The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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, […]

Burying the Lead: The Media and the JFK Assassination by Mal Hyman

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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

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 […]

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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[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 […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

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