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Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] establish LBJ’s ignorance of his ‘cousin’s’ existence, it appears that Estes’ account of the Peck ‘cousin’ standing-in for LBJ is untrue. Nonetheless: in addition to a ‘second Oswald’ and (per Robert Morningstar 6 ) a second JFK, we also now have a second LBJ!7 We may also have a third JFK. In an extract […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] this.8 One wonders if the future might bring a scion of the Mosley clan being adopted as a Labour PPC, with the family ‘returning home’ after Sir Oswald marched off in 1931. 8 Mosley’s contact with Labour go back to at least the mid ‘90s when Formula One hired David Ward, previously a ‘spin […]

Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] whether or not anyone working for the Daily Mail, either then or now, can make any claim to possess journalistic integrity. Rothermere also threw his support behind Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF), hoping, albeit briefly, that Mosley could do for Britain what Hitler was doing for Germany. For a while, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] JFK’s head (where the exit wound is) then climbs onto the boot of the car to retrieve a piece of his skull. 3 “concluded” that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone nut assassin of President Kennedy.’4 As he points out, this is all the more striking (a) because only a small minority of the […]

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

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 […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] depicted as nothing but a classic ‘lone nut’ in Robert Donovan’s 1955 book The Assassins, which in Alan Dulles’s hands became a tool for framing Lee Harvey Oswald, as discussed in Lobster 81 at . 10 When Zangara stood trial, the defence requested a lunacy commission to probe the would-be assassin’s sanity. It reported […]

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