[…] 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 […]
[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]
[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] it is clear that Wallace got his security clearance over the objections of the security people. Presumably, though not demonstrably, this influence was coming from (the then) Senator Johnson. Why LBJ was doing all this for Wallace is unexplained. There is little on the Wallace-Johnson relationship: one suggestion from a journalist who was researching […]
