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 […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] should not have; and ended up in jail on a bogus charge. Arguably, he was lucky: others got killed. Notably, Bolden describes hearing a row between the Kennedy brothers and Vice President Johnson about the Kennedys trying to use the Billy Sol Estes scandal against him. This is Bolden verbatim. 1. On or about […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] should not have; and ended up in jail on a bogus charge. Arguably, he was lucky: others got killed. Notably, Bolden describes hearing a row between the Kennedy brothers and Vice President Johnson about the Kennedys trying to use the Billy Sol Estes scandal against him. This is Bolden verbatim. 1. On or about […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] was Washington that drove European integration in 2 Danny Nicol, ‘Is Another Europe possible?’ at . the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ 3 And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Estes, LBJ and Dallas Robin Ramsay A mong the Kennedy assassination buffs there is little public interest in the thesis that the network of vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson did the dirty deed. Of the major researchers only Larry Hancock has done any work on it.1 The only critique I have seen so far […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Back in Dallas Something about the Kennedy assassination encourages otherwise intelligent people to abandon all their normal intellectual standards and just write stupid shit. Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘JFK: a death that sparked a thousand […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] that this appeared not in a British publication but on Al Jazeera. On the other side of the Atlantic . . . In March 2006, the Harvard Kennedy School published a working paper, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by influential political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. . . . .5 Even […]

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