Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[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 […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: ‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland 1963 Simon Matthews John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President of the United States of America on 8 November 1960. In terms of the total votes cast, his win was a narrow one and he obtained only 118,000 more votes than Richard Nixon. This was a margin […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

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[PDF file]: […] been aided by the 2018 publication of David Margolick’s The Promise and the Dream,2 a ‘double biography’ about the evolving relationship between Dr King and Robert F Kennedy. Mr Margolick’s work is significant in its own right; but even though it does not explore the assassination of either man, it is invaluable as a […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

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[PDF file]: […] have: Seth Kantor, Earl Golz, Gaeton Fonzi, Dick Russell, Anthony Summers and Russ Baker. 1 Philip Shenon, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2013) or . 2 While some have speculated this was the late Arlen Specter, I believe it is Sam […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] called Robert Aldridge sent me an essay, ‘Did the CIA Subvert the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election?’. Aldridge argues that the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 – and a number of other events that year – were organised by the CIA in support of the war in Vietnam. I didn’t […]

[PDF file]: […] called Robert Aldridge sent me an essay, ‘Did the CIA Subvert the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election?’. Aldridge argues that the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 – and a number of other events that year – were organised by the CIA in support of the war in Vietnam. I didn’t […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in the 1990s, but the veracity of his statements has been disputed. The CIA has denied any connection to Holt, and many […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of Iraq and the disastrous consequences which ensued, Campbell should be regarded as a war criminal. Amen to that Dallas again One of the features of the Kennedy assassination research is the absence of the opinions on whodunnit from those who were close to JFK. Until recently the only one I had come across […]

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[…] of Iraq and the disastrous consequences which ensued, Campbell should be regarded as a war criminal. Amen to that Dallas again One of the features of the Kennedy assassination research is the absence of the opinions on whodunnit from those who were close to JFK. Until recently the only one I had come across […]

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[…] of Iraq and the disastrous consequences which ensued, Campbell should be regarded as a war criminal. Amen to that Dallas again One of the features of the Kennedy assassination research is the absence of the opinions on whodunnit from those who were close to JFK. Until recently the only one I had come across […]

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[…] Iraq and the disastrous consequences which ensued, Campbell should be regarded as a war criminal. Amen to that *new* Dallas again One of the features of the Kennedy assassination research is the absence of the opinions on whodunnit from those who were close to JFK. Until recently the only one I had come across […]

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