[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not […]
The other Bilderberg Between 1964 and 1966 there was a little-known attempt to establish a new Commonwealth conference modelled on the Bilderberg Group, with Prince Philip lined up to take a leading role. Nothing ever came of it, mainly because of the impact that Rhodesia’s UDI had on Commonwealth affairs. Newly released documents from The […]
[…] leaked plans for Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) support and B 52 basing had failed to convince strong Senate opposition from such as Gary Hart and Edward Kennedy. It had also signally failed to convince the Russians. A little publicised but highly significant factor in drawing Soviet agreement on SALT 1 had been a […]
[…] of ‘conspiracy theorists’ have assumed that this man was signalling to the assassins, thus tying a seemingly trivial and inconsequential act into the alleged plot to kill Kennedy. It is precisely this totalistic, all-encompassing quality that distinguishes ‘conspiracy theories’ from the secret but often mundane political planning that is carried out on a daily […]
Dr Mary’s Monkey Edward T. Haslam Waterville (Oregon): Trineday, 2007 (www.Trineday.com) $19.95 (US), p/b The Kennedy assassination literature has produced some oddities over the years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a […]
[…] the campaign. Of course he was lying. As the flimsiest of ‘cover’ stories, for the duration of the campaign Mandelson became ‘Bobby’ – a reference to Bobby Kennedy who had been in charge of some of John F. Kennedy’s election campaigns. Tony and Peter, John and Bobby……cue faint strains of ‘Camelot’. Sunday Times 31 […]
Phoenix: Policing the Shadows Jack Holland and Susan Phoenix Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1996 The Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland Caroline Kennedy-Piper Longman, London, 1997 The war in Northern Ireland is apparently in its closing stages. There is still some way to go before it is all over, however, and undoubtedly there […]
[…] are bound to arise unless the text is carefully proof-read by experts. There is also one very striking claim. In the section on the murder of Robert Kennedy it states: ‘….video footage, though not ideal, does suggest that someone in a guard’s uniform appears to fire into the back of Kennedy’s head.’ This is […]
[…] dangerous the Agency is and the fact that American politicians are aware of what it is capable of is shown by one telling episode. When President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had […]
[…] including that of Barry George, convicted in July 2001 of the April 1999 murder of Jill Dando. He says he has experienced harassment on every case.(3) Malcolm Kennedy, whose case has been discussed in previous issues of Lobster , said that there was no adequate supervision of interception powers, and no adequate remedy. People […]
