Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] 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) […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] for a batch of documents from the Public Record Office recording the minor flap the British Foreign Office got into over the 1967 Jackdaw kit of the Kennedy assassination – model of Dealey Plaza, documents etc. Some of the Great and the Good at the Foreign Office of the day, including Sir Dennis Greenhill […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] whereby we hate in others what we fear in ourselves. In a key moment of Stone’s Nixon, Anthony Hopkins, as Nixon, talks to a portrait of John Kennedy. ‘When they look at you, they see what they want to be; when they look at me they see what they are.’ The essence of Nixon’s […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] reasonably presume that Denmark was not the only state to do this…. Is Google in bed with the spooks? John Simkin runs a large Website on the Kennedy assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] trips to New England in the glorious Fall for Labour MPs and extraordinarily high fees for contributing to Encounter. A few years ago in the John F Kennedy archive in Boston I came across some pleading letters from Roy Jenkins to his fellow Congress pal J. K. Galbraith seeking his help in arranging lucrative […]