[…] Warren Commission was an inquiry into who shot Kennedy. It wasn’t: the conclusion was preordained. The Warren Commission hired some young lawyers to make the case against Oswald. They duly cherry-picked evidence and rewrote eyewitness testimony where it was inconvenient. But they were still left with a ballistics scenario in which the wounds of […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] he became chairman of the Rural Reconstruction Association, which employed Jorian Jenks as press secretary and editor of their journal Rural Economy. Jenks, a significant supporter of Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, built up a network of ex-BUF and English Mistery (sic) members in his new position. Which suggests Pierse Loftus was clearly on […]
[PDF file]: […] remember or can find. Has anyone seriously tried to dispute the disappearance of left and trade union people during Pinochet’s years? And, finally before giving up entirely, I checked his account of JFK’s assassination. This is his Oswald on page 207. ‘….failed volunteer for the military and the CIA and the KGB.’ Huh? Robin Ramsay
[…] 61 spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes […]
[PDF file]: […] off the ground Cecil King’s feet were at this point is illustrated by the fact that before meeting Mountbatten, he had gone to Paris to talk to Oswald Mosley(!), to sound him out as leader of a national government. In the received version, as soon as King made his intentions clear, Sir Solly Zuckerman […]
[…] Page 94 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] daily papers, the Globe and Mail; and that his ticket into the big media had been a recanting of his previous writing, and acknowledgement that Lee Harvey Oswald had done the dirty deed in Dallas. I had declined to publish Van Wynesberghe’s change of tack in issue 26 and suggested to him that he […]
[PDF file]: […] a loading dock? (It was later removed.)’7 The second occurs when they are discussing what actually happened on the 6th floor of the TSBD. Q: ‘You said Oswald was looking through the scope and then handed the rifle to Wallace, right?’ Q: Factor: ‘Yeah…then he leaned it against…kinda like a table saw; he had […]
[PDF file]: […] depicted as nothing but a classic ‘lone nut’ in Robert Donovan’s 1955 book The Assassins, which in Alan Dulles’s hands became a tool for framing Lee Harvey Oswald, as discussed in Lobster 81 at . 10 When Zangara stood trial, the defence requested a lunacy commission to probe the would-be assassin’s sanity. It reported […]
