Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, New York, 1999. $16.95 www.autonomedia.org When Francis Parker Yockey met his own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no doubt […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ Kennedy assassination initiates will glimpse a little bit of the story from that subtitle. Cancer and New Orleans? Wasn’t […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission’s Report, a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46% of the American public did not think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show similar, or possibly […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] John Armstrong is split into two parts in Probe September-October and November-December 1997. Armstrong went back to the primary evidence and re-examined all the biographical material on Oswald. This shows that there were, unmistakably, two Oswalds: two children, of different sizes, in different schools, in different parts of the country at the same time; […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
A Steamshovel Press Reader Edited by Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press 1995 Available in the UK from AK Distribution at £17.95(1) This is the first twelve issues of Steamshovel Press plus issue 13, which never appeared in magazine format. I like Steamshovel – I’ve written a couple of pieces for more recent issues – and I […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] he was removed. According to Morley this was at the behest of Richard Helms who felt that Whitten might reveal too much of the CIA’s awareness of Oswald prior to the shooting. It was not until 1996 that Whitten’s lengthy deposition (made under the pseudonym ‘John Scelso’) was finally declassified by the Assassination Records […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] photographic laboratory in Washington D.C. That a second rifle (not the Mannlicher-Carcano supposedly used in the slaying) was found and photographed on Nov. 22. That Lee Harvey Oswald was deliberately dressed in “black clothing” immediately before his murder to emphasize his evilness as compared with the white-suited detective on his shoulder. That members of […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] was marked by anxiety, a sense of power circumscribed by an awareness of danger, as was Ruskin’s – the self-appointed guardian of the old and decaying order.(37) Oswald Spengler, for reasons of his own, also branded Rhodes as the harbinger of a new age who pointed the way out of the decline of Western […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
Paul Johnson, former editor of the New Statesman turned ‘new right’ Thatcherite, turned his hack hand to KAL 007 in a review of Alexander Dallin’s Black Box KAL 007 and the Superpowers (University of California Press 1985) in the Times Literary Supplement (August 23 1985). Johnson asks the question: “How could a Korean pilot skilful […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
Part 1 Issue 24 of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (Summer 1985) is chiefly devoted to recent activities of U.S. government agents and agents provocateurs inside radical and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New […]