[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
