[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
[…] clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the Page 93 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at Page 94 Summer […]
[…] their real life counter-parts, including 007’s CIA associate Felix Leiter. Shakespeare goes to great lengths to describe how Fleming came to meet and have dinner with then Senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was recovering from back surgery he received a copy of Casino Royale from Marion Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown, Washington D.C. neighbour […]
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
[PDF file]: […] for much longer. Why was the purge here so restrained, compared to the situation in the United States, where even ‘Comrade Attlee’ was to be condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in […]
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
