JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[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 […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his 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 this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] reach a critical threshold. Shortly before polling day in May 2005 he very publicly defected to the Liberal Democrats, being formally welcomed into the party by Charles Kennedy MP. His former colleagues in Hackney, who knew nothing of this beforehand, were stunned. There was no second act, no seat in the Lords, no position […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (p. 4) ‘orders on abdication’ is about right. To cite just one example he highlights: Robert Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ, Arthur Schlesinger’s account of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days, and Robert Dallek’s recent much praised two volume Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President,5 all ignore the TFX affair which straddled […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] But this rhetoric is not matched by analysis of some of the historical events. The biggest threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine Scott Newton Westplaining The Russo-Ukraine war has become a focus of intense study on the part of mainstream and social media, academics and the twitter commentariat. Much of this has depicted the struggle as a clear case of good (Ukraine) versus bad (Russia). Those who have not accepted […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald, and New Orleans. In 1967 the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested Clay Shaw for conspiracy in the assassination of John F Kennedy. Shaw was a prominent New Orleans businessman and a leading director of the World Trade Center, a ‘non-profit association fostering the development of international trade, tourism […]

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