[…] 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, […]
[PDF file]: […] Haven: Yale UP, 2002), 279, 284-85. Nikita Kaledin “Geroinovyi tur,” Stringer-news, November 4, 2003: http://www.stringernews.ru/Publication.mhtml?PubID=2448&Part=39 Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985). Paul Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovskii and the Looting of Russia (New York: Harcourt, 2000), Peter Klebnikov, […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] the first time they have encountered such names. Elsewhere in the same issue we find reviews of almost 50 recent books dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy along with eight pages of book reviews on other topics. Scattered throughout the rest of the issue, often in footnotes, we find the names and addresses […]
[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 […]
[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
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
