Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] from the late Jim Garrison (New Orleans District Attorney who conducted an investigation into the assassination). Probe. http://www.webcom.com/~ctka/probe.html Magazine of CTKA (Citizens for the Truth about the Kennedy Assassination). Informs members of latest file releases.. Miscellaneous MAI Preamble Centre http://www.preamble.org/ Independent research and public education organisation based in Washington DC. MAI Page (www.preamble.org/MAI/maihome.html). Representatives […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] 2001 repeated the misinformation that Walker had founded Unison in 1974 before renaming it as Civil Assistance. In fact Unison was the creation of the late George Kennedy Young and Civil Assistance began as the civil assistance wing of Unison. Walker left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] the SAS inspire in their admirers. For other SAS accounts of the Dhofar War see Tony Jeapes, SAS: Operation Oman, (William Kimber, London, 1980) and Michael Paul Kennedy, Soldier’I’ SAS, (Bloomsbury, London, 1990) He later died of hypothermia while on a long distance march across the Brecon Beacons in February 1979. For a good […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] McKnight cites an FBI document that the president ‘approved the idea that make a report showing the evidence conclusively tying Oswald in as the assailant of President Kennedy.’ This was the ‘official solution’ and Earl Warren and company simply fell in behind it. Now, we may have guessed that this is what happened but […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] the London Observer.(9) His review runs to a little under 800 words. The first paragraph is a once-over of Nixon’s career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] of Mena? Another current source of conspiracy theories is the Clinton-Whitewater-Mena-drugs-cocaine-CIA-contra story. Are there Clinton buffs out there now following the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much of it is true. Mena, Contras, drugs in and guns out, Barry Seal, […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into the matter. While watching the proceedings on television, Stan Glickman found reason to believe that Dr Gottlieb was the American who had […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by approving covert CIA funding for what were referred to opaquely as ‘autonomous groups’. The groups in question […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] protect: its involvement with notorious gangsters in plots to assassinate a foreign head of state, Fidel Castro, and its possible indirect involvement in the murder of President Kennedy. This article frames Nixon’s invocation of ‘the Bay of Pigs thing’ in the context of a multi-year cover-up by powerful forces in the U.S. ‘deep state’ […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] historian’s reflections on changing patterns of exposure of sexual transgressions in American politics, see John H. Summers, ‘What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy,’ Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 3 (December 2000), pp. 825-854. 7 West, Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, p. 6. Apostolidis and Williams define it as […]