[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] stoop, and big class ring, he looked very distinctive to me.25 24 Gregory C. Lavin, Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, p. 176 in the Kindle version. 25 8 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t […]
[…] March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On 20 NB Neither of the apps I use to shorten URLs would work with this one of Murray’s. 21 7 Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,22 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon reportedly said: […]
[…] Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon said: I […]
[…] Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon about the JFK assassination after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon said: I […]
[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: […]
[PDF file]: […] years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen’s view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School […]
