View from the bridge

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[…] the title has it, ‘LBJ Insiders D.H. Byrd and James Ling Bought 132,000 Shares of Stock in Defense Contractor LTV in November 1963 Around Time of the JFK Assassination’.2 This is significant because shortly after Johnson became president, LTV was awarded a contract to build military planes and the LTV shares, which Byrd had […]

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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] consciousness. 31 7 two,32 which has the CIA head of station in London accusing the FBI of being involved in the cover-up that followed the assassination of JFK. This was broadcast on mainstream British media in the early 1980s – when there wasn’t really much ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty […]

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[…] consciousness. 31 7 two,32 which has the CIA head of station in London accusing the FBI of being involved in the cover-up that followed the assassination of JFK. This was broadcast on mainstream British media in the early 1980s – when there wasn’t really much ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Russian operations, my guess would be that the US will produce similar devices and begin attacking Russian officials overseas. Both sides might then stop using them. More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the […]

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[…] Russian operations, my guess would be that the US will produce similar devices and begin attacking Russian officials overseas. Both sides might then stop using them. More JFK nonsense History Extra is a BBC website. In early February it put up Danny Bird’s ‘Who was behind JFK’s assassination? The real history that challenges the […]

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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 […]

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