The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue. * new * The higher bullshit There has been more well-intentioned nonsense written by academics about the assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think he could actually ‘go that far and shoot’. (p. 64) This was all faithfully recorded in Suze Rotolo’s file but, […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] society, especially the military-intelligenceindustrial complex, which has now another highly profitable Cold War going, he will be got rid of. My guess is that another Lee Harvey Oswald is being prepared to carry the can for Trump’s assassination, just in case. 9 Goldman Sach’s no. 2, Gary Cohn, will be director of the National […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Warren Commission was an inquiry into who shot Kennedy. It wasn’t: the conclusion was preordained. The Warren Commission hired some young lawyers to make the case against Oswald. They duly cherry-picked evidence and rewrote eyewitness testimony where it was inconvenient. But they were still left with a ballistics scenario in which the wounds of […]

The view from the bridge

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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 proof-reading assistance with this issue. * new * The higher bullshit There has been more well-intentioned nonsense written by academics about the assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

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[PDF file]: […] the Sixth Floor Museum, which is housed in the former book depository building on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas. From there the ‘official’ assassin – Lee Harvey Oswald – is said to have fired on See or 1 or < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308941/Mobhitman-James-Files-stands-claims-man-responsible-President-John-F-Kennedy-s-assassinationprepares-release.html> 2 Kennedy. Refreshingly, the museum does not take a partisan line on assassination […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Mexico, met former governor of Texas, John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? ‘Absolutely not,’ Connally said. ‘I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission.’ So why not […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Warren Commission was an inquiry into who shot Kennedy. It wasn’t: the conclusion was preordained. The Warren Commission hired some young lawyers to make the case against Oswald. They duly cherry-picked evidence and rewrote eyewitness testimony where it was inconvenient. But they were still left with a ballistics scenario in which the wounds of […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

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[PDF file]: […] his spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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