[…] New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he claimed he […]
David W. Wrone University Press of Kansas; 2003, h/b, $29.99 (UK prices vary) In the conclusion to his Pocket Essentials Who Shot JFK?, the editor of this journal asked: ‘Where are the historians?’ David Wrone is a former Professor of History at Kansas University, and so his book provides at least part of […]
[…] to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has been distributing. A couple of days after 9-11, Tony Frewin rang me and suggested that this was the JFK case for the Internet generation. There are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is […]
[…] but it isn’t. The energy released by the propellant is transferred to the unhindered projectile. The authors do not even understand basic ballistics. They noted: ‘Oliver Stone’s JFK asserted that the bullet would have had to follow a zigzag course to hit both JFK and Governor Connally. That would be true only if you […]
[PDF file]: The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators Garrick Alder 1 From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle Don Adams Trine Day Publishing (USA); 2012 ISBN 978-1-936296-86-6 Author Don Adams was already investigating the JFK assassination before it had even happened. On 13 November 1963 he was called at his […]
[PDF file]: A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’ Garrick Alder In a cell in an Illinois prison sits a 75-year-old ex-Mafia man who says he was the real assassin of US President John F Kennedy. James Files, who claims he was the legendary ‘grassy knoll gunman’ of 22 November 1963, is […]
[PDF file]: An offer we can refuse The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination Lamar Waldron Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2013, h/b, £20 (approx.) Waldron has some form. This is his third book on JFK and is largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as […]
[PDF file]: […] threats to LBJ’s political career were the immediate cause of JFK’s assassination. I didn’t think the author would have any new evidence on the actual assassination (the JFK networks would be humming with it if he had) and he doesn’t. But it is a good, detailed summary of what is out there. As a […]
[PDF file]: The Lone Star Speaks Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2020, $28.95 www.bancroftpress.com Robin Ramsay This is a very interesting and big book (over 500 pages if you include the end notes).1 The authors’ choice of format has determined the book’s shape. Each chapter […]
[PDF file]: […] Best Evidence (pp. 354-356) and Sylvia Meagher’s Accessories After the Fact (pp. 120-127). A brief ‘cutaway’ reflecting this sinister scenario also appears in Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie JFK. Day successfully retrieved a few indistinct fingerprints and one distinct palmprint from the alleged assassination rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository. Working alone throughout, […]
