Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even forged. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, British High Commissioner in South Arabia just before Mitchell’s arrival there, was one of the chief offenders here, doctoring documents before they were deposited. Some […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of JFK’s brain, and the dishonest substitution of false images (of a substitute brain), to be the most significant evidence of a U.S. government cover-up in the Kennedy assassination. Only the U.S. government had access to the body; had custody of the brain, which was examined following the autopsy on the body; created the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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 […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in which these two books appear. 1 3 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 theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] the ‘advisory committees which meet in secret to decide how party policy is to be applied to their own union…’. And by the time we reach George Kennedy Young’s Subversion and the British Riposte in the mid 1980s,11 industrial organiser Peter Kerrigan, his successors Ramelson and Costello, and the industrial wing — what Young […]

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