The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] CIA from 1993-1995. As a quick google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] that this was another of Liggett’s killings, although he did not say why Liggett would wait several years (and until LBJ had quit politics and died) to kill Peck’s widow, too. The obvious implication is that Mrs Peck’s death was connected to knowledge of her late husband’s role as LBJ’s ‘body double’. At his […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]

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