Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] investigation in detail and I still cannot see that he had a case against Clay Shaw. He had some evidence that Shaw had a conversation about killing Kennedy (him and a thousand others) and – less certainly – some evidence that Shaw and Ferrie had advance knowledge of the events in Dallas. (Them and […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

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[PDF file]: […] access the financial records, which had survived intact. 1 Manson business, for example, led him into the murky world of Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Meanwhile CHAOS is a great read. O’Neill doesn’t just present his findings; the book is written as a dramatic, almost Chandleresque narrative. Many of […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]

Reporting Trump

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[PDF file]: […] . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like this. It is ‘All of it. Utterly. Inescapably. Completely. Unbelievable.’ (p. 5). Her chronicle of the Trump […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to ‘go private’. 8 and 9 On which see David Teacher’s enormous essay, downloadable at . 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, […]

The Oswald Code by Alan Jules Weberman

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[PDF file]: […] has one hand on his shoulder while the other points an accusatory finger at him. It’s captioned, again caps throughout, FRANK’S MOM BAWLS HIM OUT FOR KILLING KENNEDY. Anywhere else I would assume this was a lame attempt at humour, but here I suspect it is meant to be taken seriously. Weberman presents further […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

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[PDF file]: […] includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so political ‘hits’ to which investigators keep coming back to. So reading a narrative […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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