[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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: […]
