Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same stampeding of Congress, could have been achieved with infinitely less. LBJ stampeded Congress with nothing more than radar contacts between North Vietnamese and US boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. If you wanted to blame al-Qaeda for […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] ex-Presidents Nelson Mandela for instance. Celebrities have occasionally dropped by. But it is instructive to think back just a few years. Would we have seen, say LBJ and Robert Redford in the same venue Blackpool in 1972, perhaps being introduced by that years Conference Chair, Tony Benn? Perhaps the episode represents […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] the U.S. invasion, and secondly by being there even when Iraq was run by Saddam. Has crony capitalism evolved since the days when Brown and Root pump-primed LBJ for special treatment? Whilst the Brown brothers set out to win government business by developing what by today’s standards would be judged corrupt means, and to […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] of the JFK researchers are the two areas which I have written about in these columns over the past 20 years or so: the putative link to LBJ through Billie Sol Estes and ‘Mac’ Wallace, and Chauncey Holt’s account of being an unwitting part of the technical support for the operation. Two other serious […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] they do. Another little detail looms larger than perhaps it should: the fact that Robert Caro chose to omit Billie Sol Estes entirely from his account of LBJ in the 1960s. Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ are a monument – perhaps the monument – in American political biography. Caro is unflinching in presenting […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the suicided Estes witnesses. Who would murder Marshall but someone threatened by his inquiries? Who was most threatened? Estes himself and, if we believe Estes on this, LBJ whom Estes had been paying-off for years. This is the central point of the LBJ-dunnit thesis: JFK’s death was merely one in a series linked to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] as mine as to why Hunt’s confession has been rubbished and ignored by the research community. My guess would be that Hunt was blanked because he named LBJ as being part of the conspiracy and LBJ-dunnit remains unthinkable for most of the JFK researchers.19 In the case of Holt, in so far as they […]
