Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even forged. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, British High Commissioner in South Arabia just before Mitchell’s arrival there, was one of the chief offenders here, doctoring documents before they were deposited. Some […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] New York. Such connections and his success as a lawyer enabled him to overcome the WASP barriers, which an Irish Catholic would generally face until one John Kennedy was elected to the White House. Donovan was not only a lawyer and politician in Roosevelt’s home state, he was part of that community of corporate […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] became the minority view, that his funding dried up and he was forced to ‘go private’. 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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] in an unexpected way. Mr Talbot produces quoted remarks from Dulles about his time on the Commission, made to a former CIA colleague a year after the Kennedy murder: ‘ The “ifs” just stand out all over it. And if any of those “ifs” had been changed it might have been prevented… it was […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]