Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas William Kelly Mainstream media journalists seldom take on the delicate subject of the assassination of President Kennedy to discuss it in a serious way. An example of this was Thomas Powers’ recent review of Ghost,1 Jefferson Morley’s biography of James Jesus Angleton: Powers came close but doesn’t know enough […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox’s take on the Kennedy assassination; and ‘take’ is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel narratives, the lives of […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

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[…] 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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[…] 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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] nor the JFK conspiracy originated on the far-Right. On the contrary, they most appealed to people who hated George W. Bush and couldn’t face the reality of Kennedy being murdered by a Marxist, respectively. He offers no evidence for the assertions in the last sentence. A study of the early JFK researchers has been […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] nor the JFK conspiracy originated on the far-Right. On the contrary, they most appealed to people who hated George W. Bush and couldn’t face the reality of Kennedy being murdered by a Marxist, respectively. He offers no evidence for the assertions in the last sentence. A study of the early JFK researchers has been […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] being just another cold warrior, as he is conventionally presented, JFK really was trying to take US foreign policy in a new direction. Far from perpetual war, Kennedy refused to go to war in Cuba—even when he had two opportunities to do so—he also refused war entry into Laos, and Vietnam. He did not […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] not for his simpleminded views on macroeconomics. See . The LBJ-dunnit thesis The late Billie Sol Estes is at the heart of the LBJ’s-peopledunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. That most of the Kennedy assassination researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Jackie doesn’t flinch (and other JFK bits and pieces) There are lots of bits of film on YouTube about the Kennedy assassination and I’ve looked at many. Recently I clicked on one made by one George Jettison, which opens with him – a large bearded figure – talking […]

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