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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] disinformation by omission. But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the 1 ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 2 John Newman’s very dry, analytical work on CIA documents, for example, in his Oswald and the CIA. At another level Chauncey Holt’s […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over the murder of Olof Palme. (Don’t go by Kurt Wallander.) The police, press and politicians seem to be allowed to prejudice trials in advance. Again, Assange is an […]

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. […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] had been shot in Oak Cliff’.8 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 […]

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