[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 […]
[…] released, Ellsberg recalls: ‘General Maxwell Taylor was being interviewed by Martin Agronsky, in a program that had been taped earlier. He was describing his recommendations to President Kennedy in November 1961. He was telling Agronsky and the American public ten years later: “I did not recommend combat forces. I stressed we would bring in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the print job.’ The end result of that process is huge book, 670 pages in all, half of which are devoted to JFK, 100 to Robert Kennedy, 80 to King, 60 to Malcolm X and 30 to the media’s response to the assassinations. The content varies from the readable to the dazzling. The […]
[…] it this witty, beautifully written panorama of American dissent is a movie with the last reel missing. Notes 1 Hersh’s book is savagely assaulted by Jim DiEugenio in ‘The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy’ in The Assassinations, reviewed above. 2 On this last little known point see Stephen Birmingham’s account at < www.birmo.co.uk/jfk/work_in_progress/index.htm >
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
