Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] gunman in Dealey Plaza.’ 4 Oswald, in turn, was killed in police custody by Jack Ruby, a ‘very troubled misfit, loser’, and not part of any grand conspiracy. But Shenon has a conspiracy theory of his own, one floated immediately after the assassination and discounted. In this Oswald, the lone wolf assassin, was encouraged […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] are using Safari which sometimes doesn’t ‘read’ it. Try another browser, eg Chrome. 3 Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Northern Ireland of Marion and Dolores Price (plus six others) then in custody in England. The Price sisters were convicted in London, on 15 November 1973, of conspiracy to cause explosions. In pursuit of the transfer, the sisters went on hunger strike and were force-fed. In the absence of official confirmation of the IRA […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away from the commemoration, across town, up the elevator to the apartment of her daughter Chelsea (where […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Their volume is worth noticing if only for demonstrating how wholly compromised the American Christian Right is and how dangerously irrational and conspiracy theory-based their ‘thinking’ is.1 But what of David Frum? This is his second book on Trump, the sequel to his Trumpocracy (reviewed in Lobster 772). But […]