View from Bridge 87

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[…] *new* JFK again A cracker of a blog post from Robert Morrow.1 In it he lists all the major names who suspected LBJ of being behind the Kennedy assassination, many of them expressing the thought shortly after the event. Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Joe Rogan did an interview with the film director Oliver Stone.85 Stone has a memoir out and has made an as yet unreleased documentary series about the Kennedy assassination,86 based on the new information which has emerged since the Assassination Records Review Board, if I understood him correctly.87 Jim DiEugenio is involved in this, […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] for Patrick Quinn, who died while in custody at Hammersmith Police Station on Christmas Eve 1990. As articles by Jane Affleck and Mark Metcalf have detailed, Malcolm Kennedy was fitted up for the crime.11 There is the distinct possibility that more will come to light regarding the police’s attitude to Malcolm Kennedy and the […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] do not merit comment, apparently. The domestic political spin-off, the Iran-Contra scandal, is there en passant. As are many other things. His introduction tell us that the Kennedy assassination was a landmark: but of all the hundreds of books on that event published in the period covered by these essays, he reviews only two […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] of us, it would be a brave new nightmare.” According to Reich, censorship is “necessary to protect American democracy”. *new* RFK Jr. With the announcement that Robert Kennedy Jr. is going to stand as potential Democratic presidential candidate, we finally have a (relatively) mainstream candidate for the position who does not believe the official […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] do not merit comment, apparently. The domestic political spin-off, the Iran-Contra scandal, is there en passant. As are many other things. His introduction tell us that the Kennedy assassination was a landmark: but of all the hundreds of books on that event published in the period covered by these essays, he reviews only two […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] contents? Dallas again Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of the back seat of the presidential limo and placed it on the gurney which had carried Governor Connally […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] JFK and the unthinkable I finally read David Talbot’s Brothers (2007), about JFK and RFK. Talbot did something interesting: he contacted all the surviving members of the Kennedy network of the sixties – pols of one sort or another, speechwriters, drivers etc., or their wives, ex-wives and children, and asked them: what did you […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] JFK and the unthinkable I finally read David Talbot’s Brothers (2007), about JFK and RFK. Talbot did something interesting: he contacted all the surviving members of the Kennedy network of the sixties – pols of one sort or another, speechwriters, drivers etc., or their wives, ex-wives and children, and asked them: what did you […]

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