View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s (secret) policy of slowly building détente with Cuba. The fake assassination attempt would fire the Mannlicher-Carcano round through the smooth bore rifle at Kennedy and attribute this to the (presumably soon to be dead) apparently pro-Castro activist Oswald.11 One shot could plausibly be attributed to the Mannlicher-Carcano. In the event […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s (unstated) policy of slowly building détente with Cuba. The fake assassination attempt would fire the Mannlicher-Carcano round through the smooth bore rifle at Kennedy and attribute this to the (presumably dead) apparently pro-Castro activist Oswald.11 One shot could plausibly be attributed to the Mannlicher-Carcano. In the event the single, non-lethal […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza Robin Ramsay T he Kennedy assassination is now a vast field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of the genre is Nicholas R. Nalli’s recent ‘Gunshot-wound dynamics model for John F. Kennedy assassination’.1 Mr Nalli is a advocate of the thesis that JFK’s head went back and to the left when a bullet, fired from the rear of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of the genre is Nicholas R. Nalli’s recent ‘Gunshot-wound dynamics model for John F. Kennedy assassination’.1 Mr Nalli is a advocate of the thesis that JFK’s head went back and to the left when a bullet, fired from the rear of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] I lost track of it in subsequent summers, when I first suffered a major illness, and then was side-tracked into preparation of a trade book on the Kennedy Assassination (Beyond Conspiracy) that was eventually killed by its publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 83 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 84 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ at or . 85 27 from Robert Kennedy Jnr’s – let’s be generous – eccentric views on vaccination to his belief that his father was killed in 1968 by a conspiracy. In the event […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.68 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move from Robert Kennedy Jnr’s – let’s be generous – eccentric views on vaccination to his belief that his father was killed in 1968 by a conspiracy. In the event […]

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