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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 […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

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[PDF file]: […] establish LBJ’s ignorance of his ‘cousin’s’ existence, it appears that Estes’ account of the Peck ‘cousin’ standing-in for LBJ is untrue. Nonetheless: in addition to a ‘second Oswald’ and (per Robert Morningstar 6 ) a second JFK, we also now have a second LBJ!7 We may also have a third JFK. In an extract […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think he could actually ‘go that far and shoot’. (p. 64) This was all faithfully recorded in Suze Rotolo’s file but, […]

Apocryphylia

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[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] have been 44 documentaries, docudramas and news specials that have aired during this 50th anniversary of the JFK murder. All 44 have somehow “concluded” that Lee Harvey Oswald 4 was the lone nut assassin of President Kennedy.’ As he points out, this is all the more striking (a) because only a small 1 If […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

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[PDF file]: […] into JFK’s assassination, where they do a version of the standard historians’ body swerve round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald . . .’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ‘. . . over time became increasingly sceptical about South […]

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 […]

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