The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] point. John Gray in The New Statesman5 accuses Crais of parochialism in omitting the French revolution, as if a progressive cause couldn’t equally be guilty of mass murder and Terror. Similarly, he thinks the timeframe of 1750-1900 was constructed to exclude the Russian revolution and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] official receipt of DPD’s evidence on November 27. Furthermore, DPD’s supposedly ‘suspicious’ public silence about the fingerprint evidence during the 48 hours between the assassination and Oswald’s murder is easily explained as being caused by the precedence given by Texas state law enforcement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (a situation that, by coincidence, […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a number of people have shown that the photographs were taken between 2.20 and 2.30 pm. The first trio of tramps were arrested before news of the murder of officer J. D. Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15. See . 22 It didn’t help that his posthumous memoir was mangled by its publisher. […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] may have accounted for the freewheeling and slightly disorganised nature of some of his shows. This was not the first time Dee had been associated with the murder of JFK. In 1969 he had tried to get a copy of the Zapruder film for broadcasting on Dee Time. 26 A discussion of the little […]

Newsinger on Patel

Lobster Issue

[…] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] and the JFK killing in particular. The narrative of The President’s Mortician is compelling and convincingly unpredictable, despite being entirely based on a completely bogus ‘McGuffin’ (the murder of a fictional character by the real-life Liggett and the characters’ attempts to solve the case). Of particular interest to researchers will be the ‘book within […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

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