[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s imperialists plunged the world into four years of mass murder. That war alone caused some four million direct battle casualties and untold millions of non-combatant deaths in the aftermath. Despite the actual policies he pursued, Wilson […]
[PDF file]: […] fact that Linsey kept on his payroll a senior member of the New England Mafia, Mike Rocco. Rocco was a numbers racketeer arrested at various times for murder, extortion, and robbery. Linsey had once been co-owner of the Sahara Motel in Miami with Sam Tucker, a noted bootlegger, gambler, and prominent member (with Moe […]
[PDF file]: […] and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and thereby implicates Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, as the main motivator behind the murder. This has now been superseded by a period in which critics have attempted to dismiss this evidence. There are two prominent and respected critics who object […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others out there, I believe there are others who could be charged with murder. I just want you to know how I feel about it, as one of the people who was aimed at in the attack.’ 7 What the […]
[PDF file]: […] was about to fly to the UK? If the events around Hess, the Duke of Hamilton, Duke of Kent and others in May 1941 were, say, a murder trial or an investigation into a bank robbery, peculiar diary entries by Channon – a very close friend of Kent – would be of interest to […]
[PDF file]: […] have depressed someone whose life was in good shape, never mind someone like Casolaro whose life was falling apart, it is nonetheless pretty clear his death was murder and not suicide. And presumably because someone thought he was getting too close to something. But who? And what? remain almost as opaque at the end […]
