View from the bridge

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[…] 32 Available from . 11 33 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,34 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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,20 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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,20 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with some country boys doing the shooting’. He claims he was told about the details by Cliff Carter and it is as the buffs always presumed: frame Oswald, kill Oswald while arresting him, use local law enforcement – interestingly the Sheriff’s Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. ‘The plan was […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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) FREE

[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, […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he provides a history of the British Far Right through the biographies of no less than six failures. This starts with Arnold Leese and then continues through Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, Colin Jordan, John Tyndall, and finishing up with Nick Griffin. In reality what the reader is given is six short books for […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he told them which suggested he was on the periphery of an assassination plot against President Kennedy. These included the claim that he had trained Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s supposed assassin, in rifle marksmanship.6 The Report’s version of the 12 June raid had simply erased Morales from the story. Perhaps the editorial staff figured […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] point an ultra-right, authoritarian, extreme-nationalist pressure group within the Conservative party. MP for Basingstoke from 1935, his candidacy for that seat had been privately endorsed by Sir Oswald Mosley, which seems to confirm that Mosley and the British Union of Fascists had a small group of proxies operating on their behalf within Parliament. None […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we need now to step into the frame is Albert Osborne aka John Howard Bowen, also from Grimsby, the murky character who sat next to Lee Harvey Oswald on his bus trip to Mexico.1 If there is nothing new in the first chapters, there is little new in those succeeding it, as the ups […]

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