[PDF file]: […] piles of peasant bodies were growing. There are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which […]
[PDF file]: […] of Osborne is by John Kowalski, ‘The Dual Life of Albert Osborne,’ that can be read here: 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby- JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was […]
[PDF file]: […] forty years for David Lifton’s follow up to Best Evidence?2 Where’s that got to? Last Second is part memoir, with Thompson describing his early involvement in the JFK assassination, viewing the Zapruder film while working with Life magazine, the writing of Six Seconds in Dallas, and how it wove in and out of his […]
[…] seen an Israelis-dunnit explanation of Dallas which was worth taking seriously but Guyénot’s version, nearly 10,000 words and thoroughly documented, deserves a look. The thesis is that JFK was killed because he was a threat to the Israelis’ nuclear programme. They had a reactor at Dimona and JFK was making vague noises about getting […]
[PDF file]: […] USA’s post-WW2 empire, complicates the study of American foreign policy (or would if academics and journalists could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about […]
[…] that a former member of the US Secret Service, Paul Landis, has written a book in which he says that he found a bullet in the car JFK was travelling in when he was shot.2 And thus Landis has detonated the official Warren Commission verdict on the shooting. This is significant, albeit 60 years […]
[PDF file]: […] (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). ‘Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics’, and ‘Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate’. Both are in Lobster 73 (Summer 2017). 88 27 isn’t what we learned about American government and democracy in high school civics. But […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 1 ‘. . . . against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U-2 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] was an arms race, the perception of which in the West was manipulated by US intelligence to exaggerate Soviet capacities, which eventually bankrupted both the major players. JFK understood this; and he and Kruschev were trying to wind it down. It would be satisfying to say that JFK was killed to prevent him doing […]
