Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘induction of abnormal states’. Jolyon West was the shrink assigned by the Warren Commission in 1965 to psychiatrically examine Jack Ruby, the mobster who slew Lee Harvey Oswald. West examined Ruby alone in his prison cell and emerged to report that had suffered an ‘acute psychotic break’. It seems that if Ruby wasn’t clinically […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder T his essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint analysis of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace as a party in the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy. While there is inevitably some technical discussion of the forensic processes involved, it is anticipated that such details […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of what […]