Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Dwight Eisenhower about one of her alleged extramarital affairs with a left-wing activist – misinformation passed to him by Army Intelligence during World War II – to kill her hopes of being reappointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.21 Hunting homosexuals Even if he could not touch Eleanor during the War, Hoover […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] up when you‘re 17 and 1/2 ? We‘ll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.” People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God’s name couldn‘t you have full employment and good schools, good […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy […]