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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

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 […]

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 […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the antisemitic remarks, we should note that in 1945 Kemsley funded the Britons Vigilante Action Committee, which campaigned against Jewish refugees. See Stephen Dorril, Black Shirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism (London: Viking, 2006) p. 6 549. 4 Arriving in Brussels, Gibbs stayed for a week with the US naval attaché Captain John […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] the antisemitic remarks, we should note that in 1945 Kemsley funded the Britons Vigilante Action Committee, which campaigned against Jewish refugees. See Stephen Dorril, Black Shirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism (London: Viking, 2006) p. 6 549. 4 Arriving in Brussels, Gibbs stayed for a week with the US naval attaché Captain John […]

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

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 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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