Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the Kennedys. Edinburgh (U.K.): Mainstream Publishing, 1993. 288 pp. Illustrated, indexes. Smith’s modest thesis is that the conspirators responsible for JFK’s assassination were also behind Marilyn Monroe’s murder (sic), Bobby’s slaying, and Ted Kennedy’s spot of bother on Chappaquiddick Island. Monroe’s death, it was hoped, would being into the open the brothers’ involvement with […]

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The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

At 00:20 on Sunday 31 August 1997 a black Mercedes S280 carrying four people left the Ritz Hotel in central Paris. Shortly afterwards at 00:25 it crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the Concorde-Boulogne lane of the Pont d’Alma Tunnel in central Paris. The driver – Henri Paul – was killed instantly. The front passenger … Read more

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Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ […]

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Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] apparently afoot to film Jon King and John Beveridge’s book, Princess Diana: the hidden evidence (New York: SPI Books, 2002). Richard Palmer, ‘Film tells of Diana “ murder”‘, The Express, 11 February 2006. For an idea of what to expect see the review in Lobster 43. An unofficial transcript of the interview can be […]

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The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] to have been present with Clay Shaw and the aviator and low-grade CIA agent David Ferrie at a meeting whose main topic of conversation was how to murder the President. Why wasn’t Spiesel checked more thoroughly? What did this fiasco say about the possible quality (or lack of it) of Garrison’s other witnesses? All […]

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JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] There’s more. The authors quote File 90486, as follows: ‘The KGB now had some details as to which members of the American right had been behind the murder. In late November a highly regarded Polish intelligence source, an American businessman who owned a series of companies, informed the Poles that three wealthy Texas oil […]

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Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Chickasaw Indian who claims to have been on the sixth floor of the TSBD ‘helping out’ the assassins when JFK was hit. And who was behind the murder? Step forward LBJ. Collom and Sample take Factor at face value and attempt to bolster his claims. Belongs on the shelf next to Henry Hurt’s championing […]

Portrait of a Terrorist State: A Summary of the Ordeal of Political Captives in Turkish Prisons

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] are some sections in which Turkey’s role vis-à-vis the US and NATO are considered, for the most part this is a detailed account of the Turkish state’s murder and torture of its left and Kurdish opponents. As most of this information never gets attention in the major British media, this is to be welcomed; […]

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Blinded by the light: Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] the upsurge of political violence in Italy, starting with the (fascist imputed) Milan bank bombing in 1969, and two key traumatic episodes — the capture and ultimate murder of Christian Democrat (DC) party leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades (BR) in 1978, and the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980 when 85 died, […]

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Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] being made extensively here in Britain, in republican circles and on Irish radio and television. A particularly horrifying incident that many hon. Members will remember was the murder of three members of the Miami showband – completely innocent musicians with no political affiliations whatsoever. It took place in the midst of the cease-fire that […]

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