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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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: […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] consciousness. 31 7 two,32 which has the CIA head of station in London accusing the FBI of being involved in the cover-up that followed the assassination of JFK. This was broadcast on mainstream British media in the early 1980s – when there wasn’t really much ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] consciousness. 31 7 two,32 which has the CIA head of station in London accusing the FBI of being involved in the cover-up that followed the assassination of JFK. This was broadcast on mainstream British media in the early 1980s – when there wasn’t really much ‘alternative’ to the mainstream – and it was pretty […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – […]

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