[PDF file]: […] Yale University Press, 2001 – the definitive account of Churchill becoming PM. 2 Kenneth de Courcy to sound out Germany for peace terms via US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. Nor of 17 June 1940, when Butler met Prytz, the Swedish trade envoy, and discussed the generalities of a peace deal. As Butler’s PPS it is […]
[…] of which looks like a bad scan and is jumbled and partly unintelligible. The readable piece is at . 33 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 34 11
[…] which is one of three main threads here. Another is the author’s reconstruction of her life qua activist, as seen through the reports by ‘Mark Stone’ (Mark Kennedy) the policeman who became her lover/friend, some of which she got access to. Wilson recounts the bizarre and disconcerting experience of reading her former boyfriend’s account […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of which looks like a bad scan and is jumbled and partly unintelligible. The readable piece is at . 19 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 20 6
[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]: […] the contest between the Soviet Union and the United States”. Bissell believed that “from today’s perspective, many episodes might be considered distasteful, but during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years the Soviet danger seemed real and all actions were aimed at thwarting it”’. (p. 511) ‘The Soviet danger seemed real’ is the lie. And as […]
[…] of which looks like a bad scan and is jumbled and partly unintelligible. The readable piece is at . 19 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 20 6
[…] 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]: […] Merritt’s confessions here, if only half true, make those claims seem a little less ridiculous. Readers who have been paying attention to the LBJdunnit version of the Kennedy assassination in the past few years in these columns will recognise the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the […]
