[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 – […]
[PDF file]: […] had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, he had been planning to turn on President Kennedy to the wonders of LSD so that the Cold War could be deescalated and mankind saved.4 Leary obtained a batch of LSD ‘made available by courtesy […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] intelligence officer during WWII; later Deputy Under Secretary of State and then Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs, and finally Secretary of State to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson (1961-1969). It was he who proposed the 38th parallel as the demarcation between US-occupied Southern Korea and the North. warmonger into a Nobel laureate […]
