The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]

Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

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[PDF file]: Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder T his essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint analysis of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace as a party in the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy. While there is inevitably some technical discussion of the forensic processes involved, it is anticipated that such details […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Chief Analyst for Military Records. He is one of a tiny handful of people employed by the American state who did not accept the official verdict that Oswald dunnit alone. In a recent essay on fraud in the medical evidence he wrote this: The brain images in the official collection show damage that appears […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this.8 One wonders if the future might bring a scion of the Mosley clan being adopted as a Labour PPC, with the family ‘returning home’ after Sir Oswald marched off in 1931. 8 Mosley’s contact with Labour go back to at least the mid ‘90s when Formula One hired David Ward, previously a ‘spin […]

Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright

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[PDF file]: […] whether or not anyone working for the Daily Mail, either then or now, can make any claim to possess journalistic integrity. Rothermere also threw his support behind Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF), hoping, albeit briefly, that Mosley could do for Britain what Hitler was doing for Germany. For a while, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] JFK’s head (where the exit wound is) then climbs onto the boot of the car to retrieve a piece of his skull. 3 “concluded” that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone nut assassin of President Kennedy.’4 As he points out, this is all the more striking (a) because only a small minority of the […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by a real assassination attempt, which was done in the […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue. * new * The higher bullshit There has been more well-intentioned nonsense written by academics about the assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

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[…] faction within the CIA ran a phoney assassination attempt on JFK which they intended to attribute to Castro’s Cuba, via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by a real assassination attempt, which was done in the […]

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