[…] 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]: […] Establishment was subsequently adopted by a number of analysts in 1960s and 70s to explain the tumult of those times: the assassinations of the President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Watergate scandal, and the moral and strategic disaster that was the Vietnam War. The late Carl Oglesby in his book The […]
[PDF file]: […] Birchall is new to me1 but Professor Peter Knight has been in these columns before. Almost 20 years ago Anthony Frewin reviewed Knight’s Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files.2 Frewin was irritated by the author’s assumption that those pursuing what-happened-on-DealeyPlaza are conspiracy theorists. Mostly they aren’t; and the assumption by Knight […]
[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
[…] is the story of the French Secret Service and tl1e Rainbow Warrior episode. In the latter group, there is an interesting accotmt of tl1e career of George Kennedy You11g 111 (MI6), “,vritten by a dose friend of lus.” The author remains anonymous, but hints of Anthony Cave11dish abound. In issue # 21, guest author […]
[…] 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 […]
[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, […]
