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[…] 15 16 17 5 he quotes newspaper articles. Considering he wrote it in 1965/6, it is a very striking run through all the then available information about LBJ and his corruption – Billy Sol Estes, Bobby Baker etc – and what little was then known about the murders surrounding the Estes events. There are […]

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[…] 15 16 17 5 he quotes newspaper articles. Considering he wrote it in 1965/6, it is a very striking run through all the then available information about LBJ and his corruption – Billy Sol Estes, Bobby Baker etc – and what little was then known about the murders surrounding the Estes events. There are […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Kincora, Blunt and……JFK? Because it is difficult to distinguish the shit from the shinola among the allegations and rumours, thus far I have avoided trying to make sense of the Kincora scandal’s place in the Elm House-Savile-paedos-in-high-places thicket. However one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’65 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’46 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’28 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’23 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’2 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

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[…] Nixon said, ‘The damn thing is, I knew this Jack Ruby. Murray brought him to me in 1947, said he was one of “Johnson’s boys” and that LBJ wanted us to hire him as an informant to the Committee. We did.’2 So clearly HUAC. But the striking thing is the link to LBJ. This […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bridge My guess would be that Texas was a long way away from Washington in the sixties and while the East Coasters round the Kennedys knew that LBJ was a vulgarian and a boor, definitely not their kind of person – this is the Yankees versus Cowboys thesis in a sense – it just […]

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