The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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? 14 15 ‘How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details’ 16 7 the American model of politics. So why not say so? ‘Because I love […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in which these two books appear. 1 3 indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[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 […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[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 […]

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