[…] 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 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 1965. Powers is unwilling or unable to face the brute reality of America. Without Smoking Gun Was the death of Lt. Cmdr Will Pitzer part of the JFK assassination cover-up conspiracy?’ Ken Heiner Walterville (Oregon): Trine Day, 2005, $14.95 (US) (www.trineday.com) The Kennedy assassination literature is littered with sexy-looking fragments. This book is about […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
