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[…] 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 […]

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[…] of the mid 2000s, in whose consequences we are still stuck; and joined America in its assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. *new* 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 he provided a vast […]

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[…] still stuck; joined America in its assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq; and allowed the American tech giants to dominate our society. *new* 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 he provided a vast […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[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 […]

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 […]

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[…] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: Smoke down our lungs and smoke up our asses The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Allan M Brandt New York: Basic Books, 2009. 600 pp. Illustrations, references, sources, index. Allan M Brandt is, amongst other things, a Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard and […]

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