[…] Page 94 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] daily papers, the Globe and Mail; and that his ticket into the big media had been a recanting of his previous writing, and acknowledgement that Lee Harvey Oswald had done the dirty deed in Dallas. I had declined to publish Van Wynesberghe’s change of tack in issue 26 and suggested to him that he […]
[PDF file]: […] a loading dock? (It was later removed.)’7 The second occurs when they are discussing what actually happened on the 6th floor of the TSBD. Q: ‘You said Oswald was looking through the scope and then handed the rifle to Wallace, right?’ Q: Factor: ‘Yeah…then he leaned it against…kinda like a table saw; he had […]
[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 […]
[…] into JFK’s assassination, where they do a version of the standard historians’ body swerve round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald…’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ’….over time became increasingly sceptical about South Vietnam’s prospects and hinted that he […]
[PDF file]: […] logic been followed in the past, the National Front would have been debating on TV in the 70s with the Prime Minister and the clever and adroit Oswald Mosley would have been a regular panellist on the 30s equivalent of Question Time, had there been one. Who knows how UK politics might have turned […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] he became chairman of the Rural Reconstruction Association, which employed Jorian Jenks as press secretary and editor of their journal Rural Economy. Jenks, a significant supporter of Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, built up a network of ex-BUF and English Mistery (sic) members in his new position. Which suggests Pierse Loftus was clearly on […]
