[…] 1941, when they were scrambled in a pair of Hurricanes to attack a single German plane over Southern Scotland. Just as they were closing in for the kill, with a Messerchmitt Bf110 fighter-bomber trapped in their gunsights, RAF Fighter Command inexplicably called off their attack. Both pilots remained convinced for the rest of their […]
[…] done by people who just didn’t care about the consequences of failure. It was done as part of some wider plan, whose point was not just to kill JFK (and, to anticipate my argument, perhaps not even that), but also to have his death (or the attempt) happen in public. In other words: either […]
[…] the Foreign Secretary, expressly opposed such action. According to Chapman Pincher (Their Trade is Treachery p 206), in collaboration with leaders of the SAS, a plan to kill Nasser, his bodyguards, and anyone else who got in the way, was put together. They were going to use cannisters of poison gas . Eden vetoed […]
Wishing and hoping I met Tony Benn only once, while researching Smear! He’s a lovely man with a big blind spot about the politics of the early 1980s in general and the Militant Tendency in particular. Here’s Benn in the course of an appreciation of Arthur Scargill on his standing down as President of […]
This continues where Lobster 14‘s reprint of the piece from Tribune stopped. It was unfortunate that the debate over the status of Colin Wallace and his allegations really got going just as Lobster 14 went to the printer. Below is what followed. 27th August 1987. Colin Wallace letter in response to the John Ware article … Read more
[…] SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions were killed by a different brutal dictatorship. It is obviously all right, even laudable, to kill Ukrainians, Cambodians, Chinese, etc, These extracts from Turner’s letter takes us further into the issues which Cohen’s encounter with Robert Henderson raise. Take Turner’s comment, ‘To […]
[…] Long-range shooting is intrinsically unreliable and generally means that the assassins can’t get close enough to do it any other way. (Assuming that the intention was to kill; it might just have been to fire at Kennedy; the death a bonus.) This was true, for example, of some of the many attempts by the […]
‘A Most Extraordinary Case’ Malcolm Kennedy says his telephones, post and e-mail are being interfered with. His attempts to seek answers have left him in a bureaucratic maze. Background ‘A most extraordinary case’ said Michael Mansfield QC, describing the events at Hammersmith Police Station on the night of December 23/24 1990. Two men – Patrick … Read more
[…] away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the story. Orders to Kill is an account of his involvement in the continuing investigation from 1978 to the present day. Pepper provides a participant’s view of all the major events […]
Edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003 $24 p/back ISBN 0-922915-82-2 Let me first clarify the meaning of the subtitle. Probe, now defunct, was a US magazine devoted chiefly to research on the assassinations of the 1960s. I saw it occasionally and it was very good. I assumed this … Read more
