[PDF file]: […] 11 attacks in the United States,1 the 15th anniversary generated very little mainstream interest. Would the investigation of 9/11 go the way of the President John F Kennedy assassination in 1963: anniversary recycling of old stories with its surviving researchers inhabiting the Grassy Knoll cast as ‘conspiracy theorists’? It seemed likely when those looking […]
[PDF file]: […] page. 6 7 Attending a NATO meeting in West Germany. 8 Reagan had been lobbied to this effect by 45 Senators and Congressmen including Tip O’Neill, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Moynihan. Politically, the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans had a majority of only 6 in the Senate. […]
[PDF file]: […] . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like this. It is ‘All of it. Utterly. Inescapably. Completely. Unbelievable.’ (p. 5). Her chronicle of the Trump […]
[…] of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr […]
[PDF file]: […] includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so political ‘hits’ to which investigators keep coming back to. So reading a narrative […]
[…] to ‘go private’. 8 and 9 On which see David Teacher’s enormous essay, downloadable at . 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, […]
[…] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]
[PDF file]: […] has one hand on his shoulder while the other points an accusatory finger at him. It’s captioned, again caps throughout, FRANK’S MOM BAWLS HIM OUT FOR KILLING KENNEDY. Anywhere else I would assume this was a lame attempt at humour, but here I suspect it is meant to be taken seriously. Weberman presents further […]
[PDF file]: […] back in London, Novotny was selling her story to the News of the World, and further claiming she had slept with the nascent US President, John F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo […]
[…] which is one of three main threads here. Another is the author’s reconstruction of her life qua activist, as seen through the reports by ‘Mark Stone’ (Mark Kennedy) the policeman who became her lover/friend, some of which she got access to. Wilson recounts the bizarre and disconcerting experience of reading her former boyfriend’s account […]
