Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even forged. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, British High Commissioner in South Arabia just before Mitchell’s arrival there, was one of the chief offenders here, doctoring documents before they were deposited. Some […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] New York. Such connections and his success as a lawyer enabled him to overcome the WASP barriers, which an Irish Catholic would generally face until one John Kennedy was elected to the White House. Donovan was not only a lawyer and politician in Roosevelt’s home state, he was part of that community of corporate […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] in an unexpected way. Mr Talbot produces quoted remarks from Dulles about his time on the Commission, made to a former CIA colleague a year after the Kennedy murder: ‘ The “ifs” just stand out all over it. And if any of those “ifs” had been changed it might have been prevented… it was […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] and rendezvous with agents who would help him escape to Mexico while a retaliatory invasion of Cuba was complete. Oswald was also told by Hunt that President Kennedy did not know anything about the “fake assassination,” but high-ranking members of his cabinet did. Only a few members of Hunt’s closest men knew all of […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the innocent delight in […]