Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] remember or can find. Has anyone seriously tried to dispute the disappearance of left and trade union people during Pinochet’s years? And, finally before giving up entirely, I checked his account of JFK’s assassination. This is his Oswald on page 207. ‘….failed volunteer for the military and the CIA and the KGB.’ Huh? Robin Ramsay