[PDF file]: […] the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way. Jim Garrison, the District Attorney, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film. I am not at liberty to 32 ‘It Couldn’t Happen […]
[PDF file]: […] other Labour personnel, including Yvette Cooper, whom Balls later married, and David Miliband, head of Blair’s policy unit, Balls had spent a year in America as a Kennedy Scholar.6 3 By 1994 the long-delayed implementation of the 1952 Robot plan – the British economy open to the world and controlled solely by interest rates […]
[…] the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way. Jim Garrison, the District Attorney, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film. I am not at liberty to 32 ‘It Couldn’t Happen […]
[PDF file]: […] not even Starmer was aware of it until late on – comprising arch pro-Israel agitator Luke Akehurst; the veteran party insider (of Midlands vintage) Labour peer Roy Kennedy (whose wife also made it to the Lords); and Matt Pound, a former employee of Akehurst’s outfit ‘Labour First’. As Maguire and Pogrund write: All, to […]
[PDF file]: […] became the minority view, that his funding dried up and he was forced to ‘go private’. 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] city of Provo in Utah. Their specific task was to recruit from the Brigham Young University, which is wholly owned by the Mormon church. Even today, the Kennedy Center at Brigham Young has a CIA recruitment page on its website.46 In the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, one of the ‘wild card independent candidates was […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] left of centre MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924-1929 and 1929-1945, he dallied with Oswald Mosley circa 1930. With an American mother, and related by marriage to John F Kennedy, he was the US candidate to replace Eden after Suez. He initiated the first significant UK spending cuts (in defence and transport) and oversaw a very […]
[PDF file]: […] 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? 14 15 ‘How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details’ 16 7 the American model of politics. So why not say so? ‘Because I love […]
[PDF file]: […] currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, and his account of Henry Kissinger’s life and crimes, The Price of Power. 2
