Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s […]
[…] by William Turner, ‘RFK, Charles de Gaulle and the Farewell America plot’, about the events leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia but it is interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact […]
[…] shot dead by Jack Ruby. Clay Shaw, Jim Garrison (and others) In mid-February 1967, nearly three and a half years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, news reports emanating from New Orleans claimed that the local district attorney, Jim Garrison, was investigating the President’s murder. Within a week Garrison was holding a […]
[…] commission member Allen Dulles turned for advice on what to do to former CIA and OSS man Frank Wisner. Wisner in turn contacted ex-OSS man and former Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, who recommended that since Bernard Levin had just published a piece attacking Trevor Roper, it would therefore not be necessary for Schlesinger himself […]
[…] extremely solid, but there is a section, reprinted below, dealing with the mid sixties, which is very interesting, amounts to an explanation of the assassination of John Kennedy, but is, in my view, wrong. At any rate, I have never seen anything resembling this in any other serious look at the assassination. That this […]
[…] safe when the shooting took place. What would the Russians, Castro or anyone else have to gain by eliminating the president. If Johnson was so heartbroken over Kennedy, why didn’t he do something for Robert Kennedy? All he did was snub him.’ Ruby’s reference to ‘Texan looks at Lyndon’ is to the book ‘A […]
[…] lent a dime to in 1953, but Oswald and Marguerite’s? Always follow the money trail…… A message from Moscow One Hell of a Gamble: Kruschev, Castro and Kennedy Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Norton, 1997 Alex Cox I bought this book because of a review in The Nation (14 July 1997) by one Max […]
[…] called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is the former FBI agent Guy Bannister, who had a minor role in the Kennedy assassination, running Oswald at one time […]
[…] Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Random House, 1993, p. ix): ‘More than two thousand books have been written about the assassination of President John Kennedy.’ Posner gives no source for this statement. Posner means books then — not leaflets, pamphlets, reports, magazines and so on. Just books. I’ve gone through my […]
[…] held substantially responsible for no action being taken, since their response was not to respond…’ Don E Kash, The Politics of Space Co-operation, (Purdue University, 1967), pp.85-6 ‘Kennedy apparently saw the joint manned lunar landing as a great symbolic effort… a way of putting a symbolic period at the end of a general agreement […]
