[…] the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way. Jim Garrison, the District Attorney, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film. I am not at liberty to 32 ‘It Couldn’t Happen […]
[PDF file]: […] as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the Page 93 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at Page 94 Summer 2011 Lobster […]
[PDF file]: […] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]
[PDF file]: […] became the minority view, that his funding dried up and he was forced to ‘go private’. Caro flunks it Looking at the role of LBJ in the Kennedy assassination has proved to be too difficult for Robert Caro. In The Passage of Power (2012), the fourth volume of his widely lauded biography of LBJ […]
[PDF file]: […] in which these two books appear. 1 3 indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old […]
[PDF file]: […] other Labour personnel, including Yvette Cooper, whom Balls later married, and David Miliband, head of Blair’s policy unit, Balls had spent a year in America as a Kennedy Scholar.6 3 By 1994 the long-delayed implementation of the 1952 Robot plan – the British economy open to the world and controlled solely by interest rates […]
[PDF file]: […] John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? 14 15 ‘How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details’ 16 7 the American model of politics. So why not say so? ‘Because I love […]
[PDF file]: […] city of Provo in Utah. Their specific task was to recruit from the Brigham Young University, which is wholly owned by the Mormon church. Even today, the Kennedy Center at Brigham Young has a CIA recruitment page on its website.46 In the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, one of the ‘wild card independent candidates was […]
[PDF file]: […] Establishment was subsequently adopted by a number of analysts in 1960s and 70s to explain the tumult of those times: the assassinations of the President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Watergate scandal, and the moral and strategic disaster that was the Vietnam War. The late Carl Oglesby in his book The […]
