Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]

Newsinger Uproar

Lobster Issue

[…] chronicles much more of the soundtrack of the resistance, but he also pays attention to the rival soundtrack, to the singers who supported the Vietnam War. James Brown, for example, was enthusiastic about entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Although the authorities were very reluctant to let him do so, in June 1968 the tour […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the September 11 attacks led to that country’s invasion.Tony Blair himself is not a member of the Commons or Lords, a non-parliamentary status he shares with Gordon Brown and Jack Straw, both senior New Labour colleagues in his government at the time of 9/11.22 Those from that 2001 administration who were entitled to speak […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Estes’ grandson.12 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes about Wallace and the assassination. The putative witness to that meeting of Carter and Estes, one Kyle Brown, unnamed by Estes in his memoir, had previously confirmed the conversation’s existence and some of its content.13 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]

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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] chronicles much more of the soundtrack of the resistance, but he also pays attention to the rival soundtrack, to the singers who supported the Vietnam War. James Brown, for example, was enthusiastic about entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Although the authorities were very reluctant to let him do so, in June 1968 the tour […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] flow of cheap consumer products opened up by the mass industrialisation of East Asia. But what, plausibly, has more impact on consumer prices: a letter from Gordon Brown to the governor of the Bank of England, or 300 million Chinese moving from the countryside to work in factories? If you can buy a 50-inch […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] flow of cheap consumer products opened up by the mass industrialisation of East Asia. But what, plausibly, has more impact on consumer prices: a letter from Gordon Brown to the governor of the Bank of England, or 300 million Chinese moving from the countryside to work in factories? If you can buy a 50-inch […]

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