[…] changed, but not everything. After driving up to San Francisco for the 1967 Stop the Draft week, my friends invited me along as they met with a JFK assassination researcher. Garrison’s investigation was big news, and I recall the hushed, paranoid atmosphere in a crowded restaurant. Today we know much more about the assassination […]
JFK and joint US-Soviet space exploration In Lobster 47, p.35, I noted a comment by Stephen Birmingham on the secrecy surrounding Kennedy’s desire to run a joint space programme with the Soviets. Alex Cox sent the following outline of US-USSR space negotiations during JFK’s term. ‘….. In fact, The New York Times reported […]
Sources CD-Rom JFK Assassination: a Visual Investigation Wilbur Films Multimedia, Medio Multimedia Inc Redmond, WA 98025-5515, USA, 1993. CD-Rom The Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination Bob Harris and Jane Rusconi ZCI Publishing, The Infomart, 1950 Stemmons, Suite 6048 Dallas TX 75207-3109, USA. 1994 The writer of this review is of the generation that still […]
[…] look). Hearst printed the Carfarkis’ Onassis story in order to establish JFK’s angry phone call to Jackie (“Get off Onassis’ yacht”, on the planned double. Diem – JFK murder day – Nov. 1, 1963 — as a “polite letter.” Onassis ate the livers of Hampton and Clark – in Chicago – after Chappa-quiddick – […]
The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and […]
[…] ‘Late-breaking News on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom Contacts’ to Lobster 20 under his ‘nom-de-guerre‘ of Anthony Weeks. (The Shaw piece was later expanded and published by the JFK Assassination Center in Dallas.) ‘ In the Introduction Frewin writes that the work started life as a proposed article for Lobster, but grew and grew until […]
[…] Illinois, USA, 1996, $16.00 Also known as ‘Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal’, the so-called Torbitt Memorandum (‘Document’ here for some reason) has been floating around the JFK research world since the early 1970s. Torbitt looked quite promising initially: lots of interesting allegations; some old names, some new; and fragments of documentation. But as […]
Introduction This, as some of Lobster‘s older readers will recognise, is a re-write of the essay I wrote on the JFK thing in Lobster 2, published on the 20th anniversary of the assassination in November 1983. This rewrite was written for the first issue of Casablanca, but it failed to appear. In JFK the […]
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still […]
[…] they passed the ‘confession’ to a journalist friend of Sample. But nothing happened and they assumed it was a dead-end. In 1992 the success of Oliver Stone’s JFK encouraged them to track down the then old and ill Factor. He told them a jumbled story at the centre of which was his recruitment by […]
