Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] – Cavalcare la Tigre (Milan, Scheiwiller, 1961) Faenza. Roberto and Fini, Marco – Gli Americani in Italia (Milan, Feltrenelli, 1976) Faenza, Roberto – Il Malaffare: Dall’America di Kennedy all’Italia, a Cuba. a Vietnam (Milan, Mondadori, 1978) Falligot, Roger and Krop, Pascal – La Piscine: les Services Secrets Francais 1944-1984 (Paris, Scuil, 1985) Farago, Ladislas […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the multilateralists.’ (p. 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions to the death of Kennedy – essentially relief that a ‘Marxist’ had been got for the dirty deed. For their journals show that they initially expected to get the blame for […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[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)
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[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)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 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 […]
