[…] 1963; Jack Zangretti, a minor mob figure who managed a gambling resort and hotel in Oklahoma, told friends while Oswald was in custody that Jack Ruby will kill him within twenty-four hours and someone close to Frank Sinatra would be kidnapped to take attention away from the assassination. Both events happened, and Zangretti was […]
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted … Read more
Trimble Henry McDonald, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, £16.99 The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings Don Mullan, Dublin:Wolfhound Press, 2000, £9.99 David Trimble’s first political involvement began in 1972 when, as a young law lecturer at Queens University, Belfast, he joined William Craig’s Vanguard movement, a hard line right-wing Protestant supremacist organisation that made clear it was ready … Read more
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
[…] this before and I used to talk about a two or three-tiered conspiracy in which what might happen would be A learns that B is going to kill the President; and whereas A normally might be able to stop it, A’s culpability is allowing B to go ahead and do it. That’s why I […]
[…] Serra. (10) Google’s Italian–to-English translation of the Corriere text showed that the original story did not claim that Stasi files showed the KGB told the Bulgarians to kill the Pope at all. As Google’s mechanical translator put it, the key section said: ‘the letters, in which the intelligence agencies of the DDR they ask […]
[…] go to her own funeral without her purse – or a properly straightened nose. What I must do is what every doctor takes an oath to do. Kill cancer – one of Christ’s covered-up commandments. Primarily because this group desires to kill me. And that is self-defense – and it is the primary law […]
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
Greg Philo and David Miller Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2001, £16.99 I asked the publisher for this on the basis of the title and the authors: Greg Philo has written many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the … Read more
[…] (Conservative Digest February 1985). McDonald, a Bircher, was killed when KAL 007 was shot down. Predictably, some of the US far-right think it was shot down to kill McDonald. He thus became a ‘martyr’. It’s an ill wind …. McDonald was the founder of Western Goals, and that organisation overlaps with IFF. Western Goals […]
