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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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 […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Pat Buchanan?32 A fake arms race? Larry Hancock is probably best known to readers of this column as the author of a very good book on the Kennedy assassination, Someone Would Have Talked.33 But he writes on a wide range of issues and his perceptions of the geopolitical world are always interesting. In a […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] uses the word ‘oil’ once. By their omissions . . . . *new* Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran.5 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on […]

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