[…] best of a poor lot was David Sexton’s in the Spectator (31 May 1987) which at least had the intelligence to see that the rival version by Kennedy and Knightley was pretty poor. A Putney Plot Peter Hain (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1987) In which Peter Hain reads Lobster 11, goes to see Colin Wallace […]
[…] FBI files of historical, social or journalistic interest, compiled by Michael J. Ravnitzky from FOIA requests. All files are publicly accessible, and are listed under name, eg Kennedy, and file numbers, which facilitates FOIA requests for the docs. The Irish War http://jya.com/irish-war.htm The chapter of Tony Geraghty’s book which describes the covert war and […]
[…] are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is infinitely bigger than the killing of JFK. Kennedy was just a politician and killing politicians isn’t that unusual in American history. Another difference is the existence of the Internet and the vast amount of […]
[…] election). We need that America and the contest over America’s history is part of the wider struggle. The fact that after the Cuban missile crisis Kruschev and Kennedy were trying to reduce the influence of their military-industrial complexes and both failed (Kruschev’s fall caused by JFK’s death and the change of policies in America) […]
[…] the photograph in question does not show the face of the person passing the three ‘tramps’ as they were being arrested, I, along with most of the Kennedy researchers, have never taken the identification seriously. ()However, in a 1985 letter to Prouty, now on the Net, another soldier, General Victor Krulak, former CO of […]
[…] Young, Unison etc As I write, issue 2 of Open Eye has yet to appear. When it does it will contain an extremely interesting memoir of George Kennedy Young by Peter Cadogan. A stalwart of the British radical Left for about 40 years, Cadogan makes a curious companion for Young, as Cadogan acknowledges. But […]
[…] 25 year non-aggression pact during the late summer of 1939. So it might all be a surprise for Roberts – but it’s old news, really. Notes Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (London, 1988), p.429. Interview with Paul Sweezy by Christopher Phelps and Andros Skotnos, Monthly Review vol. 51, 1 […]
[…] from most branches of Beatties. This raises the prospect of a kind of ‘virtual history’ emerging, celebrated, retrospectively, by plastic kits. What next……a scale model of the Kennedy assassination (with a lone gunman)? The pioneering work in this field was Green’s War Planes of the Second World War, Vols 1-6 (MacDonald and Co, 1960/62) […]
[…] police vice squads may turn out to be true but he doesn’t have the evidence. The temptation to make dramatic statements shows elsewhere. On p.262, of the Kennedy assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting […]
[…] some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t know about this — or about anything. In short, the notion that Chomsky says […]
