[PDF file]: […] (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). ‘Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics’, and ‘Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate’. Both are in Lobster 73 (Summer 2017). 88 27 isn’t what we learned about American government and democracy in high school civics. But […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 1 ‘. . . . against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U-2 […]
[PDF file]: […] 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading about the assassination. The big surprise about this book was: […]
[PDF file]: […] years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen’s view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School […]
[PDF file]: […] same network had been killing people in Texas since 1951 (when Wallace received a five year suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a […]
[PDF file]: […] assassination, but is it? A less widely reproduced part of the tape has Milteer saying a sharp shooter in a hotel overlooking the White House could pick JFK off in the garden, and he even names a possible assassin, a Jack Brown (who he?). Had Milteer described some unique way of killing JFK and […]
[PDF file]: […] nukes in the basements; that the buildings were destroyed by beam weapons. The 9/11 research community has to make a shift analogous to that made by the JFK researchers when they separated the shooting from the cover-up. There is a mystery about the buildings’ collapse; there may be a mystery about the failure of […]
[PDF file]: […] piles of peasant bodies were growing. There are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which […]
[PDF file]: […] of Osborne is by John Kowalski, ‘The Dual Life of Albert Osborne,’ that can be read here: 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby- JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was […]
[PDF file]: […] forty years for David Lifton’s follow up to Best Evidence?2 Where’s that got to? Last Second is part memoir, with Thompson describing his early involvement in the JFK assassination, viewing the Zapruder film while working with Life magazine, the writing of Six Seconds in Dallas, and how it wove in and out of his […]
