Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – reminding potential readers that there was still much to enjoy in the rural US, such as vinyl record stores 12 Thorpe was cleared of conspiracy to murder a former homosexual lover. No charges for this offence were ever brought against any third party. and welcome revival of Southern food.13 Yes: but does this […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Bureau employees doing what Shanklin had done would have, at best, been terminated. At worst, that employee could have been prosecuted for destruction of documents in a murder investigation, i.e. the Oswald letter and its tie-in to the Kennedy assassination. Of Shanklin, Mr Adams notes: ‘The man was scared of his own shadow’. (p. […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. * new * How viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot’? In August, 21 year-old Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] had been shot in Oak Cliff’. So: both the Dallas officers photographed escorting the ‘tramps’ said in 1977 that they had done so before news of the murder of Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15 pm.9 The muddle is described at . 5 Doyle’s arrest sheet is at . The others are the […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] little harsh on this).3 Even so, as Cox describes Kennedy’s conflicts with most of the major lobbies in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] He’s impressed by what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself.’ Meyer’s 1964 murder remains unsolved. 4 Michael Rainey ran a clothes shop, Hung on You, at 430 Kings Road SW10, described by music journalist Nik Cohn as ‘simultaneously the […]

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