[…] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam This note continues at the foot of the next page. 2 dead) and confirmed that they had been tramps, hobos; and had […]
[PDF file]: […] make much public impact, ex-MI6 man Paddy – ‘Pantsdown’ – Ashdown took the reins of the newly formed LibDems.30 He was succeeded by former SDP MP Charles Kennedy, a man obviously afflicted by serious drink problems long before 26 27 28 29 30 he admitted them, who stood down in 2006. Kennedy had been […]
[PDF file]: […] got didn’t do it, Doug. You can count on that.” ’ Unlike others of that generation, Douglas Valentine did not become obsessed with the question ‘Who shot Kennedy?’ At the age of 14, he could not imagine why his father had reacted in that way to news of the Dallas assassination. Yet he went […]
[PDF file]: […] and alarums of 1974/5, the talk of military coups and the formation of semiclandestine ‘action groups’ and militias by, inter alia, former Deputy Chief of SIS, George Kennedy Young, and David Stirling. The trade unions were at the heart of the subversive-hunters’ theory, with the AEU the most important of them. When David Stirling’s […]
[PDF file]: […] assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. This a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages relevant to the book’s title. It’s a pity the author simply didn’t publish those 100 pages, because they […]
[…] is OK to boast that it certainly used to do so. DiEugenio on Parry Jim DiEugenio took slight umbrage at my review of his book on the Kennedy assassination in this issue. In that review I said that he was very good indeed; and if further evidence is needed to support that claim, it […]
[…] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did in their book – that two of the ‘tramps’ were Howard Hunt […]
[PDF file]: […] the plan’s architects, the CIA’s Richard Bissell, is quoted here as saying that he knew the plan was flawed but didn’t tell JFK because he was afraid Kennedy would cancel it! The Agency failed to detect the Soviets delivering medium range missiles and nuclear warheads, even though it involved the Soviets using 150 ships […]
[PDF file]: […] could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about conspiracies.4 Mega conspiracy theories cannot be falsified because believers present an infinite regress of evasion strategies: […]
[PDF file]: […] when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell and Cable, Brown would have assumed that the Liberal Democrats would never do a deal with the Conservatives. But in late 2007 things changed. Firstly, […]
