The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] expert to see the fallacy of the singlebullet theory.’ A more recent essay by Denton, ‘Joan Mellen did not debunk the idea of LBJ’s complicity in the murder of JFK’ does what its title suggests it will and includes this: ‘Gordon Ferrie 48 spoke of the conspiracy against Kennedy as a “nexus”, a series […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Channel Four News’ investigation of the allegations of Colin Wallace. Wilkinson passed to Channel Four an elaborate smear about Wallace, accusing him of being an accessory to murder, which Wilkinson claimed came from one of his department’s researchers on the Wallace affair. Of course his department had no researchers working on Wallace and the […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]

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