made a signatory for TA’s bank account with Clydesdale Bank, but never signed a cheque and […]
[…] how startling was Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell presidential address. A US president, a former Commander-in-Chief, warns America about the power of the military-industrial complex? On network television? Then Kennedy had to face down the military over Cuba. No wonder Kennedy let John Frankenheimer use the White House to shoot his movie about a military coup, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] with British politics as with certain of its discrete institutions’. Presumably SIS. See Korbonski p. 20. Later American participants included Robert MacNamara, US Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson (earlier chair of the Ford Motor Company, and later President of the World Bank); and McGeorge Bundy, who worked on the Marshall Plan, was […]
