The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] off the ground Cecil King’s feet were at this point is illustrated by the fact that before meeting Mountbatten, he had gone to Paris to talk to Oswald Mosley(!), to sound him out as leader of a national government. In the received version, as soon as King made his intentions clear, Sir Solly Zuckerman […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Plaza has been done by Weiner can be gauged by this comment of his: ‘But what you believe about it boils down to this: Either Lee Harvey Oswald, trained by the United States Marines as a sharpshooter before he defected to the Soviet Union, got off a million-to-one shot in Dallas. He acted alone. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] files exist. The file names and numbers may still be there in the indexing system but the CIA surely destroyed any trace of links between itself and Oswald in the lead-up to the assassination soon after the 63 . Garrick Alder suspects that Donald Trump was the source. I think it unlikely that CIA […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] length, and have shown great doubt about his claims – for instance, that Holt traveled to New Orleans to deliver pre-printed leaflets to Guy Banister’s office for Oswald to pass out, when in fact there is evidence these were printed in New Orleans and Oswald hand-stamped the leaflets with Banister’s address.’ 2 I don’t […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] length, and have shown great doubt about his claims – for instance, that Holt traveled to New Orleans to deliver pre-printed leaflets to Guy Banister’s office for Oswald to pass out, when in fact there is evidence these were printed in New Orleans and Oswald hand-stamped the leaflets with Banister’s address.’ 2 I don’t […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] the McCarthy period. So far so unexceptional. But when we start moving through the sixties towards the present day, it all goes off the rails. Once again Oswald, Sirhan and Ray are presented as the assassins of the Kennedys and King. None of the more substantial research which suggests they were innocent is even […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] made public until years after his death, Thomas told supervisors such information from Mexico could undermine the findings of the presidential panel that determined in 1964 that Oswald acted alone.’ 15 The general thrust of the article was that this might finally be an opportunity to debunk the Warren Commission! There was a conspiracy, […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] falsification of Holt’s claims to have been in Dallas on the day. That was the work of Ray and Mary La Fontaine. A section of their 1996 Oswald Talked (Gretna : Pelican) described their discovery that the Dallas police files about the original 3 tramps, Doyle, Gedney and Adams, had been released. They tried […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] falsification of Holt’s claims to have been in Dallas on the day. That was the work of Ray and Mary La Fontaine. A section of their 1996 Oswald Talked (Gretna : Pelican) described their discovery that the Dallas police files about the original 3 tramps, Doyle, Gedney and Adams, had been released. They tried […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] H. Byrd, the Texas oilman, friend and supporter of Lyndon Johnson. Byrd owned the Texas School Depository Building from which Lee – ‘I’m just a patsy’ – Oswald is supposed to have fired on JFK’s motorcade. The first essay, by Russ Baker,63 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]

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