Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] ‘The last confession of E. Howard Hunt’, Rolling Stone, (1023), 5 April 2007, pp. 44-84. Also available at: Clifford Spiegelman et al, ‘Chemical and forensic analysis of JFK assassination bullet lots: is a second shooter possible?’ Due to be published in Annals of Applied Statistics. The draft article can be viewed at . See […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] militarism (the military-industrial complex) united with nationalist proponents of unilateralism and economic protection, moved swiftly to undermine the plans and projections of the multilateralists.’ (p. 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] help the company’s cash-flow problems. The stock rapidly became worthless. In effect, he hadn’t repaid the loan. An additional bonus. 3 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Fall 1993), pp. ix, 413 4 The Savings and Loan Crisis was itself caused by deregulation. Small financial […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] in the book, UFOs 1947-1987, ed. John Spencer and Hilary Evans, (London: Fortean Tomes (sic)) 1987. 2 Thomas republished Torbitt, with a commentary, as NASA, Nazis and JFK, reviewed in Lobster 32. The fact that Crisman is named in Torbitt suggests to me that Crisman might be the author of it. Who else would […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] often seemed to be on the outside of or even excluded from the many briefings given by Truman administration insiders, and that it was not until the JFK era that he came into his own. He even suggested that there were some in Washington who suspected Brandon’s loyalty.(2) Another account recorded how Brandon always […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Somewhere in the account of the latter by one of its investigators, Gaeton Fonzi, was the comment that while the JFK assassination experts thought the HSCA had set up an proper investigation, the man in charge of it, Robert Blakey, saw his job not as investigating the […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] 3 September 2006; Veronica Cowan, ‘Coroner’s news update’, Justice of the Peace, 170 (36), 9 September 2006, p.704. See also the Diana’s Inquest website: . Anon., ‘From JFK “plot” to Diana’, The New York Post, 14 July 2006; Anon., ‘Princess Di, the CIA and deadly neckties’, TMZ.com, 14 July 2006 Brighton: Pen Press Publishers, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] after a canoing tragedy (do you think Tom Clancy or Le Carré could come up with stuff like this?) news surfaced re. the Garrison investigation into the JFK hit. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of 1 May, ‘secret documents just released by a federal agency strongly support the contention that the late Jim […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] is literally impossible because of the extremely low volatility of aviation kerosene and the superb ignition-free design of the 747 fuel tank system.’ (49) In 1997, at JFK airport, Donaldson extracted some fuel from a 747 that had been sitting with its air conditioners running in weather conditions similar to that of Flight 800 […]