Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] Paranoid Style in American Politics’ in 1964 is rather interesting. Things go off the rails when she tries to deal with the world after the assassination of JFK. This happens because, like other academics I have read in this particular field,1 she has no interest in the content of what she sees as conspiracy […]

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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] walks the straight and narrow, and is remarkably incurious for a journalist (but then he did work for the NY Times and he is writing about the JFK assassination). Nowhere does he reveal the identity of this lawyer, which is curious: fifty years later the guy can’t put his head above the parapet? It […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] knowledge, the first real attempt to (forgive the phrase) put flesh on the biographical bones of John Melvin Liggett, a shadowy character whose apparent connections to the JFK assassination are discussed in my own ‘Doubles and Disinformation’ in this issue of Lobster. There is good news and bad news about this book. The bad […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] presidential limo and placed it on the gurney which had carried Governor Connally into the Parkland hospital.5 It was found on the gurney. Officially, Governor Connally and JFK were hit by the same bullet, fired from behind them by Lee Harvey Oswald. With Connally sitting in front of Kennedy, the bullet found behind them […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] presidential limo and placed it on the gurney which had carried Governor Connally into the Parkland hospital.1 It was found on the gurney. Officially, Governor Connally and JFK were hit by the same bullet, fired from behind them by Lee Harvey Oswald. With Connally sitting in front of Kennedy, the bullet found behind them […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Paranoid Style in American Politics’ in 1964, is rather interesting. Things go off the rails when she tries to deal with the world after the assassination of JFK. This happens because, like other academics I have read in this particular field,1 she has no interest in the content of what she sees as conspiracy […]

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[…] Mess that Nuland Made’22, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’23 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] about Platoon – Stone’s Vietnam War movie, based on his experiences there as an infantry private. Then they moved to the Kennedy assassination, the subject of Stone’s JFK. Rogan is a hunter and knows about rifles. Like other shooters who have looked at the case, Rogan focused on CE399, the so-called ‘magic bullet’. Rogan […]

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[…] that Nuland Made’3, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. *new* Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’4 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] historians’ body swerve round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald…’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ’….over time became increasingly sceptical about South Vietnam’s prospects and hinted that he would seek an end to the U.S. commitment…..a few authors have […]

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