[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] theorists Warren Hinckle and William Turner (in their book Deadly Secrets) and Peter Dale Scott have alleged that McLendon played a peripheral role in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Gordon McLendon was the first person Jack Ruby asked to speak with after his arrest. They also cite McLendon’s close relationships to legendary Central Intelligence […]
[…] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]
[PDF file]: […] figure he employed at Queen was Robin Douglas-Home, nephew of Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Robin Douglas-Home, who counted himself a friend of both Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy, appears to have had access to quite a considerable variety of interesting information. On 31 July 1962 Queen published the first piece of gossip linking John […]
[PDF file]: […] political praxis of their country in a war it just happened to 1 Valentine alludes here to Malcolm X’s notorious reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy: ‘ never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon, Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did […]
[PDF file]: […] lecture as a ‘fantasy’ and here it is disposed of in one short paragraph, which concludes: ‘Some have speculated that Factor learned what he did about the Kennedy assassination while reading books when he was in prison for murder.’5 I don’t know if Factor read books about the case while in prison; but he […]
[…] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]
[…] Bridge (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 – […]
[…] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]
