Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the innocent delight in […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] 1984) is stark in its criticism of the situation: ‘Amnesty International was concerned about reports of 32 See . 33 Jeremy Trevaskis is the son of Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, who had been Britain’s High Commissioner for Aden from 1963 to 1965. It would seem that Trevaskis Jnr. is still in the inteligence world, as […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] and rendezvous with agents who would help him escape to Mexico while a retaliatory invasion of Cuba was complete. Oswald was also told by Hunt that President Kennedy did not know anything about the “fake assassination,” but high-ranking members of his cabinet did. Only a few members of Hunt’s closest men knew all of […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] investigation in detail and I still cannot see that he had a case against Clay Shaw. He had some evidence that Shaw had a conversation about killing Kennedy (him and a thousand others) and – less certainly – some evidence that Shaw and Ferrie had advance knowledge of the events in Dallas. (Them and […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the US company Anderson Consulting. Tessa Blackstone, now an education minister, […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the need for secret clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at like the bursting of the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] access the financial records, which had survived intact. 1 Manson business, for example, led him into the murky world of Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Meanwhile CHAOS is a great read. O’Neill doesn’t just present his findings; the book is written as a dramatic, almost Chandleresque narrative. Many of […]