Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] 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) T he Kennedy assassination literature is littered with sexylooking fragments. This book is […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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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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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] account of JFK’s foreign policy thinking and – once again – shows in detail that, far from being just another cold warrior, as he is conventionally presented, JFK really was trying to take US foreign policy in a new direction. Far from perpetual war, Kennedy refused to go to war in Cuba—even when he […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading about the assassination. The big surprise about this book was: […]

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