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[…] H. Byrd, the Texas oilman, friend and supporter of Lyndon Johnson. Byrd owned the Texas School Depository Building from which Lee – ‘I’m just the patsy’ – Oswald is supposed to have fired on JFK’s motorcade. The first essay, by Russ Baker,1 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]

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[…] the McCarthy period. So far so unexceptional. But when we start moving through the sixties towards the present day, it all goes off the rails. Once again Oswald, Sirhan and Ray are presented as the assassins of the Kennedys and King. None of the more substantial research which suggests they were innocent is even […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was still a big hero in many quarters). Indeed, Caufield shows that Guy Banister’s main concern in New Orleans was just that, smokin’ out the commies, and Oswald seems to have played a part in it. The opening forty-seven pages, Chapter 1, details Bannister and Oswald’s relationship in this area. Caufield has visited many […]

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[…] Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in Epstein to do a full scale biography of Lee Oswald. Ken Gilmore, a managing editor there, contacted the FBI and told them the book would put to rest recurring myths surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Gilmore requested […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in Epstein to do a full scale biography of Lee Oswald. Ken Gilmore, a managing editor there, contacted the FBI and told them the book would put to rest recurring myths surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Gilmore requested […]

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Congressman Lyndon Johnson…..Stone reveals that Nick Ruwe (a former top aide to Nixon) said that when Nixon saw Jack Ruby on TV after he 2 See murdered Oswald, Nixon exclaimed, “I know that man!”’ This is new and significant. ‘Stone reveals, in yet another eye-opening addition to the historical record, that Texas Attorney General […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nobbling Garrison’s inquiry would be top of the Agency’s agenda. The general case against the Cubans/CIA is, of course, quite persuasive: yes, the Cubans were associated with Oswald and were involved in creating one of the Oswald personae, the gung-ho exMarine. But we don’t know what this meant. It may have had nothing to […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he provides a history of the British Far Right through the biographies of no less than six failures. This starts with Arnold Leese and then continues through Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, Colin Jordan, John Tyndall, and finishing up with Nick Griffin. In reality what the reader is given is six short books for […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he told them which suggested he was on the periphery of an assassination plot against President Kennedy. These included the claim that he had trained Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s supposed assassin, in rifle marksmanship.6 The Report’s version of the 12 June raid had simply erased Morales from the story. Perhaps the editorial staff figured […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] point an ultra-right, authoritarian, extreme-nationalist pressure group within the Conservative party. MP for Basingstoke from 1935, his candidacy for that seat had been privately endorsed by Sir Oswald Mosley, which seems to confirm that Mosley and the British Union of Fascists had a small group of proxies operating on their behalf within Parliament. None […]

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