Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] doubt’ the shots came from the rear! Who needs a presidential commission when there are journalists like this about? John Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2007). Reviewed in Lobster 55 by the present writer. 1
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Yale University Press, 2001 – the definitive account of Churchill becoming PM. 2 Kenneth de Courcy to sound out Germany for peace terms via US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. Nor of 17 June 1940, when Butler met Prytz, the Swedish trade envoy, and discussed the generalities of a peace deal. As Butler’s PPS it is […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the US company Anderson Consulting. Tessa Blackstone, now an education minister, […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the need for secret clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at like the bursting of the […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Single Integrated Operating Plan – which involved a massive, concerted nuclear weapons salvo against Russia, China, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the other ‘Iron Curtain’ states. President Kennedy and his defence chief, Robert McNamara, wanted some other options on the table, besides instantaneous total destruction of all foreign communists and their neighbours. Ellsberg tried […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the contest between the Soviet Union and the United States”. Bissell believed that “from today’s perspective, many episodes might be considered distasteful, but during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years the Soviet danger seemed real and all actions were aimed at thwarting it”’. (p. 511) ‘The Soviet danger seemed real’ is the lie. And as […]