[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
