[…] literati are unaware of this. Below is what I wrote in this column in Lobster 64. Caro flunks it Looking at the role of LBJ in the Kennedy assassination has proved to be too difficult for Robert Caro. In The Passage of Power (2012), the fourth volume of his widely lauded biography of LBJ […]
[PDF file]: […] some form. This is his third book on JFK and is largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] search for answers to the mystery of the century Edward Jay Epstein New York: EJE Publications, 2014 T his is Edward Jay Epstein’s fourth book about the Kennedy assassination. He wrote his first, Inquest, while a graduate student. By a combination of luck and smarts he got access to some of the materials of […]
[PDF file]: […] too silly to deserve summary here – he believes, for example, that the House of Windsor controls the world’s drug traffic, organised the assassination of John F. Kennedy etc. etc. – but the headline of his New Solidarity‘s story on the recent Sunday Times-Buckingham Palace ‘leak’ story gives a flavour of his delusions: “Will […]
[PDF file]: […] democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott’s essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion documented if possible. Scott’s conception then was of parapolitics: ‘a system or […]
[PDF file]: […] 2008 on the page at . 39 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 40 Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The KGB in Europe and the West (London: […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 This note continues at the foot of the next page. […]
[…] 1997 that ‘if he were Russian he too would be concerned by the possibility that NATO might move up to Russia’s borders’. Eyes wide shut The Dallas-based Kennedy researcher Robert Morrow is mentioned frequently in this column. He has recently reposted a blog item of his from 2014 in which Start at 3.35. Confusingly, […]
[…] 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 […]
