[…] JFK and the unthinkable I finally read David Talbot’s Brothers (2007), about JFK and RFK. Talbot did something interesting: he contacted all the surviving members of the Kennedy network of the sixties – pols of one sort or another, speechwriters, drivers etc., or their wives, ex-wives and children, and asked them: what did you […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Among the most recently declassified CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the documents and how such […]
[PDF file]: […] theorists Warren Hinckle and William Turner (in their book Deadly Secrets) and Peter Dale Scott have alleged that McLendon played a peripheral role in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Gordon McLendon was the first person Jack Ruby asked to speak with after his arrest. They also cite McLendon’s close relationships to legendary Central Intelligence […]
Still thinking about Dallas Robin Ramsay Among the most recently declassified CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the […]
[PDF file]: […] By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return […]
[…] contents? Dallas again Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of the back seat of the presidential limo and placed it on the gurney which had carried Governor Connally […]
[PDF file]: […] JFK and the unthinkable I finally read David Talbot’s Brothers (2007), about JFK and RFK. Talbot did something interesting: he contacted all the surviving members of the Kennedy network of the sixties – pols of one sort or another, speechwriters, drivers etc., or their wives, ex-wives and children, and asked them: what did you […]
[PDF file]: […] had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, he had been planning to turn on President Kennedy to the wonders of LSD so that the Cold War could be deescalated and mankind saved.4 Leary obtained a batch of LSD ‘made available by courtesy […]
[PDF file]: […] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]
[…] Church Committee exposing the crimes of the CIA, and issuing a report showing how poorly the FBI had investigated the case, there was movement to reopen the Kennedy case. Clearly an establishment lion like the Reader’s Digest would want to get a jump on such a reopening. Knowing what they wanted, they called in […]
