[PDF file]: […] US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of a nonmatch between the known prints of LBJ crony Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace and the prints listed as ‘unidentified’ obtained by the Bureau from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Seven months after receiving […]
[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 […]
