[…] book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent days, eh? In the midst of the most sensitive inquiry imaginable into the darkest corners […]
[…] last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark phrase: ‘Basic facts yet contradictions on Oswald in Mexico; photo not him’.) Wrone is brisk to the point of bracing, and whatever else this book may be, it’s certainly not boring. I get […]
[…] (BUF) had held together relatively well. Hamm’s organisation, the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women, held rallies with hundreds, and eventually thousands, of people in the audience. Oswald Mosley, the former leader of the BUF, gave Hamm his blessing. One of Mosley’s lieutenants, Alexander Raven Thomson, organised a parallel network of book clubs, to […]
[…] with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), resulted in the Report that declared Oswald a lone, mad assassin. Yes, so the argument goes, they could have asked more questions, but there were restraints of time and money and they had […]
[…] more accurately, page ix, the first page of text, saw my heart sinking. There, above the preface, was a quote from Don DeLillo’s novel about Lee Harvey Oswald, Libra (1988). I do not know anyone in the critical community who has ever taken this novel seriously. However, it is a work much loved by […]
[…] defenders of the Warren Commission report on Kennedy’s assassination. It’s almost nostalgic to read Parmet seriously quoting Warren Commission lawyer Bellin’s view that Jack Ruby’s encounter with Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Station was just a “happenstance”…”that changed the face of history “(p349); or making this really convoluted defense of the […]
[PDF file]: The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox’s take on the Kennedy assassination; and ‘take’ is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel […]
[…] varies from the readable to the dazzling. The JFK section include 45 pages of John Armstrong’s important recent work on ‘the two Oswald’s’ in a subset on Oswald, and pieces by names familiar to anyone semi-seriously interested in the subject: Gaeton Fonzi, John Newman, David Mantik and Gary Aguilar, as well as Probe’s Jim […]
[…] NATION, NEW, RENEWAL and so on. But there is a greater similarity than single words: Blair frequently expresses ideas which have a remarkable similarity to those of Oswald Mosley. To demonstrate this, I have compiled a series of quotes from Blair and Mosley. All the Mosley quotes come from speeches and writings made after […]
[…] of CIA assassination attempts planned by yet another Indianapolis native, William Harvey)! It’s a peculiar, even eerie, business. I’m reminded of the man who impersonated Lee Harvey Oswald while applying for a visa at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City during 1963. Whatever his reason for visiting Cuba during the Winter of 1961-62, and […]
