[PDF file]: […] Doppelgangers The murky history of the deployment of lookalikes for political purposes has always fascinated me, and is an area that I explored a little in ‘ LBJ: Doubles and Disinformation’ in Lobster 67. The first week of December saw a startling chance pair of photographs taken by the same snapper, showing two ‘Barack […]
[PDF file]: […] indecipherable letter, equally threatening and abusive, arrived from the US, followed in early July by an unsigned card sent to Lemass, sharply criticizing Kennedy, and saying that LBJ should take over, once Kennedy had been impeached.18 A great deal of Kennedy’s visit was centred on ceremonial and civic occasions. But there were clearly discussions […]
[PDF file]: The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox’s take on the Kennedy assassination; and ‘take’ is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel narratives, […]
[…] at . 68 grasped that JFK wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill corporate shill and thus has never understood the shift in US foreign policies which took place when LBJ became president. The excellent Jim DiEugenio spelled this out yet again at Consortium News.com.69 Plain as day? Sometimes B does appear to simply follow A. The […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Jackie doesn’t flinch (and other JFK bits and pieces) There are lots of bits of film on YouTube about the Kennedy assassination and I’ve looked at many. Recently I clicked on one made by one George Jettison, which opens with him – a large […]
[PDF file]: […] the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the US Department of Justice the affidavit of Billy Sol Estes, which named LBJ and others as being the perpetrators of the Dallas killing. As a young lawyer in Washington at the time of Watergate, Caddy worked for the Mullen […]
[PDF file]: […] thus has never I wrote about Bryan Gould at . 68 69 29 elected as well.’ understood the shift in US foreign policies which took place when LBJ became president. The excellent Jim DiEugenio spelled this out yet again at Consortium News.com.70 Remember the knowledge economy? Tristram Hunt, the recently appointed Labour shadow education […]
[…] has been a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did through Vietnam. The 2011 exit date is ‘false’ and ‘Vietnamistan’ lies ahead (as the leaked cables of November 2009 from Afghanistan Ambassador Eikenberry […]
[PDF file]: […] arrest. They also cite McLendon’s close relationships to legendary Central Intelligence Agency operative David Atlee Phillips, politically connected oil magnate Clint Murchison, Sr., and political advisor to LBJ, Bobby Baker, as circumstantial evidence. McLendon is also alleged to have funded Interpen, the Intercontinental Penetration Force, which aimed to privately overthrow Cuba in the 1960s. […]
[PDF file]: […] actions that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson could carry out in Vietnam, they were possible because of almost complete lack of public attention.’ 14 Chomsky merges LBJ and JFK as if they had the same intentions and policies. When I read this I thought, ‘I’ll bet Jim DiEugenio has a go at this.’ […]
