The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] is OK to boast that it certainly used to do so. DiEugenio on Parry Jim DiEugenio took slight umbrage at my review of his book on the Kennedy assassination in this issue. In that review I said that he was very good indeed; and if further evidence is needed to support that claim, it […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (p. 4) ‘orders on abdication’ is about right. To cite just one example he highlights: Robert Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ, Arthur Schlesinger’s account of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days, and Robert Dallek’s recent much praised two volume Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President,5 all ignore the TFX affair which straddled […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott’s essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion documented if possible. Scott’s conception then was of parapolitics: ‘a system or […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] make much public impact, ex-MI6 man Paddy – ‘Pantsdown’ – Ashdown took the reins of the newly formed LibDems.30 He was succeeded by former SDP MP Charles Kennedy, a man obviously afflicted by serious drink problems long before 26 27 28 29 30 he admitted them, who stood down in 2006. Kennedy had been […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] too silly to deserve summary here – he believes, for example, that the House of Windsor controls the world’s drug traffic, organised the assassination of John F. Kennedy etc. etc. – but the headline of his New Solidarity‘s story on the recent Sunday Times-Buckingham Palace ‘leak’ story gives a flavour of his delusions: “Will […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] got didn’t do it, Doug. You can count on that.” ’ Unlike others of that generation, Douglas Valentine did not become obsessed with the question ‘Who shot Kennedy?’ At the age of 14, he could not imagine why his father had reacted in that way to news of the Dallas assassination. Yet he went […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[PDF file]: […] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did in their This note continues at the foot of the next page. […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam This note continues at the foot of the next page. 2 dead) and confirmed that they had been tramps, hobos; and had […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[…] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did in their book – that two of the ‘tramps’ were Howard Hunt […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] is OK to boast that it certainly used to do so. DiEugenio on Parry Jim DiEugenio took slight umbrage at my review of his book on the Kennedy assassination in this issue. In that review I said that he was very good indeed; and if further evidence is needed to support that claim, it […]

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