[…] the events the hypothesis seeks to explain in a wider historical context. Remarkably, for example, Andrew suggested that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that […]
[…] there was no ‘Soviet threat’. The revisionist historians of the Cold War were right; and those within the American political system – the obvious examples being presidents Kennedy and Carter – who tried to slow/stop the nuclear arms race, were right. But Kennedy was killed (if not by the Pentagon, by one of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
