A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] 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, and, Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

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 […]

Updates

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] from senior administration officials of the period, including Richard Helms, Clark Clifford and former NSA head Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, all rejecting the ‘accident’ thesis. The Malcolm Kennedy case A potentially important development in the Malcolm Kennedy case (see previous Lobsters) has occurred. Kennedy was wrongly convicted of the killing of Patrick Quinn in […]

Pretexts

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] 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 […]

Bits and Pieces

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

Forthcoming Greenwood Press in Connecticut, USA, are publishing this October Anthony Frewin’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-92. This began life as a proposed article for Lobster merely listing the more important films and videos, but it grew and grew until it became book length. Frewin contributed […]

The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] 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 […]

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] 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 >

Surf’s up! Internet sites of interest

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] lot of information relating to President Kennedy’s assassination, and links to related sites. JFK http://heiwww.unige.ch/jfk/ Includes JFK declassified documents (eg Zapata operation, memoranda, etc). alt.conspiracy.jfk Items on Kennedy Assassination eg LHW as ‘Manchurian Candidate’, discussion of ballistic evidence and the Zapruder film, the ‘magic bullet’. Mother Jonesmagazine http://www.mojones.com/ also at FTP: Address: mojones.com Path: […]

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