View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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)

[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 […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald would come to Japan and find a round-eyed Russian girlfriend?” he would ask himself.’ (Epstein pp. 82-83). In a 20 November 2003 Frontline program on the JFK assassination that prominently featured Edward Jay Epstein, Dejanovich popped up with an even more telling revelation: ‘There was a small business section across one bridge that […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or selfinterested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] something interesting might just appear. In this case, nothing did. I also asked Google AI about Holt and got this. While Holt’s claims are often cited in JFK conspiracy literature, they were largely undermined in 1992 when the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus […]

Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK assassination books. On his blog3 he begins his self-description thus: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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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