A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not […]

Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] are bound to arise unless the text is carefully proof-read by experts. There is also one very striking claim. In the section on the murder of Robert Kennedy it states: ‘….video footage, though not ideal, does suggest that someone in a guard’s uniform appears to fire into the back of Kennedy’s head.’ This is […]

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] dangerous the Agency is and the fact that American politicians are aware of what it is capable of is shown by one telling episode. When President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had […]

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Bits and Pieces

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

Forthcoming Greenwood Press in Connecticut, USA, are publishing this October Anthony Frewin’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-92. This began life as a proposed article for Lobster merely listing the more important films and videos, but it grew and grew until it became book length. Frewin contributed […]

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Miscarriage of justice, the police complaints system and whistle blower protection for police officers

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] that of Barry George, convicted in July 2001 of the April 1999 murder of Jill Dando. He says he has experienced harassment on every case. (3) Malcolm Kennedy, whose case has been discussed in previous issues of Lobster , said that there was no adequate supervision of interception powers, and no adequate remedy. People […]

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Surf’s up! Internet sites of interest

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] lot of information relating to President Kennedy’s assassination, and links to related sites. JFK http://heiwww.unige.ch/jfk/ Includes JFK declassified documents (eg Zapata operation, memoranda, etc). alt.conspiracy.jfk Items on Kennedy Assassination eg LHW as ‘Manchurian Candidate’, discussion of ballistic evidence and the Zapruder film, the ‘magic bullet’. Mother Jonesmagazine http://www.mojones.com/ also at FTP: Address: mojones.com Path: […]

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Updates

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] from senior administration officials of the period, including Richard Helms, Clark Clifford and former NSA head Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, all rejecting the ‘accident’ thesis. The Malcolm Kennedy case A potentially important development in the Malcolm Kennedy case (see previous Lobsters) has occurred. Kennedy was wrongly convicted of the killing of Patrick Quinn in […]

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Pretexts

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] released, Ellsberg recalls: ‘General Maxwell Taylor was being interviewed by Martin Agronsky, in a program that had been taped earlier. He was describing his recommendations to President Kennedy in November 1961. He was telling Agronsky and the American public ten years later: “I did not recommend combat forces. I stressed we would bring in […]

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The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] to the print job.’ The end result of that process is huge book, 670 pages in all, half of which are devoted to JFK, 100 to Robert Kennedy, 80 to King, 60 to Malcolm X and 30 to the media’s response to the assass-inations. The content varies from the readable to the dazzling. The […]

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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] it this witty, beautifully written panorama of American dissent is a movie with the last reel missing. Notes 5 Hersh’s book is savagely assaulted by Jim DiEugenio in ‘The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy’ in The Assassinations, reviewed above. 6 On this last little known point see Stephen Birmingham’s account at < www.birmo.co.uk/jfk/work_in_progress/index.htm >

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