Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] New York: Berkley Publishing, 1976 (paperback reprint). I’m surprised it hasn’t been reprinted more recently. 1 Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York: Macmillan, 1980. 2 This was the work done by the firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) that examined the Dallas police tapes and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? ‘Absolutely not,’ Connally said. ‘I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission.’ So why not say so? ‘Because I love this […]

The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven by Robert Merrit

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Merritt’s confessions here, if only half true, make those claims seem a little less ridiculous. Readers who have been paying attention to the LBJdunnit version of the Kennedy assassination in the past few years in these columns will recognise the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] basic intellectual ground-clearing – reading, note-taking, assembling and indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy Notably Peter Knight, who is the editor of the series from […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them – is positively molten. How could Ted Cruz support Trump after he insulted his wife and accused his father of involvement in the assassination of Jack Kennedy? He had never seen any politician perform ‘acts of greater self-abnegation and humiliation’. The only excuse he can think of is that Cruz hopes for a […]

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